IFC Films.
1) Liberal arts
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Jesse, a 35-year-old New York college admissions adviser, is invited to his Midwestern alma mater to attend his favorite professor's retirement dinner, he quickly falls back in love with the university life. But when he meets 19-year-old student Zibby, the daughter of his professor's friends, he suddenly finds himself caught in a moral dilemma: does he pursue a relationship with this kindred spirit, or does he break her heart and return to the...
2) Boyhood
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
4) How to be
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Arthur is a twenty-something supermarket clerk and depressed musician who's just been dumped by his girlfriend and has to move back home to his emotionally distant parents. But when Arthur discovers the best-selling self-help book, It's Not Your Fault, he spends his inheritance on hiring the oddball author to be his live-in life-coach. Featuring original songs performed by Robert Pattinson.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This classic documentary by Errol Morris showcases workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. The first pet mortician featured is Floyd "Mac" McClure, who believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people. The film chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors,...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Meet Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, and Phil, five spirited puppies who, from the moment they're born, begin an incredible journey to become guide dogs for the blind. It's a rigorous two-year process that will take the pups from the care of selfless foster volunteers to specialized trainers to, if they make the cut, a lifelong human companion.
7) BlackBerry
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The riveting true story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BlackBerry is a whirlwind ride through the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
9) The trip
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
10) Trishna
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic novel Tess of the D'Ubervilles. Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Using the eponymous 1978 bestselling book as its frame, THE MEANING OF HITLER is a provocative interrogation of our culture's fascination with Hitler and Nazism set against the backdrop of the current rise of white supremacy, the normalization of antisemitism and the weaponization of history itself. Shot in nine countries, the film traces Hitler's movements, his rise to power and the scenes of his crimes as historians and writers, including Deborah...
12) Price check
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Pete Cozy's unimpressive job allows him to spend quality time with his family. Despite the fact that they are drowning in debt, they appear happy. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, fast talking Susan Felders. With Susan's influence, Pete finds himself on the executive track. The more his salary increases, the less time he spends with his family. His relationship with his boss begins to cross the line of professional etiquette...
13) The other woman
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Emilia's life takes an unexpected turn when Jack (Scott Cohen) and Emilia (Natalie Portman) lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan) and also tries to overcome a long-standing rift in her relationship with her father caused by his infidelity. But perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all are the constant interferences of her husband's angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa...
14) My Salinger year
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New York in the 90s: Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters, she impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own. Based...
15) Good kill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their...
16) The nowhere inn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From real-life friends Annie Clark (a.k.a. GRAMMY award-winning recording and touring artist St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney) comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project,...
17) 5 to 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan draws twenty-something aspiring writer Brian into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. But she's married, and can only meet him for hotel room trysts between the hours of five and seven. As Brian yearns for more than just two hours a day with the woman of his dreams, he learns hard won lessons about life and love.
18) Frances Ha
Series
Criterion collection volume 681
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and Gerwig with an effortless combination of sweetness and wit,...
19) Born to be blue
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
20) Cow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold's first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.
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