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2) Pinsky
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sophia seems like a functionong adult. But when she loses her girlfriend and her grandfather in the same day and moves back in with her domineering Russian grandmother, everything she thought she escaped is waiting to welcome her back with open arms.
3) Fearless
Language
English
Formats
Description
San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He's been transformed ever since he stared death in the face—and discovered he was unafraid. Peter Weir (Witness) directs Fearless, the vivid story of how a near-death experience impacts the lives of three people. Jeff Bridges plays Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks than ever since surviving a plane crash. Isabella Rossellini is Laura, struggling to find in Max the man she married....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
**Academy Award** winner Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who -- after being separated by loss -- discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite. A GHOST STORY was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"A simple, wrenching story of love and loss that pries open a window onto eternity."* - Justin...
5) Lilting
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by Asian cinema’s martial arts legend Cheng Pei Pei (*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*) as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son Kai (Andrew Leung), and Ben Whishaw (*I’m Not There, Bright Star*) as her son’s lover, Richard. Graceful, moving and humorous, LILTING is a gem of a chamber piece about unlikely connections and how loss...
6) Max
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
7) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Set in the early '70s, Joe is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben and JoJo, while trying to sort out all of the legal troubles and painful details of the wedding cancellations. While trying to locate the wedding invitations in the mail, Joe meets Bertie, whose boyfriend has been MIA in Vietnam. Despite his growing relationship with his late fiancée's parents, Joe begins to foster a romance with Bertie.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to...
10) Under the skin
Publisher
Arrow Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A young woman reacts to her mother's death with self-destructive sexual behavior.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.
14) Quiet chaos
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Italiano
Description
Pietro has just lost his wife, and he is left alone with their young daughter. He promises the girl that he will wait for her in the car when she returns to school for the first time, but then his temporary offer turns into habit. Now Pietro spends his days in his car, watching the world around him and grieving in his own way.
15) Delicacy
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
After the death of her soul mate, Nathalie loses interest in life, and finds love again in the most unexpected place.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows the dysfunctional Fisher family, including widow Ruth, sons Nate and David, baby sister Claire, and the ghost of patriarch Nathaniel, as they run the family funeral parlor in Pasadena and deal with the cycle of life--birth, death, and rebirth.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
An absorbing drama based on the true account of 18th-century doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, played by Truffaut himself in a memorable performance.
A tribute to the joys, yearnings, pains and wonders of childhood.
An irresistibly sophisticated comedy that paints the delirious portrait of a saturnine satyr who worships the feminine spirit, the idea of woman.
A most personal and rigorous film in which Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne, a man who so...
18) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident. But when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. She keeps having dreams about his death, and must decide what to do.
19) Lawless heart
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Shocked by the death of a friend, three men decide to take their lives in hand. But under the influence of three beguiling women, how far can they go? Take a journey with friends facing life, death, sex and misadventure.
20) Another dawn
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Julia Ashton arrives at a British outpost in the post WWI Sahara, her heart burdened by loss. Then she meets Captain Denny Roark and soon Realizes the soldier's charm and compassion could restore her capacity to love. But Julia has recently settled for another man, Roark's commanding officer.
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