IFC Films
3) Unmade beds
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Axl is a Spanish kid trying to track down the British man who fathered him twenty years ago. Axl finds out his biological father is a real estate broker and pretends to be in the market for an apartment just so he can get to know his dad. Vera has come from France just to get over a heartbreak. She tries hard not to fall in love, she won't even tell a new boyfriend her name, but sometimes the heart knows better.
5) Lonesome Jim
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who, after deciding he can't make it on his own, moves back to his hometown in Indiana, under his parents' roof. He's saved from his family's dysfunction by a local woman and her son, who sees him as a father figure.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emilia, a Harvard law school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After they marry, her happiness unexpectedly turns to grief with the death of their infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia is determined to carry on as she attempts to forge a connection with her stepson William and resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
8) Savage grace
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the true story of a young woman who married into a wealthy family whose extremely close relationship with her son turns into a deadly tragedy.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign babies. The six women are fed up with the long delays of the adoption system in the United States and have the common desire to adopt a child. Includes a Latina mother who is certain that her baby will...
14) Manderlay
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A young girl traveling across 1930's America with her father, discovers a plantation that doesn't know that slavery has been abolished. Can this well-meaning girl and her lawyer father change the minds and hearts of the plantation owners?
15) Let it rain
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Agathe, a hard-nosed Parisian feminist author and politician, returns to her childhood home to settle family business following the death of ther mother, and becomes the subject of a documentary by a hapless amateur filmmaker and her housekeeper's grown son.
16) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's attractive new boyfriend arrives on the scene.
17) God's pocket
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mickey Scarpato's stepson Leon, is killed in a construction "accident", Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news along with the body. But even in the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, PA, no secret can stay hidden forever. When a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, Mickey quickly finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay....
18) Stolen
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Adkins is a devoted cop haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his young son eight years earlier. But when Adkins discovers the buried remains of a boy who was brutally murdered more than half a century ago, he becomes obsessed with investigating the long-forgotten crime.
19) Tiny furniture
Series
Criterion collection volume 597
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where over the course of five years, forged a bond with his mentor, the brilliant and eccentric professor, G.H. Hardy, and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
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