Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan...
3) Freakonomics
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
4) Compliance
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the investigation, following step-by-step instructions from the officer...
5) A hijacking
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked and taken hostage by Somali pirates. The pirates pick the ship's cook as interpreter, to engage in escalating negotiations and ransom demands with their company CEO and authorities.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and offstage, from her lifelong emotional...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping and revelatory documentary film that follows the trial of the infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the courtroom action as a springboard to examine accusations of multi-faceted corruption within the nation₂s law enforcement and legal systems.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Sylvia is a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually charged storm within. When a stranger from Mexico confronts her with her mysterious past, Sylvia is launched into a journey through space and time that inextricably connects her to these disparate characters, all of whom are grappling with...
11) In the fade
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
12) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
14) The eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In a seaside Irish town, Michael Farr, a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, begins to believe his house is haunted.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With the epic proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the largest privately owned house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Gain unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, see the media industry transform at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango, and the salty but brilliant David Carr track print journalism's metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent....
17) All good things
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Based on the true story and still unsolved crime of the 1982 disappearance of Kathie McCormick, wife of real estate heir Robert McCormick, who was linked to the disappearance and deaths of three people.
18) 13 assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
日本語
Description
Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent him from plunging Japan into war.
19) Zappa
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
20) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.