Jennifer Beals
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Series
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English
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
2) The hive
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future -- the day after tomorrow -- and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can "like" or "share," but they can also "condemn" posts -- and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead... hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
A family is too busy to spend the holidays together. Santa surprises the family when he accidentally leaves the North Pole a day early and crashes onto their roof. Santa loses his memory in the accident, and it is up to the family to come together to help restore his memory and save Christmas.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Helene comes upon a couple engaged in an intensely sensual chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor, a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives.
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband. Wren is unable to refuse or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
"...a satisfying, stylish mystery..."--Arizona Republic.
6) Flashdance
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex struggles to gain independence, finds love, and realize her dream--to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
7) Flashdance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined 18-year-old with one all-consuming dream: to study at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. Working during the day as a welder and at night as an exotic dancer, Alex bravely pursues her dream. As she undertakes an unforgettable journey that reveals the power of her convictions, she will also learn the meaning of love. Special features include featurettes, and theatrical trailers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
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Eli (Washington) walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland and pits him against a menacing...
9) After
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story follows Tessa, a dedicated student, dutiful daughter, and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart, as she enters her first semester in college. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott, a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
11) The grudge 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Karen's sister, Audrey, been affected by the supernatural curse. Audrey is trying to find the origin of the hate infected curse and find a way to free herself. The quest involves families who are living in Chicago, a photojournalist from Hong Kong, and three schoolgirls from Tokyo's International High School. This group of unrelated strangers try to find and stop the curse before it becomes too late.
12) Catch that kid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Meet Maddy, Gus and Austin: three kids on a mission! They're three close friends with special talents. One is a champion rock climber, one is a computer genius and the other is a mechanical whiz who specializes in go-carts. Their task: to scale the heights and crack a high-tech bank vault to save Maddy's ailing Dad, but they have to do all this in time to finish their homework.
13) Before I fall
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After one fateful night, Sam wakes up with no future at all. Trapped reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was. And as she begins to untangle the mystery of a life suddenly derailed, she must also unwind the secrets of the people closest to her, and discover the power of a single day to make a difference, before she runs out of time for good.
14) The grudge 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Karen's sister, Audrey, been affected by the supernatural curse. Audrey is trying to find the origin of the hate infected curse and find a way to free herself. The quest involves families who are living in Chicago, a photojournalist from Hong Kong, and three schoolgirls from Tokyo's International High School. This group of unrelated strangers try to find and stop the curse before it becomes too late.
Series
Criterion collection volume 485
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Depicts the 'last days' at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. Icy Charlotte and demure Alice toil by day as publishing house assistants and by night the two look for romance and entertainment at a premier disco club. But, as the disco is closed, they wonder if disco can ever really be dead?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In Silent Night, America's most beloved writer of suspense has crafted a very special story about the power of love, and of a child's courage and faith. When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes...