Saturday’s Children (1940)
Director: Vincent Sherman
Actors: Anne Shirley, Claude Rains, Dennie Moore, John Garfield, Lee Patrick, Roscoe Karns
Country: United States of America
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile…
Emma Mae (1976)
A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon…
The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.
Teachers (1984)
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write….
Waters Rising (2007)
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The…
The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990)
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks…
Pressure (1976)
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a…
Prison Song (2001)
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah…