Miramax Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate and her actor brother live in 21st century New York. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, has found a spot near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time-- one can return to the 19th century. Stuart goes back to the 1870s and takes pictures, then is followed back to New York by Leopold. Leopold gets help with fitting into the 21st century from Kate's brother Charlie, and meets Kate herself. Kate is climbing the corporate ladder in advertising, but...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A critical analysis of the rise of independent filmmakers examines Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival, the success of Miramax, and the careers of independent filmmakers whose work has transformed Hollywood and the film industry.
3) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A couple of low rent hit men, a fighter forced to throw a fight, the wife of a mobster, and two robbers all find redemption.
4) Serendipity
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others" -- and are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly hoping that fate will reunite them some day.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...
7) Doubt
Publisher
Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to up-end the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. When Father Flynn pays too much attention to a new student, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school.
8) Swingers
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lovesick guy, out to get rid of his relationship rut, meets a fast-talker who's willing to do whatever it takes to show him a good time.
9) Naqoyqatsi
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Through a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-lapse, computer-generated imagery, and found footage, the film tells of a world that has completed the transition from the natural to the artificial. Globalization has been accomplished, all of our interactions are technologically mediated, and all images are manipulated.
10) Priest
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
A conservative Roman Catholic priest in Liverpool struggles with the conflict between his homosexuality and church teachings, at the same time trying to deal with a man in his parish who is sexually abusing his daughter.
11) Bārān =: Rain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Rahmat comes to a construction site in Tehran to replace his injured Afghan father, he catches Lateef's eye, and Lateef changes from a playful goof, not quite knowing why.
12) Shall we dansu?
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
A middle-aged businessman's dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor.
13) Cop land
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Stallone stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a place everyone calls 'Cop Land', a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big-city police officers he's long admired. Yet when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
15) 54
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco, plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside the club and gives him a coveted job behind the bar.
16) The yards
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerful Uncle Frank and reconnects with his old friend Willie, Leo finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs and even murder.
17) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop -- with Sunday hours -- across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in time, the main focus is on Cabeleira who formed a gang called the Tender Trio. He and his best friend, Bene, become crime lords over the course of a decade. When Bene is killed before he can retire, Little Ze attempts to take out his arch enemy, Sando Cenoura. But Sando and a young gangster named Manu form an alliance and begin a gang war with Little...
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked by Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
20) Tsotsi =: [Thug]
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Zulu
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.