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1) Uncut Gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Formats
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When a cocaine shipment is compromised, a drug cartel's CEO orders his most trusted henchman on a dangerous journey to audit the company's supply chain. As the drugs make their perilous trek across international borders, they are also being tracked by Federal Agents. When they find the problem, it might be too late to keep the cartel satisfied.
4) Silo
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Inspired by true events, SILO follows a harrowing day in an American farm town. Disaster strikes when teenage Cody becomes the victim of a grain entrapment accident. Family, neighbors, and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue him from drowning in the 50-foot-tall silo where corn quickly turns to quicksand. Shedding light on an issue plaguing rural America, SILO shows how dangerous modern farming can be, while also highlighting...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
7) Lights Out
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just released ex-con, pitting them both against corrupt cops and hired killers gunning for them and all those they care about.
8) Nancy
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A serial imposter, Nancy (Andrea Riseborough, *Birdman, Mandy*) becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and when she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic and winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best First Screenplay and Best Supporting Female...
9) Breaking
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When Marine Veteran Brian Brown-Easley is denied support from Veterans Affairs, financially desperate and running out of options, he takes a bank and several of its employees hostage, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with the police. Based on the true story.
10) Still Here
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Christian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a twelve-year-old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind him, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long since destroyed by disease. But when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him.
12) Better Watch Out
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
You may be home, but you're not alone. BETTER WATCH OUT puts a gleefully twisted new spin on the home-invasion thriller, following babysitter Ashley, who must defend her young charges against intruders one snowy night - or so she thinks.
13) Winter Hunt
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
On a mission of vigilante justice, a young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi, in the psychological thriller WINTER HUNT. Driving on a deserted highway through the German countryside, Lena arrives at the Rossberg's remote estate. Feigning a car accident, she begs for help from the deeply apprehensive Maria, who reluctantly agrees to invite her in. But Lena's plea is a ruse to confront the aged patriarch Anselm Rossberg,...
14) Ocean's eleven
Formats
Description
Ocean's eleven: Hollywood's A list stars come together to pull off the most daring heist Las Vegas has ever known. It will take brilliant planning, shrewd scheming, cunning disguises, truckloads of technology and just a little bit of luck. But how do you fleece one of the most ruthless casino operators in town? And how do you break into vaults that no-one has ever got near before? If it works, this will be the scam of their lives.
Ocean's twelve:...
15) Runt
Publisher
1091
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Cal (Cameron Boyce) and Cecily (Nicole Elizabeth Berger) are bullied high school students who turn to revenge to settle scores with their tormentors. With no one to turn to, they spiral into a downward cycle of misguided violence.
16) MK Ultra
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on the infamous CIA experiments from the early 1960s, the psychological thriller follows a brilliant doctor who unknowingly becomes entangled with a dangerous government entity fixated on mind control. When his research is hijacked by the agency, the psychiatrist is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi mental hospital.
17) The Nowhere Inn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time filmmaker Bill Benz comes a densely woven, laugh-out-loud...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Discovering that exiled Algerian OAS terrorist Sadiel (Gian Maria Volontè, For a Few Dollars More) is about to return to France, both the CIA and the French Secret Service go on red alert. They blackmail a journalist, François Darien (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist), into helping them to entice Sadiel to Paris, in order to assassinate him. Meanwhile Michael Howard (Roy Scheider, The Seven-Ups) discovers the double-cross, only to be warned...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
20) Cold in July
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After killing a home invader in self defense, an East Texas man finds his family's life in danger when the dead man's father, a ruthless ex-con, rolls into town seeking revenge.
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