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Language
English
Description
'You gotta git your minds fixed, ' the rural preacher tells Sunday School children. And the best way to do that fixin' is from Old Testament stories narrated by the preacher, played by a black cast, backed by the joyful gospel sounds of the Hall Johnson Choir and based on Marc Connelly's folk-themed Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
24) Olympia
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee as a documentary on the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl combines the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competitioon, including American track star Jesse Owen's sprint races. Some say that the production tends to glorify the young male body and express the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowress.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Archer is a wealthy woman who is fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her husband has been putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy's fortune will be theirs. That day will never come, especially not since Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her metabolism into overdrive. Soon, Nancy's size matches her rage."
26) The jazz singer
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a cantor's son who turns his back on family tradition and becomes a cabaret-entertainer.
28) The singing nun
Series
Language
English
Description
With lilting melodies and an earnest sense of higher calling, Ann takes her faith where it might not otherwise go - onto the world's airwaves. Her "Dominique" becomes a smash single.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde, " but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
"Tommy Connors, a cocky tough guy, is sent to Sing Sing but is confident that he will not have to follow the rules of prison life. When his smooth lawyer, Joe Finn, tries unsuccessfully to bribe warden Paul Long, however, it becomes clear that Connors is now just another number. Connors and Long battle in a contest of wills, in which Long practices his modern theories of reform. Long begins to see results when Connors does not participate in an escape...
32) The actress
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Drama about a teenager who dreams of a theatrical career after being mesmerized by a performance of The Pink Lady in a Boston theater. Her father would rather she continue her education but, after realizing how much this means to her, decides to support her goal if she finishes high school.
34) Airborne
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mitchell Goosen's life is turned upside down when he is forced to move from California to Cincinnati. His different ways make him the target for his classmates. Soon his rollerblade talents gain him some attention from both his peers as well as the beautiful Niki.
35) Angel baby
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"They're packing them in at the tent revival today. The young woman called Jenny Angel is preaching--and performing miracles of healing on the blind and the lame. Angel baby takes viewers inside the evangelistic tent with its story of godly aspirations and human frailties. Salome Jens plays Jenny, who becomes a popular preacher on the tent revival circuit after being cured of muteness at a revival--and becomes an innocent target of a moneyman eager...
36) Angus
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Angus is an overweight geek who seems to be the butt of many jokes. He has a crush on a cheerleader who ignores him. But things look like they might change when Angus decides to go to the school dance.
37) Bad Ronald
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A family with three daughters moves into an old house, unaware that it has a secret room occupied by a psychopathic teenager.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in the tawdry underbelly of 18th century London, a sordid world of bandits, cut throats and corrupted officials, The Beggars̕ Opera follows the raffish escapades of Captain Macheath, a reckless, brooding, adventurer and notorious highwayman, and the seething plot to have him hanged.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew
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