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1) Paper towns
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears; leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving.
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Boyhood: A groundbreaking story of growing up, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
The Edge of Seventeen: High school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend Krista starts dating her older brother.
Lady Bird: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
Paper Towns: Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, a coming-of-age...
3) Company Town
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking investigative documentary, one man goes up against one of the nation's largest paper mill and chemical plants in a bid to save his town from sickness-causing pollution.
Publisher
New Deal Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, week after week?' The Rio Grande Sun, published in Espanola, New Mexico is considered one of the best weekly newspapers in the country. Bob Trapp, the Sun's founder, editor, and publisher, is the quintessential newspaperman, the last of a vanishing breed--an honest, fearless, independent journalist,...
5) Burn Country
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a former “fixer” for journalists in Afghanistan, Osman (Dominic Rains, "Best Actor" at the Tribeca Film Festival) finds asylum in a small California town. Promised a job as a crime reporter for the local paper, and a home with his best friend’s mother, the town sheriff (Melissa Leo), Osman is ready to settle in. But, when the job falls through, Osman finds himself restless and looking for action.. His attempts to get to know the area lead...
6) Bluebeard
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol brings the shocking true story of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru to the screen. Landru is a seemingly respectable Parisian who devises a sick and ingenious scheme to supplement his dwindling income during the First World War. First, he lures wealthy dowagers to his villa. Then, he cons them into forking over their fortunes. Finally, he kills them, chops them up and immolates the pieces.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
See Fireman Sam in action in this thrilling collection of firefighting adventures! Join your pals, Fireman Sam, Norman, Mandy, and Radar as they make courageous rescues throughout the town of Pontypandy. Fireman Sam saves the supermarket on Fire Prevention Day, helps the rescue dogs find missing people, shares important safety tips, and makes a daring helicopter rescue in the midst of a forest fire. Fireman Sam is here to help you learn about fire...
Language
English
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Cassie Nightingale has settled into Middleton and is busy making a home of Grey House. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Jake Russell, and his kids are happy to have Cassie in the neighborhood, but she has yet to gain the trust of some people in town. Before long, a stranger rolls into town with papers entitling him to legal ownership of Grey House. Before she knows it, Cassie is left without a home and is convinced Middleton isn't where she belongs.
11) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
Publisher
NBC Universal
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Filmed on the streets of San Francisco, the series revolves around two investigators, Don Corey (Anthony George), and his young partner Jed Sills (Doug McClure). In their quest to prevent crimes before they happen, Dr. Carl Hyatt (Sebastian Cabot), a university criminologist , joins them. Some of America's most talanted actors and actresses joined the sleuths in their weekly tales of intrigue and danger.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
You're telling me!: Sam Bisbee is an inventor who is the laughingstock in his small town. After demonstrating another failed invention, he meets a princess who promises to use her celebrity to turn his luck around.
The old fashioned way: W.C. Fields is the Great McGonigle, manager of a theatrical troupe. Notorious for skipping out on bills and failing to pay actors, he next descends on a small town where he sets his sights on the hospitality of a...
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the Emmy Award-winning animated science-adventure series based on the best-selling books. In "The haunted house", the class has an upcoming concert at an old, spooky mansion filled with mysterious sounds. In "Going batty", as they learn about bats, the gang is convinced The Friz is a vampire. And in "Spins a web", Ms. Frizzle transports the class into a 1950s horror movie where a praying mantis is wreaking havoc on the town.
The...
17) 1971
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans excercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in its history, the FBI never solved the mystery of the...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A carefree ex-newspaperman Tom Richards is arrested for vagrancy, he's saved from a jail term when Vinnie McLeod, an elderly editor of a floundering local paper, offers him a job. Together they're out to make headlines as they work to expose political corruption in a small town. They refuse to buckle under the threats and demands of corrupt, rival newspaper owner, Big Boss Dougherty. So the suspense mounts as they stand their ground against Dougherty's...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Following a 250-year slumber, Ichabod Crane devotes his life and knowledge of the supernatural to defeating the demonic forces that plague present-day Sleepy Hollow. But after the climactic events of Season Three, and the death of his partner and fellow Witness, Abbie Mills, Crane's world is turned upside down. He is then led out of town by a mysterious group promising to put him in charge of an evil-fighting organization created hundreds of years...
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