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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
6) Everyday
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An emotionally powerful tale about a father's 5-year prison sentence and how his family overcomes it.
7) Albatross
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, free-spirited teen disrupts a quietly dysfunctional family, when she becomes entangled in an affair with her new best friend's father.
9) Diane
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mary Kay Place is extraordinary as a woman coming to terms with her troubled past in this beautiful story of redemption.
10) Momma's man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.
11) One Small Step
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old girl attempts to juggle the responsibilities of school and her younger siblings after her mother goes missing. Nominated for Best Student Film at the **Annapolis Film Festival**.
12) As They Made Us
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Abigail (Dianna Agron), a divorced mother of two, who is struggling to balance the dynamic forces within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
13) Match
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Patrick Stewart is riveting as a Manhattan ballet instructor concealing a sordid past in this explosive drama of sex, secrets, and lies based on the Tony(R)-nominated play.
14) Diggers
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about four working-class friends growing up in Long Island, New York, as clam diggers.
17) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
18) Phantom Love
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A surreal psychodrama about a young woman trapped within a suffocating family, PHANTOM LOVE is a powerful evocation of one woman’s descent into self, set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
20) Hesher
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
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