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Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on "her" farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the...
2) Rogue agent
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
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English
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"Abby, a savvy, witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show, is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette, she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian, a caller who is smitten with her radio persona, asks her on a date. She then talks her tall, blonde neighbor Noelle into assuming her identity, setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises."--Container.
4) Novocaine
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Language
English
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When a fellow traveler dies suddenly, burned-out journalist David Locke assumes his identity. Using the dead man's datebook as a guide, Locke travels throughout Europe and Africa, taking meetings with dangerous gun runners and falling for a beguiling young woman. But his exciting newfound freedom carries a fateful price as Locke realizes he is in over his head.
6) The front
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
7) Summer wars
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
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"Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has--until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
In this over-the-top sequel, there's trouble in paradise. When the seemingly reformed ex-con Zequi is about to marry the love of his life, the lovably nerdy Lucy, wedding-day jitters turn into a full-blown fiasco, and Lucy calls the wedding off. Once they're all seaside, Lucy runs into her high school sweetheart Mario, who is the coach of the opposing squad, and Zequi finds himself a rival in more than one competition.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash. The rich Harkness in-laws, and their other son Bill, had never seen Patrice, so they accept her and her newborn son into their family. However, Steve eventually finds her and starts to blackmail her.
10) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
11) Mail order bride
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A con woman tries to start her life over on the right track by moving to another state and assuming her deceased friend's identity, until her past threatens to destroy her future.
12) Anastasia
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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"For years, rumors abound that only Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, survived a Bolshevik attack on her family in 1918. Because a huge fortune awaits Anastasia, greedy expatriate Russian General Bounine attempts to groom a beautiful, destitute woman to pass for the empress. The woman becomes so convinced that even the General suspects she really is Anastasia. But in order to escape poverty, she must prove her identity...
13) Midnight
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl, impersonating a Hungarian countess, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle with the help of an aristocrat. But she finds herself falling in love with yet another poor man.
14) The assistant
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone's lives forever, including the young man's mother, Marie-France, who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job, as Thomas's assistant, without him knowing about her connection to his past.
15) Pretty poison
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A mentally unstable man takes a break from arson to pursue a young girl with a big attitude. Their developing relationship becomes a lethal combination as she uses his devotion and his bragging about being a secret agent for her own evil ends.
16) Anastasia
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling story of the lost Russian princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across Russia, the royal family's youngest daughter barely escapes with her life. Years later, Anastasia and a band of heroic companions must battle the evil Rasputin, his sidekick Bartok the bat and a host of ghostly minions in a headlong race to reach Paris, reclaim her rightful destiny and solve the...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detection. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften up.
18) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run.
19) Golmaal returns
Publisher
Indian Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Hindi
Description
"Gopal, who lives with his wife Ekta, sister Esha and a dumb brother-in-law Lucky, gets stuck in a yacht after saving an attractive woman, Meera, from some goons"--Container.
20) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
None
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
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