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1) Fourteen
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo's instability, but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to protect herself, but never leaves...
Publisher
Cinema Guild, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a foreign city, or are they part of each other's histories,...
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Atl lives in the rural Mexican countryside with his bitter mother and his endearing grandmother, trying to be the man they see, while living a secret life with his true love Diego. When his secret trickles out through town gossip, Alt and Diego must choose the path their lives will go down, truth or convention.
4) Driveways
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
8) Anna Lucasta
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An illuminating and provocative drama. Sultry siren Eartha Kitt is vibrantly sexy as a lascivious lady of the night, and cool cat Sammy Davis Jr. displays tremendous appeal and power in this torrid tale of love and greed. When wild child Anna Lucasta is thrown out of the house by her self-righteous father, she falls into the life of prostitution, and the arms of streetwise sailor Danny Johnson. But after Anna shocks them all by finally finding true...
9) Sentenciados
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
After a long night of drinking, Rigoberto and his best friend Nestor decide to prove their friendship in a truth or dare game. Determined to win, Rigo reveals a family legend about an old fortune buried in the desert by is ancestors. Nestor challenges Rigo to prove the legend is true and both men embark on a treasure hunt that will put them in the middle of a lethal vicious circle.
En una noche de borrachera Rigoberto y su mejor amigo Nestor deciden...
10) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
"On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love--not blood--that defines a family."--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station everyday and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Even after his master passed away, he continued to return to the same spot at the station every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits he touched many lives and taught the local people about love, compassion, and above...
12) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
13) All my life
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on a powerful true story, it follows the journey of a young engaged couple who make the difficult decision to accelerate their wedding in the wake of a devastating discovery. In a race against time, they launch a crowdfunding campaign that spreads the story of their inspiring love far and wide to help create their dream wedding. This year, love like there's no tomorrow.
14) Guest artist
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
15) 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.
17) My foolish heart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A suspenseful, romantic drama of a woman's past and how it affects her daughter, her husband, her best friend and their futures is depicted with a deep understanding in this picture of a woman who has deceived herself and her husband."-- provided by publisher.
18) Beyond the hills
Series
Criterion collection volume 923
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
A drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun, Voichita, reunites with her former companion Alina, who plans to take her to Germany. But Voichita proves unwilling to abandon her calling, and Alina becomes increasingly desperate to reclaim her devotion, putting the outsider at odds with the monastery's ascetic priest....
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.
20) La piscine
Series
Criterion collection volume 1088
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of European cinema's most iconic real-life couples, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider reunited for this film, bringing a palpable erotic chemistry to their performances as the bronzed and beautiful vacationers whose summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted...
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