(0)Joaquin Phoenix
Author
Language
English
Description
A raw documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's career transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
2) Two Lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
After moving back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, Leonard must decide between the woman his parents think would be perfect for him and the gorgeous neighbor he can't get out of his mind.
4) C'mon C'mon
Author
Language
English
Description
Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together on a road trip.
Author
Language
English
Description
As the Cold War winds down, U.S. soldier Ray Elwood enjoys the rush of trading anything he can get his hands on in West Germany's booming black-market. Everything is perfect - until he starts dating the new sergeant's daughter! But before he can pull off one last big score, his escalating personal war with Sergeant Lee will send him deeper into a deadly mess that may not have a way out!
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In James Gray's THE IMMIGRANT, Ewa Cybulski (Marion Cotillard) and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda (Angela Sarafyan) is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
I’M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Official Selection...
9) C'mon C'mon
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Johnny (Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.
10) Clay pigeons
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
A black comedy about serial murder, sexual obsession and stifling small-town paranoia.
11) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
12) Walk the line
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's life from his childhood to the middle of his musical career, with special attention to his relationship with singer June Carter.
13) Inherent Vice
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) reteams with The Master star Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator, Her, Walk the Line) for this darkly comic adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel, set in late-sixties Los Angeles. When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens...
14) Mary Magdalene
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix star in the moving story of a miraculous woman driven by her faith to follow Jesus. From award-winning director Garth Davis (Lion).
15) Signs
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
16) Beau is afraid
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man faces his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque journey back home.
17) Joker
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
18) C'mon c'mon
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
19) Mary Magdalene
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
She is one of the most transformative yet misunderstood women in history, alternately vilified as a sinner and canonized as a saint. For the first time, the incredible story of Mary Magdalene is told through her own eyes. In the first century A.D., the free-spirited Mary flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher Jesus.
20) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The war against the Germans won, Emperor Aurelius chooses the victorious General Maximus as his successor to the Roman empire. Commodus, Aurelius' heir, is jealous of this and enslaves Maximus to the gladiatorial arenas.