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1) Test Pattern
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This chronicles what director Lathe Poland learned after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. He sought to find out why he got sick, because he didn't fit the classic picture of an adult onset diabetes sufferer. He quickly learned that much of what he knew about healthy eating was based on myths or fifty-year-old science. He searches out why Americas modern food culture is killing us. The upside? There is a lot that can be done!
Series
Cinedigm volume 14
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Indonesian
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Description
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
6) Vegucated
Publisher
Kind Green Planet/Get Vegucated LLC?
Pub. Date
2010]
Language
English
Description
"Vegucated is a feature-length documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured with true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon start to wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks...
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further to the edge by an unrelenting work schedule, a ruthless...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.
10) Pride
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
11) Touki bouki
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Wolof
Description
In this French new wave-influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical.
12) Intolerance
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of intolerance and it's terrible effects throughout history from ancient Babylon and biblical Judea to medieval Paris and modern America.
13) Time out of mind
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
14) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener, bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Publisher
Facets Video [Distributor]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Paul Crump robbed the Chicago stockyards on March 20, 1953 with four other black men and shot one guard to death. He was tried and sentenced to die in the electric chair. William Friedkin met Crump in the Cook County Jail. Friedkin was impressed by the "model prisoner", Crump. Friedkin produced this documentary as an impassionate plea for Crump's return to society.
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