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The founder: Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel (The Wrestler) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to...
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"In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles - poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds - by embarking on a journey through the Cevennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a highly entertaining account of the French people and their country. The Amateur Emigrant is a journal of his travels to and in...
285) Esperando al diluvio
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"Entre los años 1968 y 1969, el asesino al que la prensa bautizaría como John Biblia mató a tres mujeres en Glasgow. Nunca fue identificado y el caso todavía sigue abierto hoy en día. En esta novela, a principios de los años ochenta, el investigador de policía escocés Noah Scott Sherrington logra llegar hasta John Biblia, pero un fallo en su corazón en el último momento le impide arrestarlo. A pesar de su frágil estado se salud, y contra...
286) The raven queen
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The life of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, is all too often remembered as just a line in a history book, but this stunning novel reveals the full fascinating and tragic story -- a tale of treachery, power struggles, and religious turmoil in the Tudor court.
287) Braveheart
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William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
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A collection of DVDs featuring five royal-themed films into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The King's speech: This is the story of King George VI of Britian, his impromptu ascension to the throne, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Victoria & Abdul: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Mary Queen of Scots: Queen of France at sixteen,...
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