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1) Happy
Publisher
Wadi Rum Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, Happy explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion."--Container.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Madigan knows all the first three Jack Slater movies in and out. The fourth one is just about to be released, too, and with a magical ticket Danny really gets to know that movie in and out, literally speaking. During one of the action climaxes, Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, gets ahold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where evil...
3) Alois Nebel
Series
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Czech
Description
Traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political landscape in the waning days of the Cold War. Preferring timetables to people, Alois Nebel leads a quiet life at a remote railway station on the Czech-Slovak border - disrupted only by the fog that brings hallucinations of trains from the past - ghosts from Central Europe's dark past, ultimately sends him on a nightmarish journey....
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Czech
Description
Police interrogate fourteen-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Czech
Description
"After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love." --
Publisher
Capital Motion Picture Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Czech
Description
A group of detectives find themselves in absurd situations while investigating a string of equally absurd crimes, all the while pissing off their ornery boss. Using a dark and ironic lens that Czech cinema is famous for, The Case of the Dead Deadman cleverly pokes fun at all of your favourite crime movie troupes without ever missing an opportunity to also make fun of itself.
8) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
9) Kolya
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Czech
Description
The life of a cellist, playboy, and confirmed bachelor in late Soviet-era Prague is upended after he agrees to marry a Russian woman for money so that she isn't deported and ends up taking care of her abandoned five-year-old son Kolya.
10) The investigator
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows an investigator for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In the 1990s he collected evidence against war criminals and hunted for perpetrators of ethnic cleansing.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
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