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Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young girl, Ja-yoon, lives with her adoptive parents after they found her alone in the woods and near death. When strange people start appearing in Ja-yoon’s life, she falls into turmoil as her seemingly ordinary life turns upside down in a blink of an eye.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Directed by Boris Barnet, The Outskirts is Barnet's first sound film. This is the tender love story between a Russian girl Anka and a German prisoner of war given permission to work in the village. This love story is made possible because Anka's father's friend Robert Karlovish, a German taught her enough about his country. The setting is the year 1914, first in a total backwater and then, as war breaks out, at the front as well. The plot is simply...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
It begins as an ordinary family outing on the beach. Then things turn dark as seventeen-year-old Lise, from a wealthy middle-class family, comes under investigation following the death of her best friend. As her parents deal with the trauma in different ways, Lise is required to account for a way of life that doesn't always fit the morality approved of by the justice system.
25) The Golden Goose
Publisher
Signed Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This goose is certainly no ordinary goose! It has the most magnificent golden feathers, and magical powers too. Find out what happens when a girl tries to steal one of the feathers!
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This indie comedy focuses on Lonnie—a lonely, often-drunk housepainter who’s yet to leave the Chicago town in which he grew up. Sixteen years on from high school and stuck in a never-ending rut, Lonnie falls under the spell of a college-aged coworker who is hesitant to take him seriously.. With pitch-perfect performances by James Ransone (The Wire and Tangerine), Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black, Slums of Beverly Hills), and Alex Karpovsky...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Edens Lost and Found highlights what communities all across the country are doing to revive their ecosystems and, as a result, improve the quality of life of all its citizens. Award-winning filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald an exciting sea change in the reltionship between ordinary citzens, environmental groups, and local government. This PBS special series witnesses and records a new spirit of cooperation among neighbors, planners, architects...
28) Life is sweet
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
29) Some Freaks
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen. *"What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood." - Todd Jorgenson, **Cinemalogue***...
30) Her Majesty
Publisher
MJG Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
As a small New Zealand town prepares for a once-in-a-lifetime royal visit, a popular thirteen-year old girl, Elizabeth, who dreams of meeting the Queen, finds her fervent hopes put in jeopardy when she develops an unlikely, life-changing friendship with Hira, an elderly Maori woman outcast from society. Elizabeth’s true character is tested when she must choose between marching in the ceremonial parade of her dreams with a chance to personally meet...
31) Kick-ass
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the showdown between the forces of good and evil will force Kick-Ass...
32) Charlotte's web
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...
33) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
34) Charlotte's web
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
E.B. White’s beloved Newbery Honor-winning story comes to life in this classic animated musical. In this timeless tale, a spider named Charlotte teaches a pig named Wilbur and other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust, and love. Featuring the voice talents of Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actors such as Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson and Paul Lynde. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Genesis Awards**. *"A heartwarming tale of love...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
36) Trans
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trans is an extraordinary documentary feature film about men and women… and all the variations in between. It is an up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world through the memorable stories and the unusual lives of a remarkable cast of characters. Here we will explore the Transgender Community, perhaps the most misunderstood and mistreated minority in America and around the world. It begins with the story of Lt. Commander Christopher...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An ordinary man seemingly has a perfect life. He just got married to a beautiful girl, moved to the city, and has a family to look after and love. During his childhood, his parents constantly made him feel rejected and worthless. Those issues slowly creep into his family life, resulting in a nervous breakdown and violence.
Publisher
Nozomi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
Troubled by the way his past continues to invade his dreams of the present, Keiichiro Tachibana stuns everyone by quitting his ordinary office job to open a bakery. He envisions a clientele and a wait staff of cute girls. Instead, his employees include a playboy who's been fired from every job he's ever had, an ex-boxer with a sweet tooth, and an absent-minded childhood friend and family servant. Can this unlikely quartet discover a recipe for culinary...
40) A confession
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher ... quickly realizes that this is no ordinary missing persons case. A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards. In this fight to get justice...
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