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81) Wobble Palace
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Days before Halloween and America’s traumatic 2016 election, a couple on the verge of a subversive break-up decides to split their house up over the weekend and test the turbulent waters of independence. Desperate to make new connections, Jane and Eugene find themselves in a series of unpredictable misadventures, ill-advised quixotic sexual escapades, and emotional traumas. From this simple premise, WOBBLE PALACE charges headfirst into a manic and...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Revealed in four chapters, it tells the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past. Incorporating familial history and mythology, dream logic and surrealism, I WAS A SIMPLE MAN is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic story of a fractured family facing the death of their patriarch that will take us from the high-rises of contemporary...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly,...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A moving and vibrantly funny story of young adulthood and young love, THE SOUVENIR PART II follows Julie, an ambitious film student in 1980s London, through an intoxicating mix of romantic entanglements with friends and classmates; a decade-spanning epic and extraordinary portrait of a life lived through art.
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically in this tangled and darkly funny roundelay set in the New York theater world. Nominated for an Audience Award at **AFI Fest**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"The energetically crafted, well-acted movie about characters one would go to considerable extremes to avoid in real life is turning into a veritable indie micro-genre."...
86) The Identical
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of twin brothers separated at birth in the Great Depression. With different upbringings, one brother becomes a music legend while the other struggles to find a balance between his passion for music and trying to please his father.
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Domenico Nesci just can't connect with members of the opposite sex. Why? Because everywhere he goes, women are buried in their smart-phones, their tablets, their laptops, looking down instead of looking around, hoping that technology will bring them closer to their soulmate in this new era of interconnectivity. So Domenico decides not only to join the online masses, but to document his journey as he joins every dating site he can, from mainstream...
88) Hello Herman
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in America, a controversial journalist (Norman Reedus, *The Walking Dead*) is forced to face his haunted past when he confronts a teenager driven to the brutal murder of 39 classmates. In attempting to determine why and how a massacre like this can happen in our society, this timely film explores issues of desensitization in America, youth violence and bullying, the impact the media has on our individual quest for fame, and ultimately...
89) Free in Deed
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in the provocative and distinctive world of converted storefront churches and based on actual events, FREE IN DEED depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother on the brink of profound desperation brings her tormented young son to church for healing, a lonely Pentecostal minister is not only forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child, but his own inescapable demons as well. And the more he prays,...
91) Mr. Pig
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eubanks (Danny Glover), an old-school pig farmer from Georgia on the brink of losing his family farm, sets off on a road trip with his estranged daughter, Eunice (Maya Rudolph) and Howard, his beloved and very large pig. As they make their way across the border to Mexico to find 'Howie' a new home, Eubanks’ drinking and deteriorating health begin to take a toll, derailing their plans. Driven by strong convictions and stubbornness in his old ways,...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious satire of the film festival world, THE LAST FILM FESTIVAL brings Hollywood right into your own town. The late Dennis Hopper stars, in his last film role. There are over 4,000 film festivals around the world. Where would you go if your film was turned down by 3,999 of them?. When an obscure film festival is the last hope for failing producer (Dennis Hopper) and his “disaster” of a movie collide with the homespun innocence of small...
94) Away From Her
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Married for almost 50 years, Grant and Fiona's serenity is interrupted by Fiona's increasingly frequent memory lapses. When it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that she is being consumed by Alzheimer's disease, the limits of love and loyalty are wrenchingly redefined.
95) Short Term 12
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Short Term 12 follows Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something staff member at a foster care facility as she reckons with caring for the teens in her charge and her own past. This lovingly realized film finds truth and humor in unexpected places.
96) My Art
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When she is offered the summer house of a famous friend in upstate New York, single artist Ellie Shine seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work. She unwittingly finds inspiration in three local men- two out-of-work actors and a disillusioned lawyer. This unlikely trio helps Ellie reinvent her art by participating in a series of DIY videos, which recreate classic Hollywood films. Together, they accompany Ellie on an odd and...
97) Her Majesty
Publisher
MJG Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
As a small New Zealand town prepares for a once-in-a-lifetime royal visit, a popular thirteen-year old girl, Elizabeth, who dreams of meeting the Queen, finds her fervent hopes put in jeopardy when she develops an unlikely, life-changing friendship with Hira, an elderly Maori woman outcast from society. Elizabeth’s true character is tested when she must choose between marching in the ceremonial parade of her dreams with a chance to personally meet...
98) Sharp Stick
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Naive Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) still lives in a Hollywood apartment with her influencer sister (Taylour Paige) and her disillusioned mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Eager to lose her virginity and take control of her life, Sarah Jo begins an affair with her older boss Josh (Jon Bernthal) and is thrust into an education on sex and power in the bold new film from writer & director Lena Dunham.
99) Mouthpiece
Publisher
levelFILM
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cassandra, who is portrayed by two women, expresses the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother's funeral. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **Palm Springs International Film Festival**. *"There's no denying the bracing, honest nature of "Mouthpiece," a truly revolutionary piece of filmmaking." - Katie Walsh, **Los Angeles...
100) Hero
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's offhandedly eccentric US Film Festival (**Sundance**) award winning debut feature follows a disabled teenager and his older adoptive sisters who, when pronounced by some protective-services bureaucrat to be "not our idea of a normal family," shed their gloomy urban confines and set out for Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Rockwell gathers vitalizing details both grand and small but he is mostly inspired by singular characters...
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