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1) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Language
English
Description
The fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant.
5) Mermaids
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Flax is a free-spirited and unconventional woman. She's exasperating to her daughters, Charlotte, age 15, and Kate, age 9. Mrs. Flax meets Lou Landsky who tries to turn the trio into a family.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.
10) Goats
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Raised by his self-absorbed New Age mother and an unconventional sage known as Goat Man, fifteen-year-old Ellis Whitman leaves the alternative lifestyle in Tucson to go to the East Coast prep school where his estranged father graduated.
11) Nobody's fool
Series
Language
English
Description
In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
12) Booky's crush
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Beatrice "Booky'" Thomson has a crush on the new boy, Georgie Dunlop, and must contain her infatuation when her teacher, Mr. Spencer, announces an upcoming dance.
13) The humans
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds...
14) 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.
15) Snow angels
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of a teenager and his former babysitter, now coworkers at a small town Chinese restaurant, as they deal with their dysfunctional families.
16) After Yang
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his young daughter’s beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot’s previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...
18) Princess Juliet
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet meet at a grand ball hosted by Juliet's father and decide to marry each other, despite opposition from their families.
20) Lights out
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bloodthirsty supernatural being that lurks in the shadows preys upon her family, a young woman must fight to protect herself, save her younger brother, and uncover a mystery about her family's shadowy past.
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