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1) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detention. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften up.
4) Branded
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years ago the Lavery's baby boy was kidnapped. A con man convinces a young man to impersonate the boy, so as to gain the Lavery estate. But the man confesses to the Lavery's daughter who he is, and vows to find the real son.
5) Plein soleil
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Français
Description
Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants.
6) Novocaine
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.
7) Beau jest
Publisher
Prostorm Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Sarah Goldman, a lovely young school teacher in Chicago, wants to please her parents, she invents a boyfriend whom she believes will be the man of her mother's dreams. When her parents insist on meeting the man, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to pretend to be her "beau."
9) Midnight
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl, impersonating a Hungarian countess, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle with the help of an aristocrat. But she finds herself from falling in love with yet another poor man.
11) The balcony
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution, the Chief of Police enlists the regular customers to play out the fantasy roles that destiny has denied them.
In the midst of a war-ravished city, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. These perverse costumed masquerades parody and stylize the nature of the anarchic political struggle that rages outside. In a stunning series of macabre scenes, Genet presents...
12) Pretty poison
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A mentally unstable man takes a break from arson to pursue a young girl with a big attitude. Their developing relationship becomes a lethal combination as she uses his devotion and his bragging about being a secret agent for her own evil ends.
14) Anastasia
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
15) Rogue agent
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice." --
16) The front
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sent behind enemy lines to free five Allied generals by being imprisoned with them, Harry Frigg uses his hilarious talent for escape and his new rank of Major General (he's promoted from private overnight) to create havoc for friend and foe.
19) Snow bride
Publisher
[Johnson Production Group]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a reporter encounters the eldest son of a famous political family in the mountain retreat, she winds up pretending to be his girlfriend over Christmas so he can save face with his family - but then is confronted with a dilemma - does she secretly expose newsworthy scoops about the famous family in order to save her job or trust that she's falling in love for real?" --
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Love parade: In mythical Sylvania, Queen Louise's cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Unfortunately, he finds his position as Queen's Consort unsatisfying and without purpose, and the marriage soon runs into difficulties. The Love parade introduced the screen operetta genre.
Monte Carlo: A wealthy count passes himself off as a hairdresser in order to meet an impoverished...
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