Taboo (1999)
Set during Japan’s Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school’s stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Actors: Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Kitano, Tomoro Taguchi, Yôichi Sai
Chapter Two (1979)
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things…
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story (2003)
After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
Pitch Black Heist (2011)
Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling…
Club Zero (2023)
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
O’er the Land (2009)
A meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.
Winter Kills (1979)
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father’s…
Praise (1998)
An unfocused twentysomething (Peter Fenton) moves in with a former co-worker (Sacha Holder), who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their…