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1) Labor Day
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"From Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), Labor Day is “a romance to root for”* starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as two strangers drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story in the unforgettable film that critics are calling “satisfying and deeply touching” Nominated for the Audience Choice Award...
Author
Description
Friendship and Greed!-- Timon is a wealthy and generous man. Over the length of the play we watch as he slowly gives away his entire fortune. Then we witness the tragedy of a man who comes to realize that he has no friends now that he has no money. "Here lies a wretched corse, Of wretched soul bereft: Seek not my name: a Plague consume you wicked Caitiffs left! Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate: Pass by and curse thy fill, but...
3) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
5) Tusk
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A wickedly funny modern-day monster movie that will hold you in terror as it keeps you in stitches. A podcaster looking for a juicy story is plunged into a bloodcurdling nightmare after he travels to the backwoods of Canada and meets an eccentric recluse with a lifetime of adventures, and a disturbing fondness for walruses.
6) Mr. Jones
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Scott and Penny moved to a remote cabin to escape the pressures of the world. Their only neighbor for miles is a strange hermit who only comes out at night to drag his strange, disturbing sculptures deep into the woods, night after night. Scott and Penny start to suspect that this man is actually an infamous, reclusive artist known only as "Mr. Jones". When they delve too deeply into Mr. Jones' existence, everything goes wrong and their only escape...
7) Stephanie
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An orphaned girl lives alone in an isolated cottage deep in the woods and is seemingly out of harm's way with just the company of her stuffed turtle, until dark otherworldly forces wreak havoc in the home with Stephanie at the center of turmoil.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. But after a shocking event shatters their idyllic life, the young girl must cope with the nightmarish repercussions that echo into adulthood. As she matures, it becomes clear that this beautiful but dangerous young woman has some very peculiar desires.
10) Father Goose
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
11) Splinter
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Following the murder of his family, John becomes a recluse, trapped inside his home. Surrounded by memories, he believes someone, or something, is watching him. Could it be the ghosts of his wife and son, or something far worse?
Following the brutal murder of his wife and son on Christmas Eve, agoraphobic John fights to cope with life alone. His home has become both a shrine to his lost family and a prison to himself. He now relies on anti-depressants...
12) Labor Day
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
13) Curling
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
Set on the fringe of society in a remote part of the Quebecois countryside, this takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-Francois devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne. The fragile balance of their relationship will be jeopardized by some bleak circumstances.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
This award-winning, critically lauded thriller begins in a desolate stretch of the Sahara, where a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious, suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. Intoxicated by the woman's beauty, Jake claims to be her husband. He names her Kitty and takes her to his remote desert home to recuperate. As Kitty struggles to come to grips with who she is, Jake invents...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Wages of sin: When beautiful college graduate, Sue Walker, inherits a mysterious house in the countryside, she and her friends decide to make it their destination for a weekend getaway. Upon entering the long-abandoned home, they unwittingly release the dark secrets of Sue's forgotten past-- memories that have lain dormant for years due to a childhood trauma she suffered at the age of nine. An evil presence of a twisted preacher still lingers there--...
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