Twist (2003)
In a gritty retelling of the Dickens’s classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anuta Bondarenko, Jacob Tierney
Actors: Andre Noble, Gary Farmer, Joshua Close, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier, Nick Stahl
Je suis Karl (2021)
After most of her family is murdered in a terrorist bombing, a young woman is unknowingly lured into joining the very group that killed them.
I Saw the Light (2016)
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (1999)
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred “colored”) sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college…
Dead Bodies (2003)
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn’s grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had…
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
The McMartin family’s lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty “expert” videotapes the…
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother’s identity.
Tempted (2003)
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of…
Barbershop (2002)
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but…
Brampton’s Own (2018)
A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old wounds until confronted with the one that hurts the most – the girl…
Mending Fences (2009)
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to…