Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel’s authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara’s daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.
1: Catch them this christmas 2: Die wahre Story einer genialen Täschung. (The true story of an ingenious deception.) 3: Frank didn’t go to flight school…Frank didn’t go to medical school…Frank didn’t go to law school…because Franks still in high school! 4: The true story of a real fake.
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New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who’s in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad’s losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he’s extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he’s posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he’s been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son.
1: A general who became a slave. A slave who became a gladiator. A gladiator who defied an emperor. 2: A Hero Will Rise. 3: Summer 2000 A.D. 4: The Gladiator Who Defied An Empire 5: What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity.
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In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus’ neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor. The time soon comes when Proximo’s troupe is called to Rome to participate in a marathon of gladiator games held at the behest of the new emperor, Commodus. Once in Rome, Maximus wastes no time in making his presence known, and is soon involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor with his former-love Lucilla, Commodus’ sister, after whom he lusts, and also the widowed mother of Lucius, heir to the empire after his uncle, and democratic-minded senator, Gracchus.
A scientist in Australia, who is a friend of Ethan Hunt sends for him to escort him to Atlanta. It’s during the flight that the scientist discovers that something is wrong so he turns to Ethan to ask him what’s happening, Ethan then kills him and takes his briefcase. He then takes off a mask to reveal that he is not Ethan, he and his asociates parachute out of the plane and sends it into a mountain. The real Ethan is then summoned by his superior to report to him but first he must recruit a woman named Nyah Hall, who is a thief, which he does after bedding her. He then goes to his commander who tells about the scientist and that since Ethan couldn’t be found he sent another agent, Sean Ambrose, to pose as him. Ethan upon learning of what happen knows that Sean was behind it. He is then told that they have to find Ambrose and find out what the scientist was carrying that was so important. Ethan says it won’t be easy to find him. Ethan’s then told that Nyah’s Sean’s old girlfriend, and they want her to draw him out, Ethan’s hesitant at first but upon learning just serious things are asks her do it, which she does. And Ethan just wants it to be over so that she doesn’t have to spend anymore time with Sean than she has to.
