Mongrel Media.
2) Water
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hindi
Description
A Hindu widow in 1938 could throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, marry her husband's younger brother or live in poverty and self-denial from then on. When eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed, she is sent to a home in the Holy City of Varanasi where Hindu widows live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices, especially a young woman who has fallen in love with...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters...
4) Still mine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls in love with an American woman, he must risk everything...
6) Maudie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
9) RBG
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career." --
10) Take this waltz
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author, but when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist that lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable, setting up an unusually true and unsentimental portrait of adult relationships.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Franky Winter and Ballas Kohl have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life, until the night of Franky's epic seventeenth birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. It is a heartfelt and intimate coming-of-age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of love...
12) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement ; 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
13) That sugar film
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An expectant father undertakes a perilous/delicious mission to see what the hidden sugars in seemingly healthy products can do to both his body and brain chemistry in this eye-opening new documentary that must be seen to be believed."--
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
"It's the end of the school year, and the long-awaited holidays have finally arrived. Little Nicholas, his parents and Granny hit the road heading for the sea, and move into the Beau-Rivage Hotel. Adapted from Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny's 'Little Nicholas' children's book series, Nicholas on Holiday follows the adventures of Nicholas and his new friends. There's Ben, who isn't on holiday because he lives here, Freddy, who eats anything,...
15) Marion Bridge
Series
Film Movement ; 1, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways." --
16) Lisbon
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
On a countryside highway in Spain, a tragic accident kills a driver, his wife and child. On the same highway, a porn video salesman meets a stranded, rich housewife who is desperately fleeing her family and trying to get to Lisbon. Ignorant of the complete picture, Joao agrees to give Berta a lift to Lisbon. But what starts as a casual drive turns into a neck-to-neck car chase, and it becomes clear this mysterious woman is tied to a deadly conspiracy....
17) Of gods and men
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace - not for the first time, we soon learn. These are the four protagonists in a bittersweet portrait of their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.
Home use only.
Series
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
