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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
22) The general
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
The seduction of Mimi is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away). Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato),...
24) Operator
Series
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
25) No time to die
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A hearse driver meets and falls in love with a young, beautiful dancer who is planning an elaborate homegoing celebration for her mother. This love and comedy feature length film follows the suitor as he does everything to win her affection despite the steep oposition from his father-in-law to be who vows that his daughter will not marry a hearse driver.
26) Fits and Starts
Series
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had" (Village voice). In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and ... Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much...
28) It had to be you
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A whimsical romantic comedy that's raunchy and yet gentle, IT HAD TO BE YOU explores the choices women face today while satirizing cultural expectations of gender and romance. Sonia is a neurotic jingle writer who's always dreamt of a big and exciting life. Surprised by a sudden proposal and subsequent ultimatum from her easy-going boyfriend, Chris, Sonia has to decide whether she'll join the ranks of her married friends or take a leap and pursue...
30) The Job Lot
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in a West Midlands job centre. Neurotic manager Trish runs the Brownall Job Centre aided by a mixed-bag of staff, including reluctant and truculant Karl, the less-than-helpful Angela and two uniquely skilled security guards, all facing the challenges of dealing with customers who don't always appreciate their efforts.
31) Upstart Crow
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell stars as William Shakespeare in a rip-roaring comedy tribute to the Bard. Written by Ben Elton, this fictional account of his early career follows Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, while also trying to be a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
32) W1A
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Bonneville returns as beleaguered BBC head of values Ian Fletcher, trying his best to set a steady course for one of the nation's great institutions as stormy weather looms and others on deck around him continue to try to prise his hands off the wheel and steer it in other directions. In this series the stakes are higher than ever for everyone as the BBC attempts to navigate its way past the potentially perilous rocks of Charter Renewal. Did...
34) The Thick of It
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
Series
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
his record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards. Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost. When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately...
36) Lost In Paris
Series
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond.
37) Drumline
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Halftime is party time for the gifted street drummer who snares the top spot in his university's marching band. However, he initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
38) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tammy and the bachelor: As a little Mississippi riverboat girl, Tammy falls in love with a wealthy southern gentleman after she and her rascally grandfather rescue him from a plane crash -- Tammy tell me true: The adventures of Tammy continue in college, where the worldly-wise small-town gal helps a broken-hearted artist paint a happy future, teaches a haughty heiress that the Golden Rule is more precious than gold, and finds true love with a shy,...
40) My Hero
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
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