Lili Taylor
Author
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who "wins" his wife Catherine (a stellar Tracey Ullman) in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother (Judith Malina) who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When...
5) The Pier
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack McCarthy's normal life in New York is disrupted by an emergency call from his elderly father, Larry, whom he has not heard from in 20 years. Believing his father is terminally ill, Jack reluctantly but dutifully rushes back to his hometown in the Southwest of Ireland. Official Selection at the **Cork International FIlm Festival**.
6) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce (like that played by Oscar winner Marisa Tomei), rather than inspire. When he falls for Jan (Lili Taylor), the soulful connection fails to save either from their self-destructive ways, and the relationship totters between earnest connection and reflective loathing.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cult author and David Lynch collaborator Barry Gifford’s gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in the 1950s (narrated by Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon) provide the backdrop for a jazzy, impressionistic portrait of a vanished Chicago.
Publisher
Entertainment Squad
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dawn recently lost her husband, and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn's mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Determined to help her mom, Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn's reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest...
9) There There
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A lover’s doubt in the cold light of morning leads to a chain of uneasy intimacies. THERE THERE takes physical separations to an extreme while simultaneously forging, always, to create unique intimacies on screen.
10) The evening hour
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to make ends meet. But when an old friend returns with dangerous new plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted in his declining mountain town, his world and identity are thrown into deep disarray. A moving lyrical hymn for the complex tangle of hardship and hope...
11) The conjuring
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on the true life story, it tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
12) Mystic pizza
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
14) High fidelity
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rob Gordon's semi-failing record store isn't the only thing in his life that's floundering. When his longtime girlfriend walks out on him, Rob's needle skips the love groove, and he is forced to examine his past romantic failures in his own unique way.
15) Arizona dream
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
16) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows the dysfunctional Fisher family, including widow Ruth, sons Nate and David, baby sister Claire, and the ghost of patriarch Nathaniel, as they run the family funeral parlor in Pasadena and deal with the cycle of life--birth, death, and rebirth.
18) Rudy
Language
English
Formats
Description
True story about a young man whose dream has always been to play football for Notre Dame University. Because of his blue-collar background, nobody believes that he can even gain admittance to the school, and his small size will rule out football. But he confounds them all by entering the school and becoming a walk-on player for the team.
19) Dogfight
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca's funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie, who meet on the occasion of a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful....
20) Gaudi afternoon
Publisher
First Look Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Alone in a foreign city, Cassandra must solve a family's darlest. deepest secrets before she can confront her own past.