
The Selfish Giant
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clio Barnard, Sylvia Parker
Actors: Conner Chapman, Ian Burfield, Lorraine Ashbourne, Ralph Ineson, Rebecca Manley, Rhys McCoy, Sean Gilder, Shaun Thomas, Siobhan Finneran, Steve Evets
Country: United Kingdom
With Good Reason
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation…
Under the Tree
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Permission
A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure…
Uprising
Brighton Rock
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Wicked Little Letters
When deeply conservative English local Edith Swan and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, her rowdy, foul-mouthed, Irish migrant neighbor Rose Gooding is charged…
Katie’s Mom
A recent divorcee’s holiday celebration with her adult children derails when she falls for her daughter’s charming new boyfriend. A comedy influenced by “The Graduate,” told from the perspective of…
The Book of Love
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together,…
Thirteen Women
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.