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1) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
2) The kitchen
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Formats
Description
Acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt's (*Certain Women*) first film follows Cozy and Lee, lovers who are as criminally inclined (and hopelessly incompetent) as they come. Ironically, their robbery spree gets disrupted when they find themselves running from the police for a crime they didn't commit. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Someone to Watch Award, Best First Feature, Best Screenplay,...
5) Call Jane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Description
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank having sex with another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it....
8) Potíche
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Allison McRoberts' life feels like a sitcom when her self-centered husband, Kevin, is around -- he never considers the consequences of his actions and most of the people in his life let him be the center of their universe. When Allison learns that the better future she envisioned is impossible, she makes a plan to take back control of her life.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The mystery continues around Bree's new husband as he is suspected of cheating on his wife and killing a woman named Monique. The housewives get together to complete the mystery while trying to keep their already crazy individual lives sustained.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The neighborhood is jolted with the arrival of Angie Bolen and her family, and it soon becomes clear that they are hiding something. But what is their secret, and what are their true intentions? Meanwhile, a plane crash on Wisteria Lane causes everyone to reflect on their lives and the choices that have made them who they are.
Publisher
Paramount
Description
"Based on William Inge's classic play, Come back, little Sheba is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past. Shirley Booth stars in an Academy Award-winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), a recovering alcoholic. The Delaney's life is dull and unchanging, but takes a dramatic turn when the couple take in a charming boarder, Marie (Terry Moore). Marie becomes the daughter...
17) Punch line
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1988
Description
Lilah, a housewife who wants to be a comedienne, teams up with Steve, a self-centered comic who teaches Lilah how to be funny.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Description
Natalia is a photojournalist whose powerful image of a young girl has just been printed in a magazine. Catherine is a concert cellist whose wife-abusing father has just been released from jail. Olivia is a housewife who has devoted her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound husband. Each of these women have visions of the same small girl at moments when they are each forced to confront their pain and each finds a way back to salvation through living...
19) Brief encounter
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
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