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2) Hard times
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Gradgrind is the guiding luminary of the Coketown school, stern proponent of the Philosophy of Fact, whose ill-conceived idealism blinds him to the essential humanity of those around, with calamitous results. His daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage and falls prey to an idle seducer, and her brother Tom is ruined thanks to their father's pet theories. Meanwhile Sleary's circus offers a vision of escape and entertainment,...
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A harsh reality of extreme poverty, injustice and ignorance that identify a Mexico in decline during the decade of the 70s. Through various sarcastic situations that the characters perform, they criticize society, but mainly the government. Not everything is misfortune, because this helps to overcome what society suffers from: the Mexican always gets ahead.
5) Magnolia
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Magnolia is a mosaic of American Life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
In 1990's Mexico City, a chaotic universe of extremes, where criminals go unpunished and policemen are as lawless as criminals, a heroine becomes the avenger of raped young women. Wearing different disguises, she seduces the rapists, narcotizes them and then brands them with tattoos. Her powerful enemies prepare an ambush to uncover her true identity. Her only salvation is the emancipation of another woman.
8) Intolerance
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
None
Description
Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
10) She's the worst
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, sisters April, age sixteen, and Jenn, eighteen, have twenty-four hours to fulfill a childhood pact and deal with a secret that threatens to tear them apart.
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