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4221) Wanderlust: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is monogamy outdated? Can you love more than one person? After years of respectable marriage, Joy and Alan are going to try doing what's right for them. Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh star in playwright Nick Payne's drama.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON, a wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself. Tackling the social issues of racism, police brutality, LGBTQ+ acceptance, mental health and addiction, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson confronts these seminal issues, all too prevalent in American society.
4223) The Chop
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Yossi is a charismatic kosher butcher who finds himself in a moment of crisis upon losing his job. After ringing round numerous other kosher butchers to no avail, he takes the unusual decision to work in a halal butcher. However to do so, he must use all his guile and charisma to hide his true identity.
4224) Temporada
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Juliana moves from her hometown to a bigger city to work for the disease eradication program of the public health system. On the job, she meets new people, makes friends and has new experiences that start little by little to change her life. At the same time, she feels she is losing touch with her husband, who she left in the backlands.
4225) Hero
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's offhandedly eccentric US Film Festival (**Sundance**) award winning debut feature follows a disabled teenager and his older adoptive sisters who, when pronounced by some protective-services bureaucrat to be "not our idea of a normal family," shed their gloomy urban confines and set out for Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Rockwell gathers vitalizing details both grand and small but he is mostly inspired by singular characters...
4226) To Olivia
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1962, Roald Dahl was a upcoming children’s author, his wife, Patricia Neal, was a Hollywood movie star. Their lives are turned upside down when their daughter Olivia contracted measles and died. Her death devastated the couple, yet their shared grief became a source of redemption and strength.
4227) Tazzeka
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Growing up in the Moroccan village of TAZZEKA, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
4228) Putty Hill
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (*Sollers Point, I Used to Be Darker*). At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative...
4229) Stella: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Starring and created by Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones, Stella is a heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working class Wales. The fictional town of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys is home to Stella Morris - a 40-something divorcee with three kids and an ironing business. Eldest child Luke is in prison. Daughter Emma is 16, gorgeous, lazy and in love whilst Ben, the 13 year old brains of the family, has a natural inquisitiveness...
4230) Shit & Champagne
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the drug-lords of the underworld kill your fiancé and your sister, and the cops stand idly by and do nothing, there’s only one thing left to do...dance! D’Arcy Drollinger’s tribute to female empowerment, television heroines and the low-budget exploitation films of the 1970’s, delivers high-kicking, ass-whooping comedy. After her fiancé, Rod, and her half-sister, Brandy (the world renowned calf model) are both brutally murdered, Champagne...
4231) Kinetta
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The first feature for which celebrated international auteur Yorgos Lanthimos received solo directorial credit, KINETTA takes place in a desolate Greek resort town where three tenuously connected people are motivated by mysterious impulses. A plain-clothes cop pursues triple passions for cars, tape recorders, and Russian women; a lonely, lovesick clerk works as a part-time photographer; and a hotel maid aspires to be an actress through unconventional...
4232) Burning Man
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A sexy, unflinching & ultimately triumphant film about a man's dark descent and moving recovery after a painful loss.
4233) Miriam Lies
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
While awaiting the day of the fifteenth birthday party, Miriam meets her internet boyfriend, Jean-Louis, who is set to accompany her. Her family believes he is the son of a French diplomat but when Miriam discovers he is Black, the politics of race and class in the Dominican Republic are brought to the surface, leading Miriam to create a string of lies and plunge into a crisis of identity.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Following the election of a nationalistic government, a man decides to sell everything to return to Viet-Nâm. But his ex-stepson comes to him for help, bringing along an abandoned child. Together, these three men must live together for a few weeks.
4235) God of the Piano
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
עברית
Description
Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been able to reach her father’s exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to extreme measures to ensure that her child will be the composer that her father always wanted. But when the boy grows up indifferent to his destiny as a...
4236) Last Film Show
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Gujarati
Description
Samay fights heaven and earth to find light. He wants to catch, control, cut and project that light to tell stories. Now to pursue that dream he must leave everything he loves and take a flight to find the light.
4237) Comet
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Justin Long and Emmy Rossum are star-crossed lovers whose relationship blooms and unravels over the course of six years in this stirring, dazzlingly original romance.
4238) The August Virgin
Publisher
One World Digital
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Looking for a fresh perspective on life, Eva takes a leap of faith and decides to stay in Madrid over the summer, when all the other locals leave.
4239) Claire's Camera
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sang-soo. Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim Min-hee), recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director (Jung Jin-young). Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander...
4240) Angels of Sex
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In this steamy love triangle, Bruno questions his feelings for his loving girlfriend Carla as he grows increasingly attracted to fellow dancer Rai.
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