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1) Past lives
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. Includes French SDH.
2) Pygmalion
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a proper lady in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. This Academy Award, winning inspiration for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady was directed by Anthony Asquith and star Howard, edited by David Lean, and scripted by Shaw himself.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italian
Description
Story of a love affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him famous in films like Il Grido, L'Avventura and Blow-up.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in love), and directed by Joseph Losey, The romantic Englishwoman is a wildly entertaining ride.
7) 97%
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While riding the subway, Bert receives an dating app alert that the girl of his dreams is nearby. Now he has to find her in a crowded car before the train reaches the end of the line.
8) God of love
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award-winning short, a lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers are answered - literally - when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.
10) The fairy
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy follow their acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba with another Tati-inspired, candy-colored romp: this time, a charmingly off-kilter adventure about a hotel clerk who falls in love with a wish-granting fairy.
11) Lady Chatterley
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Kino is now proud to present Lady Chatterley in a new, two-part, extended european edition featuring nearly an hour of additional material excluded from the film's theatrical cut that explores the emotional and sensual borderlands uniting sex, love, and loyalty with even more intelligence, passion, and power than before. Through extra footage never seen in the US, director Pascale Ferran's "rapturous visual tone poem" (New York Times) becomes both...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
An elegant, moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man (Vincent Lindon) and his son's homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon's former wife), and their attempt to keep their desires from turning into a full-blown affair. A modern-day Brief Encounter, crafted with enormous grace and subtlety by acclaimed French director Stéphane Brizé (I am not here to be loved, Among adults).
13) Summertime
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italian
Description
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome, but married, Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn's sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard's glorious Technicolor photography makeSummertime an endearing and visually enchanting film.
14) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
16) Lost In Paris
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
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Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond.
17) Empire of light
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
18) Wonderful town
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
Aditya Assarat's "delicate, delightful, and nearly note-perfect debut feature" (Salon. com). An architect from Bangkok pulls up to a motel in a nearby ghost town of deserted streets. His obscured past finds symmetry in the repressed history of the girl he meets and pursues.
19) Challengers
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak, Tashi's strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick, his former best friend, and Tashi's former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?
20) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world "where Bresson meets the Beatles" (Variety).
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