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1) 1982
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a Quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
2) The Intruder
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
After receiving a heart transplant, an enigmatic loner (Michel Subor) journeys to Tahiti to reconnect with the son he fathered many years earlier.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Adapting the award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray through observant detail and stunning landscape photography the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children when Pietro’s Milan family vacations in an isolated village at the base of the Alpine slopes. As they mature, Pietro becomes estranged from his business-minded father even as Bruno takes...
6) Love Life
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with their son. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon (Sam Lee) drops out of high school and becomes a money collector for organized criminals the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping (Neiky Yim Hui-Chi), a daughter of one of the Triads' debtors. She is suffering from a fatal kidney disease, and to pay for her medical expenses, Autumn Moon takes an assassination contract, but as he slips deeper into the criminal underworld, he's...
8) KFC
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Pure evil exists. It lives in Hanoi, in a small house that has been converted into an operating-theatre-cum-torture-chamber. Here, patients are cut up into bite-size pieces by a cannibalistic doctor and his taciturn sidekick. The feature debut of Lê Binh Giang takes the body-horror genre to new heights. 'Bizarre' would be an understatement for this out-of-control orgy of revenge.
9) The ComDads
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Français
Description
Christine (Anny Duperey) is distraught when her adolescent son runs away. When the cops are no help, she contacts two former lovers -- François (Pierre Richard), a suicidal teacher, and Jean Lucas (Gérard Depardieu), a burly journalist working on a story about the Mafia. She then convinces them to help find her boy by claiming that she believes one of the men is her son's father. Although they make a poor team, the two set off on a quest to find...
10) All Is Forgiven
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Victor adores his wife Annette and their young daughter Pamela, but his self-loathing and drug use take their toll and the family disintegrates. A decade later, Pamela lives in Paris where Victor still resides, and the two reunite.
11) Old Cats
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Isadora discovers that her mind is quickly fading. At a relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has. Official Selection of the **Sundance Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"...this exquisite chamber piece by Chilean filmmakers Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva hasn’t lost an ounce...
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Takao decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older, but perhaps not much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages, they strike up an unusual relationship that always occurs in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, and there are so many things still left unsaid and undone...
13) Fateless
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Fourteen-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary, as he is sent to a concentration camp, where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
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.
16) Heartbreaker
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Alex (Romain Duris) is a successful entrepreneur in a business he himself pioneered: Hire him, and he'll seduce any woman you want into falling in love with him, thus breaking her out of an existing relationship, after which he'll disappear. When a wealthy businessman asks him to break up his daughter's relationship before her wedding in 10 days, it sounds tough but doable -- that is, until he meets the bride, Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), who may be...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assassins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Français
Description
The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.
19) Contempt
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
When he is asked to rewrite the screenplay of the Odyssey, which is being filmed by Fritz Lang in Rome, he sets in motion his own odyssey. En route to Rome with his wife Camille, who he adores, his wife tells him that she has nothing but CONTEMPT for him.
20) The Blue Caftan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
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