Summary: A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Summary: An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: A contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde fable, thirteen year old Arbor and Swifty are best friends for whom the joys of boyhood are almost nonexistent. They seek their fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal, leading to tragic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage but is shaken to the core when a stranger shows up with the same unique birthmark, and a deadly assassin shows up moments later. In order to protect his family -- and the fate of the earth -- Cole and his companions must travel across the world and into other dimensions to discover their unique magical...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Hung, Tran Anh

Summary: In 1960s Tokyo, the death of Kizuki has an influence on the relationship of his best friend Toru, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012

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Summary: Soul Mate traces the relationship between two best friends (Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun) and the eventual collapse of their friendship when a boy comes between them. Anchored by two of the most promising young actresses of their generation, Soul Mate is an evocative drama that dissects young love with style and verve. --

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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Summary: As he attempts to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, young Peter Parker finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017

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Pearce, Guy

Summary: After World War II, a former Dutch resistance fighter tries to save the life of a renowned artist and art dealer accused of conspiring with the Nazis because he is convinced of his innocence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2021

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Summary: After years as a political prisoner in a labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, Lu returns to his devoted wife Feng, only to discover she has amnesia and is unable to recognize him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

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Scott, Seann William

Summary: Doug Glatt wants a more rewarding job and his father's respect, so he jumps at the chance when an on-ice brawl leads to a position on a hockey team, even though he cannot skate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet 2012

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Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Lakemeier, Martijn

Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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Summary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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