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1) Rialto
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Colm, mid-40s has a comfortable life: a managerial job in Dublin's docks, two teenage children, and a kind, loyal wife in Claire. After the death of his father, a destructive figure, Colm's emotional life cracks open, and his downward spiral continues when he is made redundant. Drinking heavily and unable to confide in Claire, Colm finds himself drawn to Jay, a nineteen-year-old who dabbles in prostitution. Their sexual encounters and tentative friendship...
2) This teacher
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A French Muslim woman travels to New York City to visit her childhood best friend from Paris. When the reunion proves disastrous, Hafsia steals her friend's credit card and identity, and disappears to a remote cabin upstate. Deep in the woods and alone for the first time in her life, she experiences a divine revelation of an existence without borders. When she discovers that she's not alone, Hafsia's sojourn in nature gradually descends into a terrifying...
3) Joe Bell
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When an uncaring executive falls from the corporate ladder, he learns how difficult it can be to find work and compassion in today's economy. He eventually accepts a humiliating job, but with bills rapidly piling up, and not enough money to go around, he quickly discovers that, unless something changes soon, he'll lose everything by Christmas. Will family and faith be enough to bring joy?
7) Slalom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
Follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his shining star despite her lack of experience. Under his influence,...
8) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
9) The public
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. Soon the police arrive and a stand-off threatens to bring tragedy to the homeless individuals and those who care about their well-being. An eye-opening exploration of the basic...
10) Save the tiger
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in a violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients ... and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Movie Time Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Hindi
Description
A film that takes one into the heart of an up-market hijra community run by a lovingly-firm mother-figure called Guru Amma. The story is told through the eyes of a young hijra called MUKTA, beautiful, the best dancer in the community, a natural leader whom all the other 'girls' look up to, and potentially the next Amma of the community. That is until the entry of a total stranger into their midst, a young sixteen-year-old whom Amma names Nandini....
13) My foolish heart
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An impetuous girl becomes pregnant, then marries her best friend's fiance in order to hide the truth of a previous illicit romance with another man.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Italiano
Description
The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama. Stromboli, Europe '51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.
Stromboli: After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman...
15) Hoovey
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When promising high school basketball player Eric "Hoovey" Elliott collapses on the court, doctors discover a life-threatening brain tumor. Hoovey will survive the high-risk surgery, but at what cost? Can he relearn to walk, read, even to see clearly? The road is long, and meanwhile overwhelming medical bills threaten to undo everything his parents, Jeff and Ruth, have taken a lifetime to build.
Publisher
ARC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Bent Arrow, Texas everything seems to have moved on. Left behind are a precocious ten year old named Cotton and Butch, a gentle soul whose life has taken him on a path of heartache from the rough world of pro football, through heart wrenching loss to a roadside stand where he paints Watercolor Postcards. Butch starts to believe he can find happiness again when a relationship blossoms between Cotton's long-lost sister, Sunny, who returns home, disillusioned,...
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Nelly has just left her husband. Through a mutual friend, she meets Monsieur Arnaud, 40 years her senior. He offers her a job, money and emotional comfort. Their relationship evolves into a touching and ambiguous journey through friendship, love and desire. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Film not in the English Language. Winner of **César Awards** for Best Actor (Michel Serrault) and Best Director (Claude Sautet). "*It's reserved, polished...
18) Magnolia
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia is a mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax. Some will seek forgiveness, others escape. Some will mend frayed bonds, others will be exposed."--Back of container.
19) The intruder
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos."--Container
20) Breaking fast
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mo is a practicing Muslim still reeling from heartbreak. When an All-American guy named Kal offers to join him in his nightly Iftars, the traditional meal eaten my Muslims during Ramadan, meal after meal, the two start to discover they have more in common than meets the eye.
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