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2) Golda
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel’s destruction, must navigate overwhelming odds with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The 12th Century and the obsession of Henry II of England to find a successor, after the death of the heir to the throne, causes him, one Christmas, to summon his three remaining sons. Also summoned is his wife, the formidable Eleonor of Aquitaine, who he has kept imprisoned for the last 10 years. The fiery relationship between Henry II and Queen Eleonor is powerfully portrayed; their passions turn from tenderness to hurry as they scheme and cajole,...
5) Mrs. Soffel
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a drama based on the true story of the forbidden romance between Ed Biddle and Mrs. Soffel. 1901. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wife and mother Kate Soffel (Keaton) chafes within the confines of her repressive life and yearns for something more than her proper, boring husband can offer. She devotes her free time to reading to the inmates of the county prison--where she meets and falls in love with...
6) Tom & Viv
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
10) Curiosa
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion...
11) Another Country
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
13) Small Axe
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change. Conceived and directed by Academy Award and BAFTA winner Steve McQueen.
14) A Radiant Girl
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead...
16) Breaker Morant
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Three soldiers become scapegoats in a trial meant to draw attention from the crimes of their commanders.
17) Afterimage
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Andrzej Wajda's final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat him like the "messiah of modern painting," but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Party regulations, he is...
18) Sunshine
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
20) Suite Française
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in France during 1940, SUITE FRANÇAISE follows beautiful Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war, whilst leading a stifled existence with her mean, controlling mother-in-law. When Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' homes, Lucile’s life is turned upside down. In the Angellier home, Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno,...
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