Mongrel Media
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
THAT SUGAR FILM is one man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. 'That Sugar Film' will forever change...
4) Best sellers
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip from Toronto to Vancouver Island on a vintage motorcycle. In search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.
7) Still mine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
8) Last weekend
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A matriarch asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
10) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
11) The Grizzlies
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Grizzlies is based on the inspiring true story of a group of Inuit students in a small Arctic town that had one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world, due to a history of residential schools and intergenerational trauma. The classmates are initially resistant when the naive and culturally ignorant white teacher from the south introduces them to lacrosse--but gradually, as they begin to connect with each other as teammates, the students...
Publisher
Distributed by Mongrel
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls in love with an American woman, he must risk everything...
13) The corporation
Publisher
Mongrel Media [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a person to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?
14) Maudie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
15) Normal
Publisher
Ocean Park Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
16) The fits
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes with her brother. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni neglects her boxing, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and drills. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire for acceptance is challenged.
17) Adam resurrected
Publisher
Distributed by Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
18) Garbage warrior
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home - then set out to build it. A visionary in the classic American mode, Reynolds has...
19) Robot overlords
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.