Toni Collette
2) Glassland
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
4) Dream Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of a small town bartender who breeds a racehorse that becomes a beacon of hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take him on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara desert. Against the background of the outback these two diametrically opposed strangers are to find themselves thrust together in a potentially life or death situation. As they...
6) Mafia Mamma
Author
Language
English
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather's affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm's trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone's expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
7) Birthmarked
Author
Language
English
Description
2 scientists raise children contrarily to their tendency to prove the power of nurture over nature.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives. What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero.
9) Jasper Jones
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1968, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
10) Enough said
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A divorced woman pursues a man she likes only to discover he is the ex-husband of her new friend.
12) Jasper Jones
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside his window. Jasper leads him deep into the forest and shows him something that will change his life forever, setting them both on a dangerous journey to solve a mystery that will consume the entire community. In an isolated town where secrecy, gossip and tragedy overwhelm the landscape, Charlie faces family...
13) Please Stand By
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Wendy is an independent and brilliant young woman with autism. To submit her script on-time for a Star Trek screenplay competition she sneaks out of her group home and travels hundreds of miles not letting anything stop her from achieving her goals.
14) Birthmarked
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, two respected scientists quit their jobs to conduct an experiment about human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
15) Fright night
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Senior Charley Brewster finally has it all. He's running with the cool kids and dating the hottest girl in high school. But all hell breaks loose when charming Jerry Dandrige moves in next door. Charlie thinks there's something odd about him, although no one, including his mom seems to notice. But after too many of his classmates vanish under bizarre circumstances, Charley comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on his neighborhood!...
16) Emma
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
17) Glassland
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in a social housing suburb in Dublin with his mother, John ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. One day, he returns home to find his mother, Jean, unconscious from an alcohol overdose. With no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. Although his mother violently rejects John's attempts to support and unite his family, John faces his challenges,...
19) Hereditary
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more she discovers, the more he family finds themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a...
20) A Long Way Down
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this touching comedy, four strangers decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. But when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks. They soon discover that even accidental families make life worth living.