Olive Films
21) Nothing personal
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Urszula Antoniak's stunningly assured debut is touching, gentle, and playful. An enigmatic beauty drifts from town to town, hitching rides through the Irish countryside. She comes across an isolated cabin and strikes up an uneasy relationship with its owner. Haunted by their pasts, each has something to offer the other: the solace of his cabin and her welcome companionship.
22) Blumenthal
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'He died laughing' becomes the very definition of irony when renowned playwright Harold Blumenthal literally drops dead during an interview while laughing at one of his own jokes. Those around him are thrown into a tailspin while coming to grips with his untimely passing, along with some familial infighting." --
24) Too late blues
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A bandleader scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse. A sexy would be singer with a dark past who meets the bandleader at a party and joins his band. The two fall deeply in love, but their world comes crumbling down after the leader and his band are involved in a bar fight and the leader is overcome by fear and is unable to fight back, the humiliation causes him to reject her and his...
25) The hunter
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Persian
Description
Tragedy strikes as a wife and daughter are accidentally killed in a police shoot-out with demonstrators. In an act of vengeance, a young man, randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Presented in cooperation with the National Archives and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this collection features four documentaries directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen) as part of his service as an officer in the Army Signal Corps. The documentaries are not simple propaganda, but reflect Huston's own changing attitudes toward war.
Winning your wings (18:19 min): a recruitment film for the U.S. Army Air...
28) Copacabana
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A wild musical comedy about a two-bit theatrical agent (Groucho Marx) who gets his top-and only-client two singing jobs at the same nightclub, hoping for a double commission. Carmen Miranda plays her familiar Latin role and doubles as a blonde French chanteuse who wears a veil. Steve Cochran also stars as the manager of the Copa who falls in love with the blonde Carmen, much to the dismay of pretty bookkeeper Anne who's secretly in love with Steve....
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. Dr. Bennell finds that his patients are becoming hysterical and accusing their loved ones of being mindless imposters. Realizing a strange alien invasion is quickly becoming out of control, the doctor tries to escape to warn others before it's too late.
30) Indiscreet
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
31) Cold turkey
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Valiant Tobacco Company says they will give twenty-five million dollars to any town in America that can give up smoking for thirty days, a small town in Iowa takes up the challenge.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
A man goes to unusual lengths to get out of his unhappy marriage as he lacks the courage to ask his wife for a divorce. He hires a womanizer to romance her and woo her away. He hopes she will be the one who asks for a divorce once she realizes that she no longer loves him.
33) Union Station
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the station's police. Once at Union Station, she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun, who discovers that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter, and are seeking a ransom. The Chicago police, headed by inspector Donnelly, and the FBI are both called...
35) She-devil
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Patchett is a wife and a mother who tries to please her husband Bob. When he has an affair with Mary Fisher, a romance novelist, Ruth wants revenge." --
36) Soul plane
Language
English
Description
"After an encounter with a faulty airline toilet, Dakwon sues the offending airline, and wins 100 million dollars for his pain and suffering. Flushed with cash, Dakwon decides to start his own airline called NWA. With a purple exterior, an interior to die for, the first flight of the new airline is about to take off. But with a pilot who can't fly, white passengers who are clearly out of their element, crazy security officers, and a crew too wrapped...
37) The buccaneer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
The debonair pirate Jean Lafitte, who historically aided General Andrew Jackson against the British during the War of 1812, has been carrying on a discreet love affair with Annette Claiborne, the daughter of governor William Claiborne, who promises to pardon the pirate and his men.
38) Daniel
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case. Daniel Isaacson, an anti-war activist whose parents, branded as spies, were put to death by the U.S. government. Believing that his parents were wrongly convicted and executed, Daniel sets out to clear their name." --
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Martin's pursuit of the truth leads him to the West Coast. There, the deepening mystery explodes into a multi-faceted conspiracy involving a cult known as the Righteous 36, the CEO of a sinister corporation, one of the company's former officers, a deranged ex-priest, and the mother of a child who may prove instrumental in deciphering the code.
40) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.