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1) Megamind
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Over the years, Megamind has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as 'Metro Man, ' until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder if the world's biggest 'mind' can actually be the one to save the...
2) Cast Away
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Hiccup is a Viking teenager who aspires to hunt dragons, but doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. His world gets turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
4) Transformers
Series
Transformers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Formats
Description
On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later recovered, and before going into a comatose...
5) Black Beauty
Pub. Date
1999, c1994
Description
Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.
6) Hancock
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Caustic and out of favor with the public, a superhero enlists a publicist to reshape his image.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
11) Henry's Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
After being wrongly accused of a bank robbery, a man is released from prison and decides to commit the crime he was imprisoned for.
13) Waterworld
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Description
It is the future; global warming has become a reality; melted ice caps have covered the planet in water. Mariner, a solitary drifter, comes to an atoll to trade a rarely seen item, pure dirt.
14) Amazing grace
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-believe lover's brother.
16) Monster-In-Law
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Battles ensue after a newly engaged woman meets her future mother-in-law, who is determined to break up the couple.
17) Point Blank
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Samuel, a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child.
18) American pie
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Hysterical look at the goal of four "unlucky in love" high school friends who make the ultimate pact: lose their virginity by prom night.
19) Notting Hill
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
20) Flubber
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Befuddled chemistry professor Phillip Brainard discovers a miraculous elastic goo that, when applied to anything, makes it bounce super high and fast. The professor uses the goo to re-win his fiancée and save his financially strapped college.