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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Imagine walking into a room and feeling totally confident about meeting and talking with new people. You listen and understand another person's point of view easily, and speak your mind without the fear of creating an argument. You love to be with people and they love to be with you. This two-part series is based on a two-and-a-half day course called 'Creating Successful Relationships.' In Volume # 1, utilize the latest methods of accelerated learning...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a house that seems like a bunker in a post-catastrophic world.Outside is a threatening landscape, seen only as a background from the terrace of their house.Once they were a perfect love triangle, with strong bonds of friendship, but today nothing is left of it.Ana is with Jonathan and Axel is alone, bit by bit tattooing his body with flies, completely covering it with flies.Their old relationship cannot be recovered,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To forgive someone can be simple. But this simple act can have powerful consequences – and may lead to a personal and spiritual transformation. Recently, the study of forgiveness has come into its own. Researchers are examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault to 9/11. Clinicians now help guide people to forgive transgressions and get...
4) Laila
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This fantastically scaled Norwegian feature comes from Danish-German director and noted cinematographer George Schnéevoigt, who brings every exotic corner of on-location Scandinavia to the forefront in a decade-spanning romantic adventure. Mona Martenson is Laila, a young girl separated from her parents as a baby and raised by a wealthy reindeer owner Aslag (Peter Malberg) in the frozen tundra. Though she is returned a year later, Laila grows into...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Reggie's boyfriend dumps her just before the big dance. The boss won't let Sam off to attend a wedding. Mark argues to get the family car for a date. Using realistic vignettes, this program teaches an easy-to-apply procedure for settling disputes fairly and maintaining good relationships. The guide includes discussion starters plus directions for sociodramas and mindmapping.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems, the convicts return to prison, convinced that the world is much too wicked.
7) Flanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The wedding of Palo (Palos Brudefaerd) (1934), Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Filmed in sound with an Inuit cast from the Angmagssalik district of east Greenland, Palo, like Nanook, documents a vanishing lifestyle and uses Flaherty's devise of an appealing narrative; in this case, a story of two men who desire the same woman as a wife. It is mastered...
9) Novitiate
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church, and sexuality.
10) Happy Hour
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
Description
A powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. HAPPY HOUR is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty-something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives a sudden, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's wise, precisely observed, compulsively...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? Follow former enemy combatants, many of whom served years in prison, who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say enough. The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combatants for Peace.
12) Anchors aweigh
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Two lovesick sailors on shore leave in Hollywood fall hard for the same beautiful singer. The race for Susie's heart leads them both into a series of comical and musical adventures.
13) Homecoming
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
[Unrated theatrical version].
Language
Español
Description
Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Lisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?
15) Maggie's plan
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.
16) The raft
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea voyage, a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali, initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genoves, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflictand dynamics of sexual attraction.
17) Black River
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
日本語
Description
Examines the rampant moral corruption on and around U.S. military bases in Japan following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted criminal to reveal a nation slowly succumbing to lawlessness and violence.
18) Summer interlude
Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen; new English subtitle translation.
Language
Swedish
Description
When she discovers a diary of a former lover, a ballerina recalls a summer affair filled with both happiness and tragedy. Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Renowned Australian artist William Yang traces the labyrinthine web of his family history in this adaptation of his iconic live performance piece. Both William Yang’s paternal and maternal grandfathers came to Australia from the south of China in the 1880s to dig for gold. Both his parents were born here. William grew up on a tobacco farm in Dimbulah in North Queensland and was brought up as an assimilated Australian with his Chinese side denied...
20) Jules and Jim
Series
Language
Français
Description
Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
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