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1) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
2) The square
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
4) The hunt
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.
5) To die for
Series
Criterion collection volume 1213
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready...
6) Catch-22
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
8) The player
Series
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
9) Donbass
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Ukrainian
Description
In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
11) Bala
Publisher
Shemaroo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Hindi
Description
It tells the story of a man who is balding prematurely and how he copes up with the situation.
Publisher
Movie Time Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
Marriages are made in heaven, but reference checks are done here on earth - by our very own wedding detective Madhu Mangal Rane. He mistakenly destroys the image of Suraj Yadav in the society. Angry Suraj then takes an oath to teach a lesson to Madhu. A cat and mouse chase comedy set in Mumbai in 1995. The story revolves around Suraj and Madhu in a one-up game.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Multiple
Description
"Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project -- to unlock cinema's potential as a vehicle for social change -- in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade -- the radical call to resistance...
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lucy is the egotistical megalomaniac CEO of Incredible Edibles, America's premier provider of edible cutlery. In her infinite wisdom, Lucy leads her staff including her long-suffering assistants, Freddie and Jess, on a corporate team-building caving weekend to New Mexico. When disaster strikes, not even their useless guide, Brandon, can save them.
15) Privilege
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, Steven Shorter is England's biggest rock 'n' roll star. His popularity, carefully engineered by his corporate handlers, has reached dizzying proportions. But when artist Vanessa Ritchie is hired to paint his portrait, she discovers that he is unhappy and unstable. When matters take a devious twist, Steve rebels in a startling manner. This darkly comic satire offers a caustic critique of '60s pop culture and corporate...
16) I am not a witch
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms...
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