Jennifer Beals
Author
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Jennifer Beck is a intrepid FBI agent who is assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple missing daughter. As the clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck, who has a secret gift of clairvoyance, tries to connect the kidnapper to the girl's mother, who is having an affair with her husband's business partner. Racing against the clock, Beck must discover the real reason for the abduction before it's too late.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Sarah, a lonely and deeply troubled woman, inadvertently enters an AA meeting, she is embraced by its members who believe that she too is an alcoholic. What the meeting is all about, she doesn't know... her motive for going to the community center was to meet face-to-face with Charlie, a handsome man who she has seen regularly standing in front of the center, adjacent to her apartment window, before entering what she supposes is some sort of...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
5) The hive
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie McKinney has always believed in the Hive.
Social media used to be out of control, after all. People were torn apart by trolls and doxxers. Even hackers—like Cassie's dad—were powerless against it.
But then the Hive came. A better way to sanction people for what they do online. Cause trouble, get too many "condemns," and a crowd can come after you, teach you a lesson in real life. It's safer, fairer and perfectly legal.
Entering
...6) Flashdance
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A young female welder dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer, trying out her original routines every night at a local bar.
7) Cinemanovels
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this slyly humorous family drama about what we inherit (and don't inherit) from our parents, Grace (Lauren Lee Smith) has not spoken to her recently deceased father, a fabled filmmaker, in years. She surprises her confidant (Jennifer Beals - "Flashdance") and herself when, on a trip to pick up some of his belongings, she offers to help put together a retrospective of his work and finds herself influenced in strange and significant ways. Official...
8) Caro diario
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From hot new hookups to trouble at the altar, nothing is off-limits for this unapologetic group of friends and lovers. No matter who comes out on top, Gen Q always has each other's backs. They're here, queer, living proud, and always staying true to themselves.
11) The Bride
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein builds to perfect woman, and lives to regret it, in this tantalizing marriage of horror, romance and unbridled passion. This spectacular movie follows Frankenstein2s creations as they look for their place in the world, the gorgeous Eva by declaring her sexual independence, and her grotesque mate Viktor by learning self-worth from a compassionate circus dwarf. Can Dr. Frankenstein survive when the monster returns to claim his intended?...
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as the jobless ex-GI Easy Rawlins, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he's recruited to find the missing lover of a wealthy mayoral candidate in late 1940s Los Angeles only to find himself embroiled in murder, political intrigue, and a scandal that crosses the treacherous color lines of a segregated society.
13) Manhattan night
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
15) In the Soup
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Broke and desperate filmmaker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) is a Manhattan wannabe in love with the mysterious woman next door, Angelica (Jennifer Beals). He puts out an ad offering to sell his 'fabulous' movie script for {dollar}500, and gets a response from Joe (Seymour Cassel), who gives him a thousand and says he'll raise the 250,000 to make the picture. The problem is, Joe is a semi-connected wiseguy with a habit of committing oddball crimes....
16) Queen to play
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives.
Author
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"Free women of color", secret mistresses to wealthy white landowners, live between cultures in the 19th century American South. When the illegitmate son of one white man demands recognition, it threatens to bring down Southern society.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Abby Arcane is investigating a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana. When a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe. With nature wildly out of balance and coming for the people of Marais, in the end, it may take some Thing from the swamp to save it.
19) Before I fall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After one fateful night, Sam wakes up with no future at all. Trapped reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was. And as she begins to untangle the mystery of a life suddenly derailed, she must also unwind the secrets of the people closest to her, and discover the power of a single day to make a difference, before she runs out of time for good.
20) After
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story follows Tessa, a dedicated student, dutiful daughter, and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart, as she enters her first semester in college. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott, a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.