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1) Poor things
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality...
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A must-see for anyone who loves movies, Kris Marshall stars as Art, an aspiring low-budget filmmaker and would-be screenwriter who is so engrossed in the world of cinema it spills over into his everyday life. Long-suffering flatmate Jones and his girlfriend Beth are dragged into accompanying Art on his many adventures through this celluloid world in a playful homage to the silver screen.
4) Spa Night
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of forbidden sexual awakening set in the nocturnal world of spas and karaoke bars in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. Nominated for two prizes at **Sundance Film Festival**, Winner of the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. *"Writer-director Andrew Ahn has made a confident, assured, low-key debut that's a textbook example of how to make a compelling small-budget movie." - G. Allen Johnson, **San Francisco Chronicle***...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, Titanic, The Reader) heads to Morocco with her children -- six-year-old, Lucy, and precocious eight-year-old, Bea.. Living at a low-rent Marrakesh hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few checks from the girls' estranged father. After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal (Said Taghmaoui,...
6) Night school
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they won't end up on the wrong side of statistics. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Winner of the Grand Prize and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the **Heartland Film Festival**. Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Directing at the **BendFilm Festival**....
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
During a period of record low rainfall in northern Kenya, the Turkana tribe faces growing violent clashes with rival tribes and encroaching wild predators hunting their livestock. Kolei, a sensitive shepherd boy whose name translates to “living amongst the goats”, questions not only his path as a warrior, but also the erosion of the culture that has shaped every aspect of his life.
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HAM captures Sam Harris's critically acclaimed, multiple-award winning live stage show in which Harris plays himself at various ages as well as ten other characters. After being discovered on Star Search, fame ensued for Harris: Broadway, TV, platinum records, Carnegie Hall. But through the highs and lows of a life in show business, Sam must confront the merciless question: what is enough?
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose Trainspotting. Director Danny Boyle thrills in this 'original, daring' tale of a group of young drug addicts wheeling through blue collar Edinburgh that earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Trainspotting electrified audiences and critics with its hilariously dark humor, stunning visuals and sharp honest take on both the exhilarating highs, and the terrifying lows,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Collins (Sarah Bolger, "Mayans M.C.", "The Tudors", Emelie) is a single mother struggling to raise two young children while searching for answers about the unsolved murder of her husband. After being coerced into helping a low-level drug dealer, she finds herself the target of a dangerous crime boss. Desperate to keep her family safe, Sarah turns the tables on her victimizers in one final act of brutal vengeance. Set in the dark underbelly of...
12) Third Ward TX
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
THIRD WARD TX - a documentary about community, art, and real estate. How do we bring back a once thriving community—one with a vibrant African American history and culture? What was good and positive and sustaining for the people who lived there? What would this look like now? Once change is in motion—how can we manage gentrification so that it doesn’t drive out long-time residents? THIRD WARD TX introduces the artists and neighbors of Project...
13) Remembering Rain
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In the face of the worst drought on record, rural Australians have gambled their dreams on the chance of rain - and cracks are starting to show in more than just the parched earth. Remembering Rain introduces us to the people of the bush and offers us a glimpse into their lives, their hopes and their fears as they attempt to weather the crisis. These are tough times for families on the land. Prices are low, expenses high. After more than three years...
14) A Picture of You
Publisher
Country House Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this critically acclaimed indie favorite and New York Times Critic's Pick, estranged siblings, Kyle and Jen, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they inadvertently make a shocking discovery that turns their world upside-down.. Winner of Best Screenplay and nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Nominated for Best Narrative...
15) How Wonderful
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses. No matter what they tell you, no-one is really prepared for this big event. Thirty-one year old Kerry, a modern career woman, is having her first baby. She teeters between the public perception of the lucky event and her own entirely different and bizarre perceptions of the highs and lows of pregnancy. As she tries to deal...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
How one of the most impactful, lifesaving tests for women was created and popularized by a Greek immigrant and his wife, a famous Japanese-American illustrator who was detained in a WW2 internment camp, and a groundbreaking Black female surgeon. In the 1950's, survival rates from cancer of any kind were low. Damaging surgery and unsophisticated radiotherapy were the main treatments, assuming the disease was detected in time for anything to be done....
17) Healing
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years in prison, Viktor Khadem is a man who has almost given up on life. He is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors: beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine,...
18) Golden Oldies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
An affectionate portrayal of being old today. Three Golden Oldies pass on their astute and humorous insights on becoming old and poor, and the stark choices they now face in their twilight years. Full of wisdom, independent spirit and hard earned perspective. Makes you ask, "Could this happen to me?" We are living longer than ever before. As one 102 year old says in this affectionate and surprisingly lighthearted documentary says "We're living too...
19) About last night
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After drinks at a favorite Chicago hang-out, Danny Martin and Debbie Sullivan head to Danny's place to indulge in the single's quest--the one-night-stand. Danny and Debbie wind up living together and amidst the daily drudge of domestic life, they begin to realize that making love is easy, saying "I love you" more difficult, and being in love the hardest of all.
20) The lobster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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