The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck ‘oil man’, Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day’s land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil…but at what cost?
Genre: Drama
Director: James Keach
Actors: Aidan Quinn, Billy Bob Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Frances Fisher, Francesca Eastwood, Joe Stevens, Kaytlyn Knowles, Lexi Randall, Robert Duvall, Victor Wong
Crossing Borders (2006)
Spain 1960, the dawn of the country’s economic development. Industrial “reorganization” means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin,…
Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins…
The United States of Leland (2003)
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community…
Unpregnant (2020)
A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career…
Private Confessions (1996)
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of…
A Step Toward Tomorrow (1997)
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
Samowolka (1993)
Do jednostki wojskowej przyjeżdżają nowi poborowi. Starsi koledzy ostrzegają ich przed Tygrysem, byłym kryminalistą, faktycznym władcą kompanii, słynącym z bezwzględności i sadyzmu. Co gorsza jest on w praktyce bezkrany, gdyż…