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New Movies & TV Series November 2015
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Art Of The Heist
The fascinating documentary investigates the high-profile thefts of some of the world's greatest pieces of art. From Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer to Edvard Munch's The Scream and even the Mona Lisa, these and other iconic masterpieces have been coveted by the criminal world. The fourteen-part series delves into the background behind the audacious burglaries and the authorities' efforts to apprehend the crooks and restore the masterpieces to public viewing.
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Best Christmas Party Ever
With the holiday season at hand, young party planner Jennie Stanton learns that her boss, Petra, will be retiring after Christmas and hopes she will be left in charge of Petra's Parties, New York's premiere event planning service. Jennie's hopes fade when Petra's charming and handsome nephew, Nick, arrives on the scene and Petra announces that he will take over the business.
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Best Of Enemies
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
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Better Call Saul: Season One
The television series is a spinoff from the popular Breaking Bad television show. The series takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill. The series follows the exploits of Jimmy and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
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Christmas At Cartwright's
With the holiday season at hand, single mom Nicky Talbot is unemployed and struggling to afford a nice Christmas with her eight-year-old daughter. Hearing that Cartwright's Department Store is hiring temporary holiday help, Nicky rushes in to apply, but is rejected by Senior VP Fiona Aldrich, who considers Nicky a threat to the relationship she hopes to have with Bill, a charming and handsome store manager.
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End Of The Tour
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir 'Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.'
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First Silent Night
Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song Silent Night that has been two hundred years in the making. A story that begins in humble circumstances ends with the world's most popular carol. Simon journeys to the Austrian village of Oberndorf as well as the city of Salzburg, where the story of the world's favorite carol had its origins.
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The Gift
A married couple finds their lives spiraling out of control when a past acquaintance of the husband resurfaces and brings a horrifying secret to light.
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Gringo Trails
How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, the film traces stories over the course of thirty years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.
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Man From U. N. C. L. E.
CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
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Meru
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
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Mr. Holmes
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement.
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Napa Valley Dreams
From ground to sky, from person to person, capturing as never before the exquisite light, color, and texture of a paradise and its people. This documentary travels through the story of a landscape crafted by geological turmoil, still evident in roiling geysers and hot springs, and woven with the tales of people striving to reach the ultimate, and finding peace through the journey.
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No Escape
How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
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Northpole: Open for Christmas
Mackenzie is sensible in life and has long since abandoned childhood dreams. When she inherits her aunt's beautiful-but-antiquated hotel, she decides the reasonable thing to do is put up for sale before Christmas. Little does she know the hotel plays an important role for Santa on Christmas Eve, and it's fortune now has full Northpole attention. Working alongside the hotel's handyman Ben, Mackenzie quickly finds herself in over her head, but her luck is sure to change when Clementine and elves masquerading as guests start to arrive. This Christmas season might just turn out to be the best Mackenzie has ever had as she discovers hidden talents and the true meaning of happiness, all through the love and magic of Northpole!
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Paulo Coelho's Best Story
Traces the journey of the prolific author of The Alchemist from his humble roots to his triumph as a literary guru to millions, revealing the most unbelievable wonder of all: the man behind the masterpieces.
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Ricki And The Flash
Ricki, a guitar heroine who gives up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom, now returns home to make things right with her family.
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Self/Less
In this provocative psychological science fiction action thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley) undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
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Trainwreck
Since she was little, it's been drilled into Amy's head by her dad that monogamy isn't realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo; enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment, but in actuality, she's kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she's writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners; Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups might be on to something.
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Vacation
The next generation of Griswolds is at is again – and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his father's footsteps, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife, Debbie, and their sons with a cross-country road trip back to America's "favorite family fun park," Walley World.
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