Jennifer Beals
1) The hive
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future -- the day after tomorrow -- and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can "like" or "share," but they can also "condemn" posts -- and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead... hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just...
2) Flashdance
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex struggles to gain independence, finds love, and realizes her dream-- to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
4) 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...
5) 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.
7) Cinderella
Publisher
Starmaker
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A young servant-girl becomes a princess when she meets her prince charming.
Publisher
Showtime Networks, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Niki is enraged by Jenny's vindictive way of leading her on and then dumping her; Alice walks in on Jenny and Shane after their night of passion; Dylan approaches Tina to ask for her help to get back together with Helena; and much more.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
Series
Criterion collection volume 485
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A look at the partyscene of the early eighties in New York City through the lives of a group of recent college graduates as they transition toward adulthood.
Publisher
Miramax Family Films
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
In the ancient city of Baghdad, magically protected by three golden balls, a timid shoemaker named Tack falls for the lovely, adventure-loving Princess Yum Yum. When a bumbling thief manages to steal the enchanted orbs, they fall into the hands of the wicked wizard Zig Zag. Tack and the princess must recover the magic balls, defeat the evil Zig Zag, and save their beloved city from destruction!
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
13) The book of Eli
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A man travels across a post-apocalyptic American protecting a sacred book that holds secrets to the survival of humans.
14) 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....
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"--Container.
17) Catch that kid
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Meet Maddy, Gus and Austin: three kids on a mission! They're three close friends with special talents. One is a champion rock climber, one is a computer genius and the other is a mechanical whiz who specializes in go-carts. Their task: to scale the heights and crack a high-tech bank vault to save Maddy's ailing Dad, but they have to do all this in time to finish their homework.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
One-Eye Jimmy is missing and the search is on! Join this wild goose chase to find Jimmy with the most outrageous group of misfits. Along with the F.B.I., the Catholic Church and the mob, everyone is looking for Jimmy in this hilarious romp through the streets and alleys of Brooklyn.
19) Four rooms
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A bell-boy in a hotel trying to regain its glory days spends a harrowing New Years Eve trying to please finicky and petulant guests. Contains four segments, each covering one room, by different directors.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
The story of Dorothy Parker, one of the sharpest, most biting wits of the past century. But beneath the raucous laugher is a darker and richer tale filled with passionate affairs, friendship and tragedy, all captured in this striking masterpiece of unrequited love and self-destructive impulses. Includes characters from the Algonquin Round Table, of which Parker is arguably the center.