Molly Parker
Author
Language
English
Description
Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history--culpable regardless of her intentions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed, The L Word) focuses on a young, married woman who seduces the faceless men that pass through her stifling world. Feeding her growing desire to test the waters between emotional pleasure and pain, she dives deeper into her own unrealized darkness, uncertain whether she will survive the Suspicious river.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in 2048, this epic reimagining of the original family space adventure finds the Robinsons torn off course en route to what they hoped would be a fresh start on a distant space colony. Against all odds, but with endless hope and extensive training, the family bands together to survive on a dangerous alien planet.
4) Jockey
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious theater troupe. When the workshops ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set in 1876 in the Black Hills of South Dakota after the richest gold strike in American history has drawn a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Tells the story of the settlers, who range from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
10) Deadwood
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of South Dakota's statehood and modernization. Still, the past isn't easily dismissed as old feuds are revived, sins recalled, and allegiances tested.
11) Kissed
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ever since she was a young girl, Sandra has been fascinated with death. Her secret obsession, however, interferes with her burgeoning relationship with her boyfriend, Matt, forcing him to embark on a personal crusade to prove he will go to great lengths.
13) In the shadows
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Cynthia takes a job as caretaker of the beautiful, wealthy but terminally ill Eleanor Dunston. Cynthia and her boyfriend Buck scheme to romance Eleanor into marrying Buck and bequeathing her fortune. But the strange triangle develops into something no one expected when each falls deeply in love.
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
15) Rare birds
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dave's marriage is dead and his restaurant just went belly up. Alphonse, Dave's neighbor, hatches a mad-yet-ingenious scheme in the hopes of saving his buddy's sagging fortune. After staging the sightings of an extremely rare bird in the neighborhood, bird watchers and hungry patrons the world over, flock to the area. But soon, Dave's restaurant is swimming in controversy.
16) The wicker man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Edward Malus is a California police officer who takes a leave of absence after witnessing a tragedy on the job. Taking pills to soothe the effects of his post-traumatic stress disorder, Edward receives a letter from his ex-fiance, Willow, requesting his assistance in finding her missing child. She asks him come to Summerisle, a small island off the coast of Puget Sound, and help her find her daughter, Rowan. When Edward starts investigating Rowan's...
17) The war bride
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this uplifting wartime drama is about a vivacious war bride and mother who leaves war-torn London to begin a new life on her new husband Charlie's family farm in Canada. Their faith and love is put to the supreme test.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As America celebrates its 200th birthday, two generations of friends and neighbors in a Chicago suburb explore new freedoms and seek connections with each other in the midst of the sexual revolution. This new period drama takes viewers back to the 1970s for a look at suburban households testing the murky waters of sexual revolution following swingers throughout open marriages, ₁key parties₂ and other swingers' extravaganzas.
20) That's what I am
Publisher
WWE Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Andy Nichol, 12, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict in fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his peers. Unfortunately for Andy, that₁s all about to change. Andy is put to the test when his English teacher, Mr. Simon, pairs him up with the school₁s biggest outcast, Stanley. However, what Andy will soon learn is that there truly was a method behind Mr. Simon₁s madness as to why he teamed them up.