Newly available for purchase this week on streaming video, we’ve got an inspirational Disney sports drama starring Kevin Costner, the latest Liam Neeson-powered crime thriller, and a small but well-received teen drama. Then, on the subscription side, Netflix offers up an Ava Duvernay drama and a popular recent musical comedy, while Fandor unleashes a number of acclaimed classics from the likes of Kurosawa, Fellini, Ozu, Godard, Bergman, and Renoir, and Crackle gives us a handful of fan favorites and a new Lifetime series. Read on for the full list:
Kevin Costner stars in this Certified Fresh sports drama, based on true events, about a high school cross country coach who leads his predominantly Mexican-American team to the state championship.
Available now on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play
Liam Neeson plays Jimmy, a broken-down mob assassin with a long personal and professional history with crime boss Shawn (Ed Harris). But when Jimmy kills Shawn’s kid in order to save his son’s life, he finds his old buddy gunning for him.
Available now on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play
I Believe in Unicorns is a drama about a teenage girl with an active imagination who gets in over her head when she falls in love with an older boy.
Available now on: Vimeo
David Oyelowo stars in this drama about a med student whose life is upended when her husband is incarcerated, from Selma director Ava DuVernay.
Available now on: Netflix
Gaelan Connell stars as a David Bowie-obsessed kid who’s asked to manage the band of a would-be singer-songwriter (Alyson Michalka). Will falls for one of the band’s new members (Vanessa Hudgens), and finds he must navigate the minefield of his emotions while preparing his charges for a battle of the bands.
Available now on: Netflix
This coming-of-age drama stars Michelle Hendley as a young transgender woman navigating the complex relationship she forms with another woman who’s engaged to a soldier.
Available now on: Netflix
Based on the British sitcom of the same name, this comedy sequel reunites Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison), and Jay (James Buckley) as the foursome meet up in Australia on holiday.
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Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece about a ragtag group of wandering samurai who team up to protect a village from marauding bandits has influenced everything from Star Wars to Inglourious Basterds.
Available now on: Fandor
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Formally rigorous but profoundly moving, Yasujiro Ozu’s heartbreaking classic is the story of an elderly couple taking a final journey to the big city.
Available now on: Fandor
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A staple on lists of the greatest movies ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a dark satire set in an opulent country estate, where aristocrats and servants intermingle with occasionally explosive results.
Available now on: Fandor
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A Bogart-obsessed Frech hoodlum hangs out with a stylish American newspaper vendor in Jean-Luc Godard’s insanely influential, impeccibly cool, and endlessly entertaining film, which helped springboard the French New Wave to worldwide prominance.
Available now on: Fandor
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One of Ozu’s finest works, Late Spring is the tale of a widower who pretends to be engaged so he can convince his lonely daughter to enter into a marriage of her own and leave the family nest.
Available now on: Fandor
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Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio star in this classic 1980s flick about a bullied high schooler in a new town who finds an unlikely father figure when his apartment’s maintenance man agrees to train him in karate.
Available now on: Crackle
Lifetime’s latest drama focuses on the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding the production of a fictional reality show.
Available now on: Crackle
