Stars & Roses (1989)

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Ernesto is a teenager who wanders, in search of himself, through the streets of Rome. Chapter after chapter, time passes and people just disappear but he continues to live impromptu…

Sasha is a young woman from Beijing, studying in Nebraska. She flies to the Bay Area and meets up with friends, including Boshen, a gay man who was the lover…

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying…

The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold…

Two brothers hitch hike across Tasmania to get to their mother’s funeral.

Jingle the Husky Pup and his buddy Andrew meet some new friends. A girl Andrew’s age, Sofia, and her Husky pup, Bell, have moved from sunny Palm City to Pineville…

Unable to sleep in the sweltering heat, a young couple bares their bodies — and their souls — to each other over one life-changing night. They didn’t know each other…

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human…

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.