Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A smooth-talking telemarketer finds himself at the mercy of the man he tried to swindle.

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

Eli learns that his absent father was a Detroit pool hall legend. He journeys into the scene, and must confront the realities and danger of the game – and himself.

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Martin moves around Buenos Aires at night, picking up guys, going to clubs, scoring drugs and having sex. Sometimes he’s paying and sometimes his trans sex-worker friend or another woman…

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of…

A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father’s New York business, but the dead man’s crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.

The true story of one man’s mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had – a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown…