Frances Conroy
1) Joker
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The exceptional young witches at Miss Robichaux's Academy are under assault by forces of ignorance and hate. Caught in the turmoil is new arrival, Zoe, who harbors a terrifying secret of her own. Fiona, a Supreme Witch with unimaginable powers, is determined to protect the Coven, but her obsessive quest for immortality will lead her to cross paths with a formidable voodoo queen and a murderous slave owner cursed with eternal life.
5) Catwoman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Patience, a graphic designer for a cosmetics company, learns a little too much about her employer's new beauty cream and is murdered. A supernatural cat brings her back to life and brings up a new persona from the depths of her psyche.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
7) The Crucible
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, c1996
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
9) Mimi's Guide
Author
Language
English
Description
When Mimi accompanies her lover, a well-known poet, to a literary conference in Louisiana in 1994, she meets a Vietnamese-American professor who fled South Vietnam in 1975. As a torrid love triangle develops between the professor, the poet, and Mimi, the three face down their pasts and their relationships to the Vietnam War.
10) Humboldt County
Author
Language
English
Description
After his professor (who is also his father) fails him, a disillusioned medical student meets a nightclub singer and is invited to a remote community of counterculture marijuana farmers.
11) Chasing Ghosts
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.
12) No Pay, Nudity
Author
Language
English
Description
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne) has lost his way. In this often humorous, yet warmly poignant story, love and friendship, jealousy and re-discovery, career, family, and friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy) intertwine as Lester navigates the perplexing realities facing so many of us as we pursue dreams and dignity. A film about hanging out, hanging in, and hanging on.
14) Mountain Rest
Author
Language
English
Description
After sequestering herself to a small mountain town, an aging actress calls her estranged daughter and granddaughter home for reconciliation - and one final celebration.
15) New in Town
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious, up and coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she accepts the opportunity, knowing a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight forward job assignment becomes a life changing experience as Lucy discovers...