Claire Danes
Author
Language
English
Description
A passionate story about fitting in...and falling in love! Head-turning cute, but painfully shy and self-conscious, Daisy feels like a complete outsider at her stuffy New York prep school. So when she catches the eye of the coolest guy in the school, she is totally psyched...but afraid that opening up too much might blow it for her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Carrie ventures a delicate alliance with the Pakistan's secretive Inter-Services Intelligence. Fara fails to recruit a key asset, forcing Carrie to intervene. After the events in Islamabad, Quinn zeroes in on a potential lead.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
8) Shopgirl
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away into a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Three problem teens are headed for jail until Captain Greer offers them a deal to work for him--undercover. In a hip L.A. scene, the Mod Squad uncovers an intricate crime ring involving drugs, prostitution and dirty cops but they're also caught in a deadly set-up.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With a paranoid president facing investigation and the country tearing itself apart, Carrie and Saul must determine who they can trust in the gripping seventh season. As President Keane finds herself under threat from forces outside the government and within, Carrie embarks on a mission to unravel the truth and bring down a harrowing conspiracy.
11) Stardust
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A man decides to give a falling star to his girlfriend, but discovers that the star is human and that he must save her from a witch.
13) A kid like Jake
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Brooklyn couple has always known that their four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, the couple is forced to rethink their roles as parents and spouses as they apply for him to go to a private kindergarten in New York City.
14) The family Stone
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiance¿¿ Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
15) Little women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
16) The flock
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Erroll Babbage has spent his career tracking sex offenders, and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl, he and his new partner must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.
17) Temple Grandin
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Temple Grandin, an autistic young woman who became a great success story in the field of livestock science.
18) Evening
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
19) The snow queen
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Meeks brothers travel down different paths in search for transcendence. Barrett, haunted by a vision of light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers"--
20) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....