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Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
22) The suspect
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English
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A small-town encounters their first armed bank robbery at the exact moment a mysterious stranger appears. With no ID and a combative attitude, the local police struggle to tie the crime to their uncooperative suspect, but the truth is far more complicated.
23) Adam
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Arabic
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The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
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English
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Based on the novel from the bestselling book series, this powerful love story is filled with inspiring life lessons about faith, trust and first impressions. In the quaint town of Sugarcreek, Ohio, policewoman Rachel Troyer is fiercely protective of her three Amish aunts. When a penniless stranger named Joe shows up with his five-year-old son, the aunts insist on helping them. But Rachel has immediate suspicions and devotes herself to investigating...
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English
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Though they've never crossed paths in waking life, Maggie and Jimmy keep meeting in dreams. Each recently devastated by the loss and struggling to find meaning in any of it, fate has undeniably tied them together in ways they don't yet comprehend. Set in a city as magical as any dreamscape, these unresolved traumas, both indiividual and shared, are no longer wounds to be endured silently, asleep or awake.
27) La belle captive
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Français
Description
"Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening, he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning to wonder if it all was just a dream."--Container.
28) Carmilla
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English
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Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine). Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires. Inspired by the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Joseph...
31) The dark valley
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 12
Language
Deutsch
Description
Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he’s from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn’t given...
32) Following
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English
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A story about a young man's obsession with following strangers at random on the street. This life leads him into a dark underworld, when he is caught in the act by a man who becomes part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. Together they break into flats and pry into the personal lives of their victims.
33) The stranger
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English
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A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
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English
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A mysterious criminal (Mullen Jr.) rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor (Sutherland), his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. Beginning to understand...
37) Following
Series
Criterion collection volume 638
Language
English
Description
Is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path. Special features included.
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Czech
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A dysfunctional family, including a college professor, his long-estranged son and the lover they both shared are reunited. Two petty pickpockets attempt to rob a black belt in karate. A dimwitted soccer hooligan's wife buys a baby in a pawnshop. These are just a few of the unconnected strangers who find a common connection.
39) Three strangers
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English
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"According to a legend, if three strangers gather together before the fabled idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor and a drunken thief in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real"--Container.
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English
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Noah Locke, A World War II veteran, returns home at the end of the war to find his parents have died, his younger brother is in prison and the family farm has been sold. Feeling lost in the world, Noah wanders the back roads of the South in search of a place to belong, a place to call home. He encounters a mysterious stranger, who guides him to a small mountain community called the Valley of Light. When tragedy strikes the community, Noah must decide...