Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
1) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
4) Eat with me
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tired of her bland marriage, Emma moves in with her son Elliot, who is a chef at a failing Chinese restaurant. He is also gay, and Emma's distaste and denial over this has made them strangers to each other. But now, as she indulges herself with the encouragement of a new friend, and Elliot confronts his fears of intimacy, mother and son find ways to communicate with food where words fail.
5) The monitor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8-year-old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she witnesses the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered, she fears it is her own.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Portuguese
Appears on list
Description
Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, while having sex with both boys and girls. The confusion only goes deeper when the teenager's single, working-class mom is arrested for having stolen him at birth. Thanks to the wonders of DNA, he's returned to his biological parents: bourgeois, straight- laced and thrilled to have him back, at least until he shows up in a zebra-print mini dress.
7) Last weekend
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A matriarch asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.
8) Félicité
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Lingala
Description
Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in the Congo's capital Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her fourteen-year-old son gets into a terrible car accident. To raise the money to save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa.
9) A dark song
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An unholy alliance between two damaged souls leads them on a disturbing descent into the depraved realms of black magic. Sophia is a grieving mother desperate to make contact with her murdered son. Joseph is an anti-social, alcoholic expert in the occult who reluctantly agrees to help her. Holed up in a remote house amidst the desolate wilds of Northern Wales, the two embark on a grueling six-month series of dark rituals that will push them both to...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel, a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale, the film beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.
13) Three peaks
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
German Aaron has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea, but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with conflicting loyalties to her son and her lover. When Tristan disappears into the mountains, it's unclear who is in the most...
14) Go for sisters
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bernice and Fontayne grew so close people said they could 'go for sisters,' but time sent them down different paths. 20 years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer. When Bernice's son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice realizes she needs someone to navigate Rodney's world withoutinvolving the police,...
15) Ben is back
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
16) Apres lui
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A divorcee is devastated when her 20-year-old son is killed in a car accident and begins to focus all of her attention on his best friend who survived the crash. But where does a broken heart draw the line between love and obsession?
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Suspense, terror, and the supernatural meet when Sarah and her young son Chris move to a new home in the Irish countryside. One night, Chris vanishes; when he reappears, he seems unharmed and unchanged. But as Chris's behavior grows increasingly disturbing, Sarah fears they boy who has returned may not be her son.
18) Love After Love
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a husband and father's death, the family members left behind find themselves adrift. Mother Suzanne tentatively seeks companionship, but her attempts at dating only drive a wedge between her and older son Nicholas, whose own relationship with his girlfriend is disintegrating. Meanwhile, younger son Chris deals with grief in his own complicated and increasingly worrying way.
19) L'attesa
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna. As the two women await him, a mysterious secret looms over the household, ready to boil over.
20) The innocent
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clemence,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request