British Film Institute
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals to explore the production and reception of anime, from its early faltering steps, to the international successes of Spirited Away and Pokemon"--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Set in 17th-century England, an aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman to sketch her husband's property while he is away-- in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a boozy dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident. The new friends suddenly find themselves at odds and are forced to question how well they know their neighbors, in this psychological thriller.
5) Blood
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
When a shocking murder is committed in their small town, the Fairburn brothers are detectives who will do whatever it takes to catch the killer and try to live-up to the reputation of their tough-as-nails ex-police chief father. But when a suspect's interrogation spins violently out of control, the brothers must deal with the consequences.
6) Scheme birds
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
The story of Gemma, a teenage troublemaker, growing up in a world of pigeons and violence. From childhood to motherhood, her life unfolds as innocent games turn towards serious crime.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
9) Possum
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his dilapidated childhood home and lecherous stepfather, intent on destroying a hideously malformed spider-puppet he carries with him in a brown leather case. His mind flooded with painful half-memories and nightmarish visions, he soon finds himself embroiled in a local investigation for a missing boy, progressively unsure of what's real and what's not. All the while the spider seems to mock his suffering...
10) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
11) Monsoon
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kit ... returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American War. There he meets Lee, his estranged second sousin [i.e., cousin], Linh, a young Vietnamese student, and arranges an online date that turns into something more with Lewis ... an American clothing designer. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he's no longer familiar with, he embarks...
12) The show
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fletcher Dennis, a man of many talents, passports, and identities, arrives in Northampton a strange and haunted town in the heart of England as dangerous as he is. On a mission to locate a stolen artifact for his menacing client, Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world populated with vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir private eyes, and masked avengers. He quickly sinks into a bizarre and delirious black hole, that is...
13) Limbo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Ben Sharrock's second feature is a funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience.
14) Dark horse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Looks at a small group of friends in a former mining town in Wales who decide to breed a racehorse, Dream Alliance, who goes on to have a prodigious career on the track.
15) Second coming
Series
Film Movement volume 13, year 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Busy working parents Mark and Jackie have not been intimate with each other in several months, so when Jackie discovers she is pregnant, it comes as an inexplicable shock to all. Jackie insists she's been faithful, but Mark reacts with rage, knowing the baby can't possibly be his. As the unnerving side effects of Jackie's condition worsen, will this seeming miracle bring the family closer together or tear them apart?
16) Saint Maud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul, but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
17) Sweetheart
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Socially awkward lesbian teenager AJ begrudgingly joins her family on a seaside vacation. She finds herself constantly at odds with her painfully "normal" mother and older sister, neither of whom can understand why she doesn't smile more or "dress like a girl." Her anticipated "week of hell" takes an unexpected turn when Isla, a free-spirited and sun-loving lifeguard, catches her eye.
18) Beats
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A universal story of friendship, rebellion, and the irresistible power of music as two best friends destined for different futures sneak out to an illegal rave in pursuit of one last crazy night together.
19) Misbehaviour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
20) Dark river
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, Alice returns to her home village for the first time in fifteen years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.