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Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets." --
2) D.E.B.S
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to become the newest members of the elite national defense group, D.E.B.S.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
"Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley." --
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Two percent of the world's population has disappeared. Was it the Rapture? A mass murder? Cult suicides? Aliens? Based on Tom Perrotta's bestselling novel, the series follows Kevin Garvey, police chief and father of two in Mapletown, New York, three years after the mysterious event. As Garvey struggles to grieve for his losses, rebuild his life, and regain a sense of normalcy within the community, the world around him grows ever stranger." --
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With Mapleton thrown into chaos at the close of season one, season two finds many of its residents searching for a fresh start. Kevin Garvey retires as police chief and moves his newly formed family to a small Texas town that seems to have been spared from the event that shook the rest of the world.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture-like event. In the third season, the Garvey and Murphy families come together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to better explain what defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing...
7) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. They squat in a Boston apartment as Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn't return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. Raymond, a budding inventor, realizes he needs to come up with a plan to take care...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
300 inmates and more than 40 guards disappeared from the Alcatraz prison in 1963 without a trace. The government invented a cover story about the prison being closed, due to unsafe conditions, and officially reported that the inmates had been transferred. A young San Francisco police officer tasked with transferring inmates to the island in 1963 is the first to discover that the inmates are actually missing and not transferred. In present day they...
11) Ring of darkness
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The lead singer of a band mysteriously disappears and a nationwide talent search is held to replace him. The finalists are flown to an exotic island, and they, too, start disappearing one by one.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Beth and Francis decide to take a vacation before the birth of their child. Francis insists on venturing to a more serene island; Beth hesitantly agrees. Soon they discover the island is mysteriously abandoned, populated only by children. Beth and Francis are left to uncover the mystery of the disappearances, as a day in paradise quickly turns into a struggle for survival.
13) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue as she fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy-- and...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A nice, tweedy old English woman disappears from her compartment on a European train. A young woman who wonders why becomes frantic when everyone tells her there never was such a person. A young man comes to her aid and they solve a criss-cross puzzle of espoinage, counter-espionage and attempted assassination.
16) Stand by me
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explores friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up as four twelve-year-old boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. Set in the small Oregon town of Castle Rock in the summer of 1959." --
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Carrie: A high school wallflower with telekinetic powers terrorizes her classmates.
Misery: After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
The Shawshank Redemption: Two convicts, one white and one black, never give up the dream of freedom, and together they turn hope and friendship into an uplifting bond no prison can ever take away.
The Shining: Jack Torrance is a writer...
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