The Color of Paradise (1999)
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed’s blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed’s father eventually takes him home.
Director: Majid Majidi
Actors: Behzad Rafi, Elham Sharifi, Farahnaz Safari, Hossein Mahjoub, Mohamad Rahmani, Mohsen Ramezani, Morteza Fatemi, Salameh Feyzi
Selena (1997)
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her…
Art School Confidential (2006)
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must…
Sins of the Mother (2010)
Shay is a young African-American college student whom is forced to take a year off from school to return to her hometown where she struggles with her anger and insecurity…
She-Man: A Story of Fixation (1967)
A soldier is forced to take estrogen and wear lingerie when he’s blackmailed by a violent transvestite.
Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a…
The Linda McCartney Story (2000)
In a dramatization of her life, Linda Eastman, takes a job snapping pictures for Rolling Stone Magazine, despite the objections of her straight-laced father, Lee Eastman. As Linda rubs elbows…
Taxi to Soweto (1991)
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep…