Julianne Moore
21) Freeheld
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a New Jersey police lieutenant is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she and her registered domestic partner must work to secure her pension benefits.
22) Wonderstruck
Publisher
Amazon Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
23) Boogie nights
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A film that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies through the story of rising porn star Dirk Diggler. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmmakers, brought to dazzling life by an all-star cast and sizzling seventies soundtrack.
24) Magnolia
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This sprawling character study follows 10 people whose damaged lives intersect-often by sheer coincidence-during a single day in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.
25) What Maisie knew
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Maisie, a captivating little girl struggling for grace in the midst of her parents' bitter custody battle. Told through her eyes, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old's innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
26) Gloria Bell
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 599
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play.
28) A single man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor who is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his longtime partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and, ultimately, the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become a novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Separated by the circumstances of life and after years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
30) Spirit untamed
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father, and is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When a heartless wrangler plans to capture Spirit and his herd, Lucky and her friends set off on an epic...
31) Far from Heaven
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
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Description
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank having sex with another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it....
32) The big Lebowski
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for another Lebowski who is rich and owes some thugs a lot of money. After Dude comes home one day to find that the thugs have broken in and ruined his favorite carpet, he vows to get even.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fortysomething Cal Weaver is living the dream: good job, nice house, great kids, and marriage to his high school sweetheart. So when Cal learns that she has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his 'perfect' life quickly unravels. Cal, who hasn't dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth, so handsome player Jacob Palmer takes him on as wingman and protege.
34) The Hours
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The story of three women in different times, related only by a parallel in their personal lives. One, present day, throwing a party for a writer friend suffering from AIDS. Another living in 1949 Los Angeles, suffering as a young wife and mother. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing 'Mrs. Dalloway' and contemplating suicide. Based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
35) With/in
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A star-studded anthology film filled with funny, dramatic, romantic and familiar stories about puzzles, bread, pets, lots of wine, family, laughter, tears, fears, friends and relatives capturing the challenges, human resilience, creativity, and the inspiration to take a deep look at ourselves and make each day better than the last. This is our time. The answers lie within.
36) Non-stop
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
37) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) 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.
38) Day: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Katniss realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival; they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends; including Gale, Finnick and Peeta; Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become...
Author
Language
English
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Description
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...
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