Pamela R. Koffler
1) Past Lives
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
2) Colette
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its...
3) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his future, his family, and his own life - to expose the truth.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandones her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
6) Wonderstruck
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress who's life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Selznick, which is the predecessor to his screen-adapted novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident that took the life of Daniel's daughter. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teen aged grandaughter and Allison seeks redemption, the two discover that friendship, hope, and forgivenessflourishouish in unlikely places.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Formats
Description
This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce. Includes...
9) Savage grace
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A dramatization of the true story of a young woman who married into a wealthy family whose extremely close relationship with her son turns into a deadly tragedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 982
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Based on the long-running New York smash hit, this film is a high-powered rock musical that tells the hilarious but emotional tale of a German glam-rock diva on a journey to find love and stardom in her new home, a trailer park in Kansas!
12) Colette
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
After marrying 'Willy,' a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing...
13) Chelsea walls
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Description
The Chelsea Hotel used to be a place to live for New York artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix are just a few who passed through the hotel's halls. To this day, new dreamers come, hoping to be inspired by the ghosts of the past. This tells five stories set in a single day at the famous hotel.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The children's hour: Parents are scandalized when a mean-spirited pupil at an exclusive girls' school seeks revenge by falsely accusing the two friends who own it of being lesbians.
La cage aux folles: A gender-bending farce about the owner of a drag-revue nightclub, his high-strung transvestite companion, and a wedding that defies all odds.
My beautiful laundrette: Johnny, a working-class white, and his Pakistani boyfriend, Omar, operate a laundrette....