Jeremy Thomas
Publisher
Wrongway Inc. ; Recorded Picture Company Ltd. ; Pandora Film ; Le Pacte ; Faliro House Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
3) First love
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
A noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
4) High-rise
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
6) Creation
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
7) Kon-Tiki
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
9) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
10) Everybody wins
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Tom O'Toole reluctantly takes a case from a woman claiming that a teen convicted of murder is innocent. As O'Toole digs deeper he finds that she is not all she says she is, along with a town full of corruption.
12) Mad Dog Morgan
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits with the law caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of an extensive manhunt. Based on documented events which took place during the Australian Gold Rush of the 1860's.
13) The Dreamers
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
14) Stealing beauty
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
15) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer--Container.
16) Tideland
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
17) Dogman
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coerced into the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino. When Simoncino's abuse finally brings Marcello to a breaking point, he decides to stand up for his own dignity through an act of vengeance, with unintended consequences.
18) Antlers
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
19) Pinocchio
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
Description
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
20) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The life of [Chinese] Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City" -- Container.