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1) The Nest
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Rory (Jude Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker, persuades his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980's. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has to face the unwelcome truths lying beneath...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A heart-warming father son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. As Robert and Jack painstakingly restore the villa to its previous glory, they also start to mend their relationship. The future may now look quite...
3) The D Train
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
All his life, Dan Landsman (Jack Black) has never been the cool guy. That's about to change - if he can convince Oliver Lawless (Marsden), the most popular guy from his high school, to show up with him to their class reunion. A man on a mission, Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and entire life.
4) Her Smell
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sarah (Rebel Wilson) is an archaeologist who loves her husband Joe (Celyn Jones) but after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) their love is trapped in the past. Toni (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is an architect and loves her partner Gwen (Trine Dyrholm) but after a TBI they have been imprisoned in a fifteen-year loop. Love is the only thing that keeps them all going but something has changed, and both Sarah and Toni are determined to not let it all unravel...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly,...
7) In the Loop
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
During an interview, British Cabinet Minister Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) delivers an off-the-cuff remark that war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable." Profane political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) tries to cover up Foster's faux pas, but the ill-conceived comment is picked up by a warmongering American official. Foster is invited to Washington, D.C., where a war of words brews as politicians maneuver, manipulate and deceive each...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Emilia's life takes an unexpected turn when Jack (Scott Cohen) and Emilia (Natalie Portman) lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan) and also tries to overcome a long-standing rift in her relationship with her father caused by his infidelity. But perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all are the constant interferences of her husband's angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the middle-class neighborhood where he grew up, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nosy neighbors interrupt him with curious visits and prying questions. Then the situation escalates as a stain on Henry's stucco wall is seen to have miraculous powers. His last-ditch hideout becomes a shrine when his backyard turns into an arena for passionate debate...
10) The Female Brain
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Whitney Cummings stars as no-nonsense neuroscientist Julia, whose research into the biochemistry of the female brain is illustrated by 3 couples: newlyweds Zoe (Cecily Strong) and Greg (Blake Griffin), whose career troubles seep into their relationship; Lisa (Sofia Vergara) and Steven (Deon Cole), who are looking to spice up their stuck-in-a-rut marriage; and Lexi (Lucy Punch) who can't help trying to change her boyfriend Adam (James...
11) Aftersun
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Years after their last vacation, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving, idealistic father and tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
12) Local Hero
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Peter Riegert and Academy Award winner Burt Lancaster star in Bill Forsyth's charming, offbeat comedy about Texas oilmen seduced by the charms of a tiny Scottish village -- LOCAL HERO.Oil billionaire Felix Happer's (Lancaster--Field of Dreams) company has struck oil in the North Sea, but it needs a port out of which to base its drilling operations. The perfect harbor is found in a seaside village, and Happer sends Mac (Riegert) to buy then entire...
13) H4
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
H4 translates Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV parts I and II, into a futuristic Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community.
14) Ovum
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A provocative dark comedy about a quirky actress who tries method acting to approach a role and is drawn into the shady world of egg donation clinics and the characters who populate them: from unscrupulous doctors with mind bending fertility drugs to the model donors and a notorious faded movie star who wants our heroine's OVUM at any cost. But things are not as they first appear in a world where wealthy couples seek to buy the perfect designer egg....
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about romance, grief, and sibling rivalry. A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack (Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris’ sister Hannah (Dewitt) who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Elizabeth Olsen star in Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford’s comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother’s farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets and self-discovery.
18) Bare
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of living a sheltered life, Sarah (Dianna Agron) discovers a possible way out in Pepper (Paz De La Huerta), a mysterious female drifter. Through Pepper's influence, Sarah is motivated to take a job at a highway strip club where Pepper sells drugs. As their friendship develops into a romance, Sarah's life veers further away from what it was. She soon finds herself trapped in a double life and quickly realizes what happens when real...
19) Free the Nipple
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A group of fearless women fight for their right to go topless in public, as they smash societal taboos one bare breast at a time. Based on a true story, this spirited satire follows New York City activists Liv and With, who take their crusade for gender equality from the streets of the urban jungle to the courts. More than just a movie, Free the Nipple has launched an empowering real-life movement, inspiring women across the globe to take back their...
20) The Little Hours
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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