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1) The whale
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Boris and Marie have decided to separate after fifteen years together. However, cash-strapped Boris is still living in the family home. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up. Now this apartment is a war zone and their situation a nightmare.
3) Minari
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
5) Sundown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
8) 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...
9) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
10) Joe Bell
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Gaeilge
Description
Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
12) The son
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
13) Gringa
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An outcast teen and a disgraced, alcoholic ex-soccer star get a last chance to form a family when she unexpectedly reunites with him in Mexico. Both hoping things can be put back together, even if all you have are the missing pieces.
14) Bergman island
Series
Criterion collection volume 1170
Language
English
Formats
Description
American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively...
15) Ocean boy
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bosch, a young father, goes on the run with his son, Rockit, who believes they're on a magical holiday.
16) One moment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the humorous and heartwarming story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their own lives while also caring for their recently widowed aging father. Welcome to the "Sandwich Generation" where you care for your parents while still parenting your kids.
17) The beach house
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cara Rutledge thought she had left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother, coming just as her own life is spinning out of control, has Cara heading back to the scenic Low country of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide 'turtle lady' and renews old acquaintances long thought lost.
18) This train
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ricky 'Hellcat' Heller is a fading Americana rockstar, and time and tragedy have taken their toll. Now, three years after leaving everything behind following the death of his teenage son, Ricky returns to Anderson, Indiana. While his aging father welcomes Ricky with open arms, his estranged wife, Susanna, would prefer not to reopen the past wounds. Thinking that the best solution might be to end his life, Ricky is reintroduced to a troubled young...
19) Babyteeth
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Based...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. His wife, the senior editor for the New York Times, relates the story of their relationship to their son as he grows up.
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