Passing Glory (1999)
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960’s. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games’ history leading to the integration in today’s sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn’t just make shots, they made history.
Alila (2003)
Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can’t get out of one another’s faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and…
The Amputee (1974)
A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
Couple in a Hole (2016)
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
City Streets (1931)
A mobster’s daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
8 Mile (2002)
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy “B-Rabbit”…
Indochine (1992)
Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid…
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her…