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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between Jim and Susan, mysterious drifters who appear to lead the kind of free-spirited life she can only dream about. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City. After a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Erwin is a genius, far smarter than any of her high school classmates. But Erwin's genius has come at a price, isolation. She doesn't have any friends and even her sister thinks she's a social leper. Determined to win the State Science Fair, she teams up with classmate Winston, a fellow outcast and chemistry guru, to create a popularity chemical which they add into sticks of chewing gum.
3) Perfect Days
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
日本語
Description
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through...
5) Dance rivals
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a talented young dancer moves to Los Angeles with her family, she is nervous about fitting in at a new city. As she teaches her younger sister's dance team, she is quickly noticed and recruited by the top dance squad in the city. But tensions rise between her and the reigning dance queen, so they each assemble their own crews and settle their differences on the dance floor.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Gu Wentong, a food critic facing a mid-life crisis, drifts through the local eateries of a vibrant Beijing with his young, female photographer Oyang, for whom he harbors an unspoken attraction. With his divorce at hand and handling a 6-year-old daughter, he's being pressured to correct an estranged relationship with his father who he hasn't spoken to in decades. Looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a...
8) Rocky
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 78
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A Stage of Twilight" is a love story set in the final chapter of Cora and Barry's lives. When Barry is confronted with a terminal diagnosis, he is compelled to make a decision that his wife cannot support. This end-of-life struggle is heightened further when Joey, a neighbor boy who acts as a surrogate son to the childless couple, reaches a critical crossroads for his own future.
10) The fragile king
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of his mother in a car accident, 15-year-old Michael King is sent to live with his grandfather Gerald, whom he hardly knows. The emotional gulf between the traumatized boy and cantankerous old man is immense, but during a road trip across South Africa's Northern Cape to reunite Michael with his estranged father, a relationship of understanding and trust slowly emerges.
11) Dead money
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Professional poker player Andy and his girlfriend Chloe are involved in a crazy 24 hours after a home poker game is robbed. Andy finds up playing the largest poker game of his life as both of their lives are in danger.
12) The throwback
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Throwback follows the hilarious journey of Kate and Matt Morgan, a middle-aged couple stuck in the routine of raising their kids. Their lives take a wild turn when Kate experiences a post-traumatic breakdown, regressing to her college-aged self after a bank robbery, erasing 26 years of memories. While Matt steps up to manage home and school duties, Kate grapples with her newfound youth. As Kate rediscovers her party-girl self, Matt undergoes his...
13) Genie
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard Curtis, comes Genie, a holiday fairytale comedy about a genie, a man, and landing one last chance to fix the mess you've made of your life. With his job, life and family unraveling around him, a despondent Bernard dusts off a jewelry box and unintentionally releases genie Flora who just might be able to help him. Maybe. It's a longshot, frankly. In the process, Flora and Bernard will discover that love, and...
14) Acidman
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Maggie tracks down her estranged father Lloyd, now living in the Oregon wilderness obsessed with UFOs; together they attempt to make first contact.
15) June zero
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
עברית
Description
The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow. Based on true accounts, June Zero is told from the unique perspectives of three distinct figures: Eichmann2s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor and a precocious and clever 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Entirely shot...
16) The good half
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dip into the highly stylized era of film noir with 10 classic crime dramas that heat up the screen and cool the heart with sinister plots and exciting twists. Featuring all-star casts including Edward G. Robinson, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, and Barbara Stanwyck, prepare to trust no one and enjoy cinema's best!
18) Inshallah a boy
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival is Jordan's Official Entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards.
20) Banel & Adama
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Fulah
Description
Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But for the rest of their tight-knit village, duty dictates that Adama soon accepts the role of chief. The two lovers have other plans-- until something in the air changes. The rains do not come; the cattle begin to die; the men leave.
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