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1) Casa Susanna
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves. Told through the memories of those who visited, the film looks back at a secret world where the persecuted and frightened found freedom and acceptance.
2) Chile '76
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, CHILE ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children,...
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
4) The Rental
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Alison Brie and Dan Stevens star in this unnerving and sophisticated debut thriller from Dave Franco.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora, a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive...
6) Casa Susanna
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those whose visits...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bob eagerly enters a "Best Burger" contest, Linda goes blonde, eldest daughter Tina romances a ghost, Gene directs a musical, and bunny ears-wearing youngest daughter Louise infiltrates the Thundergirls youth club."--Container.
12) The haunted
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020], ©2018
Language
English
Description
"Employed as a night-nurse for an ailing man, young care-taker Emma arrives at an isolated house for her first shift. The moment she enters the home, a feeling of dread creeps over her. As the night draws on, signs of a threatening supernatural presence grow harder to dismiss and she is forced to confront the dark secrets that lie buried in the old house"--Container
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Journey back to the wild Western frontier of 19th century America, where the country's safety lies in the hands of the very first Secret Service agents. Ladies' man James West and his clever sidekick Artemus Gordon serve President Ulysses S. Grant, tracking criminal masterminds across the rugged countryside -- always read to jump into action at a moment's notice. Long before the days of high-speed car chases and complex computer hacking, these two...