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61) Break
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Language
English
Description
Following an initial misunderstanding between an older couple (John Hurt & Kika Markha) and a young family, fate takes a hand in bringing both parties closer together. One small act of kindness is then reciprocated by a very big one. Official Selection at the **Manchester Film Festival**.
62) Patriot
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Language
English
Description
This subtle drama depicts how, against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English town, the life of eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a mysterious and forbidden world. Nominated for a Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Telluride Film Festival** and the **Palm Springs International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
When a Wellington bomber crashes, its crew is forced to bail and wander around occupied WWII Holland. With die-hard courage, they head toward the North Sea and freedom, narrowly escaping detection and trusting a woman who offers to smuggle them home. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Special Effects at the **Academy Awards.**
64) Wren Boys
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Language
English
Description
In his sermon on St Stephen’s Day, a priest from County Cork recalls the now-outdated wren hunting tradition. Boys on the cusp of manhood would be sent out to kill a wren, and later the parish would gather for the burial of the bird. The tradition symbolized the burial of the past, promising a fresh start in the new year. But it was cruel, and tradition, Father Conor concludes, does not legitimize cruelty. Later that day, Conor drives his nephew...
65) Eye in the Sky
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Description
Helen Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top-secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international...
66) Salam
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Language
English
Description
Salam (Hana Chamoun) is a Lyft driver from a tight knit family. A portion of her family lives in Syria. When her New York based family gets word of a bombing in Syria, it’s a waiting game to know if their loved ones are ok. To rest her nerves, Salam decides to go to work. She picks up Audrey (Leslie Bibb), who seems to be in distress herself. The exchange that follows is a layered interaction of surface expectations versus what’s really underneath...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
Elegiac and atmospheric, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH was the feature film that really put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map, winning them great critical acclaim. Starring a young Felicity Kendal, the film's inspiration lies in the real-life adventures of Ms. Kendal's family as a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. The Buckingham Players try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespeare...
69) The Souvenir
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Description
In this exquisite story of first love, a woman falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man. Enigmatic and enrapturing, The Souvenir is a lush, dreamlike portrait of young adulthood. World Cinema - Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for a C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*Remember the name Honor Swinton Byrne. In Joanna...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition. With this follow-up to his acclaimed...
71) Nighthawks
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
Description
Jim, a teacher in a comprehensive school, lives the classic double life: nights in the gay bars and discos, days in school - and in the closet. However, his worlds collide when he's confronted by his students. *"...so realistic, or at least to intimately close so its main character, that it has the feeling of a documentary." - Janet Maslin, **The New York Times***
72) Quartet
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds...
73) A Quiet Passion
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (*House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea*) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and...
74) The Bostonians
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
75) Urban Hymn
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A redemptive coming of age story about a wayward teen Jamie (Letitia Wright), who is encouraged by Kate, an inspiring and unconventional social worker to use singing as an escape from her troubled background. Jamie's loyalties soon become torn between Kate and her possessive and volatile best friend, Leann. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the **British Independent Film Awards**....
76) Heat and Dust
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory’s sprawling epic of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India. As she searches for answers to the mystery surrounding a long-ago affair between her aunt Olivia and an Indian prince, Anne (Julie Christie) becomes immersed in the local culture, the pull of the past simultaneously leading her into a clearer view of her own future. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay...
77) Eyewitness
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Having struck down his victim, the assassin is safe; except for one witness, a boy. A boy who is notorious for his tall stories. Has he cried wolf once too often?
78) Obey
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Language
English
Description
Finally free from adult supervision, nineteen year old Leon begins to rail against the injustice of his reality as his dreams become more and more unattainable and distant. Dealing with his alcoholic monther, Leon’s existence is suffocating. When he meets Twiggy, a beautiful blond girl living in a local squat something stirs inside of him. In love for the first time, he is able to briefly escape his old reality. But naïve to the affluent world...
79) Disobedience
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Description
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). Once reunited, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Winner of Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Nivola) and nominated for Best British Independent Film at the **British Independent Film Awards.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film...
80) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. Fearful of repeating his deadly mistakes from World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli, exhausted by years of war, plagued by depression and obsessed with his historical destiny, Churchill is reluctant to embark on the large-scale campaign, one that the entire war effort hinges...
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