Around the Fire (1998)

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner,…

When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão’s delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the…

A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equally-troubled department chair, rampant student…

Four brothers living in the fishing hamlet of Kumbalangi share a love-hate relationship with each other. Their relationship progresses to another level when Saji, Boney and Franky decide to help…

Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli…

Music critic Bob is out of a job, addicted to Zoloft, and trying to wrangle the menagerie of animals that his wife Linda has accumulated. Will adopting a baby cure…

As her 40th birthday draws near, high school librarian Daisy feels societal pressure to settle down and start a family. When the art teacher at Daisy’s school abruptly quits mid-term,…

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should…

At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos…

On a cross country road trip to rob his home town bank Prince Mccoy finds himself having to rely on the help of an ex convict hitchhiker named Carl Robbins….

On the eve of Christmas, Sheriff Rick Langston has lost his holiday spirit. But when he arrests a home intruder claiming to be Santa Claus, his world gets turned upside-down…

Hostage negotiator Alan Bender is called to rescue the president from a kidnapping, only to find himself also mediating to save his wife and marriage.