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61) Fantail
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English
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"Tania thinks she's Maori. She works the graveyard shift at a petrol station saving money so she can take her brother Piwakawaka to Surfers Paradise to find their dad. When Pi goes away to pick kiwifruit, Tania is left by herself to plan for their trip ... Tania can't rescue her brother from his new mates and from thinking he can fly ...Then one night a cheeky little bird ruins everything and Tania pays the ultimate price for being a hero."--Container....
62) The pretender
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English
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The pretender 2001: Picking up where the television series left off, this movie features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally escaped from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow pretender from his past.
The pretender, the island of the haunted: Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about...
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English
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Identity: Ten strangers are brought together at a motel because of a savage rainstorm. All take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they'll have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
Vacancy: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and...
65) Insurgent
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English
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Tris and Four continue to fight for their world's future while on the run from Jeanine.
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English
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When Hotaru Tachibana storms into a host club to avenge the honor of a wronged female student, the last thing Hotaru expects is to duel the club's most popular host with airsoft guns instead of fists. When Masamune Matsuoka's experience wins out over Tachibana's brawn, he realizes that he can use his victory (and the large bill for damaging the club) to make Tachibana join his struggling Survival Gaming team. However, what ladies' man Masamune totally...
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The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. Along with Salomé, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays have continued...
68) Watermelon man
Series
Criterion collection volume 1094
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English
Description
A comedy concerning a bigoted white man who is permanently turned black and must now contend with a shocked wife, his kids, angry neighbors, cold shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus.
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日本語
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Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations.
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日本語
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"After battling against Ueki, Robert begins to doubt his plan to annihilate the world. Just when he opens up to his father, Margaret, a boy named Hanon appears and claims that he is Margaret's son-- Meanwhile, to form a 5-person team for the second round, Ueki tries to recruit one last member, Hideyoshi Soya. He is a terrible liar with a kind heart, struggling to take care of some orphan children. However, his candidate Zack tries to force him to...
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Français
Description
La chambre: The camera goes around the room three times, starting at a table, and slowly making its way 360 degrees around the room.
Hotel Monterey: Short film consisting entirely of shots of people walking in and out of a rundown New York hotel.
News from home: Presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life in 1970s New York City, accompanied by the distinctive narration of filmmaker Chantal Akerman as she dispassionately...
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English
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Divergent: An "action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris, a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents"--Container.
Insurgent: "Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine, Tris fights to protect the people she loves, and races to...
73) Apples
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Greek
Description
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a...
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Español
Description
Una escritora de edad madura ha decidido romper con su presente incierto que le impide crear la novela que durante años ha anidado en su mente y va a su país natal en busca del pasado lleno de fantasmas y quimeras.
A middled-aged writer decides to break away from her uncertain present that does not allow her to write the novel she has had in mind for years, and so she determines to leave for her native country in search of a past full of ghosts...
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English
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"Virgil First Raise wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey of inebriated intrigues with a mysterious "Airplane Man," a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous men in suits. His quixotic, modern-day vision quest moves Virgil ever closer to oblivion--until...
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日本語
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"Change is in the air, from snow in the jungle to a trip to the concrete jungle. After a freak blizzard strikes the village, Weda is struck by the urge to return to her home in the city. There may not be wild animals in a metropolis, but the city is no less dangerous, as a trigger happy bodyguard and a couple of video game obsessed bank robbers prove. And a new environment gives Guu plenty of excuses to engage in even more maniacal mischief! -- Container....
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日本語
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"The bonds of love connect beyond time and distance, and bring Clive and Weda back together, while also connecting Haré with the grandmother he's never known. But reconciling Weda with her mother may take a miracle. Normally that'd be impossible, but with Guu around, anything is possible! From a thrilling spy mission in drag to literally turning life into a game, and trampling the city as a giant Guu Robo, you can trust Guu to insure that reunions...
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Français
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"In the revolutionary first decade of her filmmaking career, Chantal Akerman devoted herself to nothing less than the total resculpting of cinematic time and space. Journeying between Europe and New York City, Akerman forged a highly personal style that fuses avant-garde influences with deeply human expressions of alienation, desire, and displacement--themes that she would explore in a series of increasingly ambitious shorts, documentaries, and features,...
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English
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American pie: Four friends make the pact to lose their virginity by prom night in an unforgettable story about high school, band camp, and warm apple pie.
The big Lebowski: The cult classic about the "Dude," his buddies, a case of mistaken identity, kidnapping and bowling.
Billy Madison: 27-year-old Billy Madison must repeat all 12 grades of school in just 24 weeks to earn his father's respect and prove he has what it takes to run the family's multi-million-dollar...