Faliro House Productions
1) The founder
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Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
2) Little men
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13-year-old Jake befriends Tony (Michael Barbieri), raised by his mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia). A feud ignites between the parents, Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) and Leonor — the boys remain silent against their parents in protest.
3) Her smell
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Becky (Elisabeth Moss) is a '90s punk rock star who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio "Something She". Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted band mates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. When Becky's chaos and excesses derail a recording session and national tour, she finds herself shunned, isolated and alone. Forced to get sober,...
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Jesse and Celine first met in their twenties in Before Sunrise, reunited in their thirties in Before Sunset and, now they face the past, present and future, family, romance and love. Now on a writer's retreat in Greece, the couple looks for a night of passion, but instead their idyllic night turns into a test of their relationship and a discussion of what the future holds for them.
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Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged by the tensions and capricious family...
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"Hildy Good, a realtor in an idyllic New England town, whose wickedly funny tongue and seeming success mask her life's one dark truth: she enjoys her wine a little bit too much. But Hildy's good at keeping it together -- until, that is, a rekindled romance with high school flame Frank Getchell sets in motion a chain of events that forces a decades-in-the-making confrontation with Hildy's buried past. A multifaceted portrait of a proud, resilient woman...
7) Golden exits
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English
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An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young woman spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
8) The lobster
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English
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In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
9) Monday
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English
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"Mickey and Chloe [are] two Americans in their mid-thirties living in Athens, who meet in the heat of summer one whirlwind weekend. When Chloe's time in Greece is drawing to a close, she decides to give up her high-flying job back home and explore whether one weekend's passion can stand the reality of the inevitable Monday"--Container.
10) Listen up Philip
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English
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Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
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In July 1974, 29-year-old TV host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show "Suncoast Digest" and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning film Network. This film follows a young actress named Kate Lyn Sheil who is hired to potray Chubbuck in a new film.
12) Before midnight
Series
Criterion collection volume 859
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English
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In the conclusion of The Before Trilogy, we again meet Jesse and Celine, this time on vacation in Greece. It's been nine years since their reunion in Paris, and almost two decades after their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. Now the couple have a steady relationship with twin daughters, but long-simmering problems come to a boil.
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Ferris Bueller's day off: A high school student is determined to get a day off with his friends in Chicago by outwitting his principal.
Barbershop, the next cut: It's been more than ten years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavor, drama and gossip...
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Greek
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Dogtooth writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos challenges our perception of reality once again in this darkly comic drama about a mysterious underground group who assist the bereaved in coping with death by temporarily posing as their deceased loved ones. Under the leadership of their coach Mont Blanc (Aris Servetalis), the members of ALPS memorize various phrases spoken by the dearly departed, perfect their distinctive mannerisms, and spend time with...