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1) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
2) Joe Bell
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
3) The Whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
5) Sundown
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
9) The Humans
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds...
10) Bergman Island
Series
Criterion collection volume 1170
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively...
11) The son
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
13) Ray & Liz
Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
“Richard Billingham’s blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom – RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known – were the toast of Charles Saatchi’s epochal late ‘90s exhibition Sensation.” – Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of...
14) Babyteeth
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Based...
15) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
16) Dear Zoe
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A year after her family suffers an unimaginable loss, teenage Tess pens a heartfelt letter to her dead little sister Zoe, reflecting on what was lost, her resistance to traveling with her family down the recovery road, and the surprising sources from which she gains love and support so that she can begin to get better.
Publisher
VVS Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
19) Waves
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal capacity for compassion and growth even in the darkest of times.
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20) Indivisible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their three young children alone; as well as serving the families...
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