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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates "a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death" (Chicago Reader). When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where...
4) The Hero
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lee Hayden (Sam Elliot) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories with his former co-star-turned-drug dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Español
Description
Based on the classic lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the gorgeous drama Liz in September stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez as Liz, a hardcore party girl and womanizer. Liz (who is ill) and her friends are at a beach resort celebrating what they don't realize could be her last birthday. When an outsider joins the party, Liz's friends dare her to seduce the newcomer - and nothing turns out as expected.
7) Last holiday
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen Edition
Language
English
Description
Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich but it's getting more difficult for Walt to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler, his son Walter Jr., and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. Walt struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out business partner,...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
10) Restless
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD combo pack ed.]
Language
English
Description
Coming-of-age love story between a young man who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming young girl who possesses a deep-felt love of life and the natural world. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Edition
Widescreen Edition
Language
English
Formats
Description
In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Lou Gehrig's boyhood dreams come true when he signs on with the New York Yankees and takes the field alongside his idol, Babe Ruth. Lou considers himself "the luckiest man in the world" even after he gets Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, now known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease" when he must summon all his courage to face his toughest battle yet.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...
Language
English
Description
Hazel and Gus share a sarcastic sense of humor, a distaste for the conventional, and ultimately a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Although the two teens face unlikely challenges, their courage and dedication to each other prove that while life isn't perfect, love can still be extraordinary in this powerfully moving film based on John Green's New York Times best-selling novel.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel and Gus share a sarcastic sense of humor, a distaste for the conventional, and ultimately a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Although the two teens face unlikely challenges, their courage and dedication to each other prove that while life isn't perfect, love can still be extraordinary in this powerfully moving film based on John Green's New York Times best-selling novel.
17) Evening
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother?
18) The other love
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Karen Duncan, a famous concert pianist is living her dream until she's stricken with tuberculosis. She's sent to Swiss sanatorium to rest, unaware her illness is terminal. There she falls for her caretaker, Dr. Anthony Stanton, who has trouble getting her to face the seriousness of the condition. With the help of her neighbor, Karen rebels against Dr. Stanton's strict rules and eventually meets a dashing racecar driver. Soon, Karen is sneaking out...
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Language
English
Description
"A Stage of Twilight" is a love story set in the final chapter of Cora and Barry's lives. When Barry is confronted with a terminal diagnosis, he is compelled to make a decision that his wife cannot support. This end-of-life struggle is heightened further when Joey, a neighbor boy who acts as a surrogate son to the childless couple, reaches a critical crossroads for his own future.
20) Spoken word
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A San Francisco spoken word artist returns home to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his 'voice' after he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind.
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