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1) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torried encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
Series
Description
When a sightseeing Soviet commander runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew's attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Russian Lt. Rozanov and his crew hit the beaches of Massachusetts unaware of the panic they're about to start. Despite the Russians' harmless intentions, the folks in town think a full-scale Soviet invasion has been launched! What's worse, their police chief has left his hysterical...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Hailed by critics as one of the most thoughtful and important TV dramas ever, the sweeping fourteen-part remastered adaptation of Paul Scott₂s Raj Quartet is the story of the men and women of both ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
Series
Description
Twin siblings David and Jennifer couldn't be more different: she curses, smokes, and sleeps around; David is a prototypical nerdy outcast. Then, one dark and stormy night, they're sucked into the TV and Pleasantville: a perfect suburban Disneyland suffused with church-social niceness and Rotary Club boosterism. Jennifer despises it all. So, like a pint-size Lauren Bacall, she refuses to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl and introduces one...
8) Ben & Ara
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an unlikely romance blooms between an African Islamic PhD candidate and her agnostic classmate. They must explore the limits of their interracial, intercultural relationship in today's society.
Description
Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crododile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug dealers. Dundee evens the odds by leading the hoods to his turf,...
10) Mitr, my friend
Publisher
Cinebella
Pub. Date
[2001], ©2001
Description
An Indian couple and their teenage daughter living in California face culture conflict and learn to live together in friendship.
11) Pardes
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2005], ©2005
Description
Kishorilal left India to make his fortune in America. Successful in his endeavors, he nevertheless remains true to his Indian cultural values and seeks to find his son, Rajiv, a traditional Indian wife. Kishorilal selects Kusum Ganga, the daughter of an old friend. But when Ganga comes to America, East and West collide. It is up to Arjun, Kashorilal's foster son, to reconcile the engaged couple's differences.
12) Rock my world
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
America's hottest new rock band is hiding out at Lord and Lady Foxley's country estate in England. Natalie, a hot and talented new bass player fills in for the band's frontman who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile Lord and Lady are masquerading as servants in their own mansion which leads to a clash of cultures and a roller coaster ride on the wild side.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Jed Clampett is a simple backwoods man who strikes it rich, when an oil gusher springs up on his land, making him a millionaire overnight. Listening to his relatives, Jed decides to give his family a fresh start in Beverly Hills, where all the rich people live. Taking his daughter Elly May, nephew Jethro Bodine and his mother-in-law Granny with him. Jed meets with and moves in next door to Mr. Drysdale, the president of the Commerce Bank.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c1992
Description
Insightful, funny, and sometimes tragic look at the collision of two different cultures featuring astonishingly beautiful scenery, a haunting score by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and a memorable supporting turn by Judy Davis.
Publisher
Theodora Films Limited & Moonage Pictures Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"1920s, Oxfordshire. On the brink of adulthood, Linda Radlett (Lily James) and her beloved cousin Fanny Logan (Emily Beecham) are stuck in the countryside, impatiently waiting for life to begin so they can escape the confines of Alconleigh. Linda, who has lived her life under the terrifying regime of Uncle Matthew (Dominic West), dreams of excitement and adventure. But Fanny, abandoned by her mother The Bolter (Emily Mortimer) and raised by her Aunt...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Description
Two great films with the hero from the land Down Under. In the first film, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is a free spirited crocodile hunting Australian who follows a beautiful reporter to New York and shakes the Big Apple to its core. In Crocodile Dundee II, Dundee and his girfriend, the reporter are targeted by a gang of ruthless drug dealers. To even the odds, Dundee leads the big-city hoods into the treacherous Australian outback.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Welcome to Chicago, Balki Bartokomous! The professional sheepherder from the tiny Mediterranean island of Mypos comes to America to live with his cousin. Balki won't find many woolly quadrupeds in the Windy City, but he will find pop-top soda cans, single bars, color TV, mobsters, game shows, pink lemonade and many more oddities sure to amaze him.
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out"--IMDb.
20) Blind dating
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Danny is smart, handsome, popular, and blind-- and not just physically. He also can't see how wild women are for him. Even his sexy therapist can't keep her clothes on around Danny. After a series of painful blind dates set up by his brother, Danny falls for a young Indian woman named Leeza, and finally everything seems picture perfect. But when cultures clash, and Leeza reveals that she's been promised to someone else, Danny must prove to her that...
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