Tribeca Productions.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2007
Language
English
Description
Follows a struggling film producer as his personal and professional lives decline.
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that...
2) A Bronx tale
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A devoted father battles a local crime boss for the life of his son. Growing up on the racially divided mean streets of 1960s New York, 11-year-old Italian-American Calogero, known as 'C,' idolizes sophisticated local mob boss Sonny, despite stern warnings from his working-class father. When 'C' gets older and defies his dad in order to join Sonny's dangerous gang, he finds that life is never black and white.
4) Metropia
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"...takes place in a terrifying but not-so-distant Europe of the future. The world is running out of oil and the underground train systems have been connected, creating a gigantic network beneath Europe. In a suburb of Stockholm, Roger tries to stay away from the underground because every time he enters, he hears a stranger's voice in his head. Is someone trying to control him? To help him escape the disturbing web of the Metro, he looks to the...
5) Janie Jones
Publisher
Tribeca Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ethan, a struggling rock musician content with his on-the-road party lifestyle, has his life turned upside down by the arrival of a thirteen-year-old daughter he never knew he had. Left with the responsibility for raising Janie Jones, a shy but talented aspiring musician herself, Ethan takes Janie on a road trip of music, discovery, and father-daughter bonding.
7) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Puccini's La Boheme, this story highlights a group of friends struggling in New York's East Village in the 1980s as their lives become less carefree as struggles such as paying the rent and AIDS push into their lives.
8) Showtime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Mitch Preston never wanted to be anything but a cop. Same for patrolman Trey Sellars. He always wanted to be a cop ... on TV. The two now have to come together to work for a TV show. Backed by a ratings-obsessed producer and coached in the finer points of TV copdom by a veteran star, Mitch and Trey soon becom America's favorite buddy cops. A brutal crimelord must be stopped - and that's where the shrapnel hits the fan.
9) Cape fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney.
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte).
10) Sal
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the final day in the life of 1950s teen idol, actor Sal Mineo.
11) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
12) House of D
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
13) What Richard did
Publisher
Element Pictures
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
The world is bright and everything seems possible for Richard Karlsen, the golden boy of his privileged set of Dublin teens, until he does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters.
16) The Trotsky
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Leon Bronstein is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This coincidence leads Leon to believe that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky and it is his destiny to follow his path as closely as possible; which is a bit difficult when you have rich parents and attend an upscale private school in Montreal.
17) The infidel
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!
18) Still life
Publisher
[Place of publisher not identifed]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
Life for the unassuming John May has always revolved around his work for the local council in South London, finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. But when a new case- an elderly alcoholic in a flat directly opposite his own- hits him harder than usual, he journeys outside London to track down the man's long-abandoned daughter.
19) Detachment
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless...
20) Stage beauty
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and make a man of himself.