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1) The whale
Language
English
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A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
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English
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Based on the # 1 New York Times bestseller “A Man Called Ove,” A Man Called Otto tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are interrupted when a lively young family moves in next door, and he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol. She challenges him to see life differently, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns...
Language
English
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George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
5) House party
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck, and about to lose the roofs over their heads and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a 'what the hell?' move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong...
6) Last Vegas
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Four best friends in their late-60s decide to escape retirement and throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single.
Language
English
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After nearly four decades together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs while Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged...
8) Lucky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, while having sex with both boys and girls. The confusion only goes deeper when the teenager's single, working-class mom is arrested for having stolen him at birth. Thanks to the wonders of DNA, he's returned 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.
Pub. Date
[1993?]
Edition
Directors cut, letterboxed ed.
Language
English
Description
Three cousins raised as brothers are torn apart, forcing them to follow separate paths. One searches for truth in the law. One expresses his passion through art. And, one finds power in prison. Yet through it all, family and honor keep their lives intertwined as each strives for survival and power.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Two best friends are forced to leave school and join the army for Hitler, and find themselves on opposite sides when one becomes an outstanding soldier and the other wonders why he is fighting a senseless war. Bonus features include biographies and a short film.
13) Changeland
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a man discovers that his wife is having an affair, he invites his childhood friend to join him on his trip to Thailand that was originally planned as a getaway for a happy couple.
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD ; Widescreen, Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Sophie and the moonhanger: In the 1950s South, a woman is torn between her husband, the Grand Dragon of the KKK, and her black best friend ; Go tell it on the mountain: John has a talent for writing, but his father has pushed him towards a life of faith. As the two battle each other, they must also overcome their own personal struggles in the adaptation of James Baldwin's beloved novel ; Honeydripper: Tyrone Purvis will try anything to keep his blues...
Series
Criterion collection volume 990-992
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Language
Persian
Description
Where is the friend's house?: A boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken -- and transforms it into a miraculous child's-eye adventure of the everyday.
And life goes on: In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but also the teeming life in its wake. Blending fiction and reality into...
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