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1) Starbuck
Publisher
Films Christal
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she's pregnant, David's past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
Publisher
Monterey Home Video
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Tommy Wilhelm's life is falling apart. He's lost his job and his girlfriend, his investments have gone sour, he trusts the wrong people with the little money he has left, and he's rejected by his own father. Quite simply, Tommy is a portrait of failure.
4) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
5) Baby doll
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Cotton-mill owner Archie Meighan, married to nineteen-year-old "Baby Doll", looks forward to the day his wife turns twenty and will finally allow him to sleep with her. But he has competition in the form of sly business competitor Silva Vacarro, who covets both Archie's cotton mill and his young and beautiful wife.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged retiree has become invisible to all the women of Rome, regardless of age or relation. He contends with a demanding mother; a patronizing wife; a slacker daughter; and a wild party-girl neighbor who uses him, as a dog walker. Watching his codger friends snare beautiful young girlfriends on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Giovanni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life, with...
10) Deerskin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him.
11) Lemon
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stylish and original dark comedy about a perpetual loser whose life goes from bad to worse when his longtime girlfriend dumps him. His attempts to get over the breakup, embarrassing career, and overbearing family overwhelm his once big dreams. Now he just watches as his life unravels.
12) Solitary man
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of an aging ex-car-dealer whose poor business decisions and romantic indiscretions cost him a divorce and the loss of his successful career, while he continues to pursue liaisons with much younger women.
13) Snow cake
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An emotionally-traumatized man and a high-functioning autistic woman develop an unlikely relationship.
14) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
15) Doctor Sleep
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child, spending his days self-medicating away the 'shine' with alcohol. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift.' Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.
16) Wilson
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
17) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screenwriting, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life.
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