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1) Yo
Publisher
FiGa Films
Language
Español
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
Publisher
FiGa Films
Language
Portuguese
Description
Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
3) X-Men
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Because of unique genetic mutations, children with extraordinary and dangerous powers are born into a world filled with prejudice. Under the tutelage of Professior Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind.
Publisher
New Line Home Video; SVS Triumph
Language
English
Description
Shep Ramsey, a galactic warrior temporarily stranded on earth while fleeing his evil nemesis, takes refuge with a mild-mannered architect, his wife and two children. Shep's efforts to adapt to suburban life are hilariously unsuccessful, but when his enemy tracks him down, he needs all the help from earthlings he can get.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Edition
Special ed.; 50th anniversary.
Language
English
Description
"The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise--and suddenly uncertain reign--of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales,...
Publisher
Marvel
Edition
[DVD version]
Language
English
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
13) Supernova
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
A disabled deep-space medical vessel must figure out the secret behind a mysterious rescuee and a strange alien artifact before a nearby star goes supernova.
14) Alien quadrilogy
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes 2-disc versions of: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, plus a bonus disc loaded with special features. Includes the original theatrical versions and the extended cuts of each Alien film.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Edition
Widescreen ed. ; Director's ed.; [DVD version].
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew return to the newly-transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to stop the alien intruder on its flight toward Earth.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Language
English
Description
Volume XXIV presents four of cinema's transplants from other countries that just didn't quite make it. Perhaps there was a good reason for that, but you can be the judge along with Joel, Mike, and their robot brothers Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.
Fugitive alien: "Ken becomes a fugitive from the planet Valnastar after accidentally killing his friend. He joins up with an Earth starship, the Bacchus 3, but his troubles have only just begun"--Container.
Star...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.
20) Frequency
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
John discovers the ability to talk to his father.. who's been dead for 30 years. His attempts to change the past go awry as they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders. Now they're fighting to find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them.
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