Una
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Becoming Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a society in which male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The book June Cleaver would have written if she spent more time drinking and less time vacuuming. As a girl, Una LaMarche was as smart as she was awkward. She was blessed with a precocious intellect, a love of all things pop culture, and eyebrows bushierthan Frida Kahlo's. Adversity made her stronger...and funnier. In UNABROW, Una shares the cringe-inducing lessons she's learned from a life as a late bloomer, including the seven deadly sins of DIY...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Born into poverty and a broken family, Maya Angelou's gift for poetry and storytelling propelled her to international renown as a leader in African-American culture and literature. Ultimately, her personal story and written words inspired and delighted millions from all races around the world. Witness a close-up portrait of a legendary figure in this first feature documentary about her life.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again the game is on for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson!
Author
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
"Ser Harry Potter nunca ha sido tarea fàcil, menos aún desde que se ha convertido en un atareadìsimo empleado del Ministerio de Magia, un hombre casado y padre de tres hijos. Y si Harry planta cara a un pasado que se resiste a quedar atràs, su hijo menor, Albus Severus, ha de luchar contra el peso de una herencia familiar de la que él nunca ha querido saber nada. Cuando el destino conecte el pasado con el presente, padre e hijo deberàn afrontar...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and taumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which...
9) Cornelio
Author
Publisher
Kalandraka Editora
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, sees things no crocodile has ever seen before.
Cornelius, un cocodrilo que camina erguido, ve cosas que ningǽʼ cocodrilo ha visto antes.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Ciudad de Mxico. 2002, 2006, 2010. Un polica, un rehn, una esposa. Corrupcin, violencia, venganza.Tres destinos se entrelazan durante los treinta das del mundial de ftbol, tiempo santo donde todo vale, donde el mundo entra en un vrtigo paralizante mientras la suerte de todos depende de un baln. Tres formas de luchar para sobrevivir. Ovacionada en el Festival de Cannes, premio a Mejor Director en el Festival de Guadalajara y ganadora de 8 premios Ariel,...
Publisher
Sony Picturs Classics
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Explores the relationships of a gay movie director, who has a transsexual brother (now a woman living with her daughter) and two lovers, one of whom murders the other and takes the director's sister (brother) hostage in order to see the director one more time.
Publisher
Distributed by Studio Latino
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
Mamá tiene ochenta y dos años y su hijo Jaime, cincuenta. Jaime tiene mujer, dos hijos, una hermosa casa, dos autos y una suegra que atender. Un día Jaime se queda sin empleo por razones de ajuste. Jaime y su mujer son los dueños del departamento donde vive Mamá. Tendrán que pedirle a mama que deje el departamento para poderlo vender, solo que cuando Jaime llega a darle las malas noticias a su madre esta le tiene e el una sorpresa mas grande.
Jaime...
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
In Santiago, best friends Oliver, Moises and Hemingway prepare for a carefree summer road trip, before college, mapping a route from Montecristi in the north to an eventual destination of Pedernales in the south. Their car breaks down frequently, leaving the young men stranded with every character under the Dominican sun. Riffs on pop culture, national identity and politics offer an emblematic snapshot of the joys and insecurities of contemporary...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
"Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something neither had expected - a real-life love affair"--Container.
16) Private
Publisher
Arab Film Distribution
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Arabic
Description
"Mohammad, his wife and their five children live in a large, isolated house located mid-way between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. Viewed as a strategic lookout point, the house is forcefully taken over by Israeli soldiers, who confine Mohammad and his family to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room at night"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Cuca's cozy rural life in Brazil is shattered when his father leaves for the city. Determined to reunite his family, he embarks on a journey into civilization, where despite the harsh life and industrialized landscape, he finds that peoples' hearts continue to beat together in song.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
20) Matador
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
The story of a retired torero and a beautiful lawyer who both need death as an aphrodisiac. The lovers are brought together when a young bullfighting student confesses to a string of murders.