Places in the Heart (1984)

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet…

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain….

Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son’s life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn’t done.

Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the South of France. During their journey they realize that, however unlikely, they’re not so…

A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears’ 1958 drama stars Edmond O’Brien, Robert McQueeney,…

A man becomes a bookie after losing his job as a day trader.

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a…

Based on a real story, this Dominican drama is an intriguing account of the murder of Amin Abel Hasbun, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping…

Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that…

For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too — half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.

A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau’s upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle…