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O brother, where art thou
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5 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 2,090 libraries worldwide Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
The Queen
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4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,940 libraries worldwide The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"--Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the monarch and Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to the resulting torrent of national grief.
Free Willy
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8 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in English and held by 1,802 libraries worldwide A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
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2 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in Russian and French and held by 1,650 libraries worldwide Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a Paris cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.
About a boy
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6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 1,638 libraries worldwide Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
Mar adentro The sea inside
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1 edition published in 2005 in Spanish and held by 1,577 libraries worldwide "[Biography of] Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life"--Container.
The pianist
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11 editions published between 2002 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,340 libraries worldwide Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Belleville rendez-vous
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1 edition published in 2004 in French and held by 1,323 libraries worldwide A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Mulholland Dr
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6 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,322 libraries worldwide A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
Billy Elliot
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 1,287 libraries worldwide Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Le scaphandre et le papillon
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1 edition published in 2008 in French and held by 1,276 libraries worldwide The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, French editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, paralyzing his entire body except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
The pianist
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13 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 1,198 libraries worldwide Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Free Willy 2 the adventure home
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5 editions published between 1995 and 2003 in English and held by 1,168 libraries worldwide In this sequel to Free Willy, Jesse has settled into life with his adoptive parents, has an eye for girls, and copes with his feisty half-brother Elvis. He never expects to see Willy again, but during a Pacific Northwest vacation trip, Jesse meets a special girl and encounters Willy and his family. When a tanker runs aaground and spills oil into the harbor, the whales are trapped. Jesse and Willy's reunion suddenly becomes a desperate bid to survive.
Il postino The postman
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3 editions published in 1995 in Italian and held by 1,151 libraries worldwide The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.
Entre les murs The class
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5 editions published in 2009 in French and German and held by 1,105 libraries worldwide Based on Bégaudeau's semi-autographical book Entre Les Murs (Between the Walls) "The Class" dramatizes a year in the life of a middle school in an immigrant heavy, multiracial neighborhood in Paris. The students are also nonprofessionals, and classroom sessions were improvised from workshops around specific themes. The documentary-approach to the filming puts the lie to the one-teacher-can-make-a-difference myth propagated by so many other films about school. The shifting classroom dynamics emphasize how traditions, economics, and language hold these students back, not only in education, but also with forging any kind of unified French identity. Additionally, the film suggests it is not just racists or reactionaries that are worrisome; it is when genuine idealists are finally worn down, when the gulf between meaning well and doing well becomes unbridgable. Until the system can be changed, both battles and victories will be moment to moment.
Love actually
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5 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in English and held by 1,077 libraries worldwide It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Stargate
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5 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in English and held by 1,002 libraries worldwide A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful Sun God, Ra, before they can find their way home.
U-571
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10 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in English and French and held by 999 libraries worldwide During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
Wimbledon
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5 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 950 libraries worldwide An aging male tennis star has one last shot, and two weeks, to win the greatest tennis tournament and the heart of an upcoming women's tennis star.
Basic instinct
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23 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in English and held by 868 libraries worldwide A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. more
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