Tzi Ma
1) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
2) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
Language
English
Description
"A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems"--Container.
6) A good man
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with and old foe.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a Taiwanese-American professor is murdered, FBI agent Jake Kelly races to track the killers back to Taiwan. Kelly soon finds himself immersed in a dangerous conspiracy as he dodges forces ranging from the U.S. State Department to the Chinese Mafia.
8) Baby steps
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, longs to have a baby with his American partner Tate, but their attempts at international surrogacy are complicated by Danny's meddling mother, who wants to control every aspect of the process; all the way from Taipei.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.