Fine Line Features
1) Elephant
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
2) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
5) Saving Grace
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A widow discovers after her husband's suicide that he has mortgaged everything they own and the banks are ready to foreclose. She teams up with her gardener and grows marijuana plants in her greenhouse to make money.
6) The cup
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Tibetan
Description
Comedy set in 1996 about a group of boys in a Tibetan monastery-in-exile in India who are determined to watch the World Cup soccer tournament.
7) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
8) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th-century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild West. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
11) Household saints
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who 'wins' his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...
12) Shine
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 301
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
17) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
18) The Rapture
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young woman, so unhappy with her life that she attempts suicide, undergoes a religious conversion when she is comforted by members of a cult. Her involvement with the cult leads to a frightening and ultimately tragic denouement.
19) The player
Series
Criterion collection volume 812
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
20) Gummo
Series
Criterion collection volume 1238
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Harmony Korine's debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America₂s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine₂s native Nashville standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian...
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