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As You Like It (1599) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. As You Like It was probably inspired by Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd, Euphues Golden Legacie (1587), a story based on "The Tale of Gamelyn," a Middle English romance. For its deconstruction of traditional gender roles and depiction of homoeroticism, As You Like It remains an important and frequently performed play in Shakespeare's oeuvre. "All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely...
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
3) Cymbeline
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English
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Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The introduction illminates the plays' origins and practicalities of composition, its reception and influence. Detailed notes pay special attention to language and staging, and the volume includes King Lear's first derivative, a contemporary ballad, and guides to appreciation of the play and its multiple offshoots.
8) Mental
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After a politician has his wife committed to a mental hospital, he hires a hitchhiker to take care of his five teenage daughters.
9) Searching
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After David Kim's sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.
10) Light of my life
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A decade after a plague has wiped out nearly all of the world's female population, a father and daughter live on the outskirts of what's left of civilization as they once knew it. Disguising his daughter as a boy, the father struggles to protect her from newfound dangers as they are forced from their home into dangerous territory.
11) Blaze
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Blaze is the sole witness to a shocking crime. Making sense of what she saw, she unleashes the wrath of her imaginary dragon.
12) Bridgend
Publisher
kimstim
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Sara accompanies her policeman dad, Dave who is sent to a small town to investigate a mysterious rash of suicides among its teen inhabitants. At first Sara has trouble adjusting as the new girl while Dave's efforts to uncover the source of the tragedies are rebuffed by the village teens. Sara becomes infatuated with a dangerous local, Jamie, and finds herself becoming engulfed in a dark and ritualistically strange youth culture that threatens her...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Complete ed.
Language
English
Description
The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The winter's tale is presented here for the first time in a complete and un-edited edition. This landmark production was hailed by critics and played to packed houses in both Stratford and London.
14) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
15) Blood: Series 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After a year away from home, disgraced physician Jim Hogan returns to make amends with his family. But when his daughter Fiona's car veers off the road one night, it leads to a disturbing discovery.
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Follow Detective Constable Marcus Farrow as he races against time to clear his name of a brutal crime in the first electrifying season. Then, experience the lengths Prison Officer Dave Murdoch will travel to in order to save the life of his threatened daughter. Both high-stakes games of cat and mouse will leave your adrenaline pumping and begging the question what do you do when the hunter becomes the hunted?
17) Searching
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After his sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a man breaks into her laptop to find clues about her disappearance.
18) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
19) Piku
Publisher
Reliance Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an aging father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
"Bhashkor is not your typical Bollywood papa, and "Piku," directed by Shoojit Sircar from a script by Juhi Chaturvedi, isn't a typical Hindi movie."--New York Times
"While the movie has far more toilet humor...
20) Hearts beat loud
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
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