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Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Refusing to name his new son until he meets his birth parents, Mel Coplin (Stiller) sets out on a cross-country journey, quickly encountering a hilarious series of clerical errors, mistaken identities, misplaced friends, and super-charged libidos in this outrageous dark comedy.
43) Small Apartments
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In this hilarious indie comedy, Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) is surrounded by strange events and odd neighbors played by stars like Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, Rebel Wilson, and James Marsden. SMALL APARTMENTS was adapted from a Chris Millis' novel and nominated for the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"The brazen, colorful nature of the characters is the strength of this black comedy from Jonas Åkerlund -...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Set on a stretch of highway in a budget motel managed by Bobby (Willem Dafoe), just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, THE FLORIDA PROJECT follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother over the course of a single summer. Willem Dafoe was nominated for an **Oscar**, a **Golden Globe** and a **BAFTA** for his performance. Nominated for Best Director and Best Feature at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Official Selection at the...
45) H4
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
H4 translates Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV parts I and II, into a futuristic Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community.
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Christopher Munch’s boldly original debut, THE HOURS AND TIMES (1992), is a fictional account of what might have happened in April 1963, when John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein traveled to Barcelona for an extended weekend getaway. In the four days they spend together, the suave Epstein (David Angus) and the provocative Lennon (Ian Hart) reflect on their lives, both private and professional, as they explore the unique bond they share....
47) The Return
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Two Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they were once born in. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
48) Pleasure
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A journey into the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident and determined, Bella embarks on a mission to challenge the corrupt system and become the best at any cost. Ninja Thyberg's debut film features a stunning first time performance by Kappel, who anchors an ensemble of adult industry actors.
49) C'mon C'mon
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Johnny (Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.
50) Pasolini
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer, in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes from an unmade final film and his incomplete novel, Petrolio. Willem Dafoe, regally exhausted, is the spitting image of the murdered director, and Pasolini’s beloved muse Ninetto Davoli returns...
51) Black Cop
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
It's not easy being a black cop. Your community doesn't trust you, your colleagues are wary of you, being patronized by the people you protect is constant. And when the world is on edge waiting for a grand jury verdict on a high profile police case involving unarmed youth, all eyes are on you. For one officer already struggling between duty and moral obligation, things take a drastic turn when he is profiled by his colleagues off-duty, pushing him...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Marcel, a one inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When a brush with fame gives him a chance at reuniting with his long-lost friends and family, Marcel's big adventure begins in this bighearted and bittersweet, delightful and moving story of finding home.
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmopolitan musician Alex returns home to Hawaii, having been away for nearly a decade. He takes refuge in a Buddhist B&B with a woman named Akiko. Alex’s experimental free jazz music at first collides with the sounds of Akiko’s meditation, but as the film evolves and a friendship develops, the two harmonize. Nominated for Best First Film at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Winner of the Emerging...
54) Song of Granite
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Born in a remote village on Ireland's west coast, Joe Heaney conquered the shyness of his youth to become one of his country's most revered traditional vocalists, as chronicled in this lyrical biopic. Official selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Film at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**. *"The film's monochromatic images are so beautiful they're almost as soul-nourishing as the transporting vocals and otherworldly reels...
55) Rambling Rose
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
A confused and over-sexed young woman is taken in by a respectable Southern family. She is warmly received but trouble begins when she cannot control her sexual desires.
56) My Name Is Emily
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After her mother dies and her father is institutionalized, Emily is placed in a foster home and in a new school where she is ostracized. When her father’s annual card fails to arrive on her 16th birthday, Emily knows something’s wrong. She decides to take matters into her own hands and, enlisting her only friend at school, Arden, sets off on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward. As their journey progresses Emily and Arden become...
57) Columbus
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Nominated for the Audience...
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive, a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old American-born son, Bobby find themselves living in Oklahoma. As her top priority, Olive seeks to give Bobby the things she never had. But despite of her efforts (or perhaps because of them) Bobby displays troubling behavior both at his school and in their conservative neighborhood. Things take a turn for the worse after Bobby’s...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Shanon, a reformed drug dealer, is now an insurance claims adjuster. In the days following a grim medical diagnosis he sets out to make peace with those around him and in turn find his own peace beyond the cacophony of New York City. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the **Slamdance Film Festival** and the **Atlanta Film Festival**. *"Writer-director Keith Miller's existential tone and Harper's gentle approach and giant...
60) Boy A
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman. A local newspaper finds out about his past and Jack now finds himself trying to cope with the anger and fear for the safety of their children.
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