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2) Max
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to...
4) Premonition
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident. But when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. She keeps having dreams about his death, and must decide what to do.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Prominent politician "Mac" MacDermott has been grooming Nell, his granddaughter, to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, Nell's architect husband Adam is under investigation for an alleged real estate and construction scam. When Adam and several business associates die in an explosion aboard his boat, a lonely, distraught Nell is determined to clear his name with the help of a detective and a mysterious medium who claims she can contact Adam. But...
8) Rabbit hole
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Becky, Adam and their five-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a fourth of July celebration kills Adam. Struggling with the grieving process Becky decides she needs to step away from the family farm and all its reminders of the life she once had. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits with her old friend from school.
10) Ordinary people
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
11) The big chill
Series
Criterion collection volume 720
Language
English
Description
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though they've never crossed paths in waking life, Maggie and Jimmy keep meeting in dreams. Each recently devastated by the loss and struggling to find meaning in any of it, fate has undeniably tied them together in ways they don't yet comprehend. Set in a city as magical as any dreamscape, these unresolved traumas, both indiividual and shared, are no longer wounds to be endured silently, asleep or awake.
13) Of boys and men
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set on Chicago's West Side, this moving drama highlights the strength of family and the power of love. The long-awaited day has finally arrived: Holden and Rieta Cole's eldest son Terrell is graduating from college! But tragedy strikes suddenly, and now the Coles are forced to cope with overwhelming grief on top of life's everyday challenges. While Holden battles demons of pain and regret, his sister Janay steps in to help guide her loved ones on...
15) Morvern callar
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The journey of a lifetime for young Lily Strickland begins not out of her love for adventure but out of heartache. Longing for the father she lost to the ocean and having no way to say goodbye, Lily strikes out on her own. Leaving behind a safe, loving environment with her grandparents and loving mother, she faces not only her fears but the obstacles the wilderness presents.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving into their newly finished dream house, Alice's partner, Harry, dies from falling down the stairs. Harry designed the house himself, so it's weird, wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to endure along with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of twenty years is gone, and now she can't even find the fridge. To add to her problems, Alice discovers that Harry had a habit of hiding stuff...
19) Frantz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
20) Elizabeth's gift
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her loving parents are left to pick up the pieces of their once perfect life. In a sequence of miracles, an angel guides their way to another little homeless girl on the streets and the fight to get her away from the clutches of the film's villian, Paulie will prove to reunite a family once again and heal their broken hearts.
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