Joe Walker
2) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...[T]he mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee" --Container.
4) Sicario
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
8) Shame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
13) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member, Bobby Sands, went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. The film focuses on Sands's final days. An unflinching, transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.
14) Dirty war
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fanatical terrorists are planning to launch a nuclear attack with a homemade radioactive device in London. Local authorities are operating on high alert while government agents scour the city desperately searching for the source of the threat.
15) The Virgin Queen
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting drama that explores the fascinating 44-year-reign of Elizabeth I, from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror, through her great love affair with Robert Dudley into her years of triumph over the Spanish Armada, and finally her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex. Vulnerable and imperious, passionate and unreachable, forever torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dune. Part 2. Paul Atreides, alongside Chani and the Fremen, seeks vengeance against the conspirators who destroyed his family, while grappling with the dilemma of choosing between his love for Chani and the fate of the universe. Amidst the turmoil caused by the destruction of House Atreides by House Harkonnen, Paul and his mother Lady Jessica integrate into Fremen society on Arrakis, where they confront suspicion and skepticism while fulfilling prophecies...