In My Country / Country of My Skull (2004)
Drama | Romance
A cynical American journalist's affair with a beautiful Afrikaans reporter opens his eyes to the healing powers of forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson
Director: John Boorman
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Drama
An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back.
Starring: Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daisy Eagan
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
It's My Turn / A Perfect Circle (1980)
Comedy | Drama
Jill Clayburgh has everything the modern woman is supposed to want, but somehow it's not enough. She meets and falls in love with her new stepmother's son and must find a way to deal with her father's new wife; her old boyfriend; and her new relationship with her stepbrother.
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill, Dianne Wiest
Director: Eleanor Bergstein
The Gallows (2015)
Horror | Thriller
Twenty years after an accident during a small town high school play results in death, students at the school resurrect the failed stage production in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy – but ultimately find out that some things are better left alone.
Starring: Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Travis Cluff, Price T. Morgan
Director: Travis Cluff, Chris Lofing
Boulevard (2014)
Drama
A devoted husband in a marriage of convenience is forced to confront his secret life.
Starring: Robin Williams, Bob Odenkirk, Kathy Baker, Giles Matthey, Eleonore Hendricks
Director: Dito Montiel
Clean (2004)
Drama | Music
London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser, who seems to be on the brink of stardom. Those that know the couple believe she is a bad influence on him, and is the reason why he is a junkie. After Lee dies from an accidental heroin overdose and Emily is imprisoned for six months on possession charges, she learns that the courts have awarded custody of their young adolescent son, Jay, to Lee's aging parents, Albrecht and Rosemary Hauser, who live in Vancouver. A concerned Albrecht asks that she not attempt to see Jay for at least two years while she cleans up her act so as to give Jay a fighting chance at a decent life. Emily initially agrees, knowing that she is in no position to look after Jay. To regain her life, she decides to move back to her old stomping grounds of Paris. As Emily tries mostly unsuccessfully to become clean while eking out a living doing what she wants to earn money, which is primarily still in the realm of rock music, Rosemary poisons Jay's mind about his mother. Caught in the middle is Albrecht, who, out of personal circumstance, wants Jay to eventually have a relationship with his mother if only because he knows that he and Rosemary will not be able to look after Jay until adulthood and that Emily is the only other family he has.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar
Director: Olivier Assayas
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Drama
A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ten-year-old girl whose father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is a successful and well-liked doctor in an African-American community in Louisiana. Louis is a good father and an excellent provider, but he also has a way of attracting the ladies, and he's not inclined to turn them away. One night, the Batistes hold a party, and Eve, her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good), and their mother Roz (Lynn Whitfield) all notice that Louis is spending a great deal of time dancing with the same woman. Eve later spies her father and the woman in an embrace in the carriage house, though Louis unconvincingly claims that nothing untoward was happening. The evidence of Louis' infidelity takes a toll on the entire family: Cisely, who at age 14 is walking the middle-ground between being a girl and a woman, becomes sullen and confused about her new emotions, Roz takes out her frustrations on her loved ones, and Eve visits Elzora (Diahann Carroll), a voodoo priestess, looking for advice and possibly revenge. Meanwhile, Eve's Aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan), who claims to have psychic powers, arrives to stay with the family after the death of her third husband, though she isn't lonely for long after meeting the eccentric Julien Greyraven (Vondie Curtis-Hall). Eve's Bayou was the first project as writer-director for actress Kasi Lemmons; leading man Samuel L. Jackson also co-produced.
Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Meagan Good, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Debbi Morgan, Diahann Carroll
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Ethan Frome (1993)
Drama | Romance
In this classic Edith Wharton tale of blazing passion and forbidden desire, Liam Neeson stars as Ethan Frome, a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another (Patricia Arquette). His actions soon lead to a forbidden triangle between one love that is and one that will never be.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, Tate Donovan, Katharine Houghton, Gil Rood
Director: John Madden
Crossing the Bridge (1992)
Comedy | Drama
An off-screen narrator, Mort Golden, takes us back to winter around 1975, the year he was 21. He and his two buddies, Tim and Danny, have a fateful trip over the bridge from Detroit into Canada. The three of them are going nowhere in life, although Mort has thoughts of being a writer, while his mom wants him to go to college. He and his pals contemplate making a quick fortune transporting drugs over the border in their beat-up Buick, "the war wagon." Mort's also hopelessly in love with a girl he dated briefly a couple years before. With border inspectors, Tim's temper, and Danny's bottled up emotions, is there any way this can end well?
Starring: Josh Charles, Jason Gedrick, Stephen Baldwin, David Schwimmer, Abraham Benrubi
Director: Mike Binder
Entourage / Entourage The Movie (2015)
Comedy
Film star Vince Chase and his cronies take on Hollywood.
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon, Jeremy Piven, Debi Mazar
Director: Doug Ellin
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Digging for Fire (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Young married couple Tim and Lee have planted the seeds of a family in their East L.A. duplex. Three years after the birth of their son, they’re still adjusting to the joy and pain of life with kid, navigating potty talk at the dinner table, disagreeing over preschools, and putting off doing their taxes. For a change of pace, they decide to house-sit for one of Lee’s Westside yoga clients. Once there, Tim discovers something suspicious in the yard that gets the wheels in his head turning, and Lee, worried that he will become obsessed with digging deeper, decides to drop their toddler off with her mother for a much-needed night out on the town. Sans-wife, Tim invites his buddies over, and a “boys-will-be-boys” scenario ensues, full of drinking, awkward joint-passing, and perhaps getting a bit too close to a girl who isn’t the mother of his child.
Starring: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick
Director: Joe Swanberg
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Love & Mercy (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Director: Bill Pohlad
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Sequoia (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A very lively woman with a very deadly cancer visits a national park with the intention of ending her life there– but her suicide plans are continually thwarted, not least of all by her family, which finds itself unamused with her death wish.
Starring: Aly Michalka, Joey Lauren Adams, Lou Diamond, Corbin Frost, Sophi Bairley, Sean Hood, Todd Lowe, Demetri Martin, Dustin Milligan
Director: Andy Landen
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Teen Lust (2014)
Comedy
An awkward and inexperienced high school nerd must do everything in his power to lose his virginity before his parents and their cult can offer him as sacrifice to their dark lord.
Starring: Jesse Carere, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Annie Clark, Daryl Sabara
Director: Blaine Thurier
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Allure (2014)
Drama
Based on true stories, ALLURE is a process-driven film, where filmmakers and actors worked together through a series of improvisations to tell the stories of five women in New York, who come from five very different countries. Each one struggles to overcome her personal conflict, set against the Occupy Wall Street movements of 2011. These stories touch and inform each other, and create a larger narrative about gender, emigration, power, class, and personal politics.
Starring: Madeleine Assas, Toussaint Raphael Abessolo, Patricia Arriaga-Jordán, Ryan Barker, Yohan Belmin
Director: Vladan Nikolic
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State of Grace (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, Burgess Meredith
Director: Phil Joanou
That Night (1992)
Drama | Romance
Alice is a reserved, introspective 12-year-old girl who idealizes her neighbor, high-school student Sheryl. Through Alice's point-of-view, we witness the deterioration of Sheryl's life after the death of her father. After becoming pregnant after a fling with the blunt Rick, Sheryl is whisked away to a home for unwed mothers. Observing Rick's torment, Alice crawls out of her shell to help him track down Sheryl and reunite the two lovers.
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Helen Shaver, Eliza Dushku, J. Smith-Cameron, John Dossett, Katherine Heigl
Director: Craig Bolotin
Deterrence (1999)
Drama | Thriller
Forced by a freak snowstorm to take refuge in a remote diner, U.S. President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) and his top aides (Timothy Hutton and Sheryl Lee Ralph) receive some shocking news: a large Iraqi offensive has been mounted in the Middle East. Now the President and his staff must try to control a constantly escalating crisis that puts the world on the brink of nuclear doomsday.
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Clotilde Courau, Badja Djola, Sean Astin
Director: Rod Lurie
The Captive / Queen of the Night (2014)
Thriller
A father tries to track down his kidnapped daughter.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast
Director: Atom Egoyan
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
The loving owners of three irresistible pets (Chance, a fun-loving American bulldog pup; Sassy, a hilarious Himalayan cat who lives up to her name; and Shadow, a wise old golden retriever) are forced to leave them in the temporary care of a friend who lives hundreds of miles away. But after several days, the worried animals begin to their family must be in trouble, so they decide to head for home. On their incredible journey across the ruggedly beautiful Sierras, they encounter unexpected surprises from man, beast, and nature alike.
Starring: Don Ameche, Sally Field, Michael J. Fox, Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Benj Thall
Director: Duwayne Dunham
