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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme-and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, Rambo, and The Terminator. The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone finally...
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, LOVE GETSA ROOM is the story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or to escape the Warsaw ghetto. Told in real-time like Cortes' acclaimed BURIED, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances.
4) Clean
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A garbage collector must reconcile with his troubled past in order to fulfill his dream of leading a quiet life.
5) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An American mom inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere, she hilariously defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business.
6) The old way
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Forget about the straight and narrow. Clever con Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) intends to go straight to the bank. Fresh from the slammer, he begins work on a heist that will either set him up for life or send him up forever. Croker and his unruly lot of thieves take on the mob, the police and the gridlocked traffic of Turin to rob a heavily armed shipment of gold bullion in The Italian job.
8) Retribution
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this ticking-clock thriller of redemption and revenge, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across Berlin to complete a specific series of tasks after a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat. With Matt's kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger's increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time...
9) Barbie
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
10) The enforcer
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle is putting a young runaway's life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption, both for himself and his family, before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.
11) The Flash
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Worlds collide when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Superheroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian, albeit not the one...
Publisher
Lucasfilm Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
16) Kandahar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar.
17) Strays
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
They say a dog is a man's best friend, but what if the man is a total dirtbag? In that case, it might be time for some sweet revenge, doggy style. When Reggie, a naive, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug, a stray who loves...
18) 65
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive" --Container.
19) Dead man's hand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Gunslinger Reno is headed west for a quiet life with his new bride. But when their stagecoach is ambushed, he kills an outlaw in self-defense. In a nearby town, Reno learns that the man he slays is the brother of the corrupt mayor, Bishop, who vows revenge. After their card game turns into a bloody shootout, who will be left standing? Cole Hauser appears as a U.S. Marshal who becomes Reno's ally in this pulse-pounding Western.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The live-action Christmas musical adventure for the entire family weaves classic Christmas melodies with humor, faith, and new pop songs in a retelling of the greatest story ever told, the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus.
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