Lesser Prophets (1997)
The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them
Director: William DeVizia
Actors: Amy Brenneman, Elizabeth Perkins, Jimmy Smits, John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Scott Glenn
Against the Sea (2011)
Contra El Mar (Against The Sea) is a portrait of a young marriage struggling to find common ground amid hardship and uncertainty.
Whiffs (1975)
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its…
Bandit Queen (1995)
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India’s patriarchal society, “married” at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi…
The First Circle (1992)
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante’s Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow…