The Practice of Love (1985)

Prequel to the Henry James classic “Turn of the Screw” about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the…

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother’s lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she…

A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.

A playful young man leads a very happy life, but everything changes when his father witnesses a heinous crime.

A mother imprisons her daughter in their basement to prevent bad choices, unaware she’s recreating her own traumatic past. As neighbors notice the girl’s absence, suspicion falls on the conflicted…

A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vietnam. The proud men butt…

Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world…

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends…

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child’s death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh…

Frankie Dymon’s Death May be Your Santa Claus (1969), arguably Britain’s first and only example of a ‘black power’ movie, in which themes of sexual and political identity encircle one…

The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman who has been the family’s helper for sixty years.