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1) Gribiche
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Alexander Kamenka, the head of Albatros, thought Jacques Feyder the greatest French filmmaker, and secured his talent for the dazzling comedy-Jean Forest (Faces of Children, Crainquebille) is Gribiche, a working-class youth who allows himself to be adopted in the hope that his widowed mother can marry a man unwilling to take on a step-son.
2) Any Day Now
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Thirty years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been grotesquely disfigured by a jealous husband. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask, the spirit would approach young victims and, while removing her mask, ask "Am I pretty?" The victim's response would almost always lead to their violent death. Now, one by one, children are disappearing again. As teachers and officials desperately...
4) Bright eyes
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little girl is forced to live with her mother's employers after she is killed in an accident. An aviator who wants to adopt the little girl gets involved in a custody battle with the employer's uncle.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, FANNY’S JOURNEY is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival, a story of a daring young girl. In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11 children do the impossible...
7) The way home
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Randy Simpkins is a husband and father who is torn between the demands of his job and commitment to his family. Asked by his wife Christal to watch their two-year-old son Joe, Randy is distracted by work and Joe disappears. Randy and Christal desperately search for their missing son alongside hundreds of others from their church and community. Their strained marriage must now weather the ultimate test, the potential loss of a child.
8) Searching
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After David Kim's sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.
9) The babadook
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to build relationships with others, a teenage math prodigy (Asa Butterfield, *Hugo, Enders Game*) develops a budding friendship with a young girl while competing at the International Mathematics Olympiad. Nominated for Best Actor (Asa Butterfield), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Hawkins), and Best Supporting Actor (Rafe Spall) at the **British Independent Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto Independent Film Festival**. *"It...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Moussa Sene Absa's latest work pushes the formal boundaries of African cinema to explore the complex interplay of history and psychology in contemporary Africa. Intensely personal and at the same time deeply political, Ainsi meurent les anges combines the elegiac lyricism of his Ça twiste à Poponguine with the acerbic social critique of Tableau Ferraille. What is perhaps most surprising is that this creative freedom was won precisely by working...
12) London River
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Language
English
Formats
Description
A concerned mother from Guernsey travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings after failing to hear from her daughter who lived in that area. Disturbed by the confusion of the metropolis and being surrounded by the predominantly-Muslim neighborhood, she crosses paths with Ousmane, a West African who has come from France to find his missing son, and learns that her own daughter was converting to Islam. Although...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Gothic story of four siblings who, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 516 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the extended Pritchett/Dunphy clan faces an uproariously unpredictable array of family vacations, holiday hassles, troublesome in-laws, and surprising secrets, they still somehow manage to thrive together as one big, loving family even as they drive each other absolutely insane.
15) Prisoners
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (153 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands. How far...
16) To save a life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school all-star Jake Taylor has it all. Roger, his childhood best-friend, has nothing. Since the two have drifted apart, Roger feels that he has no friends, no hope, and a heart full of nothing but pain. When Roger walks onto campus with a gun, the tragic move he makes will change Jake's idyllic life forever.
17) Shazam!
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For one 14-year-old boy, life can be a challenge sometimes. With all of the usual crises that accompany being an adolescent, foster kid Billy has some additional obstacles in life. A chance encounter with a mystical wizard completely changes everything. And it's not long before this boy discovers that one phrase grants him the ability to make a transformation into a superhero. In fact, it couldn't be easier. All Billy needs to do is shout "Shazam!"...
18) My friend Dahmer
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
"A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated."--Rolling Stone
"This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul."--New...
19) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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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