Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)
Language
Español
Description
"En medio de una Caracas revuelta, Armando es un hombre de cincuenta años que trabaja en su propio laboratorio de prótesis dentales. En su tiempo libre busca a hombres jóvenes en paradas de autobús y les ofrece dinero a cambio de que lo acompañen a su casa, pero solo busca compañía y observarles, no pide más. Pero Armando también tiene otra costumbre, la de espiar a un hombre de edad avanzada, con quien tiene un vínculo en común en su pasado....
82) Staying vertical
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Français
Description
It follows filmmaker Leo, whose amorous encounter with a free-spirited shepherdess results in a baby he's forced to raise. Through a series of unexpected and unusual encounters, while simultaneously struggling to find inspiration for his next film, Leo will do whatever it takes to stay standing.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In a cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves...
85) California solo
Language
English
Description
A former Britpop rocker is living a numb existence and working on an organic farm just outside LA. By day he goes to a farmer's market to sell produce and by night he drinks himself into a stupor. Drinking one night he gets pulled over for a DUI that dredges up a past drug offense and threatens him with deportation.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful teenager Jim finds himself in Soho, where he falls in with the Raconteurs, a gang of unusual, high-class male escorts who specialize in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to sought-after escort and eventually artist's muse, Jim would be the toast of the town if it wasn't for his annoying affliction. He suffers from Stendahl Syndrome, a rare condition which causes him to hallucinate and faint when he encounters real works of art. Could...
87) Barbe bleue
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Français
Description
Employs a double narrative, one revolving around two young sisters who are reading the tale of Bluebeard, and the other telling the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to Bluebeard, an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. The Princess must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate.
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English
Description
A compelling documentary narrated by John Leguizamo that is a gritty and rare look inside the recruitment of top talent baseball players from the Dominican Republic. Miguel Angel Sano and Jean Carlos Batista are among 100,000 teenagers vying for a handful of coveted contracts with baseball teams. As they turn sixteen years old and become eligible to sign, each must navigate the fiercely competitive and frequently corrupt system if they are to lift...
Language
English
Description
A journey through the romantic beginnings and shaky turns that inevitably develop in a relationship. Peter is an insecure architect who falls for Vandy, a beautiful art gallery employee. Told out of order, it juxtopses Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings with the twisted-manipulative-regular couple they become and find themselves asking 'How did we get this way?'
Language
English
Description
Chang-rae, a first-generation Korean-American, has returned to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother. Wanting nothing more than to fulfill his role as the supportive son, Chang-rae must come to terms with his own conflicted emotions toward his mother.
91) Guidance
Language
English
Description
It's a riotous comedy that follows former child actor, David Gold, as he makes one bad decision after another. Recently unemployed and with nothing left to lose, he fakes his resume and gets a job as a high school guidance counselor. Quickly winning over the students with his bad behavior, David forms a friendship with Jabrielle, a teenage outcast and they hit the road as an unlikely pair of outlaws on the run.
Language
Español
Description
19 year-old Elroy's father has just died, causing him to have deep dreams. One night, while sleepwalking, he falls through the roof of the home of Elvira. She is a beautiful woman who teaches him the tantric and therapeutic powers of the Kama Sutra, of which she is an expert.
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Français
Description
"A handsome, successful fashion photographer learns that he has a malignant brain tumor. Hiding his diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a short stay with his grandmother, his vulnerability is met with a big heart and sound advice. A chance encounter with a roadside cafe waitress results in an unusual bargain that provides a happy, playful dimension to the proceedings"--Container.
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Arabic
Description
"An eye-catching construction, the Yacoubian building in Cairo was long regarded as the last word in comfort and elegance. Nowadays the veneer has cracked and the shine has dulled to reveal the truth underneath the façade. Through interwoven stories of a number of the residents, the film paints a portrait of corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo and creates a vibrant but socially critical picture of contemporary...
95) That's not us
Language
English
Description
Three twenty-something couples; gay, lesbian and straight, travel to an upstate New York beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what was meant to be a fun, carefree retreat transforms into an intimate exploration of sex and commitment. Moment-to-moment, relationships are tested as tensions between the couples and friends begin to simmer.
Language
Español
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
97) Playlist
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Français
Description
Sophie is a graphic artist trying to make ends meet in Paris. She just missed out on art school, so she has decided to try to create her own career. To pay her way, she takes a job as a waitress and shares a flat with a student. She hangs out regularly with Julia, her fun-loving friend. And she drifts between a number of lovers. But Sophie is looking for something else, a balance between life, love, and work.
98) Carancho
Language
Español
Description
22 deaths a day, 683 a month, over 8,000 a year, 100,000 over the last decade. In Argentina, traffic accidents are decimating those 35 and under. Festering beneath Argentina's crime-plagued, class-divided society is the quasi-lawless realm of motor vehicle accidents and their aftermath. Sosa is an ambulance-chasing lawyer. He's lost his license, so now he works the late-night streets of Buenos Aires, signing up injured clients for a predatory firm...
99) Tony Takitani
Language
日本語
Description
Tony is an illustrator who's been alone all his life...until he meets Eiko, a beautiful woman who transforms his life. The only problem is that Eiko is a compulsive shopper with a penchant for high-end couture that leads to darkly satiric consequences.
100) The missing picture
Language
Français
Description
Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate recount his firsthand experiences of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.