Beach Pillows (2013)
Drama
Once-promising writer Morgan Midwood works at his father's furniture store to save up enough money to buy an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart and presumed saving grace. However, when he discovers she's been making a cuckold of him, he enters a tailspin-getting arrested, evicted, and fired in short order-and seems content to move home with his parents and embrace a life of anonymity and failed promise. At the same time, Morgan's carefree, underachieving best friend Nick, who has arguably exacerbated Morgan's troubles, finally decides to take some stock in his own life, championing a revolutionary piece of furnishing for sale in Morgan's father's store. Over the course of a Long Island summer full of love, laughs, heartbreak, and self-discovery, these two friends ride a violent and hilarious wave teeming with women, family, cops, and cons, hoping not to get swallowed under.
Starring: Geoffrey Arend, Vincent Kartheiser, Annette O'Toole, Richard Schiff, Nick Westrate, Alison Jaye Horowitz
Director: Sean Hartofilis
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The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger (2011)
Comedy | Horror
Full of plot holes & cheesy dialogue, The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger is a B horror movie straight out of the 80s. After taking a wrong turn down an abandoned road, the Jock, the Joker, the Blond Bimbo & the Paranoid Brunette run out of gas and find themselves stranded in the middle of the woods. What a total drag. What was that noise? Why is everyone vanishing? Is it all one of Bradley's dumb practical jokes, or could The Legend be true? Your compass can't help you in these woods.
Starring: Michael G MacDonald, Samuel MacDonald LeMoine, Colleen MacIsaac, Stefanie Peters, Gabe House, Ricky Newtown, Jeannine Maclean, Bhreagh Lafitte, Joshua Demeyere, Keith Daniel Morrison, Aaron Corbett
Director: Brad Mills
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Summer Window / Fenster zum Sommer (2011)
Drama
Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past – to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance a cruel setback in reality actually a second chance?
Starring: Nina Hoss, Mark Waschke, Fritzi Haberlandt, Lars Eidinger
Director: Hendrik Handloegten
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Otelo Burning (2011)
Drama
When 16 year old Otelo Buthelezi, his best friend, New Year, and his 12 year old brother, Ntwe, are invited to the beach-house of their new friend, Tau Modise, they step into a world previously closed to them. It is exactly the opposite of their township- a place under a constant and growing threat from political violence, driven by Inkatha hostel dwellers on one side and township United Democratic Front comrades on the other. Soon, everyone recognizes that Otelo is gifted on the water, a god in waiting for his purpose. An older white man, Kurt Struely, approaches the boys, certain of their potential and invites them to his home to watch some professional surfers on video. He paints them an enticing picture of the life to be had, if they can master every kind of break – money for nothing and the chicks for free. The boys practice and, under Struely's watchful eye, become really good. Otelo outshines his teacher, Tau, who begins to resent the obvious natural talent of his friend. His resentment builds even more when Dezi, New Year's younger sister, falls for Otelo. When Struely enters the boys into their first 'localism' competition, Tau persuades his cousin, Stembiso, to look after Ntwe at the township pool where the boys learnt to swim. But while the boys are carving out new paradigms on the water, Tau breaks his prized surfing board and Ntwe is burnt to death with a tire necklace as a suspected informer for the apartheid security police. When Otelo, with New Year's help, discovers the truth behind his younger brother's death, he has to make a choice between the money, glamour, girls and superstardom of international surfdom and justice for Ntwe. On the day Nelson Mandela steps out of prison for the first time in 27 years, what this boy chooses will resonate for audiences everywhere. He whisks her off and they spend a day of pure joy and freedom. For a moment, Anna forgets her predicament. But there is one problem. He does not have a South African passport. Now Anna must choose: between marrying for the sake of personal freedom, or loving even if it means having to leave.
Starring: Jafta Mamabolo, Thomas Gumede, Sihle Xaba, Tshepang Mohlomi
Director: Sara Blecher
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Happily Ever After / Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Music
What makes a marriage? Georges and Natalie argue and shout constantly; Fred, a bachelor playboy approaching 50, sleeps with many women, loving them all, living with none. Vincent, nearing 40, best friend of Georges and Fred, is married to Gabrielle and they have a son. He keeps his feelings to himself. He and Gabrielle are playful and passionate with each other, then bored and detached. Is Vincent holding back, and if so, why? A colleague accuses him of believing in romantic fairy tales. Gabrielle imagines them separated. Are the basics of life women working and men chasing skirts? Is marriage the alternative to possibilities?
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Yvan Attal
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The Harder They Come (1972)
Crime | Drama | Music
With dreams of becoming a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds corruption from his record producers and the drug pushers they're connected to. Rather than fail his dreams Ivan lets nothing stand in his way, not even the law.
Starring: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman
Director: Perry Henzell
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Do You Like My Basement? (2012)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Do You Like My Basement? tracks how one man's creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. Stanley Farmer was rejected universally by the film world. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish charm and a sociopath's streak compelled him to produce a home-made magnum opus. A film that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and demands the attention of the very world that spurned him.
Starring: Charlie Floyd, Devon Talbott, Jessica Alexandra Green, Andres De Vengoechea
Director: Roger Sewhcomar
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The Man from Orlando (2012)
Comedy
Orlando, a lifeguard in the summer and gangster in the winter, abandons his life of crime and returns to his hometown of Priddy, Texas. After getting in over his head with his Olympic swimmer ex-girlfriend and a crew of volunteer firefighters, his former lifeguard gang comes after him and the contents of his fanny pack.
Starring: Jason Newman, Lee Eddy, Alan Metoskie, Kelli Bland, Chris Doubek, Jonna Juul-Hansen
Director: Craig Elrod
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Adventures in the Sin Bin (2012)
Comedy
A virgin finds himself in an awkward love triangle after he gets into the habit of loaning out his van to his friends for their sexual encounters.
Starring: Michael Seater, Emily Meade, Bo Burnham, Brian Petsos, Gillian Jacobs, Ben McKenzie, Jeff Garlin, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Billy Federighi
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Tall as the Baobab Tree / Grand comme le Baobab (2012)
Adventure | Drama
Coumba and her little sister Debo are the first to leave their family's remote African village, where meals are prepared over open fires and water is drawn from wells, to attend school in the bustling city. But when an accident suddenly threatens their family's survival, their father decides to sell 11-year-old Debo into an arranged marriage. Torn between loyalty to her elders and her dreams for the future, Coumba hatches a secret plan to rescue her young sister from a fate she did not choose. A powerful voice from Africa's young generation, Grand comme le Baobab (Tall as the Baobab Tree) poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing at the outer edge of the modern world… where questions of right and wrong are not always black and white.
Starring: Alpha Dia, Cheikh Dia, Mboural Dia, Mouhamed Diallo, Dior Ka, Oumul Ka
Director: Jeremy Teicher
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