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1) Tarnation
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, abandonment, promiscuity, drug...
Series
Yusuf trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
After his mother dies, a man returns to his village and discovers that he must make a sacrificial journey to carry out his mother's wishes.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
4) Félicité
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Lingala
Description
Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in the Congo's capital Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her fourteen-year-old son gets into a terrible car accident. To raise the money to save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa.
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow (Delphine Seyrig)—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, it is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During her son's naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina's child will die at the age of twenty. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina's ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas, and challenges...
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Despite the civil war going on around her, a white woman living in Africa refuses to give up her coffee plantation, putting herself and her sons in danger.
9) Süt =: Milk
Series
Yusuf trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
After graduating from high school, a young man tries to figure out his future as he helps his widowed mother with their dairy business.
10) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman searches for her lost son, who was taken away from her many years ago after she was forced to live in a convent after she became pregnant.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair crisscross the United States in a lovingly refurbished RV, relishing their independence and making ends meet by doing odd jobs. A shocking rupture, though, casts Nola out on her own. She makes her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in search of a mother she never knew. When her motorhome unexpectedly breaks...
Publisher
Distributed by Studio Latino
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Mam©Ł tiene ochenta y dos a©łos y su hijo Jaime, cincuenta. Jaime tiene mujer, dos hijos, una hermosa casa, dos autos y una suegra que atender. Un d©Ưa Jaime se queda sin empleo por razones de ajuste. Jaime y su mujer son los due©łos del departamento donde vive Mam©Ł. Tendr©Łn que pedirle a mama que deje el departamento para poderlo vender, solo que cuando Jaime llega a darle las malas noticias a su madre esta le tiene e el una sorpresa...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged Italian man living with his mother in Rome agrees to look after his building manager's mother to erase his debt, but when two other women end up living with them for a few days as well he must put together a meal for the Italian holiday of Ferragosto.
15) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows twenty-year-old Joy and her five-year-old son Jack as they live in a single room underground, captives of a man they call Old Nick.
16) The congress
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging, out-of-work actress agrees to sell the film rights to her digital image to a major movie studio to help pay for her ill son's treatment.
17) Beau is afraid
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man faces his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque journey back home.
18) Little Joe
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against company policy, a senior plant breeder takes home one of her creations as a gift to her son, but the plant soon behaves in unexpected ways.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (187 min) : sound, black & white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Requiem for a dream: Harry and his best friend, Tyrone, are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY. Harry's girlfriend, Marion, is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry's mother, Sara, spends her days watching television and wants to lose weight to go on a game show. She visits a sleazy doctor who prescribes her amphetamines and soon Sara has a drug habit of her own.
[Pi]: A brilliant mathematician...
20) Ahed's knee
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
An Israeli filmmaker, struggling to cope with the imminent death of his mother, flies into a rage when, during the screening of his new film, he is asked by a government employee to sign a form restricting what he can say at the film's Q&A.
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