(0)Alison Pill
21) Cooties
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English
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A horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into little killer savages, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage.
24) Snowpiercer
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English
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
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A pro hockey lockout has brought old teammates and new players back to minor league team the Halifax Highlanders, now captained by enforcer Doug "The Thug" Glatt. Soon sidelined in a violent fight and learning that his wife is pregnant, Doug decides to hang up his skates and become an insurance salesman. But as the Highlanders go on a losing skid and their new captain's behavior sabotages the team on the ice and in the locker room, Doug has to make...
26) Miss Sloane
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In the world of political power brokers, Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
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English
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To save a school from closure, Cal Peterson must close all unessential classes and programs, including a music program that is the heart of a community. His determination to do the right thing is tested when he has to fire the program's beloved music teacher, with whom he's fallen in love.
Series
Star trek Picard volume the complete series
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English
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"At the end of the 24th century, and 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard is living a quiet life on his vineyard, when he is sought out by a mysterious young woman in need of his help. This chance encounter sends him on a bold and exciting new journey to track down a series of mysteries about his past. Culminating in the most the most daring mission of his life, Picard is forced to recruit allies spanning generations old and...
31) What Katy did
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English
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This warm family drama that tells the story of Katy, a headstrong, energetic thirteen-year-old girl with a feisty, rebellious streak who seems to be more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with the aid of Aunt Izzie. The arrival of her ill cousin begins to alter Katy's perception of the world; then a serious accident confines Katy to her room, which changes the young girl's outlook on life forever.
32) Ideal home
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The story of Erasmus and Paul, a bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten-year-old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus's grandson. Neither Paul nor Erasmus is ready to give up their extravagant lifestyle to be parents, but maybe this little kid has a thing or two to teach them about the value of family.
33) Plain truth
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English
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A newborn is found dead in a serene, simple Pennsylvania Amish farming community. High-profile criminal lawyer Ellie Harrison ditches her self-indulgent city life to head to the rural farm in order to defend Katie, an unmarried 18-year-old Amish girl, who stands accused of killing her baby. Despite the surmounting evidence, Katie insists that she was never pregnant. While trying to learn her client's secrets, Ellie is forced to live with the Amish...
35) What girls learn
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English
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Mama is a quirky, eccentric single mother raising two daughters who are entering their teenage years. Mama shares with them her zest for life, in which unconventional and unexpected are the norms. She decides to uproot the family from rural Georgia to her long-distance boyfriend's Long Island home. But one more revelation will come from Mama - and that forces everyone to confront love, pain, loss and ultimately acceptance.
36) Plain truth
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English
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A newborn is found dead in a peaceful Amish farming community. Was it a tragic accident, or murder? That's the shocking question facing Ellie Harrison, a high-profile criminal lawyer who ditches her self-indulgent city life to head to rural Pennsylvania, where she must defend the Amish teenager accused of killing her own baby.
37) Zoom
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English
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A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
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English
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A no-nonsense school administrator, Cal Peterson, threatens to shut down the music program. Lily Waite, the school's music teacher, tries to save the program by having her students put on an impressive Christmas pageant, in hopes that he'll change his mind. Meanwhile, Cal finds himself falling in love with Lily.
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English
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Set in a small nineteenth-century American town, the story deals with the simple joys and sorrows in a young girl's life. Thirteen-year-old Katy was the sort of girl who might do anything next, so long as it was something exciting! Katie is a handful for her widowed father, Dr. Car and her stern aunt, Izzie, who share responsibility of raising Katy and her siblings. The arrival of her worldly, invalid cousin, Helen, exposes Katy to a world she never...
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English
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Based on the book by Judy Garland's daughter, this Emmy award-winning mini-series follows the life of Judy Garland. It explores her beginnings as Frances "Baby" Gumm's first stage performance through her troubled life of drug and alcohol dependence and failed marriages. Although she was devoted to her children, she eventually was consumed by her demons and left the world far too soon.