Magnolia Pictures (Firm)
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family—handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond children— on a skiing holiday in the French Alps.. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche suddenly bears down on the happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions and his wife and children in a state of...
2) Results
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny (Kevin Corrigan) would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny’s well-funded languishing is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly caustic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professional...
3) White God
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen because its mixed-breed heritage is deemed “unfit” by The State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back towards each other.. At the same time, all the unwanted, unloved and so-called “unfit” dogs rise up under a new leader, Hagen, the one-time house-pet who has learned all too well from his “Masters” in his journey through the streets and animal control centers that man...
4) Four Lions
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, FOUR LIONS is a comic tour de force; it shows that - while terrorism is about ideology - it can also be about idiots. . Winner of Outstanding...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed documentary covers the 200 year history of African-American Christianity, featuring the legends of Gospel music, including The Staple Singers, The Clara Ward Singers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.. Culled from hundreds of hours of music, tracing the evolution of gospel music through its many styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing, the emergence...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful, TAKE THIS WALTZ leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex and our image of ourselves. ....
7) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Lars von Trier grapples with his own experiences with depression to this dark sci-fi drama and Palme d'Or nominee. Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine’s sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night, moves in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. As Oskar becomes more aware of Eli's tragic plight, he cannot forsake her. However, Eli knows that to continue living, she must keep relocating. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour,...
9) The League
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century, THE LEAGUE explores Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities and a stage for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while also examining the unintended consequences of integration.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga.. Suzanne’s journey led her to India, where she studied various disciplines of yoga and met with respected gurus. During her visit, she came face-to-face with a near death experience and discovered that something had shifted...
12) Bitterbrush
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate their futures as they spend their last summer together herding cattle and braving the elements.
13) In Viaggio
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
A decade-long chronicling of the travels of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic church, from Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (Fire at Sea). In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made trips to 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, environment, solidarity, and war. The documentary grants rare access to the public life of the pontifical, not only from the elevated security of...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Are we living in a simulation? Filmmaker Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) wrestles with this existential question in his latest documentary, a multimedia journey that's part sci-fi mind-scrambler, part true-crime horror story.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor action.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Princess Shaw placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. This is the extraordinary true story of an aspiring musician down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous YouTube artist Kutiman to create a magical collaboration that would bring her music to a whole new audience. . Winner of the Dr Clifford Shaw Feature Doc Audience Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Nominated for Best Music Documentary at the...
17) Voices of Iraq
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
Silenced under Saddam’s regime and denied media attention, the people of Iraq are not well understood at this time. The producers distributed video cameras to enable everyday people to document their lives and their hopes amidst the upheaval.
18) Atari
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
ATARI: GAME OVER explores the fabled urban legend known as 'The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.' As the story goes, the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to the E.T. video game, disposed of millions of unsold game cartridges by burying them in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico. For decades, the myth of Atari and these E.T. cartridges was whispered about among game fans everywhere. Director Zak Penn and his team...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
We reward speed, size and above all else, winning – at sport, at business, and at war. Metaphorically we are a culture on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, comes a new film that unflinchingly explores America’s win-at-all-cost culture and what is behind some of the greatest icons of Hollywood and international athletics. Official...
20) Big Man Japan
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
A pathetic but truly unique hero who is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of monsters by transforming into a stocky, stick-wielding giant. But while his predecessors were national heroes, he is an outcast among the citizens he protects.