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Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
David Frank is suing God. When we meet David, this formerly successful attorney -- shattered by his wife's death -- spends days in his bathrobe with his only real companion, his beloved bulldog, Brutus.. While visiting his beloved niece Lucy near Orlando, a tornado threatens to destroy David's house. He races home in a heroic effort to save poor Brutus, but is stopped by the police and watches helplessly as the dark funnel of destruction sucks up...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of Vibia Perpetua, one of the earliest reliably verified Christian martyrs. How did the well-educated daughter of a noble family end up publicly executed in the arena? Trace the seemingly random series of events that led to a tragic death and see how Perpetua’s record of her own experiences became an immensely popular text in the early Christian church.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists seem to be random: a cattle truck is stolen, a popular pub...
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, four estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. Defying police orders, the four begin turning their old Detroit neighborhood upside down searching for the person responsible for the brutal killing. Along the way, they discover they are bound by ties thicker than blood.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Austrian housewife Manu narrowly escapes from an airplane accident only to die six years later in a car accident. The results of the accident transform Manu's young family, the lives of the teenagers in the other car, and the entire community. The film explores the Butterfly Effect and the randomness of fate.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband's death, Audrey invites...
8) Knowing
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Disc 1, Episode one. Something to treasure: Hetty and Geoffrey head to Cumbria, where a miner's widow enlists them in the search for a missing book penned by her late husband. The widow claims the book was stolen. But is she really after the book--or its map to a cache of precious minerals hidden somewhere inside the mine? -- Episode 2. Family values: When a wealthy client asks Hetty to investigate suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Recounts the grisly events of the only murder ever to take place within the Presidio, one of America's oldest and most honored military bases. Even though the victim seems random, the list of suspects is long, from the obvious to the inexplicable, setting off an investigation with a shocking climax nobody could have predicted. When a sergeant's wife is stabbed to death in her quarters, the army wants, and decidedly takes swift justice. But one internal...
11) Knowing
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's because it's a new science-- others say it's because they...
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in the late 1800s, an origin story of the hit series "Walker", WALKER INDEPENDENCE follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered on their journey out West. Seeking to uncover the truth about her husband's killer, Abby vows to save Independence a frontier boomtown where nothing is what it seems.
15) Violet
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Nederlands
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jesse bears witness to his best friend's seemingly random murder at the mall. The film explores the process of coping in the midst of senseless violence. There is a sophisticated mosaic of loss, the permanence of trauma, and the tumult of youth.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Afloat: From the intimate vantage point of a senior community swimming pool, water and time suspend both body and memory. This film travels underwater and above water to create a gentle meditation on growing old, staying young, and living life.
The angelmakers: Tells the forgotten story of a large group of Hungarian women who killed their husbands with arsenic in 1929.
High Plains winter: This short film captures the lunar quality of the western...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Four brothers: Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.
The departed: In South Boston, the state police force are...
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