John Ireland
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English
Description
A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.
2) Bebop Noir
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Language
English
Description
"Bebop Noir" is the last of The Los Angeles Stories, an anthology of human dramas and comedies. Rooted in The City of Angels, the time is the present, the characters are all passengers to an uncertain future, and the only technology that is important is the human heart. Los Angeles is the kaleidoscope through which we view these lives.
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English
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"To summarise what has been indicated above, our aim should be complete deliverance from suffering, or stated positively, the unconditioned and perfect happiness of Nibbāna; to be differentiated from other forms of happiness which are imperfect because 'conditioned' by impermanence, and thus liable to revert to suffering when circumstances or 'the conditions' change. By an understanding of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism we are set in the right...
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English
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The Dhammapada, a collection of 423 verses in 26 chapters, is perhaps the most famous of all Buddhist texts. It presents the Buddha's teachings in a clear and highly accessible form and has been used for personal instruction and teaching for centuries throughout the Buddhist world. It comes from the Khuddaka Nikaya section of the Pali Canon and is here collected with two other key texts from the same source.
The Udana ('inspired utterance') contains...
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Language
English
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
11) Red River
Series
Criterion collection ; 709
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A magnificent Alaskan dog who leads his team to victory in the National Open Sled Dog Race, Kavik is bought by wealthy, unscrupulous businessman George Hunter, but his plane crashes en route to Seattle. Twelve-year-old Andy finds the badly wounded Kavik in the woods, nurses him back to health when no one believes he will survive, and loves the once proud dog, who is left fearful and cowardly by the accident. Hearing of Kavik's amazing recovery, Hunter...
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dead for a dollar: In a rip-roaring Spaghetti Western with some of the most memorable shootouts in Western history, a ruthless cowboy tracks down his double-crossing partners.
Cain's cutthroats: In the final days of the Civil War, peace has not yet come for one man. The war still rages on in the soul of a Confederate officer obsessed with revenge for the rape of his wife and the death of his son.
17) Incubus
Publisher
Elite Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Sam Cordell is a surgeon who settles with his teenaged daughter in the quiet New England community of Galen, only to encounter the most terrifying of supernatural pheomena -- the Incubus, a demon who thrives on sexual desire. With the help of the town's police chief and a beautiful news reporter, he follows the demon's deadly path ... to a frightened young man whose nightmares may hold the answers." --
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A horrorific dramatization fo the Guyana tragedy, where the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Traces the story of Jim Jones and the People's Temple from its roots in Indianapolis in 1953 to the Nov. 16, 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
