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1141) Greater
Language
English
Description
Brandon Burlsworth is perhaps the greatest walk-on in the history of college football. Brandon had always dreamed of playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks, but was considered too short and too fat to play Division I. However, Brandon took a risk and walked on in 1994. Written off by fellow teammates and coaches, Brandon displayed dogged determination in the face of staggering odds, and proved every one who had ever doubted him wrong.
1142) Porcupine Lake
Language
English
Description
Porcupine Lake is a story of bravery and the secret life of girls set in Northern Ontario during a hot and hazy summertime when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood is quickly vanishing. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**, and the **Mill Valley Film Festival**.
1143) My bloody Valentine
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine's Day took the lives of five miners. The disaster occurred while supervisors left their posts to attend the town's annual Valentine's Day dance. The only survivor, Harry Warden, was confined to a mental institution after the ordeal. On the disaster's first anniversary, he returned to the town for bloody revenge. That was nineteen years ago, and memories have dimmed. Young lovers T.J. (Paul...
1144) A Paris education
Language
Français
Description
Etienne, a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It’s a seemingly idyllic life until complicated matters of the flesh, as well...
Language
English
Description
"A tormented genius, drive by justice. Buckle your seatbelt for the turbulent career of London's DCI John Luther, starring Idris Elba, winner of Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for his powerful performance in this gripping, smart and entertaining psychological thriller. As brilliant as he is impulsive, Luther wrestles with the darker side of humanity and with his own grim ghosts. Will his arch enemy--a beautiful and equally brilliant mass...
1146) The war is over
Language
Italiano
Description
The story begins just as Nazi occupation in Italy has ended, during the months when Jewish children and teenagers returned home from concentration camps to find no family waiting. A few courageous souls help them adjust in an impromptu place with no resources, against the background of an Italy that is exhausted, miserable and reduced to ruins.
1147) Body of evidence
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is a powerful woman. Intelligent, successful, and beautiful, she can bring almost any man to his knees...right where she wants them. But when a night of unbridled sexual abandon results in the death of a prominent businessman, Rebecca finds herself on trial for murder. Now it's up to her attorney (Willem Dafoe) to prove her innocence...but when he becomes entangled in her web of erotic games, his road to the truth proves...
1148) Derrida
Language
Français
Description
One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. DERRIDA is an innovative and entertaining portrait by questioning the very concept of biography itself. Featuring a mesmerizing score by **Oscar**-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (*The Last Emperor*), DERRIDA is a playful and...
1149) The tree
Language
English
Description
A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—along with her four young children—struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then...
1150) Braking for whales
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dysfunctional brother and sister are forced to come to terms with each other and themselves over their recently deceased mother's final wish.
Language
English
Description
One of the most revolutionary and influential fashion designers of his time, Martin Margiela has remained an elusive figure the entirety of his decades-long career. From Jean Paul Gaultier's assistant to creative director at Hermès to leading his own House, Margiela never showed his face publicly and avoided interviews, but reinvented fashion with his radical style through forty-one provocative collections. Now, for the first time, the "Banksy of...
1152) Hobbyhorse revolution
Language
Finnish
Description
A funny and moving film about the power of imagination and the strength of a community, directed by **Oscar**-nominee Selma Vilhunen. The film follows three young girls, Aisku, Elsa and Alisa whose lives have been transformed by their new interest: hobbyhorses. Despite a lack of understanding by some, the girls bravely and spiritedly pursue their hobby. Official Selection at **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"A refreshing...
Series
Language
English
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
1154) Eating you alive
Language
English
Description
EATING YOU ALIVE addresses why 30.4 million people die each year and provides evidence based science, expert testimony and inspirational stories of disease reversal and a discovery that can cure our top killer diseases.
1155) Shattered Glass
Language
English
Description
Hayden Christensen stars in this critically acclaimed story of a disgraced journalist, directed and co-written by Billy Ray, Oscar®- nominated writer of CAPTAIN PHILLIPS. When renowned journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen) suddenly comes under investigation by a Forbes.com reporter (Steve Zahn), the search reveals Glass has fabricated many of his sensational stories, leading to his ultimate downfall in this gripping, fact-based drama.
1156) Leonie
Language
English
Description
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), who crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. An independent young woman frustrated by turn-of-the century gender norms, Gilmour finds work as an editor for the famous Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi (Shido Nakamura). Their relationship grows and becomes romantic, but Noguchi...
1157) Ana
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship between a car dealer and a street urchin causes them to go on a colorful journey to find her father and save him from bankruptcy.
1158) The gateway bug
Language
English
Description
Following the dramatic rise and fall of edible insect start-ups in America this documentary explores cultural taboos in diet and agriculture to find clues in fixing our broken food system. Tackling food security in climate catastrophe through commercial cricket farming in the rust belt, to bug eating festivals keeping Austin weird.
1159) All I can say
Language
English
Description
Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself religiously from 1990-1995 with a video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of twenty-eight. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously documented his life—his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction. He filmed his...
1160) After Tiller
Language
English
Description
In this **Emmy Award**-winning documentary, AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana...