America So Beautiful
Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, but in the seedy dying discos of 1979 Los Angeles, a naive young immigrant is hostage to his own American dream. Houshang, or "Hank" when he's pretending to be Italian to get past prejudiced doormen, sees the disco club circuit as his ticket to a better life. Houshang's ambition leads to a chaotic...
Despite their wildly different working styles, Grace and John manage to chronicle the hopes and dreams of four fascinating subjects: IVAN, a convenience-store clerk who longs for a career in publishing; LISA, a florist trying to recover her lost memories; JUDY, a hopeless romantic who learns to accept her true nature; and JOEL...
“American Shopper” is a hybrid documentary* that documents the introduction of "Aisling," a new supermarket sport that promotes self-expression through creative shopping, and, in a larger sense, celebrates the human desire to rise above the ordinary. It follows eight “aislers” as they modify shopping carts, create costumes, and rehearse...
From a remote mountain village in Tunisia, Kalt, a female hacker hijacks the airwaves in Northern Africa and France to broadcast political messages. When Julia, a French Intelligence officer, gets on the case, she flies in from france to infiltrate the hacker world and find out who is behind the interruptions. Things quickly turn into a...
Hugh Grant stars as a British engineer who becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences. Based on a true story, the film beautifully captures the magic and mystery of India. The accomplished cast...
A shocking and offbeat story of two French lovers, Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Betty (Beatrice Dalle), who fall into a deeply erotic and all-encompassing relationship. Zorg is a simple repairman in his mid-thirties who lives a relatively dull life in a remote, weathered shack until he meets Betty, a sexy, mercurial younger woman who...
Believe it or not? From talented directors Grace Lee, Tamas Bojtor and Alex Karpovsky, these films will have you wondering who's real and who's not...
Cocaine Angel captures a grinding and tragic week in the life of a weary young drug addict who is clinging to the remnants of his once hopeful existence amidst the stink, the sweat, and unforgiving heart of Jacksonville, Florida...
DAVE MASSEY (Matthew Mabe), visiting New York City for the first time as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, falls into an unlikely affair with his long-lost college friend LEA (Woodwyn Koons), a Liberal who has returned to the city to protest the Republican agenda. Meanwhile, Lea’s political colleague DYLAN (Alek Friedman)...
Lydia is a fat, graceful woman struggling to maintain her identity in fashionable Venice Beach, CA. She still struggles with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic Venice real estate agent, is struggling with the same issues from a very different perspective. Her attempt to join the Fat Acceptance...
Despite arctic temperatures sheathing Minnesota's lakes in three feet of solid ice, an inexplicable stretch of water surfaces on North Long Lake. Determined to unravel this mystery for a television pilot called "Provincial Puzzlers", an aspiring director is slowly engulfed in a maniacal search that leads to his own unraveling...
THE LAST HURRAH is a comedy filmed in a single continuous shot. Set at a graduation party in Los Angeles, an eclectic group of brainy philosophy students, train-hopping hippies, aspiring prophets and drug-addled hipsters come together for one wild night...
With his father in prison and his mother working long hours at a nursing home, Lenny, age 11, is looking after his younger brother, Joey, age 7. Lenny plans to celebrate his twelfth birthday with friends at Coney Island on the Cyclone rollercoaster -- which Joey is too small to ride. When the mother goes away for the weekend she leaves Lenny in...
When gorgeous bride-to-be Vanessa Sinclair (Rachael Leigh Cook, She's All That, Josie and the Pussycats, and the upcoming,Nancy Drew film) starts fantasizing about every man she sees, she seeks refuge in the church confessional. After pouring out her soul to the priest inside, Vanessa asks him to remain by her side to help her...
Can a boy of nine be a big brother, a father, a mother and a luminary all at once? For young Ayse, the answer is yes. In fact, as far as she's concerned, her big brother, Ahmet, is afraid of nothing at all. But the truth is, Ahmet is a child too; and he too has his fears. Equally, it's impossible for him to know everything. Their father, Kazim...
BETTY BLUE director Jean Jacques Beineix's terrifically atmospheric and vastly underrated adaptation of David Goodis' noir classic stars Gerard Depardieu as a raffish longshoreman who mourns his raped, suicided sister amongst the bars and sleazy dives of the seedy Marseilles waterfront. When mystery girl Nastassja Kinski goes slumming in his...
Psychoanalyst Michel (Jean-Hugues Anglade) falls asleep while listening to sado-masochist kleptomania patient Olga (Helene de Fourgerolles) and awakens to find her strangled. Panicking, he decides to get rid of the body himself, lest he be saddled with her murder. Complication erupt when Olga's rich husband (Yves Renier) comes looking...
Oscar® winner, Alan Arkin, stars as Flagg Purdy, a lovable, but stubborn father of six who is easily overwhelmed by life’s little annoyances. When a silly argument with his neighbor sends Flagg into believing he is dying, his devoted wife and his estranged children are brought together where sibling conflicts and long-simmering...
Two criminals find they can't escape the watchful eyes of cameras in day-to-day life. "Sliver" was just the beginning...
Adult-industry satire with Annette O'Toole as an 'actress' about to retire. When rare footage of a now-famous actress is found, O'Toole must decide whether to release it and make a mint, or follow her flower-child values and bury it...
Tre (Daniel Cariaga), a slacker, uses his brains, not his brawn, to seduce a woman seeking revenge against her husband. The woman, a brassy but vulnerable actress/waitress named Nina (Alix Koromzay), moved out of the house after discovering that her husband had kissed another woman…for ten seconds...
Born Jonathan French in Beverly Hills, California and orphaned at 3 months old, this young boy was adopted by his Mexican nanny (Lupe Ontiveros) and step-father (Danny Trejo) and raised to be a good, God-fearing Mexican with...
Born Jonathan French in Beverly Hills, California and orphaned at 3 months old, this young boy was adopted by his Mexican nanny (Lupe Ontiveros) and step-father (Danny Trejo) and raised to be a good, God-fearing Mexican with...
Chicago Nightclub - New Year's Eve 1944. Lt. Mike Clarke is a fighter pilot and is celebrating the night before he is scheduled to ship out to Europe. After too many drinks, he meets a stranger, Vito Massucci, who suckers...
In a now classic spoof of the Hollywood star making machine, film producer Sy Lerner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York...
In a now classic spoof of the Hollywood star making machine, film producer Sy Lerner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York...
Gas Hole is an eye-opening documentary about the history of oil prices and sheds light on a secret that the big oil companies don't want you to know – that there are viable and affordable alternatives to fuel! It also...
A French cult classic, Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) was an international smash when released in 1986. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (Diva) and featuring an indelible screen debut by Béatrice Dalle, Betty Blue hypnotized...
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela (Shari Solanis) is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill (James Wortham)...
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela (Shari Solanis) is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill (James Wortham)...
After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America, in search of his ancestors taken away from his village two hundred years ago...
Gérard (Gérard Depardieu) is an emotional wreck following the rape and suicide of his sister and is obsessed with finding the man who attacked her. After lurking around the streets, he meets Loretta...
A French cult classic, Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) was an international smash when released in 1986. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (Diva) and featuring an indelible screen debut by Béatrice Dalle, Betty Blue hypnotized...
Mark is an average guy who has found himself unlucky in love. With is latest relationship ruined, and looking for a hobby to fill his love-free spare time, he signs up for a Karate Class... only to arrive and find himself...