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La obra que le valió a Hemingway el Pulitzer en 1953.
Con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, El viejo y el mar narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y del desafío mayor al que se enfrenta: la batalla despiadada y sin tregua con un pez gigantesco en las aguas del golfo.
Escrito en 1952 por encargo de la revista Life, este relato lo confirmó como uno de los escritores más significativos del...
2) Tough guys
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Bill is an ex-vaudevillian who now lives alone. Kate is a fourteen-year-old girl running away from a drug dealer. The two meet when Kate is hiding in the trunk of Bill's car, naked. Bill and Kate have to avoid the drug dealer, nosy neighbors and Bill's concerned daughter in order to keep Kate safe.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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The world's longest-running sitcom returns with more antics from everyone's favorite geriatrics! After seeing Seymour off, Compo and Clegg intend to take over his position as headmaster. Foggy returns from Bridlington, but Compo and Clegg keep missing him. Once Foggy finally reunites with Compo and Clegg, though, he loses them while out on a walk, leading him to come up with an idea to create portable radios.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2023]
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English
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Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
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"For Alessandro Giuliani, the son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue, and at night the moon is amber as Rome seethes with light. He races horses across country to the sea, climbs in the Alps, and is a student of painting and aesthetics. And he falls in love, deeply and eternally. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, finds himself...
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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"It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving...
12) Lucky (NR)
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 3
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a drink, and grab a bite to eat while reflecting on life. But...
16) Telling the bees
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Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just has his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of the eucalyptus; and that...
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Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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An inspirational story of family, friendship, and redemption. After years of searching for his father, a young man, on the run from the law, finds his way into the life of a secluded old man in the woods. As the days go by and secrets about their past are revealed, they realize they may not have been looking for each other but they were brought together for a reason.
18) The crew
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Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A story about a set of golden-year ex-gangsters fighting to protect their last piece of turf. Back in the days when mobsters were larger than life, none lived bigger than Bobby, Joey "Bats", Mike "The Brick", and Tony "The Mouth". Now well into retirement, the old crew find themselves suddenly facing eviction from their run-down Miami Beach hotel, The Raj Mahal. That's when they decide there's only one thing left to do: turn back the clock and pull...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The UK is in peril. Five days before the PM is to host her first G12 summit, MI7's security is breached and every agent in the field identified and exposed. The only hope of finding the perpetrator is to bring an agent out of retirement, but with most of them either dead or close to it, the head of MI7 is left with only one choice, and his name is English.
20) Floaty
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Blah! Mr. Raisin is a bit of a grump. He lives all alone in a little house, and he likes it that way just fine.One day, a mysterious basket appears on Mr. Raisin s doorstep. When he opens it up, it seems there s nothing inside... until he notices a floating dog bobbing along his ceiling.
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