Ben Kingsley
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Language
English
Description
The RUC Special Branch recruits a young man to infiltrate the brutal and life-threatening high echelons of the I.R.A. terrorist organization in 1980s Belfast at the height of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles.’ Based on the real-life story of Martin McGartland.
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
Description
A trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway becomes a ride of deception and murder when a couple meets a pair of mysterious travelers. With Woody Harrelson, Kate Mara, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
4) Jules
Publisher
levelFILM
Language
English
Description
In this sci-fi comedy-drama, Milton (Ben Kingsley) lives a quiet life in a small Pennsylvania town until a UFO crashes in his backyard. The extraterrestrial passenger, whom Milton names “Jules,” becomes his unexpected houseguest. As Milton forms a bond with Jules, his routine life is turned upside down.
Publisher
levelFILM
Language
English
Description
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
9) Dalíland
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Language
English
Description
Ben Kingsley stars as the aging genius Salvador Dalí in this biographical drama set in the 1970s in New York and Spain. Young gallery assistant James (Christopher Briney) helps Dalí prepare for a big show in New York, immersing himself in Dalí’s bohemian lifestyle and his tumultuous marriage to Gala (Barbara Sukowa).
12) Transsiberian
Publisher
VVS Films
Language
English
Description
One of those legendary train trips that people used to dream about taking, the Transsiberian Express has probably seen better days. An American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), decide to return home the long way from their recent sojourn in Peking and meet another couple from the West, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), with whom they quickly form that tenuous bond that often unites fellow travelers away from...
14) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young orphan boy puts his secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in jeopardy when he begins stealing parts from the man who runs the toy shop in the station in order to finish rebuilding an automaton that he and his father had started.
15) Elegy
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married,...
16) Shutter Island
Language
English
Formats
Description
When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn.
17) The jungle book
Language
English
Description
Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery after he flees the jungle and the threat of Shere Khan.
18) Hugo
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy puts his secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in jeopardy when he begins stealing parts from the man who runs the toy shop in the station in order to finish rebuilding an automaton that he and his father had started.
19) Schindler's list
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A re-creation in fictional form of the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who, as a munitions manufacturer, saved more than 1,100 Jews from extermination during WWII.
Author
Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Language
English
Description
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In this popular Grimm's fairy tale, a king tells a young woman that she must spin a room full of straw into gold by morning—or die. To complete this impossible task, she is forced to promise her firstborn child to a mysterious little man in return for his gold-spinning ability. Years later, he returns to claim what is his—only to find that he has underestimated the power of a mother's love.
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