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21) Uncut gems
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charismatic jeweler (Adam Sandler) makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
22) The Thick of It
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
23) Emile
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Emile is given the opportunity to travel from England to Victoria on Canada's west coast to receive an honorary degree at the university, he goes knowing that it might be his last chance to reconnect with his only living relatives.
24) 12 Angry Men
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
Life is in their hands…death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
26) Prey
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
BAFTA nominated John Simm stars as Detective Constable Marcus Farrow in this fast-paced thriller. Farrow is a well-liked copper with an ex-wife and two kids. But when Farrow is found at the scene of a brutal crime, with all the evidence pointing towards him, his world collapses. Arrested and charged, it seems his fate is sealed. So when he gets the opportunity to escape, he seizes it with both hands. Now on the run, Farrow is not just trying to evade...
27) 10 mph
Publisher
Spinning Blue
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
10 MPH is a comical documentary that follows Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell as they quit soul-numbing job and turn a friend's ludicrous idea into a movie.
28) Beirut
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris) must send a former U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Multiple
Description
"Routinely voted one of the greatest films of all time, revered as one of the foundation stones of Italian neorealism, it is a simple, powerful film about a man who needs a job." - Cf. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times (March 19, 1999)
"The Bicycle Thief is in truth an elegantly structured film that took years of prepartion. Integral to its grace and mood are Carlo Montuori's superb, supple camera work and Alessandro Cicognini's mesmerizing score,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales." **Academy Award** nominee.
31) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
32) The bookshop
Language
English
Formats
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass...
34) Hold the Sunset
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
35) Grownups
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps comes a hilarious urban comedy about a group of friends caught in that tricky place between their teens and 2.4 children. Michelle is 26 years old, living in Manchester with friend Claire, dating Dean who wants an open relationship and hurtling towards her thirties. When Michelle's brother Mike lands on her doorstep with his best friend Grant in tow, it all starts to get very complicated....
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Minnie Moore (Rowlands) is an art museum curator with a duplex apartment and a large library. Seymour Moskowitz (Cassel) is a free-spirited, long-haired parking lot attendant who steps in when her date threatens her in his car lot. The two dissimiliar, but lonely, people begin an unlikely romance.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Inspired by ideas put forth in the Andreas Malm's nonfiction book by the same name, published by Verso Books.
38) Enter the void
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night time world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...
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