Kanopy (Firm)
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Ten years after the Academy Award®-winning An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the forefront of mainstream culture, AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER proves to be more relevant than ever today. Join former Vice President Al Gore as he continues his tireless fight, traveling around the globe to educate and inspire the next generation of climate champions. Eye-opening and alarming, this compelling follow-up shows that while the stakes...
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English
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An engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes and commentary.
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3) Sahara
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Paramount Pictures
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English
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Master explorer Dirk Pitt takes on the adventure of his life when he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of West Africa. Searching for what locals call 'The Ship of Death', a long lost Civil War battleship which protects a secret cargo, Pitt and his wisecracking sidekick Al use their wits and clever heroics to help Doctor Eva Rojas when they realize the ship may be linked to mysterious deaths in the very same area....
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English
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Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine explores the life and tragic death of Matthew Shepard, the gay student brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through the personal lens of friends and family, it’s a story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This film has earned 10 Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards from film festivals worldwide, including the Audience...
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English
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A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
7) The hours
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Three women (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) in different times are related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway". Winner of Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) at the **Academy Awards,** the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Winner of a Silver Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International...
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The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time.
9) Raging bull
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English
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Robert De Niro teams up with director Martin Scorsese to create one of cinema's eternal masterpieces. Nominated for eight Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, this contemporary classic is "ambitious, violent, poetic and lyrical" (The New York Times). De Niro turns in a powerful, Best Actor Oscar®-winning performance as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both...
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While Flynn is bidding on a Ming vase, his girlfriend is ready to call their relationship off because he stood her up again. By the time he gets to their meeting place she has left, and once again he is alone and depressed. His employers tell him to take a vacation, and when he dreams about a woman asking him to find her he decides to go to New Orleans. In New Orleans he meets the girl in his dream, is chased by some Russian goons, and meets a professor...
11) Mad hot ballroom
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Paramount Pictures
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English
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The award-winning documentary that follows New York City fourth and fifth graders as they journey into the world of competitive ballroom dance. Winner of the Celebrate New York Award at the **Gotham Awards.** Winner of Best Documentary at the **Philadelphia Film Festival.** *"It will sweep you off your feet." - Joe Morgenstern, **The Wall Street Journal***
12) Ray & Liz
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English
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“Richard Billingham’s blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom – RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known – were the toast of Charles Saatchi’s epochal late ‘90s exhibition Sensation.” – Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of...
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Martin Scorsese’s contribution to the Century of Cinema series is a fascinating exploration of some of the landmarks of American cinema, as well as some of its lesser known byways. Under chapter headings such as The Director’s Dilemma or The Director as Iconoclast, Scorsese analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith, FW Murnau, Sam Fuller and John Cassavetes. This is no academic history, but a declaration of passion for cinema from...
14) Borgman
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Drafthouse Films
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Nederlands
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A dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places, follows an enigmatic vagrant who enters the lives of an upper-class family and quickly unravels their carefully curated lifestyle. Charming and mysterious, Camiel Borgman seems almost otherworldly, and it isn't long before he has the wife, children and nanny under his spell in a calculated bid to take over their home life.
15) Beirut
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English
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Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris) must send a former U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
16) Leave no trace
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English
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Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Supporting Female, and Best Director at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
17) Eight men out
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English
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Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen) are two of the talented young players on the pennant-winning 1919 Chicago White Sox team owned by the stingy Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. When gamblers discover that Comiskey’s demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, Buck, Hap and the team are offered bribes to throw the World Series and a national scandal erupts,...
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Film Movement volume 14, film 8
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Film Movement
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Nederlands
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Schneider, a hitman, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses the request because it is his birthday. Mertens insists that it is an important matter. When they meet in Mertens' office, Schneider is told that the target is Ramon Bax, a writer. He lives alone in a secluded place. "It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon." Schneider accepts the assignment....
19) Generation war
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Music Box Films
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Deutsch
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Valor, courage, and betrayal come to the fore in this remarkable epic that shows the everyday realities of wartime life from a deeply personal perspective. Billed as a German "Band of Brothers," GENERATION WAR vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Winner of seven **German Television Academy Awards**, including Best Director and Best Leading Actor. Winner...
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Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation. A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers,...