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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Based on Lev Grossman's New York Times best seller, this centers on Quentin, a brilliant grad student chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his twenty something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real, and poses a grave danger to humanity.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Heading into season two, this group of unlikely heroes has been thrust into even more dangerous and unfamiliar territory. They must draw upon their novice skills to defeat a threat that could destroy the magical world itself. Driven by power, revenge, and survival, they learn that those who enter the hauntingly beautiful world of Fillory will never be the same as those who leave.
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The privilege of belonging to the most powerful and influential secret society can come at a high price. What happens when on the night of the last ritual to become a member of the society, a pledge witnesses a murder committed by one of its members and the betrayal of the society begins?
4) The Skulls
Publisher
Universal Studios
Edition
Collector's edition; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
For working-class Luke, an invitation to join an influential secret college organization at his Ivy League college is a dream come true. But a series of disturbing incidents, including a suspicious suicide, causes him to investigate further.
5) Jumper
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
6) Wanted
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
9) Anatomy
Author
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Paula, a brilliant, ambitious medical student, is accepted into a prestigious anatomy class taught by a legendary professor, it seems like a dream come true. But her school days soon turn to nightmares when several of her fellow classmates turn up dead in the university's morgue.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A nightmarish three-part limited series event filled with scorpions, eyeless men, disappearing children and the creepiest carnival of all time! Rachel has a chance to join the secret Midnight Society. All she has to do is tell a truly terrifying story. But when the chilling events of her Tale of Mr. Tophat and the Carnival of Doom start to actually come true and her friends' lives are at stake, Rachel must face her fears and end Mr. Tophat's reign...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The Egyptian God of Chaos inhabits a human, and tries to release pure evil into the world. Flynn leads the others on a rescue mission, which leads them into a subterranean trap filled with ancient Egyptian werewolves. After seeing a vision of her own death at the hands of a supernatural assassin, can Baird cheat fate and stop the deadly prophecy coming true?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called The House of the Flying Daggers rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the Flying Daggers organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things...
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The hit series based on Lev Grossman's best-selling novels returns for season three as Quentin Coldwater and his magician friends now face a world without magic. Deprived of their special powers, Quentin and the other magicians are desperate to find a way to restore magic. But in order to regain what has been lost, they must embark on an epic quest that cannot be accomplished alone. Now more than, ever, our heroes must rely on one another.
15) Vienna blood
Publisher
PBS
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed screenwriter Steve Thompson (Sherlock), this thrilling crime drama is set in 1900s Vienna -- a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. When Max Liebermann, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, meets Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help Oskar investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders. Max's...
16) The saphead
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Language
English
Description
The saphead: Bertie Van Alstyne is the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier : The High Sign: Buster is unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards ; One Week: Keaton and his bride inherit a do-it-by-numbers pre-fab house, only somebody has mixed up the numbers.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
18) The institute
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter--stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death--voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. There, she is subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing, and mind control. Now she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood, and exact her revenge.
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-something friends have discovered that the magical world they read about as children is not only real, but it poses dangers to humanity.
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