Alessandro Nivola
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Description
A searing crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history. Starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, this gripping story plays out within a maze of rampant political and industry corruption plaguing the streets of a city in decay. A MOST VIOLENT YEAR examines one mans determined climb up amorally crooked ladder, where simmering rivalries and unprovoked attacks threaten his...
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Description
The Cuban Missile Crisis meets the Sexual Revolution in this critically acclaimed film about two friends (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert) in 1960s London. Their friendship is tested as they try to overcome personal devastation as the world around them seems to implode. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*A near-flawless film, beautifully shot and cut, excitingly performed and deeply felt.*" - Colin Covert, ***Minneapolis...
3) Disobedience
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). Once reunited, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Winner of Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Nivola) and nominated for Best British Independent Film at the **British Independent Film Awards.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, timid bookkeeper Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence for the first time in his life. But when he attends Sensei’s mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of fraternity, brutality...
6) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
7) Selma
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Edition
Collector's edition; Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.
10) The Brutalist
Publisher
A24
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Escaping post-war Europe, a visionary architect arrives in America to rebuild his life. On his own in a strange new country, a wealthy industrialist recognizes his talent. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...
Publisher
Sony
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kraven is a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
12) Junebug
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to woo an artist to her gallery, art dealer Madeline and her husband go to North Carolina. While she tries to seal the deal, her husband introduces her to his family. Madeline's presence reveals family tensions and resentment.
13) Mansfield park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!
14) Grace is gone
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
15) The clearing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy Pittsburgh executive is kidnapped by an unemployed criminal, he must make the negotiation of a lifetime, as his wife desperately works with the FBI to secure his release.
16) The company
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the global power struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, told from the viewpoint of CIA and KGB spies. Spans four decades, from the dawn of the Cold War in the 1950s to the downfall of the Soviet Union in the '90s. Trace the activities of the CIA's underground fight with the KGB and where three CIA agents must find out the moles in their own ranks before every operation in an unrelenting battle within the organization itself.
17) $5 a day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After being released from jail for a crime his father, a thrifty conman, committed, Ritchie begrudgingly joins his father, Nat, on the road after years of separation. Ritchie at one time was a conman himself but is reformed now and at first doesn't want anything to do with his dad. However, Nat needs to drive across the country for an experimental medicine that might save his life, so Ritchie agrees. On the way and with very little money, Nat pulls...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
19) Spin Me Round
Publisher
Ifc Films
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
When the manager of an American chain restaurant is selected to attend a special training program in Italy, her head swims with dreams of European glamour and romance. But the trip turns out to be much different and possibly more dangerous than the exotic getaway she imagines.
20) The eye
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sydney is a young, blind violinist who is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death which captures the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney is convinced that her anonymous eye donor has opened the door to a terrifying...