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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema's fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary Moscow, Night Watch uncovers the other-world battle that upholds a 1000-year-old truce between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. For centuries, the undercover members of the Night Watch have policed the world's Dark Ones -- the vampires, witches, shape-shifters and sorcerers that wage treachery in the night"--Amazon.
4) Inception
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Language
English
Description
A man, highly skilled in entering people's dreams to extract secret information, is offered a chance to implant an idea in another man's head, a practice known as inception.
7) After life
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Description
Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough is a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life.
A group of newly-dead people are in a way station between heaven and Earth where they are given three days to choose a favorite memory which they will relive for eternity.
8) Avatar
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A paraplegic soldier finds himself caught between his fellow humans and an alien race on the planet Pandora when he agrees to take on an avatar, a new identity and body that will help him to blend in with the inhabitants of the planet while on a mission from Earth.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Capture the spirit of Christmas with this delightful animated classic! "Bah humbug,"says Ebenezer Scrooge, the grumpy miser who would rather count his money than celebrate Christmas. But as Yuletide cheer spreads through all of London and two friendly mice try to change Scrooge's ill-tempered ways, Scrooge receives three unexpected visitors: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future who take him on a wild and wonderful journey and help him...
11) The Goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A group of misfit children set out to find a missing treasure with the map they found in an attic.
12) Thor: Ragnarok
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thor is imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, and must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After exposure to cosmic radiation, four astronauts become the most remarkable, if not most dysfunctional, superheroes of all time. Reed Richards is the leader of the group and gains the ability to stretch all parts of his body, he takes the name Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire,...
15) Happy feet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection,...
16) Labyrinth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Sarah wishes her brother would be taken away by goblins, but when he really is, she sets out to rescue him and has to cross the Labyrinth before she gets to the Goblin castle.
20) Ghost town
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Bertram Pincus is an irritable dentist whose people skills leave much to be desired. Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him. Frank Herlihy, in particular, pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. Now, Pincus is put squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited...
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