That Certain Summer (1972)
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Actors: Hal Holbrook, Hope Lange, Joe Don Baker, Marlyn Mason, Martin Sheen, Scott Jacoby
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (along with “Trilogy” and “The Long Day Closes”) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based…
The Gangster (2012)
Jod is a gangster who has been sent to jail as a result of a military coup that brings a new order to the streets. In the young gangsters’ neighbourhood,…
Female Perversions (1996)
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
Heaven Knows What (2015)
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
The Substance of Fire (1996)
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books…
Shor in the City (2011)
Various residents and career-criminals face challenges in crime-laden Mumbai.
Last Screening (2011)
Sylvain, a young man, devotes his life to small, local movie theater destined to be shut down. He lives in the theater’s basement and is the theater programer, projectionist, and…
Bloodhound (2020)
Private investigator Abel Walker (Ackerman) along with his cameraman, Jim (Foy), are on the hunt for a missing woman. As they unravel the mystery of her disappearance, they become caught…
Eugenie (1970)
Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she initiated into a world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance. But when she surrenders…