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1) Brian Banks
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim...
2) Operator
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely of friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children's book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book. When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A LITTLE STIFF is a minimalist comedy based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants. Caveh Zahedi plays himself as a neurotic film student who develops a crush on art student Erin McKim after a brief encounter in an elevator.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Siff delivers a tour-de-force performance as Anna Baskin, an exhausted workaholic actress at a crossroads in her life. She abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to a life she left behind with ex-creative partners Kate and Isaac. A WOMAN, A PART examines the media’s portrayal of women, the nature of friendship and the difficulties of reckoning with change. Nominated for Best First Feature at the...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts), an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is driving to Alaska in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. Winner of the Palm Dog and nominated for the Un Certain...
10) Her Smell
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Becky (Elisabeth Moss) is a '90s punk rock star who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio "Something She". Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted band mates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. When Becky's chaos and excesses derail a recording session and national tour, she finds herself shunned, isolated and alone. Forced to get sober,...
11) Relaxer
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Doom and gloom are on the way. The Y2K apocalypse can't be stopped. Abbie's older brother issues him the ultimate challenge before it goes down: beat the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man and no getting up from the couch until he does so. Abbie’s survival story begins here; inside a rotting living room with no food or water, and a revolving door of friends and acquaintances. It’s THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL by way of SLACKER. Official Selection at the...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his third marriage, Caveh Zahedi tells the story of how his attraction to prostitutes and his compulsive honesty combined to destroy each of his past relationships. The genre-bending mix of camera address, re-enactment, and home movie footage make for a strikingly funny and original film.
13) Detachment
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winners Adrien Brody and Marcia Gay Harden star in this award-winning drama about a substitute teacher at a troubled high school. From the Tony Kaye, director of *American History X*. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*Harrowing depiction of the American educational system features a superb performance by Adrien Brody.*"- Frank Scheck, ***Hollywood Reporter***
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener, *Get Out*) emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood...
15) David
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his Father and his feelings of isolation and difference– even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their orthodox school, in the neighboring Jewish community. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and...
16) Ovum
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A provocative dark comedy about a quirky actress who tries method acting to approach a role and is drawn into the shady world of egg donation clinics and the characters who populate them: from unscrupulous doctors with mind bending fertility drugs to the model donors and a notorious faded movie star who wants our heroine's OVUM at any cost. But things are not as they first appear in a world where wealthy couples seek to buy the perfect designer egg....
17) Polytechnique
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the Oscar-nominated director of *Arrival* and *Blade Runner 2049* comes this searing drama based on true events. In December 1989, a disturbed killer stalked the campus of Montreal Polytechnique with one goal in mind - to target as many young women as possible. This gut-wrenching film mirrors the gun violence and misogyny that haunt contemporary Western culture, and does so with nuance and delicacy. Nominated for the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Cannes...
18) Sunset
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A diverse group of people grapple with the imminent probability of a nuclear strike on the east coast of the United States. Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at the **Manhattan Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Ensemble Award at the **Los Angeles Film Awards.**
19) The Return
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they were once born in. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The worlds of stand-up comedy and indie rock collide in the Tribeca Film Festival breakout hit Pitchfork calls “*a joy to join*.” Struggling comedian Paul Scott (*Girls’* Alex Karpovsky) is invited to open for his successful rocker buddy, Jason Black (*22 Jump Street's* Wyatt Russell), on his solo acoustic tour from Boston to Atlanta. Jason hopes the trip will help Paul get his 'mojo back' after being dumped by his fiancé. The misadventures...
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