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Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"¡Salud a ti, Macbeth! ¡Salud, barón de Cáudor! ¡Salud a ti, Macbeth! ¡Serás un día rey!"Lo saludan las tres brujas llamadas Hermanas Fatídicas. Sólo entonces, tras oir la profecía, Macbeth comienza a desear el trono. Cuando se cumple la primera predicción y el rey Duncan lo nombra barón de Cáudor, las dudas, la ambición y la obsesión se apoderan de Macbeth y de su codiciosa esposa, decidiendo asesinar al rey y tomar la corona.La obra,...
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The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure. The young sailor Dantes is fallaciously charged with treason and loses his fiance, his dreams and his life when he is locked up for thirteen years on the island prison of Chateau d'If. Mentored by another prisoner, Dantes finally escapes the prison, reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo and begins to exact his revenge on the people who set him up.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
Español
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Admirado por la belleza de Dorian Gray, el artista Basil Hallward pinta un retrato al óleo del bello y presuntuoso joven y enlazan una amistad. Situada en la alta sociedad en la época victoriana en Londres, Dorian también conoce a Lord Henry Wotton, amigo de Basil, quien lo introduce en conversaciones filosóficas sobre la belleza y el hedonismo, y lo convence de que sus más valiosas posesiones son su belleza y su juventud. Atormentado por la...
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Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
Esta, la más importante e inmortal obra de Shakespeare, llega a las más altas cimas de la poesía y de la tragedia. Toda la pieza es un largo dúo de amor cantado con el fondo conflictivo de dos familias rivales –los Montesco y los Capuleto–, donde se combinan la acción dramática con las riñas a espada, el desarrollo azaroso y vivo, el colorido del lenguaje de nobles y plebeyos, lo mundano y lo popular. La muerte de Romeo y Julieta consigue...
6) The heiress
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
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Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Going my way (127 min.): When old and fading St. Dominic's Church gets a new priest (Crosby), things are bound to change. For starters, young Father O'Malley meets the crusty old Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), who doesn't think much of him or his ideas. The two have their differences but O'Malley is able to inspire some neighborhood roughnecks to open their hearts and minds in a way the old priest simply could not do.
Holiday Inn (101 min.):...
8) Going my way
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
10) Unconquered
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In pre-Revolutiony America a colonial militiaman buys (and frees) a young English convict exiled to the colonies; an evil gun-runner re-acquires her (with vile intentions!) when he's not busy trying to inflame the Seneca Nation against the settlers.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately, one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realizing she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
13) Easy living
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The true story of the lives of three U.S. Army nurses who leave San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destination, and their lives. Led by Lt. Janet Davidson, the nurses are sent to Bataan, in the Philippines. Faced with untested nurses, the group quickly become battle-weary veterans. When Bataan falls, the American forces flee to the offshore island of Corregidor, where they find...
16) Midnight
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl impersonates a Hungarian countess, and with the help of an aristocrat, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man?
17) Comedy classics: Topper returns.The milky way.The sin of Harold Diddlebock.Hook, line and sinker
Series
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
Topper returns: Topper turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beautiful girl gets him to try and find the killer in an eerie old house, with trap doors and secret panels.
The milky way: The story of a timid milkman who is deluded into believing he is a great prize-fighter.
Hook, line and sinker: Two men are bumbling managers of a hotel.
The sin of Harold Diddlebock: Harold's mundane life takes quite a turn when, after being fired, he takes comfort...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A go-getter clerk in a coffee company, is fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. When a trio of practical jokers at Maxford Coffee send him a phony congratulatory telegram announcing that he's the contest winner, he and his girlfriend go off on a mammoth Christmas shopping binge, even though it's the middle of July. Suddenly, the head of Maxford Coffee discovers the mistake, and their spending spree turns into...
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