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4) Paint
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Owen Wilson stars as Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public TV painter who is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke... until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
5) Golda
Language
English
Formats
Description
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...
6) Tom & Viv
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
7) W.E
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Madonna's beautifully crafted film tells the story of a lonely New Yorker who begins to explore the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne for the woman he loved.
8) Mrs. Soffel
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a drama based on the true story of the forbidden romance between Ed Biddle and Mrs. Soffel. 1901. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wife and mother Kate Soffel (Keaton) chafes within the confines of her repressive life and yearns for something more than her proper, boring husband can offer. She devotes her free time to reading to the inmates of the county prison--where she meets and falls in love with...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Menckorley: Success on the brink of destiny" is an intense narrative that delves into the complex worlds of entrepreneurship and criminality, intertwining the fate of its characters in a web of challenges, passions, and crucial choices. George Menckorley, a charismatic and determined financial tycoon, sees his life and corporate empire threatened when the headquarters of his company, Apex, is invaded by a gang in search of a valuable ruby. The compelling...
Author
Language
English
Description
Satire is a genre of literature where vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings in humans and their institutions are held up to ridicule with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into reform. While satire is generally meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is generally constructive social criticism.
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Language
English
Description
A small room on the first floor, awkwardly overcrowded with the entire furniture of a cottage, a pile of which is stacked in the left corner and covered with a sheet; the plain iron bed is right, the window coming between its foot and the pile of furniture; table centre; three plain upright chairs and one wicker armchair before the fire; fireplace left; opposite it right a kitchen dresser well stocked with crockery; pans and kettle about the fireplace....
Author
Language
English
Description
Showing diversity is the best way to undermine the negative stereotyping of Jewish people. The five plays in this book illustrate why stereotypes of any description don't work.
In Shylock Revisited, the main character won't give up his efforts to make the merchant of Venice, Antonio, pay what he owes. In "Good Deeds" a screen writer, Salka Viertel, pays the price for helping Nazi era Jewish artists escape from Europe.
Harry Houdini takes on...
Author
Language
English
Description
Poland, Autumn 1942. Entire communities were guided by their rabbis to come to the local train station and board cattle trains which the rabbis said would take them to Auschwitz, a work camp ready with a local synagogue. The Tiktinski family, like others, entered into a fierce debate: to believe the rabbi? To board the train? The persistent rumors leaked the truth -- a horrible death ahead. The members of the family, all real people, the family...
20) The Boss's Son
Author
Language
English
Description
Madrid 1959.
Ignacio Gómez, son of Boss Fernando Gómez, the most feared man in the entire capital, has always lived in constant conflict with his father, who tried in every way to keep him out of his shady dealings, but the young thirty-year-old hungry for money and beautiful women he managed in a few years to build his empire and gradually outclass Fernando's business. After his father's death during an assassination attempt on the Álvarez...
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