Channel Four Films (Firm)
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, Hitler hatches a diabolical weapon: a bank of "superguns" housed in a massive underground complex in Nazi-occupied northern France. Together, the guns would be able to pump 600 high explosive shells 100 miles to London each hour, spelling doom for the Allies. Engineers, archaeologists, and WWII historians investigate this fearsome weapon and two audacious missions designed to destroy it.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Doug Block took a hard look at his parents' marriage and his own relationship with his father. With his latest film, Block turns in the other direction, offering an exceptionally moving look at his relationship with his only child, Lucy, and chronicling her emotionally fraught last year at home before leaving for college. Moving fluidly between past, present, and the fast-approaching future, this is a candid look at parenting, marriage, and letting...
3) Bandit queen
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the dictated prison diaries of Phoolan Devi, a woman born of low caste, who was sold into a brutal marriage when she was 11 years old. Her struggle against a class-based, male-dominated culture culminates in a spree of vengeful violence and finally a bloody coup.
4) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
10) Dark horse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Looks at a small group of friends in a former mining town in Wales who decide to breed a racehorse, Dream Alliance, who goes on to have a prodigious career on the track.
11) Trainspotting
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel was a breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton, a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again,...