Michel Merkt
1) Aquarius
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builders’ tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with. Nominated for the Palm d'Or and the Queer Palm at the **Cannes Film Festival**....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For siblings Kip and Josie, dealing opioids isn₂t just their family business, it₂s their only means of survival. When a deal goes fatally wrong, Kip decides he wants out. But Kip's attempt to escape his family's legacy ignites a powder keg of violence and betrayal, imperiling Kip, Josie, and their younger brother, Boots, in this searing crime-thriller that builds to a shattering conclusion.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre and Manon are a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre's documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter. When Pierre takes a lover, he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain. When Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband.
4) Frankie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
5) Capernaum
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A ferociously funny movie about the existential angst of an expat. Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli, flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees France as his only hope for salvation. He vows not to utter a single word of Hebrew, his French dictionary becoming his constant companion. He is swiftly befriended by a strange young French couple who enmesh him in a very Parisian love triangle. Based on writer-director...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of a vengeful surgeon known as The Doctor, whose brother was recently murdered by Frank.
8) White sun
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Widescreen].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nepali
Description
On the occasion of his father's funeral, Chandra returns to the village he left years earlier to join the Maoists, and finds himself revisiting frayed family relations and unspoken divisions among neighbors. Past traumas return and cause tensions to boil over.
9) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
11) Jupiter's moon
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Aryan, a young Syrian refugee, is shot while trying to cross the Hungarian border. While treating his wounds, a doctor at the refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained the extraordinary talent of levitating at will. The corrupt doctor sees an opportunity and offers to smuggle Aryan out of the camp if, in return, he helps him make some money by using his new miraculous gift.
12) Western
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An intense, slow-burning thriller, this film follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent, and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other, or is the stage being...
13) Benedetta
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
14) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.