Pandora Film (Firm)
Language
Français
Description
Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building. Together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. But when Josephine and Noe become more than friends, Lionel is on edge.
22) Grind
Language
English
Description
Just before entering college, young skateboarder Eric decides to take a road trip from Chicago to California with his friends Dustin and Matt. Despite their underdog status, they intend to make it big in the world of skateboarding in the wake of legendary touring skater Jimmy Wilson. They pull tricks and tear it up in their wild attempts to get noticed and grab a sponsor. They end up needing to recruit a fourth team member named Sweet Lou.
Language
English
Description
East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the samurai. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai.
24) Kama Sutra
Language
English
Description
In a seductive tale of love and betrayal, a king's courtesan is forbidden to embrace her one true love. Trained in the art of pleasure, Maya, the beautiful servant girl, becomes defiant, rebelling against ancient tradition. As passion takes over, the conflict brings consequences that no one ever envisioned.
25) The cut
Language
Armenian
Description
It follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Forced from his home in Mardin, Nazareth gets word that his daughters may still be alive and he travels the globe in search for them. Over the years, his odyssey takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts to Havana and finally to the barren prairies of North Dakota.
26) The congress
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 24
Language
English
Description
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Language
English
Description
A group of guys all have one thing in common -- they need money. Riley's wife has been sent to jail, leaving him to look after their baby. Pero is in love with a beautiful girl who has a roving eye. Leon is a hipster who wants to keep his sister, Michelle, out of trouble. Basil is a guy with bad luck, and eyes for Michelle. And Toto is a small-time crook looking for something to do. Someone gets the bright idea that a robbery might be the answer to...
28) Casa de lava
Language
Portuguese
Description
A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right.
29) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
30) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
Language
Italiano
Description
When two orphans, Bianca and Tomas meet up with Tomas' gym rat friends, they concoct an elaborate scheme to rob an aging movie star and one-time Mr. Universe, Maciste. The boys enlist Bianca to seduce the now blind star so they can get access to his hidden fortune. At once a sly psychological thriller with erotic overtones, it finds a young woman faced with amoral dilemma as a unique friendship develops between her and her actor in his crumbling mansion....
32) Maybe baby
Language
English
Description
Sam and Lucy Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all. The only thing they lack, and want most, is a baby. With their busy lives, their love for each other will now truly put them to the test ... with surprising results!
Language
English
Description
A collection of highlights from standup comedy routines made during a tour across America during the summer of 2002. This comedy concert headlines the top names in so-called "redneck" humor: Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy. This arrives after the four performers spent two years on the road and released the best-selling comedy record.
Language
English
Description
On her 35th birthday, Bella, an overworked waitress, is set up on a date with Bruno, an irresponsible cab driver and father of two. One of Bella's regulars, a long time widow, responds to an ad and meets Emily. Soon, however, a random encounter changes Bella's life in a way she could never have imagined.
Series
Criterion collection volume 510
Criterion collection volume 511
Criterion collection volume 508
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Criterion collection volume 511
Criterion collection volume 508
More Series...
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties, and these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. In Ossos, after a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. In Vanda's Room is...