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1) Enron
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fasten your seatbelts for a rapid-fire, sophisticated thrill-ride that propels you through one of the most infamous financial scandals in history! With a spicy blend of humor, pathos and music, the big biz machinations of Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andy Fastow are laid bare as razzle-dazzle entertainment. Lucy Prebble's Enron casts a shocking new light on today's economy and how we got here. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring...
2) Cousin Bette
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong. Eventually, reluctantly banding together, they unravel a political conspiracy fueling...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
6) Elmer Gantry
Series
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
7) Serena
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, newlywed couple George and Serena Pemberton, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Although Serena proves herself to be an important part of their success, overseeing crews and handling every bit of trouble that comes upon them, when Serena discovers she's unable to bear children, it sets her on a path of destruction.
10) Mambo man
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Based on a true story. In 2017, after more than half a century since Castro’s revolution, Cuba opens her arms to the West and the Yankee dollar. Born into communism, JC (Héctor Noas) is a ‘big fish in a small pond’ – a local music producer and promoter, farmer and small-time hustler who lives by his wits and imagination. To support his family and small circle of ‘business associates’ and maintain his local “Godfather” status, JC lives...
11) The estate
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea in this hilarious comedy about family being the worst.
13) Deadwood
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of South Dakota's statehood and modernization. Still, the past isn't easily dismissed as old feuds are revived, sins recalled, and allegiances tested.
14) Fresh bait
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A shocking true story of greed and murder. Getting rich quick is the idea; robbery, torture, and murder are the plan. Nathalie, Eric, and Bruno lure men with the promise of sex with Nathalie. Two men enter the apartment, never to be seen alive again.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
17) King of thieves
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on the infamous true events.
Special features: King of thieves: A bloody good idea.
19) Gold
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
20) 16 wishes
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Abby receives a box of magical birthday candles for her sixteenth birthday, her wildest wishes start coming true, but after one wish turns her life upside down, she and her best friend Jay have one chance to make everything right.
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