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21) Ordinary angels
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on a remarkable true story, "Oridinary angels" centers on Sharon Steves, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith,...
22) Yuni
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Indonesian
Description
Yuni is a smart teenage girl with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to marry her, she rejects their proposals, sparking gossip about a myth that a woman who rejects three proposals will never marry. The pressure is building when a third man asks for her hand, and Yuni must choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage, or her dream of future happiness.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In 1821, Sequoyah completed the Cherokee syllabary, the first written language developed on the North American continent. The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity, yet in 2019 the tri-council of Cherokee tribes declared it to be in a state of emergency after generations of assimilation efforts by the US government, as well as anti-Indigenous stigma. Fewer than an estimated 2000 fluent speakers, the majority of whom are elderly remain...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A love letter to all things great and Irish that reveals some surprising facts about what it means to be Irish. Featuring a distinguished cast including Pierce Brosnan, Jeremy Irons, and Prince Albert II, enter a glamorous world of castles, palaces, and presidents that reveals fascinating views on the Irish and their vast influence.
25) Devil's Peak
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but disillusioned detective Benny Griessel tracks down a vigilante killer in this compulsive crime thriller, set in Cape Town.
26) Madame Web
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a near-fatal accident in the line of duty, Cassandra Webb -- a New York City paramedic -- starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Through her visions and a journey of self-discovery, she is forced to confront revelations about her past and how it is connected to a specific spider, and learns she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin have grown fond of one another for over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie's reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.
28) Home is a Hotel
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
As of 2023, there is no American city or county in which a renter working full time and earning minimum wage can afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment. In recent decades, as public housing has been systematically defunded and dismantled, single-room occupancy hotels have played a private, stop-gap role in providing shelter for those on society's margins. In San Francisco, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, 20,000 residents, including...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Grieff is on Death Row in an American prison for brutally murdering his wife. But it turns out that Grieff has a gift: he can solve crimes from inside his cell, and that is exactly why English journalist Beth Davenport needs his help. A woman who recently helped Beth has gone missing, with the only clue being a text with a blurry image of a man lunging towards the camera. Will Grieff crack the case in time? And is it possible to solve a...
30) Subject 101
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A homeless refugee looks for a fresh start at a European multinational temp agency but they have very different plans for him.
31) Rebel
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
When Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, he leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join ISIS and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them.
33) Household saints
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who 'wins' his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...
34) Karaoke
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
עברית
Description
Meir and Tova are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itsik is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itsik's karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
35) Television event
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection...
36) The peasants
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Polish
Description
From the creators of Loving Vincent, Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village a hotbed of gossip, feuds, and deep-rooted patriarchy. When she finds herself caught between the desires of the village's richest farmer, his eldest son, and other men of the village, her resistance puts her on a collision course with the community around her.
38) Finestkind
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in New Bedford, Mass., America's biggest commercial fishing port, FINESTKIND tells the story of two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks, who are reunited as adults over one fateful summer. When desperate circumstances force them to strike a deal with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate, a young woman finds herself caught in the middle. Along the way, sacrifices must be made, and bonds between brothers, friends, and a father and his son are...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In season four, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos isn't important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and Provisional Ensign T'Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers and getting stuck in a couple of caves all while encountering new and classic aliens!
40) American star
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
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