Killer Films
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New Yorks 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Teena Brandon alters her appearance to appear as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. She moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under her new identity. All goes well until her new friends discover her secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family. Sy 'the photo guy' has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.
6) Zola
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Zola, a Detroit waitress, is seduced into a weekend of partying in Florida. Her trip turns into a wild saga involving a pimp, an idiot boyfriend, and Tampa's finest strip clubs in this film based on the greatest Twitter story ever told.
7) At any price
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple ... wants his rebellious son Dean ... to help expand his family's farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional racecar driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family's entire livelihood"--Container.
8) Vox lux
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of Celeste's rise from the ashes of a national tragedy to stardom. It follows her life from 1999 to 2017 including her survival of a violent tragedy as a teenager, her rise to fame with the help of her sister and talent manager, and her mounting a comeback after a scandal.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and 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.
10) Colette
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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...
11) First reformed
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
12) Goat
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, nineteen-year-old Brad Land starts college determined to get his life back to normal. His brother, Brett, is already established on campus and in a fraternity that allures Brad, who is desperate to belong. As he sets out to join the fraternity, his brother exhibits reservations, a sentiment that threatens to divide them. The stakes violently increase with a series of torturous and humiliating events....
13) Carol (Rated R)
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless,...
14) I'm not there
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Depicting the different stages and changes in Bob Dylan's career, six actors each portray the musician at different points of his life, creating a patchwork of personalities, attitudes, interests and ambitions.
15) Infamous
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 982
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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!
17) The power of pride: 5 movies.Carol ; Disobedience ; A single man ; Tangerine ; The boys in the band
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Carol: Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in...
18) LGBTQ+: 4 movies.Volume 2,The birdcage ; The world to come ; Love, Simon ; Blue is the warmest color
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The birdcage: The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
The world to come: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship...