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81) El niño pez
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Payaguayan maid working for her father. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of Lake Ypoá, robbing every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their dream, hiding the money in a shoe box. But when the box is full, it bursts, fueled by desire, jealousy and rage. Revenge, risk, sex and blood weave a plot that...
82) Return to Dust
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文
Description
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao (Hai Qing), except for a small abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; and similarly, an unexpected bond between the two starts to blossom. As seasons pass their dedication to...
83) That's Not Us
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Three twenty-something couples - gay, lesbian and straight - travel to an upstate New York beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what was meant to be a fun, carefree retreat transforms into an intimate exploration of sex and commitment. While gender and sexuality may vary, the struggles to make love last do not. Official Selection at the **Frameline Film Festival** and **Outfest**. "*... an honest and compelling portrayal of modern relationships.*"...
84) Madeinusa
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Madeinusa is a sweet-faced 14-year-old girl who lives in a dirt-floor house and dreams of the world beyond the village. It is the custom of her town that from Good Friday at three in the afternoon through Easter Sunday, sin does not exist. On the eve of this time of small-town debauchery, Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, accidentally comes to town. The town greets him with curiosity and ire, then imprisons him out of fear that he will interfere...
85) Aida
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera, in a new production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Starring Marco Berti, Luciana D’Intino and Hui He. Verdi’s Aida is one of the most popular operas of all time. It premiered at the Cairo Opera House on Christmas Eve, 1871, and was an immediate commercial success. The plot of Aida is filled with political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance,...
86) Muriel Matters
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In London 1909, an actress from Adelaide made worldwide headlines after taking to the skies under a 25-metre balloon emblazoned with the slogan, 'Votes For Women'. Known as 'that daring Australian girl', Muriel Matters was inspired by playwrights, anarchists and revolutionaries to use her performance skills and bravery in the fight for women's rights. When Adelaide-born actress and elocutionist, Muriel Matters, arrived in London in 1905 to seek her...
88) Nature Cat: S4
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fred is a house cat who loves the great outdoors! Once his family leaves for the day, Fred transforms into Nature Cat, “backyard explorer extraordinaire,” and heads outside for action-packed nature adventures! With help from his animal friends, Nature Cat investigates and explores nature while encouraging children ages 3 to 8 to get outside and understand the need for environmental conservation.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Largely unchanged for more than a century, the projection of photochemical film faces an uncertain future in the digital age. The practice of handing and projecting film is in danger of being lost; and the role of film projectionist is nearing extinction.. THE DYING OF THE LIGHT explores at the history and craft of motion picture presentation through the lives and stories of the last generation of career projectionists. By turns humorous and melancholic,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Widely regarded as Australia’s greatest living artist, the exuberant 80-year-old John Olsen talks with acclaimed art commentator Betty Churcher about his life’s work. Still painting with all his creative energy in his studio in the NSW Southern Highlands, Olsen speaks of the influence of poetry and Spain on his art and his restless love of Sydney Harbour and the Australian bush. Now at the height of his creative powers, Olsen has won many awards...
91) Fig Tree
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
עברית
Description
Mina is 16 years old. The Ethiopian Civil War has been underway her entire life. She lives with her brother and grandmother in a humble house with newsprint for wallpaper. Her family is Jewish and is planning to flee Ethiopia for Israel, where Mina's mother awaits their reunion. But this plan leaves out the person Mina loves most: Eli, her Christian boyfriend, who lives in the woods so as to evade being drafted into Mengistu Haile Mariam's army. Mina...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf (Dieter Mann) and Horst (Kaspar Eichel) are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials ... not to mention their love of leather jackets and motorbikes. Olaf and Horst begin to be targeted in the house newsletter, and the generational conflict escalates.. This film is the fourth in the Berlin Film Series by the Klein/Kohlhaase team. In 1966, officials...
93) Intimidad
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home.” Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently moved to the border, Reynosa, Mexico, from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to save money, buy land, and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their two year-old daughter Loida. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their...
Publisher
Nelvana International
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When the Monsters bring home a puppy for a new pet, they completely forget about Belinda the cow. When the puppy chews them out of house and home, the Monsters have to learn to love and train the canine terror and win back Belinda's affections.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Gently evil: Called to a crime scene at a working-class boarding house, Gently and Bacchus find a woman horribly beaten to death, her eyes covered discreetly with a handkerchief. The victim also carried her daughter's birth certificate, with the name of the child's father crossed out and "satan" penciled in. Following this lead, Gently and Bacchus probe the twisted secrets of a family that seems to harbor pure evil.
Peace & love: When nuclear submarines...
96) Whale rider
Series
Shout select volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"By now, the Camdens have become like an extension of our own families. For minister Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) and his wife Annie (Catherine Hicks), it's a season of romance-- for their children, that is! Mary (Jessica Biel) meets the man of her dreams, even while doing community service. Matt (Barry Watson) has girlfriend, and ex-girfriend problems. And even little man of the house Simon (David Gallagher) discovers how much trouble a hickey can...
98) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
99) Three Fools
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"THREE FOOLS" discover the rise and fall of greed and how happiness is sometimes right in front of you. In a search for a place to settle down, the three friends Blue, Yellow and Green find their friendship being ruined by greed and headless competition. Only when Blue and Yellow have destroyed all surrounding natural resources in their race to build the tallest house on the beach they discover that Green has found the true values in life on a mountaintop,...
100) The Deer
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Khalil is a rootless young man who lives in the city’s margins, where industrial estates bank onto the river and the marsh. He survives as well as he can, spending his days with a poacher who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he has not talked to for years. On the shores of the marsh the tides mark the time for love and indifference, friendship and revenge.
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