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For generations, General Rafael Trujillo has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery, until Minerva Mirabal dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader, Minerva and her sisters, known as Las Mariposas, endure unimaginable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillos forces close in determined to put an end to Minervas heroics.
4) The landlord
Publisher
Distributed ... by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A social satire about a wealthy young man (Bridges) who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Major Charles Rane returns home to Texas, he is given a true hero's welcome. He and his friend Johnny Vohden have endured eight years of physical and mental torture in a POW camp. Charlie's big homecoming includes a Cadillac convertible and a couple of thousand dollars ... and the news that his wife has fallen in love with another man.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Black comedy about war, revolving around an inept and idiotic lieutenant who is first assigned to North Africa to construct a cricket pitch in the middle of the desert, and then to Europe to capture a bridge over the Rhine, which he accomplishes by making a deal with a German officer.
7) Cold turkey
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Farce about an entire Iowa town that tries to give up smoking in order to win $25 million.
9) The best man
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Story of two candidates for their party's presidential nomination. One is an intellectual with a sense of morality, the other an opportunist who would win at all costs. The deciding factor is the endorsement of the out-going president who thrives on political in-fighting and deplores indecision.
11) April morning
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Drama about the bloody confrontation at Lexington, Mass. which precipitated the American Revolution, as seen through the experiences of one family.
12) August
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, 'Uncle Vanya'.
13) The Hawaiians
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the film "Hawaii" in which Whip Hoxworth returns to Hawaii and establishes a plantation with indentured Chinese laborers.
14) Dreamchild
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A fantasy based on the true life visit of 80 year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland," to New York to celebrate the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. As Alice observes the developing romance between her traveling companion, Lucy, and a New York reporter, she reflects on her friendship with Lewis Carroll and finds herself haunted by the characters he created that amused her when she was a child.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
John Hamilton is a painter with an alcoholic and dissatisfied wife. She disappears, leaving behind his slashed paintings. He is accused of murdering her and flees to the woods. Among the pursuers: one of her former lovers, a tough cop.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2011
Language
None
Description
The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as possible to the original story. A lavish, exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance, of music, and of life. Based on the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire, shell risk everything to renew their brief affair.
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