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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confirm their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
24) St. Vincent
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of America's most prominent academics, social critics, and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. Featuring interviews with bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, and others.
26) Barbara
Publisher
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Deutsch
Description
East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hello Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy look identical but have very different personalities. Children will enjoy watching Hello Kitty and Mimmy and learn important life lessons: Eating Our Vegetables; Cleaning Up My Mess; Sleeping by Ourselves; It's Fun to Help; Talking on the Phone; and Changing Our Clothes.
28) Thirteen
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie. She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie, the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and conflicting desires, Tracy loses her good-girl identity,...
29) Scrooged
Series
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nobody celebrates the Easter season quite like Wubbzy and his friends! In these 6 egg-ceptional episodes, Wubbzy discovers new ways to decorate eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt, celebrates the first day of spring with his kickity-kick ball, and has to save the holiday when Easter is cancelled! There are plenty of fun and important lessons in this collection of egg-citing Easter episodes from the town of Wuzzleburg!
32) The Oscar
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar night. The crowd cheers Frankie Fane for the top award. Not far from him, sits the actor's best friend who knows that fame has been achieved by cynical manipulation of past events. Frankie deliberately leaked true stories about his disreputable life on the basis that they were falsehoods spread by his opponents. He hopes that the subsequent wave of public sympathy will sweep him to the Oscar... Nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume...
33) Happiness 101
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Tal Ben-Shahar shares principles from his popular "positive psychology" course at Harvard University in this program designed to help viewers bring more happiness and satisfaction into their lives.
34) Radiance
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.
35) 2046
Language
中文
Description
A young man, who has tried to forget his lost love by meeting different young women, starts to write a novel about a young man falling in love with a robot in the form of a young woman on the number 2046 train. The number 2046 is the room number where he met his lost love.
36) City of Ember
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Sharpay are getting ready to graduate from high school. Troy is the school basketball champ who secretly wants to sing and dance. His girlfriend is Gabriella, but is going to a college that is far away from Troy. Troy's bestfriend is Chad. He doesn't want high school to end. The evil Sharpay wants Gabriella's part in the school play. As college approaches, the senior are struggling with the idea of being separated from one...
38) Step up
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest TV dramas of all time concludes with 13 gripping episodes from the fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed series. Episodes include: Expectations; On the Outside Looking In; The Right Hand of the Father; Keep Looking; Kingdom; Swerve; Perfect Record; Fracture; Gut Check; Don't Go; The March; Texas Whatever; and Always.
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