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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
3) Forsaken
Publisher
eOne
Language
English
Description
A gunman tries to reconcile with his estranged father while the town is assailed by ruthless land-grabbers.
4) Black Dju
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Island, it's a very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journey 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the weather that's not welcoming, Dju also has to face overzealous immigration cops.
5) River wild
Language
English
Description
Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
8) Car's life 2
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home entertainment
Language
English
Description
Sparky is a high-spirited sports car who's sick of his boring life. He wants to hit the highway and explore the world, but first he needs a GPS. In order to make money to purchase one, Sparky embarks on an employment adventure that lands him in a heap of trouble.
10) Finding Nemo
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of a clown fish who battles sharks, seabirds, and sewer systems in the Great Barrier Reef, attempting to find his son, Nemo.
11) Snitch
Language
English
Description
A father goes undercover to free his son who was imprisoned after being set up in a drug deal.
Publisher
Focus Features
Language
English
Description
Follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.
13) A separation
Language
Persian
Description
A married couple must decide whether to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
14) Rotation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of an apolitical working-class family that nevertheless gets drawn into collusion with Nazi policies. Rotation was awarded the Golden Leopard at the 1954 Locarno Film Festival and is ranked by film critics as one of Germany's 100 Most Important Films. Rotation portrays a German family and its support for Hitler during the Nazi period. The apolitical mechanic Hans Behnke considers joining the Nazi party to improve his financial standing....
19) Yellow fella
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Yellow Fella is a portrait of Tom E. Lewis who as a young man in 1978 was chosen by director Fred Schepisi to star in The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own - a restless young man of mixed heritage, struggling between two cultures to find his own identity. Tom's mother is an Indigenous woman from southern Arnhem Land who was working as a station hand and cook when she met Tom's father, a...
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