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1) Demolition
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Davis Mitchell, a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father-in-law, Phil, to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep, Karen Mareno and, despite emotional and financial burdens...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
5) Don Peyote
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
The story of Warren Allman, an unemployed stoner who finally finds a purpose in life after an unpleasant encounter with a homeless man preaching the end is near. Fueled by vivid apocalyptic dreams, Allman becomes obsessed with 2012 doomsday theories and decides to make a documentary on the subject while his fiance is busy planning their wedding.
6) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
8) If I stay
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate.
Publisher
Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story is about a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present. Forced to face difficult memories and make bold decisions, she ultimately overcomes her demons, allowing her to find love and rediscover her creative voice.
10) Blue Jasmine
Language
English
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
11) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Stone, husband, father and noted author, travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he's separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he's been missing."--from container.
12) Little birds
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles. But in the big city, Lily and Alison quickly fall into the boys' world of scams and petty crime. Lily is determined to stay and make it work, while Alison is overwhelmed and eager to return home. When an idea is hatched to use Lily as bait for men with money to steal, things quickly escalate to a life-changing moment....
13) The shack
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
14) The sea of trees
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Jack Brewster, skeptical host of TVs hottest myth busting show Prove It! calls into question Santa's existence a week before Christmas, causing a nationwide outcry, he and upbeat network executive Kate Harper, are forced to go together to a small town Christmas Village to produce a show that will prove, by whatever means necessary, that Santa does exist, and save the network, and their jobs!
16) Elizabethtown
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a...
17) I am number four
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Three are dead. Who is number four? John Smith is an extraordinary teen masking his true identity to elude a deadly enemy sent to destroy him. Living with his guardian in the small town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected life-changing events, his first love, powerful new abilities, and a secret connection to the others who share his incredible destiny. Complete with deleted scenes and more.
18) Faith under fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After an exhausting night of saving a little girl from a raging house fire, fireman Tom Hatcher is at the end of his rope. He couldn't save his wife from cancer, and worse yet, his six-year-old daughter, Tiffany, is now facing the same possible fate. When he finds himself in a cold jail cell after punching a pastor out of frustration with a seemingly absent God, Tom begins to reflect on his downward spiral into despair.
19) Doctor Strange
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
cc2011
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a dangerous cult and the watchful eye of its charismatic leader, a young woman named Martha tries to reclaim a normal life with her family. But the haunting memories from Martha's past trigger a chilling paranoia, and nowhere seems safe as the fragile line between her reality and delusions begin to blur.
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