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1) The intern
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Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
3) Toni Erdmann
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Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
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"A family drama following the lives of three generations of women -- Kat Landry, her 15-year-old daughter Alice, and Kat's mother Del. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening and surprising journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other"--Container.
5) Avalon
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Jewish immigrant Sam Krichinsky (based on Barry Levinson's grandfather) arrives in idyllic Avalon (a suburb of Baltimore) to join his four brothers who had come to America earlier. Levinson's semi-autobiographical film follows several generations of the Krichinskys-- a tight-knit group who work, raise their families, celebrate holidays-- and bicker together. Sam's son, Jules (Aidan Quinn), and his grandson Michael (Elijah Wood, in his first major...
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"Now a college sophomore, Alex falls in love with Ellen, a girl who's his total opposite. And Mallory falls for Nick, a junkyard sculptor who's her intellectual equal! But it's young Jennifer who feels off-balance, as she grows closer to mom Elyse but more distant from dad Steven now that she's becoming a teenager. But even with their older kids changing, and as baby Andrew's diapers still need changing, the Keaton parents know their four kids will...
7) Easy rider
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A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.
8) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
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日本語
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A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
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English
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The skeletons in the family closet just came out to play. Jason Lair is a simple man with a simple wish: a normal life. But when his wife leaves him with his son to paint in Nepal; his father gets paroled from prison, and his grandfather explores alternative rituals for his coming funeral, Jason may just lose his tenuous grasp on his sanity … and go AROUND THE BEND. Brought together by chance and forced to uncover the truth about their past, the...
10) Joyful noise
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The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
11) 56 up
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"The latest instalment of ITV's landmark documentary series returns to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were just seven-years-old. The original '7 Up' was broadcast in 1964 as a one-off World in Action Special featuring children chosen from different backgrounds to talk about their hopes and dreams for the future. The series was inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's interest in both the saying: "Give me the...
13) Towelhead
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English
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Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.
14) The ice storm
Series
Criterion collection volume 426
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English
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Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...
15) The intern
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English
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Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
16) What's cooking?
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"What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Tale of four very different families, as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises: love betrayal and even a few outrageous secrets! And, ultimately, discover the astonishing power love has to reconnect us all"--Container.
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"The heart of the series is the generation gap between former hippie parents and their square offspring. The second season highlights the culture gap between Steven and Elyse Keaton and their three children: staunchly Republican Alex, fashion-mad Mallory and precocious Jennifer, as they tackle pre-marital sex, women's rights, and alcoholism"--Container.
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"Trouble is cooking for widower and master chef Chu who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father. Every Sunday, he whips up a delicacy of dishes for his ungrateful daughters, who are so self-consumed that they don't...
19) The wanting mare
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In the fictional city of Whithren, a ship arrives once a year to trap and transport wild horses across the sea. Just north of the city- past the horses running along the coast- a line of women pass a secret dream through generations.
20) Playing by heart
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English
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A sexy, romantic, all-star comedy treat about modern couples coming together in funny and unexpected ways.