Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Director: Jonathan Sanger
Actors: Cliff Gorman, Jay O. Sanders, Jeffrey DeMunn, L. Scott Caldwell, Laura Dern, Raúl Juliá, Sarita Choudhury, Vanessa Redgrave
The Outfit (1973)
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother’s death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only…
Durian Durian (2000)
Fruit Chan’s second feature of 2000 takes its title from the Durian, a fruit whose large, ungainly exterior and delicious taste serve as a metaphor for the film’s Hong Kong…
Peel (2019)
After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge…
Return to Algiers (2000)
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That’s been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir….
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Reeling from her mother’s recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop’s owner,…
Lap Dance (2014)
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made…
Wadjda (2012)
Bloodworth (2010)
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home – a forgotten corner of Tennessee – after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his…
A Better Life (2011)
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city’s wealthy landowners.
The Work and the Glory (2004)
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800’s, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their…