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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...
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.
10) 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...
11) 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.
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) Revoir Paris
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
16) Alps
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Ancient Greek
Description
"An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital employees, a gymnast, and her coach) form a secret society that sets out to ease the grieving process for those whose loved ones have died. For a fee they will act the part of the missing family member -- learning their hobbies and eccentricities -- in order to help the customer accept their loss. As methadone is to heroin addiction, so are the Alps, as they call themselves, to the mourning...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Art Leroldi is terminally irritable. He is a small-time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts, hot dogs and horse books. He lives everyday same as the last. But when he is hit with the death of his business partner and friend, he faces losing the only thing in life he's got left - his barbershop. To keep the shop, he will have to hire the last person on earth he'd ever want - a woman named Gloria MacIntyre.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lois, Harry, Marilyn, Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their lives intersect when they meet at a local Bereavement Club where they go to find the emotional support needed after lossing a loved one. New love and romance do not end before retirement, but can bloom long after. These five do not see themselves as becoming old, and these residents of Boynton Beach aren't about to start. Sometimes we all need...
19) Reservation Road
Series
Language
English
Description
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.
20) Monsieur Lazhar
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag...
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