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1) Dad
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A work-obsessed man returns home when his mother is hospitalized, and finds that his father, whom he hasn't seen for 2 years, has deteriorated. Through careful nurturing the young man revitalizes his father and reestablishes a close relationship with him.
2) Desert fury
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, Eddie had left town under suspicion of murdering his wife and after running into some trouble in Las Vegas, Eddie now hopes to get involved with the local gambling house whose proprietor is his ex-flame Fritzi Haller. To complicate matters, Eddie falls for Fritzi's daughter, who used to be involved with the local lawman Tom Hanson, who's still in love with her.
4) Momma's man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1234
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness, familial grief and healing, this delicate but audacious chamber drama confirms director Andrew Haigh's gift for bringing complicated emotions to the screen. Isolated in a seemingly empty new high-rise, London screenwriter Adam finds his solitary existence upended when he begins a passionate romance with the impulsive Harry, then reconnects with his parents in a reunion that pushes beyond the...
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, it presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and '50s. Births, marriages and deaths, and an expressive use of music, provide the underpinning for a film that is beautiful, heartbreaking, resonant but never sentimental. Now regarded as a masterpiece of British cinema, and boasting a startling performance from Pete Postlethwaite as the head of...
8) Two lives
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a 'war child' - the result of a romance between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war...
10) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to find the tomb of the evil Emperor Han. When he finds it Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, and the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service....
12) Hold the sunset
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 5
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Yiddish
Description
Eli Eli: An elderly Jewish couple are separated when they are forced to sell their farm. Living with different children, they must learn to survive not only without each other, but in the unfamiliar landscape of modern America.
Three daughters: Tells the story of a Jewish family and their three daughters growing up in suburbia, trying to maintain their Jewish traditions in an increasingly assimilationist environment.
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 3
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Yiddish
Description
Tevya: Focuses on Khave, one of the daughters of Tevye the Dairyman, who loves a gentile, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Tevye's paternal affection is placed in direct conflict with his deep commitment to Jewish religious tradition.
The Yiddish King Lear: In Vilna in 1892 a devout Jewish father is angered by his youngest daughter when she rejects an expensive gift. He instead turns his fortune over to the husband of his oldest daughter, with dire...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
16) Meghe ḍhākā tārā
Series
Criterion collection volume 993
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Bengali
Description
Tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta. She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing.
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