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1) The help
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"THE ASSISTANT" follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant's - making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
6) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 906
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
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.
8) Happening
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
9) Pride
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
10) Fences
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Series
Cinedigm volume no. 14
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Theatrical version.
Language
Indonesian
Description
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
12) Meet John Doe
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A newspaper reporter concocts a fictional story about a man named John Doe, telling his intention to commit suicide over the sorry state of mankind. As the story grows, the public demands to know the real John Doe, the newspaper hires a down and out drifter to pretend to be him. As the newspaper prospers from the John Doe story, the drifter has a change of heart from deceiving the public.
Series
Criterion collection volume 953
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
14) The woodsman
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:first).
Language
English
Description
A pedophile attempts to pull his life together after serving a 12-year prison sentence.
15) La haine =: Hate
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
16) An act of war
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a tour of duty in the Middle East, a veteran returns home battling insomnia and undiagnosed post traumatic stress disorder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
19) For my wife
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A culturally important documentary film that brings reason and substantive merit to the national dialogue on marriage equality. Faced with tragedy and humiliating discrimination at her partner's deathbed, Charlene Strong rose to prominence as an advocate for LGBT equality. Her journey inspires on a deep level, bringing a sense of triumph through unimaginable sorrow.
20) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
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