Sundance Selects (Firm)
1) Run & jump
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After her husband suffers a debilitating stroke, a spirited Irish housewife struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. Help comes in the form of American doctor, whose research grant for documenting the family's recovery process takes care of finances but also requires that the straight-laced doctor live with the chaotic Casey family for two months.
3) Last weekend
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A matriarch asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
5) Cold weather
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After abandoning a promising academic career in forensic science, self-styled detective Dough returns to Portland, Oregon to live with his more responsible sister Gail. He lands a dead-end job working in an ice factory, but soon finds an opportunity to use his passion and skill in detective work when his ex-girlfriend Rachel goes missing. Enlisting a team of ramshackle slacker-sleuths, Doug leads the way down a complex trail of clues that brings him...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Roberto once had a promising career in advertising. Now out of work because of the economic downturn, he struggles to keep his family afloat and their dire situation a secret from his adoring wife Luisa. After yet another dead end interview, Roberto's chances for a promising future seem slim, until a freak accident places him at the center of a wild media storm. Realizing his opportunity, Roberto hires a brazen agent to help him leverage his newfound...
7) Beloved
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In 1964 Paris, Madeleine works as a shoe salesgirl and a part-time prostitute. She falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she picks up, and the two continue to see each other for years despite Madeleine's marriage to another man. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter Vera has romantic trouble of her own: she is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an unobtainable American musician.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return.
Series
Criterion collection ; 628
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Albanian
Formats
Description
In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
Publisher
MPI Medai Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
A young couple goes for a summer-long visit with a fellow couple in Rome, only to witness their friends' marriage start to crumble. Brooding painter Frederic has growing suspicions about his beautiful movie star wife Angele. Friends Paul and Elizabeth see the tension rise between the couple--and also begin to draw apart as Paul devotes more and more time to the needy Frederic. Will the tragic event bring Paul and Elizabeth closer, or will it doom...
12) Medianeras
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Two Buenos Aires denizens find the architecture of the city and emerging technologies affecting their lives in a way neither ever dreamt possible in this romantic comedy that combines live action, animation, and graphic art to paint a vivid picture of life in a bustling city.
13) Bird people
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In an airport on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly quits his job, breaks up with his wife, and isolates himself in his room. But as fate draws him and young French maid together, he may just discover the unexpected shakeup his life so desperately needs.
14) Septien
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After an unexplained eighteen-year absence, Cornelius Rawlings, an unlikely gifted basketball player who hustles local teens to support his drug habit, returns to his family's Tennessee farm to find that, other than the death of his parents and the increased eccentricities of his brothers, very little has changed.
15) Habemus papam
Series
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the...
16) Carlos
Series
Criterion collection ; 582
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
