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1) The mountain
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier. Official...
2) Sleeper
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
Language
Thai
Formats
Description
“You find yourself moved, even enchanted, by the beautiful, oblique stories unfolding before your eyes… SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY is split in two. The first half takes place at a quiet rural hospital, while the second unfolds at a much larger and more modern urban medical complex… The beauty of the film is an aspect partly of its patient attention to faces, trees, landscapes and architectures, and partly of the subtle precision of the camera movements…...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Anticipating their father’s imminent death, three siblings reunite at their home in Burgundy to preserve the vineyard that ties them together in this tender and modern tale of familial strife and resilience from director Cédric Klapisch. "*As rich and earthy as a fine French wine...*” - Peter Debrudge, ***Variety*** "*Four stars... Rich and absorbing.*" - G. Allen Johnson, ***The San Francisco Chronicle***
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Joe O'Loughlin is a successful psychologist with a loving family, but a recent medical diagnosis has thrown his life off balance. When the police ask him to assist in the case of a murdered young woman, ghosts from his past begin to resurface.
9) Well
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The acclaimed writer and performer Lisa Kron's newest work is all about her mom. It explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of her mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. In this solo show with other people in it, Kron asks the provocative question: Are we responsible for our own illness? But the answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained...
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rex is a cab driver who has never left the mining town of Broken Hill in his life. When he discovers he doesn't have long to live, he decides to drive through the heart of the country to Darwin, where he's heard he will be able to die on his own terms; but along the way he discovers that before you can end your life you've got to live it, and to live it you've got to learn to share it... Winner of Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Australian...
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their younger brother Thomas' mysterious illness. The increasingly dangerous task of keeping him alive weighs heavy on sensitive Dwight, and as a fiercely private and close-knit family unit, Thomas and Jessie depend on him and the rituals they've learned in order to keep their secret. Dwight yearns for another life, but Jessie will stop at nothing to keep her family together.
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Una sinfonía de la ciudad en las alturas, la enfermedad de un trabajador, la pesadilla y su redención.
A monumental, gently mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs. After a seven-day walk with his companions, the young Elder arrives in the big city seeking to be reinstated in his work at the mine. The city is overwhelming, and Elder soon falls ill, causing him to suffer...
14) Dirt nap
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Though still suffering side effects from the injuries she sustained in a serious fall, Corey Curtis is off restricted duty and back at work in the morgue. Within hours of cutting the cast off her arm with a bone saw, she's asked by her former mentor to assist on a body recovery. Now she's elbow deep in decomposing human remains and a suspicious death that hits far too close to home. Just when her relationship with Dr. Thayer Reynolds has reached...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
This French coming of age story follows Benjamin, who is sure he's going to become a great doctor. But his first experience as junior doctor in his father's service, the Professor Barois, does not turn out the way he hoped. Benjamin will be brutally confronted with his own limitations, his fears, and those of his patients, families, doctors and staff.
16) Hotel Artemis
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a riot-torn Los Angeles, a mysterious woman named the Nurse runs a secret emergency room and hospital for criminals. Her life has kept her entirely indoors ever since a tragedy, but her past intersects with her haven on exactly the wrong night.
18) Yummy
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While waiting for his girlfriend to come out of surgery, Michael stumbles upon a terrified young woman, gagged and strapped to an operating table; she is the result of experimental rejuvenation treatment. Offering to help her escape, he removes her restraints but soon realizes he's just unleashed a virus that will turn the entire hospital into bloodthirsty zombies.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, leave India in 1963 attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London. It comes as a shock for both the Sharmas and the residents of a small Welsh coal-mining village when they are assigned there instead.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
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