Riz Ahmed
2) The night of
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
3) Trishna
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
4) Four lions
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart, slapstick comedy, ... takes aim at Jihadi suicide bombers and illuminates the war on terror through satire and farce. Follow five inept aspiring terrorists on their quest to strike a blow, and how they demonstrate that terrorism may be about ideology, but it can also be about idiots"--Container.
5) Una
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A grown woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen.
6) Jason Bourne
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures' Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA's most lethal operative drawn out of the shadows. Damon is joined by Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones, while Julia Stiles reprises her role in the series.
7) Venom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own. Includes French audio description.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A few decades before the gold rush in the 1870s, there are prospectors out in the Pacific Northwest trying to make a name for themselves. One of them suddenly finds himself in a world of trouble when a notorious pair of brothers marks him for death. The Sisters brothers are known all throughout the area for their wicked ways, and now they believe that he has crossed them. In order to escape their wrath, he'll need to draw upon resources he's not even...
Publisher
GKids, Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses...
10) Nightcrawler
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of LA crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder, and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cutthroat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A western dark comedy based on the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt. The film stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as the two notorious assassin brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters, who get caught up in the California Gold Rush.
12) Wired
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced thriller which delves into the murky world of high-risk bank fraud. Louise is a young, fun-loving single mother who's been recently promoted. But unsuspecting Louise has been targeted as part of a conspiracy to coerce her into facilitating a 250million internet bank theft. At the heart of her troubles is best friend Anna, who has been seduced by the glamour of the criminal underworld and is persuaded to divulge the secrets of Louise's...
13) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A trio of British Muslims vacationing in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 are captured by the American military and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. For the next two years, they are imprisoned without any charges officially being filed. They are tortured and interrogated relentlessly, in hopes of getting them to "confess" their nonexistent link to Al-Qaida. A fictionalized account of the actual experiences of "The Tipton Three, " incorporating...
Publisher
GKids, Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses...
17) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.