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1921) Bitter
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English
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It's 1969, and while the summer of love lingers in London, Gilda is consumed by the mistakes of her past. She walked out on her beloved son Reuben when he was just a boy and fears he'll never forgive her. When Reuben marries a petite blonde gentile, Gilda takes it as the ultimate rejection. Her cold, distant son seems transformed by love - a love she's craved his entire adult life. What does his new wife have that she doesn't? And how far will she...
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Nuestro cine clásico volume 2
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Español
Description
Ahí está el detalle: Cantinflas convinces his girlfriend's boss that he is his wife's brother to benefit from the industrialist's wealth; a working class family struggles with money and personal issues.
Cuando los hijos se van: The actions of his ambitious brother Joseph cause noble Raimundo to be wrongfully accused of theft. After he is forced to leave home, Raimundo is disowned by his girlfriend Maria and her father, the fair and strict Don Pepe....
1923) Tyrone's betrayal
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English
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Angry and troubled when his alcoholic father abandons the family, high school senior Tyrone gives up his plans to become an engineer, drops out of school, and takes a full-time job, refusing help from his girlfriend, school counselor, and a psychologist with problems of her own.
1925) Michael Haneke: trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 1163
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Deutsch
Description
Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Benny's video: Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation.
71 fragments of a chronology of...
1926) Her and me and you
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English
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Struggling with family problems but determined to make new friends after moving and missing Evie her best friend since childhood, Alex is attracted to Fred and he to her despite the jealous meddling of Fred's twin sister Adina.
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Thief of thieves volume 2
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English
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"Conrad Paulson lives a secret double life as master thief, Redmond. There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have...except for the life he left behind. Now with a grown son he hardly knows and an ex-wife he never stopped loving, Conrad must try to piece together what's left of his life before the FBI finally catches up to him...but it appears they are the least of his worries." --p.[4] of cover.
1928) Iphigeneia
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Greek
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Commander Agamemnon stands ready to launch his infamous thousand ships to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy. As the wind refuses to blow, a priest condemns him for sacrilege, and the powerful general is pressured to sacrific his daughter to save the states. Threatened and tormented, Agamemnon is faced with sending his child like a lamb to the slaugher and betraying his wife.
1930) Troskliwa
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Polish
Description
"Rose Gold przez osiemnaście lat swojego życia myślała, że jest nieuleczalnie chora. Poruszała się na wózku, była karmiona przez rurkę i cierpiała w samotności, z dala od rówieśników. U progu pełnoletności dziewczyna odkryła szokującą prawdę: do choroby doprowadzała ją jej ukochana mama Patty, której tak ufała. Kiedy okrutny proceder wyszedł na jaw i Patty trafiła do więzienia, Rose zaczęła układać sobie życie. Gdy...
1933) La familia y otros líos
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Español
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Los Casey son una familia glamurosa y feliz. Johnny Casey, sus hermanos Ed y Liam, sus preciosas e inteligentes mujeres y todos sus hijos pasan mucho tiempo juntos: fiestas de cumpleaños, aniversarios, fines de semana que comparten fuera... Jessie, la mujer de Johnny, se encarga de organizarlo todo porque no hay nada que desee más que crear recuerdos juntos. Pero ¿qué ocurre cuando esos recuerdos no son lo que esperas? Todas las familias esconden...
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English
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A day late and a dollar short: When the matriarch of a dysfunctional family discovers that her next asthma attack might kill her, she sets out to strengthen and renew her bonds with her husband and children.
What color is love?: A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Inspired by a true story.
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Blood on the tracks volume 11
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English
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"Shigeru's midnight visit leads Seiichi back up the hill where his mother dropped him as a child...and as events begin to fold in on themselves like the layers of his psyche, Seiichi starts to see the past through Mommy's eyes...with one symbolic act, Seiichi can finally free himself of his mother's malign influence--but is this a nightmare, or is it all too real?!"--
1937) Dombey and Son
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English
Description
Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
1938) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
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English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
1939) Rich Hill
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English
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Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to survive. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary...
1940) Lost in the Ark: a novel
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English
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"Kate Bennett has spent most of her life shielding her sisters from their angry mother. A loner, she's an easy recruit for a zealous youth group at her high school. On her first visit to The Ark--the group's headquarters--Kate hears a sermon she can't ignore... Kate announces to her family that she's joining The Ark. Her mother ...tells Kate that she's been brainwashed and forbids her from ever mentioning 'that cult' again. Despite her mother's warning,...
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