Strand Releasing (Firm)
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki explores the accidental movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema. Mifune made sixteen remarkable films with director Akira Kurosawa during the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. Together they thrilled audiences and influenced filmmaking around the world, providing direct inspiration for The Magnificent Seven and Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood2s breakthrough, A...
2) The mountain
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes to the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by the beauty of the mountains, he sets up a campsite amidst the glaciers and feels no desire to return to civilization. As he opens himself to the mystical surroundings, he becomes close with Lea, a beautiful chef, and discovers a luminous life force emanating from deep within the mountain itself.
3) Drown
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len's legendary status starts to crumble. The Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay. After the annual awards dinner, Len finds Phil in the Club House locker room and violently attacks him. But when Phil wins the annual Surf Lifesaving competition, Len's defeat is final....
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old rom, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.
5) Volley
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Six twenty-something friends are spending New Year's Eve at a summer house at the river. The host, Nicolas, brings his ex-girlfriend Pilar with whom he just had a one-night stand. But, Nicolas hits on every other girl including the brooding Cata and the voluptuous Belen. When Nicolas unexpectedly falls into bed and in into love with the high-strung Manuela, who also happens to be his best friend's girlfriend, the last laugh in on him.
6) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
7) Mogul mowgli
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
Description
A British-Pakistani rapper on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy.
Publisher
New Voice Film Productions
Pub. Date
℗2019
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twilight's Kiss (Suk suk) presents the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years. One day Pak, 70, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, 65, a retired single father, in a park. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years....
9) From afar
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Wealthy, middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn't want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. Armando's first encounter with street thug Elder is violent, but this doesn't discourage the lonely man's fascination with the tough handsome teenager. Financial interest keeps Elder visiting him regularly and an unexpected intimacy emerges. However, Armando's haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act...
10) Front cover
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryan is a handsome fashion stylist living in New York City who rejects his traditional Asian upbringing in favor of enjoying his life as openly gay. However that all changes when Ryan is assigned to style Ning, a famous Chinese actor, for an important photo shoot for his firm. Despite a rocky start, an unlikely romance develops between the two, leading Ryan to re-examine his roots and consider an enticing new path for his career. FRONT COVER is a...
11) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug world, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
12) Wedding doll
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
The bittersweet and gently moving story follows a young impulsive woman, Hagit, who dreams of love, marriage and freedom from the strict guidance of her mother, an overprotective divorcee. Hagit strikes up a relationship with her boss' son at the local factory where she works. While hiding the blossoming romance from her mother, news arrives of the factory shutting down, and if forces Hagit's romantic fantasy and reality to collide.
13) Foam party!
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Begins with one mass text that circulates among friends and then strangers, an invite to a polysexual orgy. At the party, the lives of fourteen characters, gay and straight, intersect. They came searching for sex but what they discover is an orgy that has never been so filled with love.
14) José
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Jose lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where, dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living one's life as an openly gay man is hard for Jose to imagine. His mother has never had a husband and is determined to hold on to him. Jose fills his free time with dating apps, but when he meets attractive and gentle Luis, they pursue an unexpected relationship with more emotion than Jose has ever felt. He is thrust into...
15) A woman, a part
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Anna Baskin is an exhausted workaholic actress at a crossroads. She abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to a life she left behind with ex-creative partners Isaac and Kate.
16) Sun children
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
Official Oscar Entry for Iran, SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old ALI and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable...
17) Tejano
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Desperate for money to afford the treatment that will save his grandfather's life, Texan Javi crosses into Mexico and meets with his girlfriend Lorena's brother, Adelio. Adelio leads Javi to Gloria, the head of a cartel, who agrees to let Javi be a drug mule, but there is a catch. Javi is to walk across the border wearing a cast made of cocaine. For the sake of his grandfather, Javi decides to go through with it. From there Javi's story becomes one...
18) Straight up
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that's all talk and no sex.
19) Refuge
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After Amy's parents leave, she ends up raising her two, slightly younger, but overly needy siblings. Amy has to balance her personal life with her responsibilities. But when Sam, a young handsome stranger rolls into town, he becomes entrenched in the family while he and Amy, against all odds, begin to create a life they never thought possible.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
A comedic thriller that stars a bumper crop of well-known older Argentine actors. The film is the story of a group of four long-time friends, including a used-to-be-famous actress, her now disabled husband and actor as well, who she eclipsed, and the sharp-tongued screenwriter and director of her greatest hits. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple, who, feigning to be lost, slowly insinuate themselves into their lives.