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Erin Brockovich
by Steven Soderbergh
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8 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and held by 2,967 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees
Shark tale
by Will Smith
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6 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and Spanish and held by 2,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Oscar is a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, who becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian Great White shark, Lenny, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water and find his true place in the reef
The terminal
by Steven Spielberg
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9 editions published in 2004 in English and Chinese and held by 2,443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the security clerk and Mulroy. Viktor eventually falls for a stewardess who has spent her life waiting for the right man to come along
American graffiti
by George Lucas
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10 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in English and held by 2,314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An episodic look at growing up in the innocence of America before the Vietnam War, focusing on a group of teens spend their time cruising and meeting at the drive-in
Shrek 2
by Andrew Adamson
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9 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,981 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Following Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple go to Princess Fiona's parents palace for dinner. When the Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona and Shrek are now married she reminds the king about an old agreement they made vowing that Fiona will marry her son, Prince Charming. The King then hires an ogre slaying cat named Puss-in-Boots to kill Shrek
In good company
by Paul Weitz
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9 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 1,916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A successful middle-aged ad executive suddenly find himself working for a young hotshot half his age, who also develops a romantic interest in his daughter
Do the right thing
by Spike Lee
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7 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and held by 1,914 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Widescreen. The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise
Despicable me 2
by Steve Carell
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7 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 1,823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Recruited by the Anti-Villain League, Gru helps deal with a powerful new super criminal
E.T., the extra-terrestrial
by Steven Spielberg
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17 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 1,764 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A ten-year-old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been stranded on earth
Fahrenheit 451
by François Truffaut
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3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
by Michel Gondry
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,741 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process
Scarface
by Howard Hawks
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19 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in English and held by 1,724 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire
Diarios de motocicleta Motorcycle diaries
by Walter Salles
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4 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in Spanish and held by 1,635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela
Psycho
by Alfred Hitchcock
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16 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in English and held by 1,622 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn)--a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his 'mother.' Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister (Julianne Moore) and a private investigator (William H. Macy). They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious 'mother' at the Bates Motel"--Container label
Vertigo
by Alfred Hitchcock
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9 editions published between 1998 and 2006 in English and held by 1,617 WorldCat member libraries worldwide San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson, forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide
Lost in translation
by Sofia Coppola
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4 editions published between 2003 and 2010 in English and held by 1,568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Bob Harris and Charlotte are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband. Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship
Touch of evil
by Orson Welles
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3 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 1,542 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife
All quiet on the western front
by Lewis Milestone
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15 editions published between 1990 and 2012 in English and held by 1,455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Seven patriotic German youths go together from school to the battlefields of World War I. The center of this drama is a young man who goes from being an enthusiastic war endorser to battle-weary veteran
Apollo 13
by Ron Howard
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9 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and held by 1,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home
Mulholland Dr
by Qu Lin
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6 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in English and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Una joven actriz llega a Hollywood con un sueño: convertirse en estrella. Enseguida se involucra con una hermosa mujer que padece amnesia por un accidente automovilístico. Ambas mujeres se ven envueltas en un misterio que involucra a una peligrosa caja azul, a un director de nombre Adam Kesler y a un misterioso "night club" llamado Silencio more
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Accidents Americans Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) Bates, Norman (Fictitious character) Book burning California California--San Francisco Censorship Class actions (Civil procedure) Cocaine Drinking water--Contamination Fairy godmothers Friendship Ghouls and ogres Granado, Alberto, Groundfishes Guevara, Che, Hazardous wastes Hotelkeepers Human-alien encounters Japan--Tokyo John F. Kennedy International Airport Legal assistants Liability for water pollution damages Life on other planets Loneliness Love Lovell, Jim Male friendship Man-woman relationships Married people Memory Murderers Nineteen sixties Orphans Police Princesses Race relations Science--Experiments Single mothers South America Space vehicle accidents Supervillains Tall tales Teenagers United States Vertigo Visitors, Foreign White shark World War (1914-1918)
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