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Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Spanish-born filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza follows-up his debut drama Aquí y allá with another sensitive portrait of a struggling family. Stressed by her job in a diner, single mother Regina is raising her two children in northern Florida. When her fourteen-year-old son Andrew has another brush with the law, she worries he will wind up in prison like his father. Méndez Esparza employs documentary-style realism in this snapshot of race, class...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
6) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie. When Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie's tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10 Rillington Place in London,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 906
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
10) Lola
Series
Criterion collection volume 206
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy. Lola, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s, is romantically involved with Von Bohm, a morally upright building inspector. Recently appointed Building Commissioner, Von Bohm is committed to eradicating corruption. Consequently, he's given quite a shock when he is called into inspect the brothel where Lola works and discovers her there. With that,...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A once-beloved third Reich- era starlet, Veronika Voss lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. Struggling for survival and haunted by past glories, she encounters sportswriter Robert Krohn in a rain-swept park and intrigues him with her mysterious beauty.
13) La haine =: Hate
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Korean
Description
Jina is the top employee at a call center, but despite talking to customers all day, she has shut out the world beyond her headset; she lives alone, eats alone, sleeps alone, and her cell phone is her constant companion. When one day she's tasked with training a friendly and nav̐e new hire, her icy armor is threatened. At the same time, she must navigate an incessantly ingratiating new neighbor, and an increasingly urgent phone call from her father,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 204
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Maria married Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950's.
16) Black or white
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Series
Criterion collection volume 308
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the ferment of the 1960's, exploring the reactions of youth to violence, political protest, suicide, birth control and other issues prevalent during the Vietnam era.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Julie is a single mother who can't catch a break. Raising two children in the Paris suburbs and commuting to the city daily, the train is her lifeline until it's suddenly severed by a transit strike. Without the train, Julie struggles to make it in time to her job at a five-star hotel, to the interview for a better job she's tied her hopes to, or back home to pick up her kids from childcare. Before long, Julie is at her breaking point and as her responsibilities...
Series
Criterion collection volume 958
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Romanian
Formats
Description
A young woman and her friend make their way to a black market doctor and face the choice as to whether or not one of them should have an illegal abortion.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Southern Sotho
Description
2020 Sundance Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking, 2019 Venice Film Festival, MUBI selection. In the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow named Mantoa eagerly awaits her son's return from working in the South African mines, only to learn of his demise instead. Yearning for her death after the loss of her last remaining family member, she puts her affairs in order and makes arrangements to be buried in the...
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