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41) Meet John Doe
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A newspaper reporter concocts a fictional story about a man named John Doe, telling his intention to commit suicide over the sorry state of mankind. As the story grows, the public demands to know the real John Doe, the newspaper hires a down and out drifter to pretend to be him. As the newspaper prospers from the John Doe story, the drifter has a change of heart from deceiving the public.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two crude drifters who travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician becomes an exercise in frustration, they find sordid solace in a sex-starved ex-convict. Can two lovable but amoral brutes survive an increasingly strange spree of love, pain, responsibility, car theft, and nymphomania?
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil - murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?"--Provided...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format; special edition.
Language
English
Description
Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 515
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
Series
Library of America volume 268
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
49) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Johnny is a charming and eloquent, but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances, Mike Leigh's picture of England's underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy.
50) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
51) I am another you
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. As she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she eventually encounters a charismatic young drifter named Dylan. Fascinated by his rejection of society's rules and unsure of his past, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that spans years, takes...
52) The dirty South
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness and deadly consequences"--
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Picnic: Set in small town Kansas; a drifter drops in on his old college buddy, and falls for the buddy's girl.
Jeanne Eagels:The tragic career of a stage and screen star whose climb for the top pushed her over the edge.
Bell book and Candle: A witch falls in love with her neighbor.
Middle of the Night: A young woman is in a relationship with her boss, nearly twice her age, and their families' disapproval threatens their happiness.
54) Western
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
A chain of events causes a Spanish shoe salesman to lose his job and car after he picks up a Russian hitchhiker. The pair take off penniless on a three-week hitchhiking journey together, and discover their common struggles in life and love.
55) Jesus' son
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen (2.35:first) version.
Language
English
Description
A rumpled, hapless young man in his twenties, FH bounces through his days with his dreams and hallucinations blurring and merging into reality. The shaky center of his universe is his beloved on-again, off-again, girlfriend Michelle.
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