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1) Raging bull
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent middleweight champion Jake La Motta.
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English
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The headlines say she killed her family. The truth? She doesn't remember.
Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy parents. But when, she wakes up in a motel room the next morning, unable to remember what happened the previous night and covered in blood, Andi is a fugitive.
According to the news, Andi's parents...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
A coming of age story about two young teenagers in the violent market neighborhood of Tepito, Mexico City. Nacho is a sweet boy, but his dysfunctional family and social setting threaten to turn him into a criminal. Neglect and abuse run rampant in his household, which is why the smart and entrepreneurial 13-year-old spends much of his time with Cacayo, a kind but dim-witted man who pirates movies for a living. When Nacho meets Mayra, the daughter...
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"Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister's ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa's niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects, in rural Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain. Ruby learns how to hunt, how the plants and trees grow, how to avoid making her father angry. The one question...
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"On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest--the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn--has...
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