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1) Big Bad Love
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Comedian Becky Lucas jokes about taboo subjects. When she realized her best childhood friend had suffered years of horrific domestic violence, Becky became determined to bring the subject out into the open.. Becky had suspected something might be wrong with her friend but did nothing, and still feels a deep regret that she didn't act on her suspicions and help her friend. But what does an abusive relationship even look like? How does it begin? And...
Publisher
Nelvana International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Bastian's adventure begins with all the Fantasians preparing for the Giving of the Gift celebration. This year it's new a thrown of the Childlike Empress. But when Urgl's bad batch of Bombardier Bug Honey goes missing, it's just the beginning of a chain of thievery originating from the Shadow Goblin and Vermin.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This program is divided into ten sections. As well as the Detective Sergeant's interviews with the victim, witness and suspect of a bag snatch, there are four different points of view of the snatch itself interspersed through the video. There are a further two sections at the beginning and end of the program which features a separate incident for use as an observational exercise and discussion trigger. The interviews demonstrate both good and bad...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Begin exploring the tactics involving in reaching marketing goals with a look at how to design products and services to provide the best possible customer experience. Along the way, you’ll learn six rules for effectively managing customer experiences (including getting bad experiences out of the way and empowering employees)..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Pima and Tohono O'odham Indians of southern Arizona have arguably the highest diabetes rates in the world, half of all adults are afflicted. But a century ago, diabetes was virtually unknown here. Researchers have poked and prodded the Pima for decades in search of a biological, or more recently, genetic, explanation for their high rates of disease. Meanwhile, medical-only interventions have failed to stem the rising tide not just among Native...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Most of us have done something “bad” or immoral in our lives, although we wouldn’t consider ourselves evil. But where exactly is that line? What does it take for us to label a person evil? By considering four models of evil (the Evildoer, Dispositional, Affect, and Moral Monster models) you’ll begin to develop your own views of when an individual is, and is not, evil.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In his first leading role, Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. ..When he finds himself drawn to Olivia...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
Italiano
Description
In Naples, a mysterious voice foretells that "the last judgment will begin at 6 p.m". First of all, it is seen as hype, then as the hour approaches, panic sweeps across the town. Everyone reacts in their own individual way but once the threat is apparently past, normal life resumes. For good or bad, it is as if nothing has happened.
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At the age twenty, Older escapes incarceration and seeks out his ten year old little brother, Younger. Clearly the bad influence, Older gets the boys mixed up in the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Thanks to their mother, the brothers now have a car and enough money to begin their bizarre road trip. Eventually, they wind up on the doorstep of their father's compound, wherein the three of them are quickly reminded why they are estranged in the...
10) Monsieur Pug
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Who is Monsieur Pug? A dog with bad cholesterol and high blood pressure! And a dog who loves his pie and ice cream. Who relaxes by making origami. In other words, definitely not your ordinary pooch!. He is also convinced he’s the target in a vast conspiracy, and pretending to be a pet, the better to hide from his pursuers. Is Monsieur Pug even a real dog to begin with?. A delirious fable about a particular brand of modern madness—that brought...
11) Grigris
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Despite a bum leg, 25-year-old Grigris has hopes of becoming a professional dancer, making some extra cash putting his killer moves to good use on the dance floor of his local club every weekend. His dreams are tested when his step-father falls critically ill and he's forced to risk his future by smuggling oil to pay the hospital bills. When he befriends Mimi, a beautiful but damaged prostitute, the two will try to start a new life together. But as...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How has China transformed, inside 30 years, from developing nation to the world's next largest economy after the USA? Includes interviews with historians, eye-witnesses and party officials. TIANANMEN SQUARE A dramatic turning point was the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 - the communist party decided to bring in economic, if not political, freedom. It meant an historic turning away from state control to a market economy. AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom...blood red. The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure...
14) Sunrise
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From emerging Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta, SUNRISE centers around Social Services officer Lakshman Joshi, whose bad past and current reality begin to converge as he investigates a kidnapping ring within the rain-soaked back alleys and seedy nightclubs of urban Mumbai.. Featuring a great performance from Adil Hussain as the worse-for-wear Lakshman and full of stylish, noir-tinged visuals, SUNRISE is both a riveting psychological drama and an invigorating,...
15) Romper Stomper
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Hando (Oscar-winner, Russell Crowe) and Davey (Daniel Pollock) are the leaders of a racist youth gang who spend their nights attacking Asian immigrants in a rough section of Melbourne. On the run after losing badly in a fight against the new Vietnamese owners of their local pub, the pair hook up with teenage junkie Gabe, who suggests robbing the mansion of her rich and sexually abusive father. But the girl's presence begins to drive a wedge between...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Key Topics Globalisation Of Food Migrant labour in the EU European Union How the clean, bright displays in our supermarkets hide a murkier story of exploitation in the supply chain. ITALY'S ROTTEN TOMATOES If you buy a tin of tomatoes chances are they come from Southern Italy - picked by migrant labour usually from Africa. They're paid a pittance, have no rights and live in shacks. It looks like a third world scene, but this is in the heart of the...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Desire Will Set You Free takes you deep into the free-spirited, drug-fueled, queer-paradise of contemporary Berlin. Ezra, a struggling American writer, meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant escort, and he introduces him to his world of clubs and parties, a dizzying and vibrant hedonistic underground. As they journey together through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape, their relationship begins to take a new form and inner desires...
18) Drunk on Love
Publisher
Ytinifni Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Meet Luke, a re-confirmed bachelor and novice novelist who is still in love with his ex girlfriend. Brady is in a dead end job and has fallen in love with Fred. She is equally smitten but is worried by his love-rat reputation. Ariel is having spiritual dilemmas over her long distance relationship and Angus is just plain nuts.. It’s Valentine’s Day and Luke can’t find the inspiration to complete his horror novel; Brady, having escaped the clutches...
Publisher
Lupin Film
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
H.O.T. is a shocking inquiry which exposes the protagonists of this global trade: the donors, often coerced or tricked into having a part of their body removed, with the false promise of a job or of receiving a substantial amount of money, which is, more often than not, never delivered; but also the mediators, the organ-hunters, and the criminals who organize the smuggling of people and organs across different countries and continents, with the illicit...
20) Keep An Eye Out
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, KEEP AN EYE OUT is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers. Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) is Commissaire Buran, a good, bad cop interrogating Fugain, (Grégoire Ludig), an average Joe who discovered a dead body outside his apartment building. As the film begins, Fugain must,...
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