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Pub. Date
[2018]
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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell); a competition...
Pub. Date
2014
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell); a competition...
Pub. Date
©2013.
Description
Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him to conform.
Megaville: In a fascistic future, a police officer accepts a secret assignment and, unknowingly, becomes a guinea pig in a mind-control experiment.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta must turn around and embark on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts, where they sense that a rebellion is simmering, and probably sparked by Katniss. The Capitol proves they are very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games: an anniversary competition that will draw contestants from previous victors, a condition that leaves District 12 with very few...
8) Code 46
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In the near future, privileged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles." When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
9) THX 1138
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A film by George Lucas that was his directorial debut and used gripping special effects that would later be showcased in Star Wars. Includes commentary by George Lucas and sound editor Walter Murch, a documentary, a making-of featurette, and much more.
10) Abigail
Pub. Date
2020
Description
When people start dying from a mysterious illness, eight- year-old Abigaiĺs town closes itself off from the outside world and takes away everyone infected with the disease, including Abigaiĺs father. Ten years later, after a scuffle with a Security Inspector, Abby discovers her father could still be alive and vows to find him no matter what it takes. Filled with danger and discoveries, Abby's journey completely...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Earth: 2319. Nuclear holocaust has devastated the planet. Survivors cluster in isolated communities, unaware of the existence of others. The people in the City of Domes lead idyllic lives, until they are killed on their 30th birthday. Logan, a Sandman (elite policeman), escapes this fate with the help of a beautiful member of the underground, Jessica. Together, they search for Sanctuary, a mythical paradise, accompanied by an android, Rem, and pursued...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta must turn around and embark on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts, where they sense that a rebellion is simmering, and probably sparked by Katniss. The Capitol proves they are very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games: an anniversary competition that will draw contestants from previous victors, a condition that leaves District 12 with very few...
13) Futureworld
Pub. Date
[2010, 1976]
Description
"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
14) Divergent
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In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
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