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61) How to be single
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
62) The darkness
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As a family returns home from vacation at the Grand Canyon, they innocently bring home a supernatural force that preys off their own fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy them from within, while consuming their lives with terrifying consequences.
63) Café society
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
64) Jurassic world
Publisher
Universal Studios & Amblin Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years following the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now includes a completely functioning dinosaur theme park, as once envisioned by John Hammond. After ten years of operation and decline in visitors, a unique attraction is designed to ignite visitor's interest, which fails horribly.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
66) The Thing
Language
English
Description
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish...
67) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
68) Elysium
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
69) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
70) Killer elite
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When two of the world's most elite operatives, Danny, a retired contract killer, and Hunter, his longtime mentor, go up against the cunning leader of a secret military society, their hunt takes them around the globe from Australia to Paris, London, and the Middle East. As the stakes rise along with the body count, Danny and Hunter are soon plunged into an action-packed game of cat and mouse where no one is what they seem.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A rambunctious group of five college friends steal away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a night of endless terror and bloodshed. As the teens begin to exhibit standard horror movie behavior, a group of technicians in a control room are scrutinizing and sometimes even controlling every move the terrified kids make. Do they have any chance of escape?
72) Paprika
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
A beautiful scientist turns into a dream warrior named Paprika at night, in this psychedelic sci-fi anime adventure, that will take both versions of the woman to save the world.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows faithful canine Paws, his human friends Quinn and Will, and some magical talking dogs as they search New York City for an amnesiac Santa Claus and try to rekindle the world's latent Christmas spirit.
74) The good lie
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
75) Urge
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends take a lavish weekend getaway to an island where a mysterious club owner introduces them to Urge, a new designer drug that allows them to live out their wildest fantasies. What starts out as a fun night of partying, soon takes a sinister turn when their primal impulses become uncontrollable.
76) Anesthesia
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Multiple lives cross paths when a Columbia University professor is mugged.
77) Cocoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs featuring films based on children's novels, all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Charlotte's web: Fern is one of only two living beings who sees that Wilbur is a special animal as she raises him, the runt of the litter, into a terrific and radiant pig. As Wilbur moves into a new barn, he begins a second profound friendship with the most unlikely of creatures, a spider named Charlotte, and their bond...
80) The double
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin code-named Cassius, who was long-thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he...
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