Jeremy Irons
2) Lolita
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Adapted from the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov. In 1947, Humbert Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, but Humbert Humbert carries the wound of lost love from his youth, and quickly becomes infatuated with her adolescent daughter Dolores.
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The first cinematic journey through the rooms, stories and emotions of one of the most visited museums in the world. Its wealth of over 8000 art treasures is a spell-binding experience drawing almost 3 million visitors to Madrid every year. Jeremy Irons will be guiding spectators on a discovery of a heritage of beauty and art.
4) Dead Ringers
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The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
6) Betrayal
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Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering.
7) Moonlighting
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A group of Polish workers travel to London to provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak manages the project and the men as they encounter temptations of the West, and cope with the separation from their families.
9) Last Call
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The true story of an aspiring young writer who becomes the friend, caretaker, and confidante of literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald when she accepts a job as his private assistant. What she discovers is a troubled man, struggling to escape private demons and emerge with one last great novel.
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The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.
There is nothing wrong with anxiety.
Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.
Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear. . . .
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores the unspoiled wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Patagonia in South America. Shows the Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, right whales, and guanacos, who inhabit this stark, wind-whipped wilderness. Looks at the challenges they and their homeland face from human actions.
14) Birds like us
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Trapped in a village ruled by the meddling Kondor, Huppu the bird dreams of having the freedom to hatch her own egg. Suddenly, she, Kondor, and their friends are blasted to a distant land, and they must trust in a wise, eccentric bat to guide them on a strange, dazzling odyssey back to the tree they call home.
Pub. Date
c1998
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1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) : sd., stereo., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day.
Pub. Date
2005
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2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
19) Casanova
Pub. Date
2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
20) Elizabeth I
Pub. Date
c2006
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2 videodiscs (ca. 211 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.