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1581) Hannah
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment. Winner of the Volpi Cup for Best Actress (Charlotte Rampling) at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"Rampling is so memorizing you can't take your eyes off her." - Rex Reed, **Observer*** *"Rampling's pale, stricken countenance sets the tone...and dominates virtually every moment thereafter."...
1582) Run Boy Run
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Yiddish
Description
A superlative saga of courage and compassion, RUN BOY RUN tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy’s struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour for food, until loneliness and the harsh onset of winter drive...
1583) The Chef’s Wife
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her role as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.
1584) 40 Love
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 40 LOVE is the story of a father and son who are both trying to transcend their current reality to achieve their dreams. After losing his job as senior executive in a large chain store, Jérôme is determined to start his own new business, despite the concerns of his wife. Their son Ugo, though only 11, already shows great promise as a future tennis pro, and hopes to get accepted to the national training center...
1585) Police Story: Lockdown
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man looking for the release of a longtime prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
1586) We Are Mari Pepa
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this "rough-and-tumble, enjoyable yarn about a group of 16-year-old punk-rock wannabes" (Variety) follows Alex, a 16-year-old teenager trying to write a new song, find a job, have his first sexual experience. As the summer continues, Alex realizes that things are going to change forever and that he will have to grow up and learn to say goodbye. "A gently endearing portrait of four...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
D’Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
1588) Don't Call Me Son
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The androgynously handsome Pierre finds out his working-class mom was arrested for having stolen him at birth. He returns to his biological parents: bourgeois, straight-laced and thrilled to have him back - at least until he shows up in a zebra-print mini dress. Winner of a Jury Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A poignant and energetic Brazilian drama that turns a potentially bleak subject into a warmhearted study of genetics,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Français
Description
Lupin is dead! And soon after he has been laid to rest, his two sons, François and Gérard, decide to go into their father’s profession in order to rescue some gems for a gorgeous princess. Starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Françoise Dorléac; directed by Édouard Molinaro (Back to the Wall, La Cage aux Folles).
1590) Nicholas on Holiday
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Nicholas, his parents and Granny hit the road, heading for the sea, and a stay in the Beau-Rivage Hotel. At the beach, Nicholas wastes little time making new friends, and the group has many adventures in this family comedy. Official Selection at the **BUSTER Copenhagen International Film Festival** and the **Hong Kong French Film Festival**.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
One of Japan's most beloved characters returns in this bold tale of Zatoichi—the blind, nomadic samurai whose sword made him a hero and whose courage made him a legend. His appearance may be humble, but his gift for lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision makes him the perfect weapon. After Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful assailant, he discovers two geishas avenging their parents' murder.
1592) Rigor Mortis
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A public housing tenement is plunged into a dark storm of supernatural chaos.
1593) Gangs of Wasseypur
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Hindi
Description
An ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives – and spectacular deaths – of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by the real-life exploits of local gangs and beginning with the bandit-like career of Shahid Khan in the 1940s, the film follows the ruthless rise of his son Sardar and his offspring, the surreally-named Danish,...
1594) Capital
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From legendary **Academy Award**-winning writer/director Costa-Gavras (*Missing*, *Z*) comes CAPITAL, a fast-paced, darkly comic drama set in the high stakes world of global finance. When the CEO of France’s Phenix Bank collapses from a heart attack on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh, *Midnight in Paris*) is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception...
1595) Amateur Teens
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Swiss German
Description
A group of average students at a secondary school in Zürich wrestle with the average teenager’s needs: love and acceptance. But when the growing influence of social media tosses them into the grown-up world of sexuality and aggression, their needs turn dangerous. What follows is a tragedy that blurs the lines between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.
1596) Riders of Justice
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Danish
Description
Recently deployed Markus returns home to care for his daughter after his wife is killed in an accident. But, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission of revenge.
1597) Detention
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
We’re in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror, with martial law in full force on the island. In this time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception from this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about...
1598) This Is Our Land
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump’s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Nominated for the Golden Tulip...
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Finnish
Description
Critically acclaimed at Venice and SXSW, this charming Finnish romance becomes an atypical action-thriller, empathetically shot from the perspective of a man who is blind and disabled. The brightest moments in movie lover Jaakko's day are shared on the phone with Sirpa, the woman he loves even though they've never met in person. When Sirpa gets difficult news, Jaako decides he must go to her immediately, but will need the help of five kind strangers...
1600) Stations of the Cross
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Latin
Description
Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ’s journey to his own crucifixion, STATIONS OF THE CROSS is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen’s struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As...
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