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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick, Game of Thrones) returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing news that her brother Harry has died - in what appears to be a suicide.. Finding the family home in a state of horrendous disrepair following the 2014 floods that devastated the area, Clover is forced to confront her father Aubrey - about the farm, the livestock and, crucially, the details surrounding Harry's death....
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Travis family experiences a stunning tragedy which begins to unravel them. Teenaged son Tim views his life as a bad dream. His father, Ben tunes out and treats his wife and children like strangers. His mother, Sandy sharpens her tongue with sarcasm and dulls her senses with pot while struggling hard to conceal a secret that threatens to ruin them all. The Travises, eventually, learn to accept one another as family - warts and all.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
Kieren, a recovered zombie (Partially Diseased Syndrome (PDS) sufferer) is keeping his head down and squirreling money into his "escape fund" for Paris. But in the wider world, fear is in the air. With the arrival of new and explosive characters from both Victus and the ULA, Kieren's plans are thrown into disarray as both set their sights on him. As Kieren finds himself caught in the emotional crossfire, will he ever be able to live a quiet life?
5) Mallory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explores the reasons behind the suicide of twelve-year-old Mallory Grossman, a victim of bullying at school.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Widowed mom Michelle Ross is thrilled when her shy teenage daughter, Lexi, goes out with the high school football star, Greg. What she doesn't know is that Greg has an ulterior motive: to win a bet by sleeping with Lexi on their first date and capturing it all on video. Once Greg's bitter ex-girlfriend Carleigh hears about the "date" she starts emailing the video around school. The video quickly goes viral and many lives are destroyed. When Lexi commits...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Still grieving his wife's suicide, Detective Harry Anglesea returns to Auckland's Major Crime Unit after bereavement leave in his native Samoa. Although he's eager to jump back into the job, his self-destructive behavior hints that he may not be ready. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Mele, is even less ready for life as normal and desperately needs her father's attention. Harry and his boss, DSS Jim "Stocks" Stockton, soon become engrossed in a high-profile...
8) Court
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Multiple
Description
An ageing folk singer is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited a sewage worker to commit suicide. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
10) Court
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Multiple
Description
"Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless...
11) New Hope
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
High school senior Michael is not thrilled about his family's move to New Hope, a small southern town. He is even more put off when he joins his new school's basketball team and butts heads with star player Lucas. Lucas believes Michael is benefiting from all that his deceased brother Chase--who committed suicide--left behind. Tension between Michael and Lucas builds further when Michael becomes fascinated with Chase's girlfriend.
12) The show
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a dating show ends in violence, its host Adam Rogers and a ratings-hungry network exec launch a terrifying new program that promises fresh kills every week. The tension mounts as a kindhearted janitor joins the deadly program, hoping to help his struggling family survive at any cost.
14) The butcher boy
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Francie's becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
15) Marx can wait
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
In honor of Ingmar Bergman's one hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles...
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