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Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Swedish
Description
Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Lukas is an aimless, haunted young man who is living in L.A. He buries painful thoughts of his own past in the humdrum routine of his job as a tollbooth clerk. A chance encounter with a holocaust survivor suddenly brings into focus a world and an identity he embraces with frightening intensity: the victimized Jews of World War II. As he begins to enthusiastically act out and explore his newfound obsession, Lukas discovers that survivor's guilt isn't...
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
9) Fireproof
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind - it's a natural instinct. But when it comes to marriage, it's another story. After a decade of marriage, Caleb and Catherine have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. As the two prepare for divorce, Caleb's dad asks his son to try The Love Dare experiment. While hoping the experiment has nothing to do with his parents' newfound...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair crisscross the United States in a lovingly refurbished RV, relishing their independence and making ends meet by doing odd jobs. A shocking rupture, though, casts Nola out on her own. She makes her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in search of a mother she never knew. When her motorhome unexpectedly breaks...
11) Jake's Corner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ex-football star Johnny Dunn walked away from the game early in his career to live a relatively secluded life far from the spotlight in a small desert town he owns called Jake's Corner. Johnny's quiet life is altered dramatically when his young nephew, Spence, is unexpectedly dropped at his doorstep. The boy brings a childlike innocence to this town of adults.
12) Orchestra wives
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], 1942
Language
English
Description
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbott. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour, and learns about life as an orchestra wife.
13) A beautiful mind
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a troubled Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
14) Brick lane
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nazneen is a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London during the 1980s. She leaves behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. In a loveless marriage to the middle aged Chanu, she feels trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London. She begins to fear that her soul is quietly dying. Meanwhile, her sister Hasina, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle...
15) Rockstar
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Hindi
Description
Janardan, born and brought up in a middle class locality of Pitampura in Delhi, has a dream of being a rockstar like Jim Morrison. "Rockstar" is about the journey of the boy Janardan to become Jordan, from a simple naivete to a tortured soul, from a pleasure of unaffected friendship to the torment of unrequited love, from the campus in Delhi to the international stage.
17) The lost weekend
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.
18) Padman
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Hindi
Description
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
19) Broken Hill
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Born and raised on a sheep ranch, Tommy dreams of becoming a great musician, but finds himself doing community service when his antics to impress a new classmate backfire. Given a second chance, he finds a way to beat the odds, win her affection, and conduct the concert of his life.
20) Lourdes
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In order to escape her isolation, a young woman who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life joins a party to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
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