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Author
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ill-tempered widower Ove spends his days enforcing the neighborhood association rules and making clumsy attempts at suicide until he forms an unlikely friendship with a boisterous young immigrant family who has moved in next door.
2) Judy
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A biography of the late singer/actress Judy Garland.
3) The humans
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a family gathers in a Manhattan duplex to celebrate Thanksgiving, a series of mysterious events take place, causing tensions to rise.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Forrest Gump is not a "smart" man. But the young Alabaman with an IQ of 75 is a thoroughly decent man, who manages to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them all with only honesty and niceness as his shields. Thanks to his where-there's-a-will-there's-a-way Mama, Forrest believes in himself. This sees him through being taunted by bullies, playing college football, the army, a business, and -- amazingly -- many...
10) Lean On Pete
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With his life full of uncertainty, fifteen-year-old Charley finds comfort working with horses at the local racetrack, becoming attached to a losing racehorse named Lean On Pete.
11) The glass castle
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story of a girl living in a dysfunctional family.
12) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Shows the conflicts between three generations of the Thayers. The crotchety old professor and his wife spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's son, while the daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
13) Jojo Rabbit
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a German boy discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl during World War II, he must decide what to do with the help of his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
16) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
17) The beguiled
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When a wounded Union soldier is taken in by the headmistress of an all girls school in Virginia, he romances each of the women one by one with shocking consequences.
18) Pinocchio
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
19) In the Heights
Author
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives, dreams, and aspirations of various people living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, New York.
20) Little Women
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the four March sisters, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg, who come of age during the American Civil War while their father is away serving as a minister to the troops.