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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their odyssey in. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros, and more.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
23) The bookshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and...
24) The inspection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
In Elegance Bratton's inspirational and deeply moving retelling of his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned...
25) What they had
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother's (Michael Shannon) urging to help deal with her ailing mother (Blythe Danner) and her father's (Robert Forster) reluctance to let go of their life together. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival.** Nominated for Best First Feature at the **Philadelphia Film Festival.** *"One of the year's best indie dramas, one that should hit home with a wide range of viewers sure to relate...
26) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special édition].
Language
Français
Description
When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
27) Rogue agent
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The true story of conman Robert Freegard, who posed as an undercover MI5 agent kidnapping countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt until the woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods with his cat Kaspar. When he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature's secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous. Nominated for the Prix du jury at the **Champs-Élysées Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Award at the **Fantastic Cinema Festival**. *"Hickson's largely silent performance is superb (in the kind of complex role...
29) Our Nixon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father suddenly dies. The loss prompts Johnny to strike out for Los Angeles, but it would mean leaving behind his beloved sister. Nominated for Best Feature Film at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Nominated for a Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival.**...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
North Carolina tobacco farmers Jesse and Tracy Ledbetter are mourning the death of their father. Soon, the unexpected arrival of three mysterious men sets in motion a series of events that will change their lives forever. Featuring a powerful performance by Oscar-nominee Amy Ryan (*Gone Baby Gone, The Wire*). Winner of Best Screenplay for a U.S. Narrative Feature and nominated for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"The...
32) A case of you
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie's dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.
33) Love after love
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a husband and father's death, the family members left behind find themselves adrift. Mother Suzanne tentatively seeks companionship, but her attempts at dating only drive a wedge between her and older son Nicholas, whose own relationship with his girlfriend is disintegrating. Meanwhile, younger son Chris deals with grief in his own complicated and increasingly worrying way.
34) Consecration
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After her brother dies under mysterious circumstances, Grace travels to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a shocking truth about her own past.
35) Pearl
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X in this astonishing follow-up to the year's most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl's ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story...
36) My Salinger year
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New York in the 90s: Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters, she impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own. Based...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.
38) Stanleyville
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Prim and proper Maria Barbizan (Susanne Wuest of GOODNIGHT MOMMY) unceremoniously walks away from her boring job, her inept husband, and her obnoxious daughter. Moments later, she is swept up in a bizarre contest alongside a handful of idiosyncratic characters, all competing for the chance to win true enlightenment... and one slightly used habanero-orange compact sport utility vehicle.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly,...
40) Mustang
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Türkçe
Description
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
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