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Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Italy, a bumbling Jewish waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves, creating a beautiful life for his young family. But that life is threatened by World War II.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 1963 in Yokohama, an innocent romance blossoms between two high school students, Umi and Shun. As Japan recovers from World War II and prepares to host the 1964 Olympics, the mood contains both optimism and conflict as the younger generation struggles to escape the shackles of the past. While trying to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, the relationship flourishes. But a buried secret from their past emerges to cast...
5) Ilo ilo
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region. Middle class and with baby on the way, the Lim family hires Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, as a live-in maid and nanny. An outsider in the family and SIngapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to to manage the son Jiale's antics and find her footing in her new community. The two eventually form a...
6) Jellyfish
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
עברית
Description
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And...
7) Leona
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Español
Description
An intimate, insightful, and moving film that tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, watching her negotiate the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning sentiment is both painful and beautiful – there are no easy choices to be made. Official Selection at...
12) Water
Publisher
TCF Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Hindi
Description
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, an eight-year-old child bride is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
14) 2LDK
Publisher
RLA Releasing
Language
日本語
Description
Two actresses who share an apartment are in fierce competition with each other use violence to settle their disagreements.
17) Osama
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Iranian
Description
This powerful and remarkable drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
18) My best friend
Publisher
IFC Films
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
Français
Description
"A middle-aged antique dealer is flabbergasted to learn that his closest acquaintances don't actually like him. Challenged to provide an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase, his search provides a witty and thoughtful look at the meaning of friendship"--Http://www.seattlefilm.org.
20) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Language
English
Description
"Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film."--Container.
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