Queen of Katwe (2016)

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle…

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered…

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.

A young punk rocker in Istanbul tracks down a cruise ticket to California on the night of his birthday gig. Based on the director’s personal family story. Film sets during…

Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel’s many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper…

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts…

A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But…

After getting her start in her parents’ vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl’s enormous talent, and before long…

Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their…

Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their…

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother–a lawyer–don’t like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.