Toni Collette
3) Glassland
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
5) Dream Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of a small town bartender who breeds a racehorse that becomes a beacon of hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take him on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara desert. Against the background of the outback these two diametrically opposed strangers are to find themselves thrust together in a potentially life or death situation. As they...
8) Mafia Mamma
Author
Language
English
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather's affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm's trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone's expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
9) Madame
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
10) Please Stand By
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Wendy is an independent and brilliant young woman with autism. To submit her script on-time for a Star Trek screenplay competition she sneaks out of her group home and travels hundreds of miles not letting anything stop her from achieving her goals.
11) Jasper Jones
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside his window. Jasper leads him deep into the forest and shows him something that will change his life forever, setting them both on a dangerous journey to solve a mystery that will consume the entire community. In an isolated town where secrecy, gossip and tragedy overwhelm the landscape, Charlie faces family...
12) Birthmarked
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, two respected scientists quit their jobs to conduct an experiment about human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
13) Glassland
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in a social housing suburb in Dublin with his mother, John ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. One day, he returns home to find his mother, Jean, unconscious from an alcohol overdose. With no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. Although his mother violently rejects John's attempts to support and unite his family, John faces his challenges,...
14) Mafia Mamma
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
15) Spotswood
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
When a consultant is hired to boost a factory's profits, economic theory collides with shop floor reality to create a deliciously dry social comedy starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Russell Crowe and Toni Collette. Wallace is a time and motion expert. After a lifetime of turning men into machines, Wallace has become bereft of emotion, treating all with a frigid indifference. But when he arrives at Balls Moccasin factory he is unnerved by...
16) Mary and Max
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a lonely eight-year-old girl who lives with her alcoholic mother, her factory working father, and a pet rooster in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max is a forty-four-year old, severely obese man with Asperger's syndrome living in New York City. Two unlikely pen-pals, they share a lengthy long-distance relationship that becomes complicated by Max's mental health issues, which cause problems both physical and emotional.
17) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A bachelor invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, but finds himself becoming involved with and committed to one woman's introverted 12-year-old son.
18) Like Minds
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this psychological thriller, forensic psychologist Sally Rowe (Toni Collette) is called in to assess 17-year-old Alex (Eddie Redmayne), who is accused of murdering his schoolmate, Nigel (Tom Sturridge). As she delves into the boys’ strange and intense friendship, she uncovers a dark and twisted connection rooted in shared obsessions and a disturbing fascination with the macabre. With mounting evidence and eerie flashbacks, the lines between truth...
19) Dream Horse
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
20) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“Who are you?” Jasira Maroun’s strict, Lebanese-born father asks. Jasira isn’t sure. She’s a typical 13-year-old. And an Arab-American who’s anything but typical to folks in her Houston suburb. She’s drawn to a boy at school. And to a hunky, married Army reservist neighbor. She’s curious about sex. And clueless about relationships. Then all these “who are you”s collide in a series of fateful, emotional, frequently funny events,...