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Presents William Shakespeare's comedy in which Claudio and Hero, awaiting their wedding, conspire to get the antagonistic Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love, unaware that they themselves are the targets of a more sinister plot; and includes an audio CD containing more than twenty scenes and excerpts from famous performances.
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A clever farce poking fun at the complex set of social conventions that defined upper-class England at the time, the play tells the story of Jack and Algernon and the antics that ensue as they seek romance while also trying to avoid the cumbersome demands of their class. To this end, they both adopt the alias Ernest, causing no end of confusion. Despite its resounding success, scandal in Wilde's personal life caused the run to be ended early. It has,...
Publisher
Paramount Vantage
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
7) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Greek
Description
2011 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language films and winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and living in an absurdist, nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Separation theory.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An ordinary man seemingly has a perfect life. He just got married to a beautiful girl, moved to the city, and has a family to look after and love. During his childhood, his parents constantly made him feel rejected and worthless. Those issues slowly creep into his family life, resulting in a nervous breakdown and violence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, is commissioned by a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known horror novelist. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio falls into a state of insanity ruled by the script they are creating and the nightmares he has because...
11) Moloch
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In an ominous fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a reposing 24 hour retreat. It is the spring of 1942 and Eva Braun is the only voice that dares to contradict the Fuhrer. Shot in part in the original fortress at Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps, Eva Braun (Elena Rufanova) is caught up in the complexities of a man incapable of human intimacy, making her as volcanic as her beloved Hitler (Leonid Mosgovoi).
12) Inside Out
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions: Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
During project week, a popular and unorthodox high school teacher, in an attempt to stir up his lethargic students, devises an experiment that will explain what totalitarianism is and how it works. What begins with harmless notions about discipline and community builds into a real movement: the Wave. The teacher decides to break off the experiment. But it may be too late; the Wave has taken on a life of its own and is out of control.
14) Import/export
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Olga and Paul. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, life: Olga, who comes from the Eastern part of Europe, where unremitting poverty is the order of the day. Paul, who comes from the Western part, where unemployment means not hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness. Both are struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life. In both the West and East. Both travel to a new country, and thus into its...
15) Paulie go!
Publisher
1091 Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A young AI prodigy gets rejected from the world-renowned robotics lab and does what any rational teenager would do steal a van and drive across the country to Northern Minnesota to track down the Professor who rejected him.
16) On Chesil Beach
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
19) Elemental
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
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