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Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations of friendship and duty. While Caesar is warned in a prophecy to "beware the Ides of March" the Roman senators, including Brutus are secretly plotting his assassination, hoping to rid Rome of the
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
It started as just another assignment. Reporter Kimberly Wells and cameraman Richard Adams were covering the daily routine at an Los Angeles power plant when the unthinkable occurred: a nuclear accidnet that could have wiped out Southern California. And Richard caught it all on tape. When their TV station refuses to air the footage, Wells and Adams recruit plant supervisor Jack Godell to expose the terrifying truth: the facility is a ticking bomb....
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the entire world at risk. As the conspiracy...
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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in the tradition of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Two very different women, one shy, one flamboyant, meet and discover a common bond, they are unhappily married. A plot is devised to eliminate the unwanted husbands.
6) Oldboy
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
9) Black Widow
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
12) Without remorse
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The explosive origin story of Tom Clancys action hero John Kelly, an elite Navy SEAL whose life is changed forever after uncovering an international conspiracy. Torn between personal honor and loyalty to his country, he fights his enemies without remorse if he hopes to avert disaster.
13) Injustice
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When successful London barrister William Travers suffers a nervous breakdown, he moves his family and practice to rural Suffolk. Called upon to defend an old friend, he is caught up in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the courtroom. James Purefoy stars in a taut, engrossing thriller from the creator of Foyle's War.
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When MIT grad student Liam Cole discovers an asteroid is set to collide with Earth in 186 days, he joins forces with tech billionaire Darius Tanz and the U.S. government to try and stop it, and together they stumble onto the greatest conspiracy never told.
15) Secret state
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A British deputy prime minister is thrown into a world of political machinations and conspiracy he never knew existed.
17) The invitation
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is wooed and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is stirring.
18) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
19) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
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