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1) Kids in Love
Author
Language
English
Description
Drifting through his gap year, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than the professional life his family expects him to lead. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course. He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild nights in London's hidden dives with his free-spirited new friends, all the while falling deeper and deeper in love with Evelyn.
2) Partisan
Publisher
Well Go USA
Language
English
Description
11-year-old Alexander is the oldest kid in the compound, with lots of mothers but only one dad: Gregori (Vincent Cassel), who keeps everyone safe from the outside world. He's Gregori's star pupil - and a trained assassin.
5) Greater
Publisher
Well Go USA
Language
English
Description
A true story of Arkansas Razorbacks walk-on offensive lineman Brandon Burlsworth (Christopher Severino). Devoutly Christian and ridiculed for his portly appearance, Burlsworth defies the odds to make the Razorbacks' squad in 1994, and ultimately develops into an All-American player and top NFL prospect.
Author
Language
Mandarin
Description
Li Xuelian (Fan Bing Bing) and her husband stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment in the city reserved by the government for single people. But when her husband remarries six months later-as agreed-but to a different woman, a furious Li files a lawsuit with the county court. Losing her case only makes Li more determined to take her fight to the highest levels of government in Beijing. With her reputation destroyed and her grievances unresolved,...
Author
Language
Korean
Description
In this powerful true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern...
8) My Way
Author
Language
Korean
Description
This fact-based wartime drama follows two young men, one Korean and one Japanese, whose athletic rivalry ends with the start of World War II. Captured by the Soviets, both men escape but are separated, only to meet again in the D-Day invasion.
10) Kano
Author
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A high school baseball team from Taiwan travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a tournament.
11) Cardboard Boxer
Author
Language
English
Description
Willie, homeless and on Skid Row, is coerced by two teens to fight other men for cash. Now involved in a violent world he can't understand and with few human connections beyond a girl's diary he found, Willie struggles to find a way out.
Author
Language
Korean
Description
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, exploring young love and experiencing everything that comes with growing up in a country on the brink of enormous change.
15) King Jack
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack is a fifteen year-old boy stuck in a run-down small town. Trapped in a violent feud with a cruel older bully and facing another bout of summer school, Jack's got all the problems he can handle. So when Jack's aunt falls ill and his runty younger cousin must stay with him for the weekend the last thing Jack wants to do is look after him. Unfortunately no one really cares what Jack wants. Set over a hazy summer weekend, King Jack is a tough and...
16) Floating City
Author
Language
Cantonese
Description
In the early 1990s, Bo Wah Chuen (Aaron Kwok) attracts great attention as a business executive in the Imperial East India Company of Hong Kong, his prominence overshadowing even that of his British superiors. However, twenty years ago, when he takes the company's entry test, all he has to show for himself is the plea, "I could read and write". His rise to prominence has as much to do with British's imminent return of Hong Kong to China, as it has...
17) Mystery Road
Author
Language
English
Description
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white-dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter (now connected to the murdered girl) Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back - for his town, and his people.
18) Swing Kids
Author
Language
Korean
Description
In this swinging musical drama set during the Korean War, soldiers at a POW camp plan a tap show to distract both themselves and the prisoners from the hardships of war led by a former Broadway dancer and a rebellious North Korean soldier.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
A group of vloggers illegally access a condemned asylum for a viral social media challenge. Equipped with night vision and thermal cameras, the adolescent adrenaline junkies chase the rumors of paranormal activity, not only learning they are not alone...they are not welcome.
20) The Front Line
Author
Language
Korean
Description
When a South Korean commander is killed by a friendly bullet during a cease fire, investigator Kang Eun-Pyo's trail leads him to a remote hill region. There, a once-meek 20-year-old and his small company seem to be fighting a different war.
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