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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
3) Crazy heart
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback? Bonus features included.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Detective Conk Adams is haunted by past military experiences and his role as guardian for his mother who is hospitalized on life-support. Conk teams up with a young archaeologist, Catherine, who is hiding a critical condition that haunts her as well. The unlikely pair soon develop a bond as they attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumored to have curative powers." --Container.
9) Son of Saul
Pub. Date
2016
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslñder is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
10) Seven pounds
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
11) Powder blue
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
On the gritty streets of L.A., the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. An erotic dancer, a grieving husband, a terminally ill ex-con, and a mortician all desperate for redemption collide on Christmas Eve.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Each year, John anticipates the day he will accompany his father on the search for the perfect horse to bring home to their farm. When the frosty morning finally arrives, the pair eagerly sets out to find what is sure to be a wonderful addition to their stable. But when his father picks the meanest, wildest mare he's ever seen, John is baffled. Of all the horses he could have selected, why choose one so imperfect?
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After his mother unexpectedly dies, 17-year-old Ethan discovers he is the owner of his mother's horse--a horse he never knew existed. Ethan travels cross the country to live with his grandparents. There, with the help of the gentle and faithful horse named Bear, he begins to deal with his grief and starts moving forward with his new life.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A heartwarming story about a deceased Sicilian father trying to negotiate his way into heaven. But the only way in is to first go back and repair his relationship with his reluctant son, reunite his feuding family back in Sicily, and help all find love in places they never imagined.
15) Viktor victoria
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A story of revenge and redemption. When Viktor Lambert returns to Russia after seven years in French prison, he is determined to uncover the truth and gain revenge for his son's death just three months earlier. He stops at nothing to protect his son's girlfriend who carries his baby and vows to bring down everyone responsible for his son's murder.
16) Redemption ride
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After testing positive for performance-enhancing drug use, world-class bicycle racing champion Colter Reese thought he'd ridden his last mile. While trying to hold on to his last remaining treasure, his ill son Jonah, Colter is visited by a mysterious race representative who offers him a chance to ride once more in a unique, long distance endurance race. Desperate for the prize money that would give his son a life-saving operation, Colter sets out...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Cody is a troubled son who continues making bad choices into adult life. Watching his descent causes his mother Pam almost unbearable grief. Mother and son hit bottom together. Cody struggles with addiction and crime while Pam is affected in all the relationships in her life including her marriage. Her faith is shaken and she feels more alone than ever, she's hanging on by a thread. But God intervenes to open both their eyes to redemption and restoration....
18) Midnight clear
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
On Christmas Eve, in the middle of the Arizona desert, a middle-aged man and an old woman contemplate suicide. But through chance run-ins with strangers and perhaps some divine intervention, they cross paths and change each other's life forever.
Pub. Date
[2023-]
Description
Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It₂s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American...
20) Fallen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Aaron Corbett is a high school jock with a promising future. But on his 18th birthday, his life forever changes when his incredible powers emerge, revealing the terrifying truth of his identity. As the Redeemer, a half-angel, half-man who can return fallen angels to Heaven, Aaron holds the entire world's destiny in his young hands. He must battle warrior seraphs and confront the fallen angel who has sparked his nightmares.