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Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this Golden Globe-nominated psychological thriller, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton plays Eva, the mother to her deeply disturbed son Kevin (Ezra Miller). Eva contends with her clueless husband (John C. Reilly) and her son's malevolent ways as the narrative builds to a chilling and unforgettable climax.
2) Agatha
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
3) Gemma Bovery
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon tires of their simpler life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favorite novel.
4) The summit
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In August of 2008, eighteen mountain climbers reached the top of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. 48 hours later, eleven people were dead, making it the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history. While memorials paid tribute to those killed, there were also condemnations about why. Why do these athletes risk everything to reach a place humans are simply not meant to go? Why do they put their lives and the lives of others on the...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
7) Grabbers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On Erin Island, an idyllic fishing village off the coast of Ireland, charming inebriate Ciaran O'Shea is tasked with showing police officer Lisa Nolan her new beat. But strange doings are aloof. The crew of a fishing boat disappears, whales start appearing dead on the shore, and a local lobsterman catches a mysterious tentacled creature in his trap. Soon it becomes clear to O'Shea and Nolan that there's something unnatural out there, and it's hungry....
8) Senna
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, this film explores the life and work of Ayrton Senna, the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained.
9) Get On Up
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, this film gives a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Publisher
Blueprint Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jonathan "Jock" Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycle Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games. Against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose hope for a future as they rise from the ashes of their past.
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between...
14) Without a clue
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Watson has fooled the world. He's created a work of fiction in the figure of the crime solving sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, when it is he himself who has set about solving crimes. With the public demanding to see the legendary Holmes in the flesh, and to keep the charade in play, Watson hires out-of work actor Reginald Kincaid to assume the role with very mixed, and very funny, results.
15) Hot fuzz
Series
Cornetto trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the son of the police chief. Danny is a huge action movie fan...
16) The first grader
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The First Grader is a heart-warming and inspiring true story of one man's fight for what he believes is his right in order to overcome the burdens of his past. Maruge is an 84 year-old from Kenya who is in school learning for the first time with six year-olds. It is the triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
17) Killing Bono
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Loosely recreates the story of young Irish rocker McCormick and his younger brother, Ivan, who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their secondary school friends form U2 and become the biggest band in Ireland.
18) Made in Dagenham
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable 18th century British comic novel The life and opinions of Tristam Shandy, gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
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