Lucy Russell
1) Toni Erdmann
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
2) Angel
Language
English
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
3) Following
Language
English
Description
A story about a young man's obsession with following strangers at random on the street. This life leads him into a dark underworld, when he is caught in the act by a man who becomes part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. Together they break into flats and pry into the personal lives of their victims.
4) Following
Series
Criterion collection volume 638
Language
English
Description
Is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path. Special features included.
5) Daisy
Language
English
Description
Set in the last days of the life of a thirteen-year-old girl, Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa. By chance, she meets Stinky, aka Peter, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like Peter Pan, Stinky is stuck in Neverland; and like Wendy, Daisy inspires him to change his ways, helping him learn to appreciate life, find a home, but most importantly, find the kind of love that she knows she will never get to experience.
6) Angel
Language
English
Description
A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists.
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