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1) Green Dragon
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Set in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, this poignant drama follows Tai (Don Duong), a young refugee navigating life in a makeshift camp in the U.S. while awaiting resettlement. His uncle Minh (Long Nguyen) takes on the role of camp manager, helping the displaced find hope in a foreign land. Tai forms an unlikely friendship with a compassionate cook, Addie (Forest Whitaker), who helps him heal from the trauma of war.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
From director Peter Mullan comes a powerful drama based on true events. Set in 1964 Ireland, the film follows three young women—Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff), Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone), and Rose (Dorothy Duffy)—who are sent to a Magdalene asylum for being deemed “fallen” by society. Inside the oppressive institution, they endure harsh labor and dehumanizing treatment under the watchful eye of the sadistic Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan)....
3) Selma
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the Oscar-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay comes the true story of courage and hope that changed the world forever. Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo shines as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who rallied his followers on the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in the face of violent opposition, an event that became a milestone victory for the civil rights movement. Oscar nominees Oprah Winfrey and Tom...
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On a poor New Hampshire farm in 1860’s America, family ties are tested during the Thanksgiving holiday when a wealthy, bitter woman pays an unexpected visit to her estranged daughter and grandchildren. As she attempts to control the family with money and social influence, secrets of the past are revealed—ones that could tear the family apart forever, or finally reunite it for a long-awaited, old-fashioned Thanksgiving. Inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s...
5) CBGB
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
CBGB looks at New York’s dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
6) Dreamgirls
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie, Lorrell, and Deena are about to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show and subsequently molded into an unstoppable hit machine, the girls quickly find their bid for the big time taking priority over their friendship. Now, as the crossover act continues to dominate the airwaves, the small-town girls with big-city dreams slowly begin to realize that the true cost of fame may be...
7) Fences
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a passionate look at former baseball player Troy Maxson as he fights to provide for those he loves in a world that threatens to push him down.
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In "Enemies, A Love Story," adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, Holocaust survivor Herman Broder (Ron Silver) juggles relationships with three women in post-war New York. Caught between his current wife, his mistress, and a woman presumed dead, Herman grapples with guilt, love, and identity. As his tangled web of lies unravels, Herman must confront the ghosts of his past to find redemption and forge a path forward in a world haunted by memories...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
10) The War is Over
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this touching real-life Italian drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II. Adapted from Aharon Megged's "The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land."
11) W.E
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Madonna's beautifully crafted film tells the story of a lonely New Yorker who begins to explore the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne for the woman he loved.
12) Bleak House
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
BAFTA-winning writer Andrew Davies and an all-star cast bring one of Charles Dicken's most brilliant novels to life. Young orphan Esther Summerson is brought before London's High Court of Chancery with Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, wards of court who are caught up in the infamous and never-ending case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Meanwhile, the beautiful Lady Dedlock finds her elegant world turned upside down when her husband's lawyer Tulkinghorn gets...
13) Padre Pio
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, historic violence, and the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, but victorious. Padre Pio (Shia Labeouf) also arrives, to a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry evoking an aura of compelling charisma, saintliness, and storied visions of Jesus, Mary,...
14) Papillon
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this harrowing epic of courage, endurance and escape, one man is determined to live free--or die--the true story of Henri Charrière, also known as PAPILLON.Steve McQueen and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman star in this biography of a man unjustly convicted of murder and sent to prison in French Guiana. Charriere (McQueen) earns the nickname Papillon for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, but the name might just as well apply to his need to...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
18) A Radiant Girl
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A,' but unwed mother Hester Prynne, who was born to a noble family, is determined to rise above her situation.
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