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1) Between us
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen. Grace and Carlo are a newly married New York couple who visit their old friends Sharyl and Joel in their huge Midwestern home. Despite their wealth, the hosts are in a bitterly destructive marriage. A few years later, the couples reunite in New York, only to find tables turned.
Publisher
The Marriage Brokers
Language
English
Description
A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young Indian women struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in verite for over four years, the film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Years before The lord of the rings catapulted him to international superstardom, Viggo Mortensen played Wes, a young husband locked in co-dependent discontent with his beautiful and needy wife. Combining the theatrical surrealism of Beckett and Ionesco, the playfulness of Richard Lester, and the scathing social critique and imagery for which Majewski is renowned, The gospel according to Harry is a wholly original cinematic tour de force.
5) Hedda Gabler
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Swedish
Description
Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen's play is a shattering exploration of ambition, domestic power and gender roles. Just married, Hedda Gabler and her husband arrive at their new home where Hedda's romantic rival from the past appears. Hedda must confront her desire for a life lived beautifully and without compromise - whatever the cost. This bracing dramatization brings new dimensions to Hedda Gabler's character....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
There are 600 squatter settlements in Serbia, the inhabitants of which are mostly of Roma origin. Of these, 105 are in Belgrade with seventeen more in New Belgrade. Here, Ivana Todorovic documents the life of the Stankovic family who migrated from Southern Serbia in search of better opportunities.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
A whimsical romantic comedy that's raunchy and yet gentle, IT HAD TO BE YOU explores the choices women face today while satirizing cultural expectations of gender and romance. Sonia is a neurotic jingle writer who's always dreamt of a big and exciting life. Surprised by a sudden proposal and subsequent ultimatum from her easy-going boyfriend, Chris, Sonia has to decide whether she'll join the ranks of her married friends or take a leap and pursue...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, French anthropologist Maurice Godelier invites five of his Baruya friends and informants to his house to discuss Baruya kinship and rules of marriage. As Godelier poses questions, the kinship rules that provide the cohesive fabric of Baruya culture are brought to life.
11) Bride Service
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In this vignette from daily life, Dedeheiwa's son returns from hunting and brings a wild turkey and a basket of fruit for his father-in-law. He dumps the goods on the ground, since avoidance rules prohibit him from delivering them directly.
12) 51 Birch Street
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents 54-year marriage was a good one. So he isnt prepared when, just a few months after his mothers unexpected death, his 83-year old father, Mike, phones to announce that hes moving to Florida to live with "Kitty", his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, hes stunned and suspicious. When Mike and Kitty marry and sell the...
13) Dina
Publisher
The Orchard
Language
English
Description
In this 2017 Sundance and IDA award-winning film, Dina, an eccentric and outspoken 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiance Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Sexual purity, money and a mother's worries come together in this humorous guided tour of America's status-obsessed Iranian Jewish community. The film follows Tanaz, the narrator, a hip New Yorker whose Iranian family attempts to marry her off now that she's reached the age of 25.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
With a focus on the emotional and psychological impact, this film addresses the historical and contemporary factors that contribute to the pressures thrust upon Indian women by a society obsessed with fair skin. [Shedding new light upon issues of global diversity, this documentary focuses on the extent to which a "fairness fetish" has permeated various levels of Indian society. Fairness is a serious business in India, one with intensely psychological...
16) Chess fever
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.
18) Foolish wives
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
A bogus count and his two swindling "cousins" descend upon Monte Carlo (rebuilt in Universal's back lot) and cause a rift in the marriage of an American couple. The result is a Grimm's fairytale romance that is no less fascinating today than it was 80 years ago.
19) Way down east
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a nation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Bambara
Description
In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised"...
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