Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Hip-hop’s most famous family agrees to participate in a live Christmas television special to address negative press and soften their image.

The engaging story of an over-the-hill professional wrestler who’s afraid of conflict in real life, but agrees to face “The Darkness” in the ring in an attempt to regain his…

Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n’er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave…

A chance encounter brings a brash, wealthy young man and an underprivileged woman together when they get stuck in an elevator and she goes into labor.

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that…

After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei, a Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, a Nigerian, fights for…

A brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s first rock band.

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, “The Harder They…

In the 1990s’ Allahabad, a brash college student gets drawn into an uproar surrounding a critical bill that will affect India’s education system.

Winter 1839. Liberty, Missouri. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery is tasked with watching Missouri’s most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians’ increased drive to…

A former Smokejumper has to face his scorched past when called to ride his motorcycle a thousand miles across Montana with his estranged teenage daughter.

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.