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Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America-and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry upke a raisin in the sun."
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
5) Everyday
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An emotionally powerful tale about a father's 5-year prison sentence and how his family overcomes it.
6) Parasite
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
9) Diane
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Mary Kay Place is extraordinary as a woman coming to terms with her troubled past in this beautiful story of redemption.
10) Albatross
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A brilliant, free-spirited teen disrupts a quietly dysfunctional family, when she becomes entangled in an affair with her new best friend's father.
12) Falling Leaves
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Trixie Thompson concludes that the only way she could save her sister from dying of the "white plague" is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling.
13) Diggers
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A coming-of-age story about four working-class friends growing up in Long Island, New York, as clam diggers.
14) Match
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Patrick Stewart is riveting as a Manhattan ballet instructor concealing a sordid past in this explosive drama of sex, secrets, and lies based on the Tony(R)-nominated play.
15) End of Sentence
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip.
16) King Charles III
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Adapted from the Tony-nominated stage play, this is an examination of contemporary Britain—part political thriller, part family drama. After the Queen’s death, Prince Charles finds himself wrestling his conscience over a bill to sign into law, resulting in a constitutional and political crisis.
18) Phantom Love
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A surreal psychodrama about a young woman trapped within a suffocating family, PHANTOM LOVE is a powerful evocation of one woman’s descent into self, set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
19) All That I Am
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
An annual family reunion turns into a disaster when two unexpected guests arrive. This entertaining family drama delivers laughs and tears, starring Christopher Abbott ("Girls", "Catch-22") and Gaby Hoffmann ("Transparent", "Crystal Fairy").
20) Hesher
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
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