Cate Blanchett
1) Manifesto
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English
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"Manifesto" pays homage to the moving tradition and literary beauty of artistic manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today. Performing these 'new manifestos' as a contemporary call to action while inhabiting thirteen different personas, Academy Award winner-Cate Blanchett imbues new dramatic life into both famous and lesser-known words in unexpected contexts.
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In the mid-1990s, Dublin was nothing short of a war zone, with a few powerful drug lords battling for control. Their most fearsome opponent was not the police but the courageous journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), who covered the crime beat with unmatched intensity. As she investigated and exposed the "pushers," balancing her home and family against her responsibility to her readers and her country, she became a national folk heroine to the...
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Italiano
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Philippa, a teacher living in Turin, Italy, has watched helplessly as her husband and friends have fallen victim to drug overdoses. The police - who are complicit in the actions of Turin's biggest drug dealer - have completely ignored Philippa's repeated offers of information. So, with the unexpected help of a police officer, she feels she has nothing to lose by taking justice into her own hands!
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Eli Roth's History of Horror volume 3
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English
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Horror superstars like Stephen King bring psychic powers to life in thrilling new ways.
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Eli Roth's History of Horror volume 6
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English
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From Frankenstein to Frank N. Furter, mad scientists smash the barriers of polite society.
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Eli Roth's History of Horror volume 4
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English
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Zombies, aliens, disease and war - whatever the cause, the end of the world inspires great horror.
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Eli Roth's History of Horror volume 5
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English
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Holidays can be stressful. Horror brings our wildest homicidal holiday fantasies to life.
9) The Missing
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English
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From the Academy Award winning director and producer of A Beautiful Mind comes the suspense thriller The Missing. In the film, Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young woman alone in an isolated and lawless wilderness, must re-unite with her long estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) to track the mystical, psychopathic killer known as Chidin (Eric Schweig). Chidin, together with his brutal pack of army deserters, has kidnapped a collection of teenage...
10) Song To Song
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English
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In this love story set against the Austin music scene, two entangled couples – Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling, and Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman – chase success amidst seduction and betrayal.
13) Girl Rising
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This special edition of Girl Rising commemorates the stories of nine incredible girls–striving beyond circumstance, pushing past limits. Their dreams, their voices, their remarkable stories–captured in an unforgettable film about the power of education.
14) Knight of Cups
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A visceral journey through the eyes of an uninspired screenwriter living in Los Angeles struggling with the death of his brother and seeking distraction in the company of women.
15) The Aviator
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English
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Howard Hughes was a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer, and unstoppable American innovator, but thought of himself first and foremost as an aviator. This spectacular epic focuses on the most prolific period in his life: the mid-1920s through the 1940s -- a time of brilliant aeronautical invention, turbulent love affairs and savage corporate battles. Prepare for the ride of a lifetime.