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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class...
4) Detropia
Pub. Date
©2013, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
"Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now, the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 482
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
7) Mrs. Miniver
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show - despite...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kevin experiences a lot of firsts, he gets his first pimple and his first puppy; he has his first French kiss and joins his first band; and he gets his first 'D' in math class. Paul is still as allergic as ever, but gets a boost of confidence from a date with Norma; and Jack and Karen stop fighting long enough to celebrate her eighteenth birthday, if only for a moment.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy. Returning from a fantastic two-month road trip, Mike finds a lot has happened at home and at work. Vanessa has changed careers and Kristin is now part of Mike's "work family" as the manager of Outdoor Man Grill.
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Malcolm, the middle brother in an eccentric middle class family. In Pilot, Malcolm finds his life as the middle brother in an eccentric family is made even more difficult when he's placed into the "gifted" class at school. In Red dress, Lois must take drastic steps to discover which of her sons ruined the special dress she bought for an anniversary dinner with Hal. In Home alone 4, Lois and Hal are away for the weekend to...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novels by John Galsworthy, The saga is an epic and highly praised series spanning three generations of the powerful Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century. Beneath the family's imposing veneer lies a festering core of unhappy and brutal relationships.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With her husband out of town, Lucia Harper has her hands full keeping her household in order. Her headstrong daughter, Bea, has taken up with a louse named Ted Darby and persists in meeting him despite her mother's warnings. During one tryst, Bea and Darby quarrel violently. Bea accidentally kills Darby and runs away. To protect her family, Lucia disposes of the body. Because of this rash act, she faces not only a murder investigation, but two ruthless...
Series
Last man standing volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mike Baxter, the straight-talking champion of common sense in a politically correct world. Mike will need that common sense to help guide his family through the many changes in store this year at home and at work. Vanessa, who last season traded a successful corporate career for a job as a public school teacher, now finds her rewarding new position in peril, as a teachers strike looms in Denver. The home front presents its own challenges.
14) Married life
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a late 1940's suburban world, middle-class wives, like Pat, build their lives around their husbands. Pat and Harry seem happy, but Harry confesses to his pal, Richard, that the spark is gone. He plans to leave Pat for vibrant young war widow Kay. Once Richard, a notorious ladies man, gets a look at the platinum blonde, he secretly sets out to win her affections and Harry continues to plot to take Pat out of the picture.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Season 4, Kevin is entering his last year at Kennedy Junior High and should have it all figured out, but things don't go as smoothly as he had hoped. Winnie is going to school across town, and Becky Slater decks Kevin, again! Kevin also faces a new challenge in French class, the sweet-talking, mousse-making Madeline. There's also tension at home as Jack gets a new position that takes him on the road, Norma starts work at Kevin's school, and Wayne...
16) The Forsyte saga
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Letterbox, Complete UK broadcast edition.
Language
English
Description
Drama of the family life and loves of an upper-middle-class Victorian family.
17) Thai Jashe!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Gujarati
Description
Pranav Joshi works as an industrial designer in Ahmedabad. When his fathers' dying factory in Jetpur goes bankrupt, his parents are forced to move with him in Ahmedabad. When they are insulted by his landlady, Pranav decides he has had enough and decides to buy his own house in the city. Pranav and his fiancé Kajal finalize a house, but the house owner backs out after the deal is finalized.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the hit show's eighth season, the Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations, which may or may not be comforting to parents Frankie and Mike. Axl may be living out of a Winnebago, but he has discovered the love of his life. Meanwhile, always-optimistic Sue has caught the acting bug in Dollywood and is changing her major to drama. Now in high school, Brick has made it his mission to fit in with his peers,...
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