Alphabetical Listing (By Film)
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1883
Shea Brennan was a former captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and his current partner, Thomas, was his loyal sergeant…
1945
In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…
The 39 Steps
During a performance at a London Music Hall, Richard Hannay hears a gunshot…
3 Faces
Behnaz Jafari is a popular actress in Iran. She sees a video of a young girl, Marziyeh, pleading for help to escape the stifling restrictions of her conservative family…
42
In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defied the major league color barrier…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In 1987 Communist Romania, Otilia and Gabriela, two female college students, share a dorm room…
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln leaves his Kentucky home for the first when he and two friends are hired to take a boatload of pigs to New Orleans…
About Elly
The film, About Elly, begins when a group of three married couples, their three children, Ahmad, a recently divorced young man, and Elly, the attractive, single teacher…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
Advocate
Advocate is a film about Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she tirelessly navigates through Israel’s judicial system defending Palestinian prisoners…
A French Village
In June 1940, German military forces occupied the fictional French village of Villeneuve. They quickly took control of all aspects of the village’s life and businesses. All political dissent and resistance were brutally suppressed…
The African Queen
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German-controlled East Africa…
A Hard Day’s Night
The madcap events start when the Beatles escape a horde of fans at the train station in Liverpool before boarding the train to London. They display patience and good humor as they encounter many interruptions…
A Hero
Rahim is given a two-day leave from an Iranian debtor’s prison. Rahim borrowed money from a loan shark and was unable pay it back when it came due…
Airplane!
Ted Striker is a traumatized former war veteran pilot. He’s been unemployed since his discharge. His girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, a flight stewardess, ditches him as she boards a plane. Hoping to get her back, Ted buys a ticket for the same flight…
A Kind of Loving
Vic Brown and Ingrid Rothwell work in the same Manchester factory. Vic finds Ingrid attractive and they meet…
A League of Their Own
When America faced a shortage of professional baseball players during World War II, Walter Harvey, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, decided to start…
A Prairie Home Companion
In Saint Paul, Minnesota, the long running radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion is preparing its final broadcast…
A Taste of Honey
Jo is a 17-year-old teenager living in the post-industrial area of Salford, England…
Alias Grace
Set in 19th century Canada, “Alias Grace” is about convicted murderess Grace Marks. Grace left Ireland as a child on a filthy, unhealthy ship…
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt’s husband is killed in an auto accident in New Mexico…
Alien
The film begins with the return to earth of the space tug “Nostromo,” with seven crew members on board. The ship’s computer receives a distress signal from a ship on a nearby moon. “Nostromo” reverses course and heads for…
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi, a 60-year-pld window-cleaner and a widow in Munich, enters a bar to get out of the rain. With the jukebox playing music…
All Creatures Great and Small
A 2020 adaptation of James Herriot’s endearing memoirs of his days as a veterinarian in a small village in Yorkshire, England…
All In: The Fight for Democracy
This searing documentary traces the origins and history of voter suppression in American political history. We no longer require voters to pass incomprehensible literacy tests or pay poll taxes…
All the Way
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States. With the assistance of his wife Lady Bird, and the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson is fiercely determined to pass the Civil Rights Act before the next election…
All Is Well
Janne is an unemployed thirty-something publishing professional who encounters an old friend, Robert. He offers her a job…
All Quiet on the Western Front
This Oscar-winning film was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and many feel it makes a most persuasive anti-war statement. When World War I breaks out in 1914 in Europe, adolescent students in a German school heed…
All Screwed Up
Workers from rural southern Italy relocate to Milan, share a house, and try to adjust living in a big city…
A Man Called Ove
Ove Lindahl lives in a Swedish townhouse neighborhood. He’s had three recent emotional setbacks: he was deposed of his chairmanship of the neighborhood association, six months ago he lost his beloved wife, Sonja…
A Man Escaped
Lieutenant Fontaine, a French resistant fighter during World War II, is captured by the Nazis and imprisoned…
A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey is attempting to obtain from the Pope an annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a marriage that has not produced a male heir…
America America
In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…
Anatomy of a Murder
Paul Biegler, a retired small-time Michigan lawyer, is contacted by Laura Manion and asked to defend her husband, Lt. Frederick Manion. Pushed by his alcoholic mentor and friend, Parnell McCarthy, Biegler agrees to take the case. Lt. Manion was arrested…
Anatomy of a Murder
Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
In 1987, Michael Morton, an inventory clerk for a grocery store chain, was arrested and indicted for the brutal beating and murder of his wife…
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox, a 20-year-old American, doing post-graduate work in Perugia, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are accused of brutally murdering Amanda’s roommate, Meredith Kercher…
American Factory
Two days before Christmas, in 2008, General Motors closed its plant in Moraine, Ohio, a small town outside Dayton. 10,000 people became unemployed (…)
American Graffiti
As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…
Amores Perros
Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…
A Most Beautiful Thing
Ken Alpart, a man who excelled at rowing while a student at Penn, decided to recruit African Americans from Manley High School and form a rowing team….
A New Leaf
Henry Graham, a playboy who inherited a substantial amount of money, has been informed by his lawyer that he’s dead-broke. He spent all his wealth on maintaining a profligate lifestyle. Henry has no skills and no interest in pursuing work…
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
For 19 seasons, travel writer/personality Anthony Bourdain travelled around the world visiting places as exotic as the Congo, Saigon, Cuba and as contemporary as New York and Las Vegas…
Antz
Z is the name of a neurotic working ant in an anthill with millions of inhabitants. He meets the ravishing Princess Bala, a much more refined ant. As Z revs up his efforts to woo Bala, he antagonizes General Mandible, Bala’s fiance…
A Place to Call Home
This series is set in New South Wales, Australia, shortly after the end of World War II. After 20 years living in Europe, and surviving the war, Sarah Adams, is returning to her home in Inverness, Australia…
Apollo II
Producer Todd Douglas Miller and his production team, with the assistance of NASA and the National Archives and Records Administration, discovered unreleased (…)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Youngers are a lower middle-class black family living in Chicago’s South Side…
L’Argent
Norbert, a student in Paris, is in debt to a classmate. He tries to borrow money from a friend by hocking his watch…
Art and Craft
Mark A.Landis was the only son of a globe-trotting military officer and a mother with a love for the finer things…
Arthur Miller: Writer
Rebecca Miller’s loving documentary of her famous father, Arthur Miller, includes his origins as the son of a Polish immigrant who made a fortune and then lost it all during the Great Depression. Rebecca moves on…
A River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
At Eternity’s Gate
Vincent van Gogh’s last years are spent in Arles, the sunny part of France. His brother, Theo, supports Vincent and also buys…
Au Hasard Balthazar
On a French farm near the Pyrenees, a donkey is born and adopted by Jacques and Marie, his sweetheart…
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Jane Pittman, a 110-year-old former slave…
Avalon
In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…
A Very English Scandal
Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal member of the British Parliament, had for several years, a relationship with a younger man, Norman Josiffe, a former stable boy. Josiffe, however, was unstable and difficult, so Thorpe decided to end the affair…
Babel
The film Babel weaves four separate stories that are based in four different locations, with different languages, and different cultures…
Babette’s Feast
Babette is a French female chef de cuisine of five-star repute who is forced to leave Paris during the uprisings of 1871…
Bad Day at Black Rock
In late 1945, John J. Macreedy steps off a train in the dusty, isolated town of Black Creek in the California desert…
Bad Education
Dr. Frank Tassone is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, New York. He’s revered by everyone…
The Bad Sleep Well
Public Development Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi is attending the wedding reception of his daughter Yoshiko to his ambitious secretary Kôichi Nishi…
Ballad of a Soldier
On the Eastern Front during World War II, Private Alyosha Skvortsov single-handedly destroys two attacking German tanks…
La Bamba
LA BAMBA is a musical bio of the life of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll phenom Ritchie Valens (born Richard Valenzuela). At age 17, he makes it big with two songs, “La Bamba” and “Donna,” that reach the top…
Band of Brothers
Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the final victory in 1945…
The Band Wagon
Tony Hunter is an aging star of musical shows who is no longer sought after by the big producers. His good friends, writers Lester and Lily Marton, convince Tony…
The Banshees of Inisherin
It’s 1923. On the green island of Inisherin, Pádraic, a milk farmer, and Colm, a violinist in the process of composing a song, meet every day at the local pub for a pint of Guinness…
Baran
A construction site in Teheran managed by Memar employs many Afghan refugees. They have no identity cards, are illegal, and work cheaply. Lateef, a 17-year-old young man…
Barbara
Dr. Barbara Wolff is a physician in East Germany in 1980. Because she filed a request for a visa to leave East Germany, the government forcefully moves her from her prestigious hospital in Berlin to a pediatric clinic in a remote province of the country. That isn’t enough.
Baseball – A Film by Ken Burns
Similar to previous documentaries by Ken Burns, Baseball includes archival photos and film footage mixed with interviews by noted writers, players, and baseball historians…
Basquiat
Basquiat chronicles the early career of the introverted, homeless, graffiti artist who worked anonymously under the name “Samo”…
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a great, unheralded true story…
The Battle of Algiers
The film depicts the fight between the rebels (or FLN) in Algeria and the French occupiers from 1954-1962. The most bloody battle is the one for Algiers. The FLN was based in the Casbah section of Algiers…
Beanpole
Shortly after World War II, Lya, known as “Beanpole,” a hospital nurse in Leningrad, is caring for Pashka, her friend’s Masha’s six-year-old boy. Suffering from PTSD…
Becoming Astrid
An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
Belle de Jour
Despite their love for each other, young and beautiful Séverine Serizy and her husband Pierre have a problem. Their sexual life is restricted. Although frustrated by his wife’s frigidity, he respects her wishes to lead her own life which…
Bellissima
Maddalena is an overbearing, working-class mother in Rome…
The Best Years of Our Lives
Three World War II veterans return home to their families in a small midwestern town…
Between the Lines
Staff members working at the alternative Boston weekly, The Back Bay Mainline, are young, ambitious, but also smart enough to realize that changes are coming…
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting was dated in1906, four years before the works of Wassily Kandinsky…
The Bicycle Thieves
In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…
The Biggest Little Farm
John and Molly Chester followed their dream. When they were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment because their dog would not stop barking, they bought…
The Big Heat
Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion is sent to investigate the suicide of a fellow rogue officer, Tom Duncan. His wife, Bertha Duncan, tells Bannion her husband was despondent about his deteriorating health…
Big Night
Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood. His flighty daughter Carmen incurred gambling debts to Arthur Geiger and he’s now blackmailing her…
Billy Budd
Aboard an eighteenth-century naval ship, Billy, an overly optimistic eighteen-year-old, sets off on his first voyage…
Bird
In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…
Birdman
Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…
Birdman of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker, the prison warden…
Bitter Rice
The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…
Black Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (designated the Sister Superior) and four other nuns are sent to a remote Himalayan village to set up a school and hospital…
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles. Retired police officer, Rick Deckard, returns to his former supervisor, Bryant, for a vital assignment. Previously, Deckard’s job was to track down bioengineered beings, known as “replicants,” and retire (destroy) them…
Blood Simple
Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…
Blow Out
While in post-production for a low-budget film, sound technician Jack Terry is told by the producer to record more realistic sound effects….
Blow-Up
Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Adele is an introverted 15-year-old high school student who is sexually ambivalent. Her sex experience with Thomas, a high school friend, is a total disappointment. Her gay friend Valentin, sensing her confusion, takes Adele to a gay dance bar. Adele meets Emma, an art student and painter with blue hair. They connect. There’s that first kiss at a picnic and before long they begin a passionate love affair. The relationship then fast-forwards to the two women now living together…
Blue Velvet
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his picture-perfect town of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father suffered a near-fatal stroke. He notices a severed ear in a vacant lot. He brings it to the police station where the police detective’s daughter…
Boardwalk Empire
The series covers the violent, crime-filled years of the Prohibition era in the U.S., between 1920 and 1931. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, a powerful political figure in Atlantic City…
Body Double
After losing his acting job and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finds himself adrift and homeless…
Bodyguard
Police Sergeant David Budd, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, suffers from PTSD. One day while on a train bringing his kids home to his estranged wife, he confronts a female suicide bomber…
Borgen
Birgitte Nyborg is the leader of a minority political party in Denmark. In a closely fought general election, and against all odds, she becomes Prime Minister…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski spent two years living in Kolkata, India’s appalling red light district…
Born To Be Blue
In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…
Boys Don’t Cry
Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A true story about William Kamkwamba, a young schoolboy, living with his family in an impoverished farming village in Malawi…
The Brave One
A cow that just calved is killed in a storm…
Breaker Morant
This true story is set in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The Boers were Dutch colonialists and their descendants who were battling the British for more control and influence in South Africa…
The Breaking Point
Harry Morgan and his mate Wesley Park operate a fishing vessel out of San Diego to people interested in spending…
Breaking the Code – The Rise of Enigma
Breaking the Codes – The Rise of Enigma began when Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication…
Breaking the Codes–The Triumph of the Codebreakers
U.S. military planners knew the next big Japanese attack after Pearl Harbor was imminent…
Breathless
Michel is a misfit who decides to steal a car so he can go to Italy. He is also out of control when he shoots a pursuing policeman…
Bride of Frankenstein
Villagers surround the burning windmill and rejoice that the the Monster is dead. But the villagers are also saddened that the scientist Henry Frankenstein was in the wreckage and presumed dead…
Bridge of Spies
James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson, a middle-class British woman, is waiting to return home in a smoky railroad station…
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…
Broken Arrow
BROKEN ARROW is a landmark film produced by a courageous studio that was one of the first to sympathetically depict the plight of the American Indian…
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Following their victory at Little Big Horn, the United States continued to push the Sioux off the Black Hills of the Dakotas, this time looking for gold…
By the Grace of God
Alexandre Guérin is a successful banker in Lyon, France, with a wife and five kids…
Bye Bye Birdie
As popular rock ‘n’ roll star Conrad Birdie prepares to go into the Army, Albert Peterson, an unsuccessful songwriter, and his girlfriend, Rosie DeLeon, are hoping Conrad will sing their song when he appears on the Ed Sullivan Show….
The Caine Mutiny
Commander Queeg’s minesweeper, the “USS Caine,” is informed that a typhoon is approaching. It hits the “Caine” forcefully, creating damage and panic. The rolling sea threatens to capsize the “Caine”…
The Cakemaker
Thomas is an amazing gay German baker in Berlin. Oren, a businessman from Jerusalem, stops by every time he’s in Berlin to enjoy one of Thomas’s pastries. They become intimate….
Call My Agent
Set in a Parisian talent agency, the series focuses on four agents, Andréa, Arlette, Gabriel, and Mathias. These clients can be troublesome…
Call Northside 777
Chicago Times editor, Brian Kelly, notices a classified ad offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man responsible for killing a policeman eleven years earlier…
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
This biographical film, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is about writer Lee Israel. Once successful, she now hasn’t been able to keep up with the times. One by one her books are rejected by publishers…
Capernaum
Capernaum, which stands for “chaos,” is about a whip-smart 12-year old boy named Zain, who sues his parents for bringing him into a world filled with slums and poverty.
The Card Counter
William Tell learned to count cards while serving time in military prison. After being released he’s determined to be a professional card player.
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
Carol
While working behind the counter in a fashionable Manhattan department store during the Christmas season, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet meets an upper-society customer, Carol Aird…
Carousel
Carousel is a tragic romance between Julie Jordan, a naive but loving factory worker, and Billy Bigelow, a ne’er-do-well carnival barker. They fall instantly in love and marry…
Carrie
Shy 16-year-old Carrie White lives with her fanatically religious mother, Margaret…
Casting By
This documentary is a celebration of the casting profession. Before the emergence of the super-star casting directors like Marion Dougherty…
Casualties of War
Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…
The Cave
The filming of this documentary takes place in the underground tunnels beneath the town of Ghouta, located on the outskirts of Damascus. It has become the last-resort…
Central Park
CENTRAL PARK is an animated musical comedy about the quirky Tillerman family who lives in a rundown castle in New York’s most famous park. Owen, the father, manages the park…
Le Cercle Rouge
Corey, a prisoner in a Marseilles prison is released. Meanwhile, another prisoner, Vogel, is on a train, handcuffed by Police Inspector Mattei…
Cesar’s Last Fast
The documentary dives deeply into the personal life, vision, and legacy of Cesar Chavez, focusing on his 1988 thirty-six day fast known as the “Fast for Life.”…
The Chambermaid
Eve is a thirtysomething woman toiling as a chambermaid in a posh hotel in Mexico City. She covers an entire floor of rooms. The film follows her dreary routine of cleaning each room, tidying up the mess, changing the sheets and towels…
Charley Varrick
In rural New Mexico, Charley Varrick, his wife Nadine, and their two accomplices, Al Dutcher…
Chasing Coral
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem. However with carbon emissions warming the seas…
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
The documentary begins with John Coltrane, a member of the Miles Davis quintet, at the epicenter of the jazz universe…
Chef
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of the high-end Gauloise Restaurant in Brentwood, California…
Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Facility indicated something was very wrong. Valery Legasov, an important Soviet nuclear physicist…
The Child
After the birth of her baby, Sonia returns home from the hospital and is told that her live-in boyfriend, Bruno, has sublet the apartment…
Children of Heaven
The Children of Heaven is primarily about Ali and Zahra, a brother and sister, in an impoverished family, who create a big problem they do not want their parents to know about…
Children of Men
Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote that “CHILDREN of MEN, set in 1927, pictures a world that looks like a lot like our own, but darker, grimmer and more frighteningly, violently precarious…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
The China Syndrome
Los Angeles television news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her cameraman, Richard Adams, are assigned to do a story about the nearby (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant…
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The utterly shameful and blatantly racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 shut down all Chinese immigration to the United States…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
Cinderella Man
During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, a New Jersey Irish-American, James J. Braddock, is forced to give up boxing due to an injury in his right hand…
Cinema Paradiso
In 1988 Rome, famous film director, Salvatore Di Vita, is informed that Alfredo has died…
City Lights
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin), while clowning around the city, encounters a beautiful Flower Girl on the street corner…
The Class
In an immigrant, working-class Parisian neighborhood, Francois Marin, a young teacher, begins the year with twenty-five teenage students in his class…
Clemency
Bernardine Williams is a warden in a death row prison. She has the reputation of being a stickler for procedure…
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Loretta Webb was one of eight children born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Her father, Ted Webb, was a coal miner The family was dirt-poor. Loretta was 15…
CODA
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, Ruby Rossi is the only hearing member of her family…
The Codebreaker
The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the legendary groundbreaking cryptanalyst…
Cold Mountain
Ada Monroe, the daughter of Reverend Monroe in rural Cold Mountain, North Carolina, sets her eyes on W.P. Inman at a summer cocktail gathering…
Cold War
In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor and Zula fall deeply in love. Wiktor is a musical director and Zula a singer with a promising future. They both end up in a folk dance ensemble group where their kind of music is severely criticized…
Collective
When a fire consumes the Colectiv, a Bucharest nightclub, 27 people die and 180 are injured. There are protests…
Come From Away
“COME FROM AWAY is the filmed version of the award-winning Broadway musical which tells the story of 7,000 people stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights to the U.S. are grounded on September 11, 2001…
Compulsion
In a perverted desire to commit the perfect crime, sociopathic friends, Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
In 1937, there is an awareness of a Nazi spy ring operating in the U.S….
The Conformist
Considered by many a Bernardo Bertolucci masterpiece. Working for Mussolini in Rome in 1938, Marcello departs on his honeymoon to Paris. His boss gives him an assignment: while in Paris he is to kill…
Conspiracy
On January 20, 1942, several Nazi party officials, led by SS head, Reinhard Heydrich, gathered in the German town of Wannsee to discuss the “Final Solution.”…
The Conversation
Harry Caul, the owner of a surveillance company, and his assistant Stan, are hired by a person referred to as The Director, to bug the conversation of a couple, Ann and Mark, as they walk around Union Square in San Francisco…
Corpus Christi
Daniel, in prison for second-degree murder, has a spiritual awakening. He wants to study for the priesthood when he is released…
The Courier
A true story. In the 1960s, the height of the Cold War, the CIA recruited Greville Wynne, an insignificant British businessman…
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Following World War I, Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell is determined to have the Air Service set up as an independent unit…
The Cove
The Cove focuses on the slaughtering of thousands of dolphins every year by Japanese whaling companies. They herd migrating dolphins into a cove where they are netted and speared to death…
Crimson Gold
Crimson Gold opens inside a jewelry shop…
Criss Cross
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles to try and rekindle the relationship with his ex-wife Anna. He gets a job as a driver with an armored-truck company. It’s a bit complicated; even though Anna is now married to the mobster Slim Dundee…
Crossfire
Captain Finlay is called to investigate the beating to death of a Jewish man named Joseph Samuels…
Crossing Delancey
Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman is a 30-ish, attractive, smart woman, who has a dream job working in a bookstore where she can meet interesting and intellectual authors…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the 19th-century Chinese Qing dynasty, Li Mu Bai, a renowned swordsman, decides to follow another path…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
The Crown
“The Crown” is an epic historical drama that will eventually run for ten seasons. The first three seasons can now be streamed…
Cry Freedom
After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…
Cry Macho
Former Texan rodeo star, Mike Milo, is washed-up due to a severe back injury and old age…
The Current War: Director’s Cut
In 1880, Thomas Edison introduced the electric lightbulb utilizing Direct Current (DC)…
Dances with Wolves
Union officer John Dunbar is given the command of Fort Sedgwick, the Army’s remote outpost in the Dakota territory…
Darkest Hour
On May,1940, the opposition Labor Party in England demands the resignation of Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain…
Dark Passage
Vincent Parry, convicted of murdering his wife, manages to escape from San Quentin Prison. Irene Jansen gives him a lift and smuggles him past a police roadblock. She offers him shelter…
Dark Waters
Robert Bilott is a promising lawyer in a prestigious Cincinnati law firm with a roster of major corporate clients including DuPont. One day, Wilbur Tennant…
Das Boot
In 1942, during World War II, Hitler launched his submarines (U-boats) in the Atlantic with the mission to destroy English merchant shipping and starve the English people. And thus began what is known as the “The Battle of the Atlantic.” However, in time, Britain and the U.S. were able to destroy many of the submarines by protecting merchant ships with destroyer escorts, using breakthrough radar technology, and dropping depth charges when submarines were spotted…
Daughters of the Dust
The film is set in 1902 and focuses on the members of the Peazant family. They live on St. Simons Island located off the Georgia-South Carolina coast. They are descendants of African-American slaves. Being relatively isolated…
The Dead
Adapted from a James Joyce short story…
Death of a Salesman
This superb video rendition is noteworthy in that it reunites the original leads, Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock…
Defending Jacob
Andy and Laurie Barber have been happily married for 20 years. He is a successful assistant district attorney…
Delicious
In 18th-century France, prior to the Revolution, gastronomy was strictly limited to the aristocracy…
Deutschland 83
In 1983, East Germany’s Secret Service (Stasi) is concerned that American troops stationed in West Germany may attack…
The Devil Next Door
John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian who came to the U.S. shortly after the end of World War II. He became an American citizen, was a reliable worker at a Ford plant in Cleveland (…)
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Diana Kennedy, an expat from England, became obsessed with Mexico and its cuisine the moment she set foot in the country in 1957. She stayed on and devoted the next 60 years…
Diane
Diane is generous and thoughtful of others: she regularly visits her terminally ill cousin, Dottie, in the hospital, works in a soup kitchen feeding and nurturing the poor…
The Dig
In Suffolk, England, 1939, Edith Pretty hires local excavator/archeologist Basil Brown to dig on her property. She has an instinct…
Diner
Five male friends, in their twenties, meet frequently at the local diner to discuss issues they are facing. Eddie vows to call…
Dirty Pretty Things
Olatokumbo “Okwe” Fadipe is a doctor. Because he is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London, he must toil as a cab driver during the day and at night he is the front desk clerk in a hotel…
The Dissident
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist in the 1980s with easy access to members of its Royal Family…
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio, the son of a factory foreman. Diagnosed in early childhood with hemophilia, he lived his entire life with the threat of death. Director Alexis Bloom utilized archival footage and interviews to show…
Divorce Italian Style
Ferdinando, an impoverished nobleman, feels stuck in a marriage with Rosalie, an unattractive and common woman. Secretly, he’s totally smitten by Angela, a much younger and attractive neighbor…
Dog Day Afternoon
Sonny is determined to get enough money so his male lover, Leon, can get the sex-change operation he desperately wants…
Dolemite Is My Name
Rudy Ray Moore was hungry and poor. Needing an income, he started making “party” records he culled from stories he heard from the local drunks. No established distributor wanted to carry these records so Rudy sold them under-the-counter at record stores…
Dolly Parton: Here I Am
This biographical documentary examines the life and career of Dolly Parton. It includes interviews with friends, companions, business associates and the artist herself…
Double Indemnity
Walter Neff, a successful insurance agent, is in his office dictating a confession for a crime he committed. The whole story is now revealed in flashback. It begins with Neff visiting the Dietrichson home…
Double Lover
When Chloé, a young museum attendant, experiences abdominal pain, her doctor informs her the cause is depression and she should see a psychiatrist…
Downton Abbey: The Movie
The story takes place in 1927. Robert Crawley receives a letter from King George and Queen Mary that as part of their royal tour of the country, the King and Queen would like to stay over at Downton Abbey…
Dressed to Kill
Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife, is being treated by her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott…
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…
Dr. Strangelove
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is informed by the crazy American officer General Jack Ripper that he has issued an order to preemptively attack Russian strategic targets with nuclear bombs…
Duck Soup
The small country of Freedonia is bankrupt. The very wealthy Mrs. Teasdale agrees to provide financial assistance on condition that her friend, Rufus T. Firefly, is appointed its leader. To make matters worse, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex Freedonia…
The Duke
Kempton Bunton, a grouchy unemployed taxi driver, is furious the British government requires the elderly to pay a TV tax…
Eat Drink Man Woman
To his consternation, Tao Chu, a widower and master chef, has three unmarried daughters: Chu Jia-Jen, a school teacher, Chu Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Chu Jia- Ning, a college student…
The Edge of Democracy
The documentary was influenced by director Petra Costa’s past and her family’s activist left-wing history. It chronicles Brazil’s political upheavals from the euphoria…
Edge of the City
Axel North, a young drifter, arrives at a New York waterfront pier seeking employment as a longshoreman…
Eleanor and Franklin
The first of the two-part series follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were children, their courtship and marriage, and his political start as Assistant Secretary of the Navy…
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
This is the second of a two-part made-for-television film series Eleanor and Franklin that was adapted from Joseph P. Lash’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography…
The Elephant Queen
The title character is the 50-year old elephant Athena. She has the responsibility of taking care of her family, daughter Princess, toddler Wei-Wei…
The Elephant Whisperers
Bomman and Bellie are an indigenous couple living in southern India…
Elevator to the Gallows
Florence Carala and Julien Tavernier are in love. The problem is Florence is married to Julien’s boss, Simon Carala…
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
From her days on the streets of Harlem, to her breakout performance at the age of 17 at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater, and through six decades of international stardom, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of This Things vividly chronicles the life of this ambitious, resilient performer…
Elvira Madigan
Hedvig Jensen is a tightrope walker at a circus performing under the name Elvira Madigan…
The Emigrants
Karl-Oskar Nilsson, his wife Kristina, and Karl’s younger brother Robert live on a small farm in Sweden. The family struggles…
Emma
After her governess gets married, Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naive young woman, proudly takes credit for bringing the couple together…
Empire of the Sun
James “Jim” Graham is a schoolboy living a privileged and affluent life with his family in the Shanghai International Settlement…
Encounters at the End of the World
Director/Writer Werner Herzog lived for a period of time at the McMurdo Research station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. While there, Herzog interviewed not only…
The Endless Summer
Bruce Brown filmed spectacular shots of surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they searched for the “perfect wave”…
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance departed England on August 14, 1914, four days before the outbreak of World War I. Ernest Shackleton, the captain of the ship, set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent via the South Pole…
The English Patient
Almásy, a survivor of a plane crash during World War II, is found in the North African desert…
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Shortly after Kenneth Lay founded Enron, he hired Jeffrey Skilling as CEO and Andrew Fastow…
The Entertainer
Jean Rice, a young art teacher in London, visits a seaside English resort to see her family…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
Ethel & Ernest
Ernest is a milkman in London. On his route he spots Ethel, a young maid in a rich household, looking out the window…
Everybody Knows
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Argentina, and her teenage daughter, Irene, and young son, Diego, return to their small hometown in Spain to attend the wedding of Laura’s younger sister…
Executive Suite
When Avery Bullard, president of Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company…
Faces Places
Agnes Varda, an 89-year old filmmaker, teams up with 34-year old JR, a photographer of public art. Despite their age difference, they are a perfect fit: both are environmentalists and humanists…
Fail Safe
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. radar spots an unidentified aircraft in American airspace…
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe is the young son of a diplomat living in a large mansion…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
The Farewell
Chinese-born, New York-raised writer Billi Wang, maintains contact with her grandmother, Nai Nai, who lives in Changchun, China. Her parents, Haiyan and Lu Jian, inform Billi that Nai Nai has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only a few months to live…
The Father
Anne visits her father, Anthony, in his London flat…
Fauda
Filmed primarily in the occupied West Bank, the plot revolves around the conflicts between Israeli Special Forces and Hamas. There are brutal attacks by both sides…
Fences
Troy Maxson and his long-time pal Jim Bono work as garbage collectors in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy has had a tough life. He left home when he was 14 after beating his abusive father…
The Fiancés (I Fidanzati)
Opening in a dance hall with lonely couples dancing languidly, Giovanni and Liliana sit at a table…
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Film critic Peter Travers wrote in his review of Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, that the film was an exhilarating, expansive warts-and-all look into…
Field of Dreams
Ray Kinsella lives on an Iowa farm with his wife Annie and daughter Karin. One day, while in the cornfield, Ray hears a voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come..”
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Shortly after World War II, preparations were proceeding rapidly in Nuremberg for the trial of the most heinous Nazi criminals…
Fireworks Wednesday
Mozhdeh and Morteza are a troubled couple as they attempt to salvage their marriage with a vacation to Dubai…
First Cow
A woman walking her dog in the woods discovers the skeletons of two human beings, curled together, as if they were still seeking warmth…
First Reformed
Reverend Ernst Toller agonizes over his failure to invigorate the rural First Reformed Church. He seeks solace in alcohol, reading Roman Catholic essays, and keeping a detailed journal of his thoughts…
Flee
In Copenhagen, film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen is interviewing Amin Nawabi, a man he has known since they were teen-agers…
The Fog of War
This superb and heartbreaking documentary by Errol Morris focuses primarily on Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during the early stages of the Vietnam War. While President Kennedy expressed doubts about winning the war…
Footnote
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…
For Sama
This documentary covers five years in the lives of Waad, her husband Hamza, and infant daughter Sama in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. As Assad brutally tries to destroy the rebels, he bombs…
The 400 Blows
Antoine Doinel is a troubled youngster growing up in Paris with a mother and stepfather who do not understand him. He skips school, steals, and…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
Foreign Correspondent
August 1939 is a month before Europe became engulfed in World War II. Mr.Powers, the editor of the New York Morning Globe is fed up with the inability of his celebrated reporters to get…
Frantz
Anna is a grieving young woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in battle during World War I…
Free Solo
The documentary is simple in concept: to record the death-defying climb by Alex Honnold of the 3,000 ft. El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Alex did this without a rope, which made this one of the greatest feats in the history of rock climbing. Before each climb, Alex studies the surface, entering in a notebook details about the rock. He commits all this to memory along with the moves he’s going to make to do the climb…
The French Connection
After hearing about a large shipment of heroin scheduled to enter the United States…
Frenzy
Unlike most suspenseful films, the serial killer terrorizing London by strangling women with a tie is identified right from the start. His name is Bob Rusk…
Frida
Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo, living in Mexico, suffers a serious injury when her bus collides with a streetcar…
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity consists of intertwining stories taking place at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, Hawaii…
The Front
In 1953, Howard Prince, a restaurant cashier and small-time bookie, agrees to be a “front” for his good friend Alfred Miller, a blacklisted TV screenwriter…
Gallipoli
Archy and Frank are young, penniless Australians who decide to hop a freight train and join the Australian army. Australia is part of the British Empire that is in the midst of fighting Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Frank and Archy end up together and are sent…
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, young Italian Jews are barred by the Fascist government from local tennis clubs. They gravitate to the walled estate…
The Gatekeepers
Directed by Dror Moreh, The Gatekeepers consists of in-depth interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service…
Get Out
Black photographer Chris Washington and his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, have been dating for several months. Rose now feels it’s time for the two of them to visit her parents at their large country home in upstate New York…
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Under Israeli law, a wife can only divorce her husband if he gives her a religious “Bill of Divorce” called a Gett. Without a Gett, no divorce. And this is the plight of Viviane Amsalem who requests the religious court…
Gideon’s Trumpet
Clarence “Earl” Gideon, an indigent worker in Panama City, Florida, was accused of breaking into the Bay Harbor Pool Room, stealing cash from the juke box and wine from the bar…
Gigi
Based on the novella of the same name by Collette, this musical film is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Paris and Deauville. Several amazing characters’ lives interconnect: Gaston, the bored bon vivant; Honore, the old lover-man who narrates much of the story; the youthful and precocious Gigi; and Madame Alvarez, Gigi’s caring grandmother, who keeps a watchful eye on everything going on…
Girlfriends
Susan Weinblatt is a photographer who supports herself taking photos at bar mitzvahs and weddings. She’s ecstatic when a magazine buys three of her photos. Her happiness, however, is jolted when her roommate…
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Griet, a young 17th-century girl, arrives in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the city of Delft, to work as a maid…
The Glass Menagerie
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield supports herself and her handicapped daughter Laura by selling subscriptions from her dilapidated apartment…
Gods and Monsters
This story, about director James Whale, takes place in the 1950s, decades after Whale’s significant hits, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein had opened in theaters. But Whale is now forgotten and recovering from a series of strokes
Goliath
Billy McBride is a disgraced lawyer, one who drank too much and was forced out of the Goliath law firm he started with Donald Cooperman. Billy has hit rock bottom, scrounging for clients, and fighting to stay alive…
Good Night and Good Luck
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was on a rampage stating that the government was infiltrated by Communists and Communists sympathizers. Bullied and fearful, most Washington politicians…
Grand Illusion
During the First World War, two French airmen, the aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, are shot down over Germany and taken prisoner…
The Grapes of Wrath
An adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel of the same name, the film, directed by John Ford, follows the excruciating journey of the Joad family from the Oklahoma dust bowl to a hopefully new life in California. They pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 Hudson sedan…
Grave of the Fireflies
In war-torn Kobe, Japan, the home of teenager Seita and his younger sister Setsuko is destroyed in a firebombing…
Grease
After a summer romance, Sandy Olsson, an Australian exchange student, and Danny Zuco, head of the T-Birds greaser gang, are now seniors at Rydell High School…
The Great Debaters
At Wiley, a Southern African American college, debating coach Melvin B. Tolson starts to build a team that will rival nationally-ranked Harvard…
Great Expectations
When orphan Pip visits his parents’ graves, he encounters an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, who coerces Pip to return the next day with a file so he can remove his chains…
Green Book
African-Americans, travelling in the United States, often carry a Green Book, which lists the hotels, motels, and restauarants that do not racially discriminate…
The Grizzlies
Russ Sheppard takes a teaching job in a remote Arctic school to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Don’t be put off by the overly adorable title, the film offers the kind of cushiony stealth charm that’s easy to sink into. Director Mike Newell’s warm, light touch…
Guilty by Suspicion
When David Merrill, a 1950s film director, returns to the United States from Paris, McCarthyism and the Red Scare is sweeping the country…
The Gunfighter
Jimmy Ringo, the aging but still feared gunfighter, returns to his hometown seeking to reconcile with his estranged wife and son. Marshal Mark Strett, Ringo’s old friend, urges him to leave town and avoid trouble. The marshal knows that every gunslinger in the area will want to confront Ringo and be known as “the man who shot Ringo.”…
The Guns of Navarone
During World War II, the Nazi army plans to annihilate 2,000 British soldiers marooned on the island of Kheros in the Aegean Sea…
Hacksaw Ridge
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Desmond Doss enlists in the Army even though he probably could get a deferment as an employee with a defense manufacturer…
Hair
Hair is a rock musical set against the hippie protest movements during the Vietnam War. Claude Hooper Bukowski, a native Oklahoman, sets off to New York for a fling after being drafted by the army…
Hamilton
The film is a live recording of Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton…
Hamlet
There is a celebration in the Danish castle’s Great Hall of the marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius…
Hannah Arendt
After the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most elusive and hated Nazi criminals, William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, assigned Arendt to cover the trial in Jerusalem…
Happening
In 1963 France, Anne, a young, precocious student with an eye on becoming a writer, becomes pregnant after a one-night stand…
Happy as Lazzaro
Alfosino de Luna is the ruthless owner of a tobacco farm in the Italian town of Inviolata. She has 54 sharecroppers who are constantly in debt to her, so they receive no pay…
The Harder They Fall
Eddie Willis, a has-been, weary sportswriter is hired to do PR work for boxing promoter Nick Benko. Benko wants to promote fighter Toro Moreno…
Harlan County USA
Initially, the film intended to follow the attempt of the Miners for Democracy to unionize the miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky…
Harriet
n 1840s Maryland, a slave state, Araminta “Minty” Ross is newly married to a freedman, John Tubman. Living on the Brodess farm, Gideon Brodess, the owner, reneges on the promise to give Minty her freedom…
The Harvest/ La Cosecha
A searing documentary of three American teenagers who endure working 12 to 14 hours a day on a farm, exposed to pesticides, and receive minimal education…
Haute Cuisine
Based on a true story. Hortense Laborie gets the job of a lifetime when the President of France appoints her to be his personal chef at the Élysée Palace…
The Heavy Water
During World War II, Hitler was determined to beat the U.S. in developing an atomic bomb…
Hell or High Water
Toby and Tanner Howard, two impoverished brothers whose ranch is facing foreclosure, pull off several robberies at different branches of the Texas Midlands Bank…
Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Hemingway “loved being in love,” commented writer Michael Katakis…
Henry V
King Henry of England believes he has a justifiable claim to the throne of France…
Hero
In ancient China, during the Warring States period, the king of Qin has eluded several…
Herself
Sandra, a mother with two young daughters living in Ireland, is beaten frequently by her abusive husband Gary…
Hester Street
Jake, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, has settled in a tenement in New York…
He Walked By Night
Roy Morgan is a brilliant but diabolical murderer who eludes capture by eavesdropping on the police radio frequencies. It starts when Roy shoots and kills a patrolman when Roy is suspected of being a burglar. There are…
Hidden Figures
Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…
High and Low
Kingo Gondo is a wealthy stockholder and executive of a company called National Shoes…
High Flying Bird
High Flying Bird is a sports drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Sports agent Ray Burke represents the #1 draft pick, Erick Scott, a basketball player ready to become a pro with a huge contract. However, the league is in a lockout due to a dispute between the players’ association and the owners. Ray needs to get Erick signed or he risks losing his job at the agency. The film uncovers the disconnect between the players who make up the team and the owners who shell out the money…
High Noon
Sheriff Will Kane, newly married, is looking to retire and start a new life in another part of the country. He’s informed that gunslinger Frank Miller was recently released from jail and is looking to settle the score. Kane was the one who sent Miller to prison. Kane’s wife, Amy, a Quaker and a pacifist, abhors violence and urges her husband to move on. He explains to Amy that if he runs, Frank Miller will hunt him down, no matter where they go…
High Sierra
The aging gangster, Big Mac, is planning to rob a fashionable resort in Tropico Springs California. To help him…
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour is basically a series of conversations between a French actress (Elle) and a Japanese architect (Lui). From graphic newsreels, viewers…
Hive
Hive is based on a true story of a woman, Fahrije, who, with other women in the village, search for their missing husbands shortly after the Kosovo War in 1998-1999…
Hollywood on Trial
In the midst of the Red Scare, several Hollywood elites were fined and jailed for their refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)…
Hombre
John Russell, an Apache-raised white man, returns to the white world to claim his father’s inheritance, a gold watch and a run-down boarding house…
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in an isolated village in North Macedonia where there are no roads, electricity or running water…
Hoosiers
Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship…
House of Games
Dr. Margaret Ford, a psychiatrist, is treating Billy Hahn, a suicidal patient…
House of Flying Daggers
In 9th century China, the Tang Dynasty is in decline. The House of Flying Daggers, a rebel…
House of Sand and Fog
Colonel Massoud Amir and his wife Nadi escaped Iran after the Shah was overthrown; they relocated in San Francisco…
How Green Was My Valley
Huw Morgan is the youngest son in a Welsh coal mining family of nine. His childhood is idyllic: everyone in town gets along; the men working…
How the West Was Won
Set between 1839 and 1889, the film follows three generations of families (starting with the Prescotts) as they moved from western New York all the way to the Pacific…
Hud
The Bannon family owns a Texas cattle ranch…
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Abbu Kadam and his family flee unstable Mumbai and receive asylum in France…
The Hurricane
Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…
The Ice Storm
Two families, the Hoods and the Carvers, neighbors in an affluent Connecticut suburb, are bitterly disappointed with their unfulfilled lives…
Ida
In 1960s communist Poland, Anna, a young novice, is told by her prioress, before taking her final vows, she must visit her aunt, Wanda Gruz, her only surviving relative…
IKE: Countdown to D-Day
General Eisenhower’s decision to invade the European continent was agonizing…
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged civil servant who worked in a dead-end boring job for over 30 years. His wife died and Watanabe now…
I Lost My Body
Naoufel, is a kid happily living in North Africa, has lost his hand, how, we don’t know. But the hand manages to escape the freezer in the hospital lab and is now searching to find Naoufel’s body…
Il Posto
With his family in need of money, Domenico, a teenager living in a small Italian village…
The Imitation Game
In 1939, the beginning of World War II, the British government recruited brilliant Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing to help break the German code, Enigma…
The Immigrant
In 1921, Ewa and her sister Magda, leave their impoverished home in Poland and arrive in Ellis Island hoping for a better life…
In a Lonely Place
Dixon Steele is a fading screenwriter out of work primarily as a result of his heavy drinking and violent temper. His agent, Mel Lippman, encourages him to adapt a book for a film…
In Bloom
Eka and Natia are 14-year-olds and best friends growing up in post-Soviet Georgia. Natia, more precocious than Eka, has two boys interested in her, Kote and Lado…
Inglourious Basterds
SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa arrives at the remote dairy farm belonging to Perrier LaPadite…
In the Heights
This is a marvelous film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, In the Heights. Film critic Monica Castillo offers the following synopsis: “IN THE HEIGHTS represents many things for many different viewers…
In the House
Germain is a middle-aged teacher in a French high school.
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1912, 13-year-old Henry “Indiana” Jones and his Boy Scout troop are exploring caves in Utah’s Arches National Park…
The Innocents
The story takes place in Warsaw, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. In one of the clinics, Mathilde, a Red Cross doctor, is treating wounded and sick survivors. She is interrupted by a hysterical Benedictine nun
In The Mood For Love
In British Hong Kong in 1962, two young couples, Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and his wife, rent an apartment next door to Su Li-zhen and her husband…
In the Name of the Father
Gerry Conlon is an Irish ne’er-do-well living in Belfast. Conlon’s father urges his son to move to London fearing punishment by the IRA…
In the Same Breath
Nanfu Wang’s superb and frightening documentary, In the Same Breath, is both personal and analytical….
Into the Woods
The musical weaves the stories of several Grimm fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel…
Inside Job
Inside Job is about the late-2000s financial crisis. Director Charles Ferguson explains that the film covers “the systemic corruption of…
The Insult
Tony Hanna, a Lebanese Christian, discovers contractors fixing a gutter running from his balcony to the street. When Tony becomes aware that the worker, Yasser Abdallah Salameh, is a Palestinian refugee…
Into the Arms of Strangers
During World War II, the British implemented a rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia…
Invictus
Invictus (Latin for undefeated) takes place in the late 1990s in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison…
Invisible Hands
Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary that exposes abusive, law-breaking child labor within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations…
The Invisibles
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels announced in May 1943 that Germany was at last “free of Jews…”
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…
The Irishman
The man narrating the life and times of the Mafia is Frank Sheeran, “The Irishman.” A retired gangster and now insignificant, Frank freely relates stories about Mob killings, graft, extortion, and influence peddling…
I Vitelloni
A heavy downpour interrupts a beachside beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Italian Adriatic coast…
The Ivory Game
The past five years, 120,000 elephants have been killed for their ivory; today, one elephant is slaughtered every 20 minutes. At this rate, the African elephant will be extinct in 15 years…
I Want To Live!
San Francisco, 1950. Barbara Graham is a petty criminal and prostitute working for the unsavory Emmett Perkins, luring men to his gambling parlor…
JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI
Director Jafar Panahi drives through the streets of Tehran pretending to be a taxi driver…
Jazz-Ken Burns
Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns reveals the history of jazz in the United States in just ten episodes…
Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette is the first of a two-part series adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol. The follow up film is Manon of the Springs…
Jeremiah Johnson
An emotionally bruised veteran of the Mexican-American War, Jeremiah Johnson renounces the civilized world and heads to the Rocky Mountains wilderness to find inner peace…
John Lewis: Good Trouble
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The film is based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. Jacob, the father, favors Joseph, much to the resentment of Joseph’s brothers. When Jacob gives…
The Joy Luck Club
In San Francisco, four aging Chinese-American mothers gather frequently to play mahjong and compare stories of their Americanized daughters and grandchildren…
Ju Dou
In 20th century rural China, Yang Tianqing is returning from a trip selling dyed silk…
Judy
The film opens showing a young Judy being coerced by an ambitious, pill-pushing mother and the ruthless MGM chief, Louis B. Mayer. All of these pressures drive Judy into a deep depression resulting in drug addiction and alcoholism…
Jules and Jim
Jules is a shy writer from Austria working on a novel; Jim is a fun-loving, partying Frenchman. And yet, these two opposite personalities become fast friends. They meet the free-spirited Catherine and the three hang out…
Julius Caesar
After a triumphant military victory, Julius Caesar enters Rome with his troops, cheered by an adulating crowd…
Julius Caesar
Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…
Just Mercy
This is the true story of Walter McMillan who in 1987 Alabama was falsely convicted of murder and was facing execution. Bryan Stevenson, a young defense attorney, originally from the Northeast, hears…
Keeping Faith
They seem to be the perfect Welsh family: Faith, a beautiful mother and wife, three adorable kids, and Evan, a warm-hearted successful husband…
Key Largo
Embittered World War II army veteran, Frank McCloud, arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to the family of George Temple…
The Kid With a Bike
Cyril, a precocious 11-year-old boy, is suddenly abandoned by his father who also absconds with Cyril’s bike. Cyril has no mother so this loss is devastating…
The Killers
Two hitmen, Max and Al, arrive at a diner in Brentwood, New Jersey, with the intention of killing Pete Lund (known as “Swede”). Swede supposedly double-crossed the mob boss, Big Jim Colfax, stealing a ton of money…
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
Hungary was the last stop in Hitler’s campaign to eradicate the Jews of Europe. Even before Hitler’s arrival in Hungary, Rudolph Kasztner, a Jewish lawyer and journalist…
The King and I
Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…
The King of Comedy
The most unusual film Martin Scorsese has ever directed. Rupert Pupkin is a mentally deranged wannabe comic trying to launch his career by appearing as a guest on the “Jerry Langford Show.” He practices his stand-up shtick…
Kinky Boots
In Northampton, England, Charlie Price is struggling to save a floundering shoe factory he inherited when his father died. On a business trip to London, Charlie rescues a drag queen, Lola, being attacked by a group of hoodlums…
Klaus
Jesper Johansson is a lazy and spoiled son of a wealthy Postmaster General. When he does poorly at the Postman Training Academy, his father sends him to the desolate town of Smeerensburg…
Knives Out
Like all great murder-mystery films (and books), it’s important to share the outlines of the plot without revealing too many of the twists and turns…
The Kominsky Method
It’s about a long-term friendship between Sandy Kominsky, a revered acting coach, and Norman Newlander, a retired successful Hollywood agent. The two genuinely cherish their friendship even with its many ups-and-downs…
La Bête Humaine
Jacques Lantier is a railroad engineer who finds his work helps distract him from his recurring headaches, seizures, and violent rages…
La Chienne
“Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter…”
L.A. Confidential
Three temperamentally different policemen collide while working on various investigations: narcotics detective Jack Vincennes…
Laëtitia
Based on a true story. Eighteen-year-old Laëtitia’s scooter is found on the road in front of her foster home located in western France…
L’Amore – The Human Voice & The Miracle
L’Amore consists of two episodes. Episode One, The Human Voice, is about an unnamed woman talking on the phone with her former lover…
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The film is about Jimmie Fails, a young man living in the Bayview-Hunters Point section of San Francisco. He spends his time skateboarding around town with…
The Last Seduction
Clay Gregory, a medical student heavily in debt to loan sharks, arranges to sell stolen pharmaceutical drugs for $700,000…
The Last Waltz
When the Canadian-American rock group “The Band” decided to disband, they resolved to do it in style. On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, they held a memorable farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Fortunately, Martin Scorsese filmed the entire event…
Last Year at Marienbad
In the old-world chateau, Marienbad, filled with stuffy wealthy couples, a single man approaches a woman claiming they met before at Marienbad. In fact, he claims..
Laura
Mark McPherson, a hard-boiled, cynical detective, is assigned to investigate the murder of the beautiful advertising executive, Laura Hunt. His investigations leads to encounters with the imperious Waldo Lydecker, who…
La Strada
Gelsomina, a young Italian woman, is forced to join Zampano, a street performer, as his assistant. Zampano’s payment to the mother is a meager 10,000 lire…
Last Resort
Tanya, a Russian divorcée, and her 10-year-old son Artyom, arrive in London from Moscow where Tanya expects to meet her fiancé…
Last Train Home
For the Chinese New Year, an estimated 130 million Chinese workers travel for days on hot, unbearably crowded trains, to their rural villages to visit family…
Law of Desire
Law of Desire focuses on a love triangle between three men and the conflicts with a disturbed transsexual woman. Living in Madrid, Pablo, is a successful gay film and theatrical director…
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence is a Lieutenant in the British Army during World War I. He’s irascible and often insolent to his superiors. Mr. Dryden, of the Arab Bureau, has an idea. He’ll send Lawrence to Arabia to assess…
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Andreas Kartak is a drunken, homeless man, sleeping in the street wrapping himself with newspapers…
Let’s Get Lost
Let’s Get Lost covers Chet Baker’s final year. Fortunately, the film also includes flashbacks and archival footage as Baker looks back on his roller coaster career playing with greats like Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, and Russ Freeman while fighting his heroin-addiction and his turbulent relationships with his wife and girlfriends…
Letters From Iwo Jima
In 2005, Japanese archeologists on the island of Iwo Jima discovered a trove of letters written by Japanese soldiers during the bloody battle on the island…
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
President Thomas Jefferson seized the opportunity when France, desperate for money to finance its war against Britain, offered to sell the huge land west of the Mississippi for $15 million…
Liberty Heights
In Baltimore, 1954, Jewish families like the Kurtzmans, are experiencing many changes: Schools are now desegregated, rock ‘n’ roll…
The Library Thief
Not to be confused with The Book Thief, a 20th Century Fox film, or with The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. The Library Thief is based on a true story. John Johansson, brilliant but hapless, is fired from his teaching job in Stockholm…
The Life Ahead
Madame Rosa is a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor. In her old age, feeble and sickly, she makes a living caring for children of prostitutes…
Life of Pi
The owner of a zoo in India, Santosh Patel, decides to move with his wife Gita, teenage son Piscine “Pi” and all the animals to Canada…
Like Water for Chocolate
In 1900 Mexico, Mama Elena tells Tita, her youngest daughter, the country’s tradition calls for Tita to remain single so Tita can care for her…
Lili
A naive, young, French girl arrives in a provincial town hoping to find an old friend of her father…
Limelight
Calvero, once a famous stage performer, is now a washed-up alcoholic…
Lincoln
In January 1865, President Lincoln, expecting the Civil War to end soon, fears his 1863 Emancipation…
Line of Duty
Line of Duty is about the fierce detectives running the Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (AC-12) in a grimy unnamed British city (possibly Birmingham). Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott…
Line of Separation
In the last months of World War II, the United States, England, France and the Soviet Union, all agreed to divide Germany into four regions administered by each Allied country…
Little Big Man
In 1970, 121 year-old Jack Crabb, living in a hospice, recounts to a visiting historian his incredible life. Jack’s story begins when he and his sister survive an Indian massacre…
The Lives of Others
In 1984 East Germany, Stasi agent Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler is ordered to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman, who is suspected of bad-mouthing the Communist regime…
The Longest Day
From the vivid perspectives of both Allied and Axis powers, the events of D-Day are fiercely…
The Long Way Home
After World War II, Holocaust survivors are freed from the Nazi concentration camps. But they are starving, diseased, no families to support them…
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is a brutally vicious man who vents his anger against Alison, his submissive wife…
Lorenzo’s Oil
It’s about Augusto and Michaela Odone and their relentless search to find a cure when their young son Lorenzo is diagnosed with the fatal disease, ALD…
Lorna’s Silence
Lorna is an Albanian woman living in Liege, an industrial town in Belgium. Lorna paid Fabio, a mobster, to arrange the marriage with her drug-addicted husband, Claudy, so she could become a Belgian citizen…
Lost Illusions
In 1820s France, 20-year-old Lucien de Rubempré, an idealistic poet and writer, travels from his provincial country home to Paris to seek his fortune…
The Lost Leonardo
Two dealers in New Orleans purchased for $1,175 an obscure painting of Jesus Christ raising his hand in a sacramental gesture…
Love and Anarchy
Tunin learns his friend, an anarchist, was killed in his attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini…
The Lovely Bones
As 14-year-old Susie Salmon walks home from school, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey…
Loving
Richard Loving, a white construction worker, falls in love with Mildred Jeter, a black woman and family friend…
The Lunchbox
Ila is a young wife in Mumbai anxious to bring a spark of romance to her marriage with her husband Rajiv. Ila decides to prepare…
Luzzu
Jesmark, a hardworking Maltese fisherman, plies his trade just as his father and grandfather did before him…
Macbeth (1971)
The invasion of Scotland during the Middle Ages is suppressed by Macbeth, the Thane (a title of nobility) of Glamis and his ally Banquo…
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Glafïira Rosales, a Long Island resident, visited the prestigious Knoedler Gallery in New York, saying she represented a wealthy anonymous collector looking to sell a vintage Rothko…
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is the true story of Bernie Madoff and the way he criminally operated a $60 billion Ponzi scheme…
Maid
The series is inspired by Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.”…
Maidan
Maidan focuses on the protests by student activists, journalists, laborers, artists and clergy in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital…
The Maltese Falcon
In San Francisco in 1941, private investigators Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer take on a client, the beautiful Ruth Wonderly…
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela fought against Apartheid in South Africa. When he resorted to violence, he was caught, tried, and spent 27 years in prison where he suffered harsh and brutal treatment…
Mansfield Park
Ten-year-old Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, as her own parents do not have enough money to support their many children…
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo, and son Hank are vacationing in French Morocco. On the bus ride from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet a local, Louis Bernard…
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of…
The Man With the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine is released from prison. A former drug addict, he became clean in prison…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
In a music recording studio in Chicago, a band of musicians await the arrival of their leader, Ma Rainey, known as the “Mother of the Blues.”…
Mare of Easttown
In a bleak suburb of Philadelphia, police detective Mare Sheehan is juggling two crimes: the recent murder of a teenage mother and a young girl missing for almost a year…
Margin Call
Margin Call takes place at an unnamed major investment firm. Eric Dale, a senior risk…
Maria Full of Grace
A seventeen-year-old Colombian, Maria Álvarez, is in a dead-end job de-thorning roses in a sweatshop factory…
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Germany. World War II. Maria and Hermann Braun are getting married while the Allies are bombing the church…
Marriage Story
Successful playwright/director Charlie and his actress wife Nicole decide to part ways. Her work is on the West Coast and he’s in charge of a theater group…
Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, in the early ’40s, was a NAACP lawyer fighting cases of racial injustice around the country…
Marwencol
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked and beaten outside of a bar when five thugs found out he was a cross-dresser. After being in a coma for nine days…
Mary and Max
Eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle lives lonely life in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverly. She’s neglected by her factory-working Dad and alcoholic mother…
Maudie
Based on a true story. Maud Dowley is afflicted with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and is ordered by her brother Charles to live with her aunt Ida…
The Measure of a Man
It’s been a little more than a year when Thierry Taugourdeau and seven hundred other factory workers were abruptly laid off…
The Merchant of Venice
In 16th-century Venice, Bassanio, a young Venetian, is planning to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia…
Midnight in Paris
Gil Pender and his fiancee Inez, are vacationing in Paris. Gil is an unfulfilled screenwriter struggling…
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis was an African-American born in 1926. His father, a wealthy dentist and farmer, overruled his wife and got Miles to play…
Million Dollar Arm
n a final effort to save his career, sports agent, J.B. Bernstein, comes to the realization that cricket players in India have the skills to be great baseball players…
Minari
In 1983, enterprising Jacob Yi moves with his family from California to a plot of land in rural Arkansas…
Minding the Gap
Rockford, Illinois, a midwestern rust-belt city, is the home of astonishing first-time filmmaker Bing Liu. Over a 12-year period he filmed two of his skateboarding friends, Zack and Keire, as they grappled with their…
Mindhunter
“Mindhunter” is about two FBI agents, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, and the psychologist Wendy Carr, who work in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Their job is to find out why these serial killers…
Miracle
In 1980, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in the midst of a bitter, dangerous Cold War. Neither country was ready to fight on the battlefield, but the 1980 Winter Olympics was coming up…
The Miracle Worker
Seven-year-old Helen Keller has been blind and deaf since infancy as a result of scarlet fever. Because she is unable to articulate her emotions Helen often has violent outbursts…
Mirai
For four-year old Kun it all began with the arrival of his baby sister Mirai (Japanese for “future”). The parents, especially the mother, are unaware of how showering so much attention on the baby can be so painful to their young son. Kun becomes so jealous that he has tantrums and even…
The Mirror
Mina, a first-grader, waits for her mother to pick her up after school. Mina’s mother doesn’t show…
MLK/FBI
MLK/FBI explores the investigation and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. by J.Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI…
Modern Times
The film portrays Charlie Chaplin in his Tramp persona as a factory worker employed on an industrial assembly line. Frenetically feeding an inhuman machine, he ends up having a nervous breakdown. He is sent to a hospital…
The Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires, established in 19th century Pennsylvania, was a secret organization of coal miners headed by Jack Kehoe…
The Moon Is Blue
Young actress Patty O’Neill meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building…
Moonstruck
Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini is an Italian-American widow living in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone with her mother, Rose, and father, Cosmo…
Mouchette
Mouchette is a teen-age girl with many responsibilities. She has to deal with an alcoholic, abusive father, a terminally ill bedridden mother, care for an infant brother, and doing all the housework…
Mr. Turner
The film covers the last quarter-century of the life of British painter J.M.W. Turner. Turner travels widely with contrasting experiences like visiting a brothel while mingling with aristocrats…
Mr Jones
A true story of a daring Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, who, with the help of Lloyd George, manages to wangle a visa to Moscow to report on the Soviet Union’s economic expansion…
Mrs. America
The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ada Harris, a widowed cleaning lady living in London, becomes obsessed with the fantasy of one day owning a Dior dress…
Mrs Wilson
This true story begins when Alexander “Alec” Wilson, Alison’s long-time husband, dies of a sudden heart attack in their home. Bereft, Alison is now looking at a future of raising two sons with very little money…
Music of the Heart
Roberta Guaspari, a talented violinist, recently divorced, unemployed, depressed, is living at home with her domineering mother Assunta while struggling to raise two sons…
The Mustang
Roman Coleman has been in prison for 12 years. He was convicted for attacking his partner and leaving him brain damaged. Roman also has a violent temper and a bad attitude. To rehabilitate him, he is assigned to a program run by Myles, a rancher, who trains wild mustangs…
My Brilliant Friend
This film series is an adaptation of the first of the four novels by Elena Ferrante. Protagonist Elena Greco is an elderly woman living alone in her book-filled apartment in Naples. She is told that the most important friend in her life has disappeared.
My Darling Clementine
In 1882, Wyatt Earp and his three brothers are driving cattle from Arizona to California…
My Happy Family
Manana is a 52-year-old housewife and teacher living in a cramped three-bedroom apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia, with an indifferent husband, her parents, children…
The Namesake
Ashoke and Ashima immigrate from Calcutta to the United States…
Nanook of the North
Writer/director Robert J. Flaherty vividly films the struggles of an indigenous Inuit family living in the bleak and forbidding Canadian arctic…
Narcos
The series describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar from a small-time black marketeer in Medellin, Colombia to the billionaire kingpin of the cocaine industry. Trafficking mostly in illegal alcohol, cigarettes, and household appliances, Escobar meets Mateo “Cockroach” Moreno, a Chilean chemist, who convinces Escobar to switch to a far more profitable product, cocaine. They strike a deal: Moreno will produce the cocaine and Escobar will distribute it.
Nashville
A huge canvas of a movie that features 24 characters, an hour of terrific country-and-western music, and multiple storylines. In the course of several days and nights, the characters weave in and out while politician Hal Philip Walker (never seen) cruises in his red, white, and blue van spouting over a loudspeaker his conservative views about too much government in America…
The Natural
Roy Hobbs is a young boy growing up in 1910s Nebraska. When lightning strikes a tree, splintering it, Roy carves a baseball bat from the tree trunk and burns into the bat the word “Wonderboy” into the bat…
Navalny
On August 29, 2020, Alexei Navalny, a critic of Putin, was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan, living in a small town in Pennsylvania, finds out she’s pregnant…
The New Girlfriend
The New Girlfriend opens with a funeral…
The New Land
Karl-Oskar, his wife Kristina, their three children, along with Karl’s younger brother Robert and Robert’s friend Arvid, settle by Lake Ki Chi Saga in rural Minnesota…
Nicky’s Family
While preparing for a ski holiday, Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker, was asked by a friend to check out the dire conditions for Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia…
Night Falls on Manhattan
NYPD detectives Liam Casey and Joey Allegretto conduct a raid at the apartment of drug lord Jordan Washington…
The Night Of
A riveting crime drama of a native Pakistani-American student, Naz, ( terrific performance by Riz Ahmed), living in Queens. One night, Naz takes his father’s cab to a party and picks up a young woman who seduces him.
The Night Manager
The series focuses on the lucrative, illegal, business of selling arms to rogue nations. British and U.S. Intelligence are…
Nights of Cabiria
A happy, laughing Cabiria, a prostitute, is standing by a river bank with her live-in boyfriend Giorgio when he snatches her purse filled with money and pushes her into the river…
1917
On April 7, 1917, during World War I, British intelligence learns that a supposed German retreat is not a retreat at all. The Germans are seeking to lure some 1,600 British soldiers of the Second Battalion into a trap and destroy them with artillery…
No Bears
No Bears opens on a cobblestone street in an Iranian town close to the Turkish border…
Nomadland
Based on the nonfiction book by Jessica Bruder. In 2011, the U.S. Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shut down driving the town out of existence…
Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a tired, small-town textile worker trying to support her family on her small salary. She’s a woman with no great education but with a lot of common sense…
El Norte
Arturo is a coffee picker in Guatemala. He and his fellow pickers labor in the hot sun with little relief and low wages…
Northanger Abbey
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is a tomboy with a wild imagination and a passion for Gothic novels…
North by Northwest
This is a classic Hitchcock film about mistaken identity. Roger Thornhill is an advertising executive who by sheer coincidence is mistaken to be…
North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty depicts the brutal, unmerciful world that took place with a professional football team in the 1970s…
No Second Chance
While Dr. Alice Lambert is warming the bottle for her six-month old daughter, Tara, two gun shots are fired into the kitchen…
Not My Life
Not My Life was filmed over four years and documents human trafficking in 13 countries
including the United States…
Not One Less
In rural China, the village’s only school teacher must take a month’s leave to care for his ill mother. Nobody in the village is available to…
The Nun’s Story
In the late 1920s, Gabrielle “Gaby” van der Mal leaves her wealthy Belgian family to become a nun…
ODD MAN OUT
In Belfast, Irish nationalist Johnny McQueen and fellow rebels, Nolan and Murphy, carry out a robbery to fund their organization…
Offside
In Iran, female fans are forbidden to enter the soccer stadium to watch the championship match between Iran and Bahrain…
Old Yeller
On a farm in 1860s Texas, Jim Coates leaves his wife Katie, and his sons Travis and Arliss, and heads to Kansas to buy cattle…
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
The time is early 1969. Rick Dalton, a star of Hollywood Westerns, fears his career is waning. His agent, Marvin Schwarzs urges Rick to go to Italy where he can find work making Spaghetti Westerns…
One Child Nation
Directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang were born during the One-Child period in China. To control the fast-growing population…
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer, an irascible retired professor and Ethel, his wife of 50 years, continue their long tradition of spending summers in their cottage on the shore of a golden pond in northern New England…
Open City
The film takes place in Nazi-occupied Rome in 1944. The Nazis are searching for Giorgio Manfredi, a Resistance fighter. He is warned of the danger and he hides in the home of another Resistance fighter Francesco and his fiancee Pina…
Orchestra of Exiles
Bronislaw Huberman was a world-renowned Jewish violinist who performed in every major city in Europe and North America…
Our Planet
Each segment of this eight-part series documents the destruction of a major part of this planet. Highlights are: polar bears, walruses, seals, and penguins dying…
Our Souls At Night
Louis Waters, a widower, and Addie Moore, a widow, have been neighbors for decades but hardly know each other. One day, Addie stops by…
The Pacific
Whereas the film series “Band of Brothers” focused on the men of Easy Company fighting in Europe, THE PACIFIC focuses on three…
Pain and Glory
Spanish film director Salvador Mallo is having an emotional crisis. He has physical and mental ailments that block him from making movies. He reunites with the actor Alberto Crespo…
The Painted Bird
In war-torn Eastern Europe during World War II, a Jewish family, anxious that their boy be safe, sends him to live with his aunt on a remote farm…
Paisan
Paisan is about the liberation of Italy starting with the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 to the end of World War II in 1945…
The Pajama Game
Based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical by the same name, the story begins with the arrival of Sid, the newly-hired superintendent of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory…
Parasite
Kim Ki-taek, his wife, Chung-sook, their son, Ki-woo, and their daughter, Ki-jeong, are an impoverished family living in a crowded semi-basement apartment in Korea. ..
Parenthood
Parenthood, a bittersweet adult comedy, weaves the experiences of several members of the Buckman family…
Paris is Burning
This extraordinary documentary chronicles the elaborately-structured ball culture in which African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender contestants compete. Like fashion models, they “walk” the runways…
Paris, Texas
Travis Henderson, a strange, lost soul, is wandering the West Texas desert going nowhere…
A Passage to India
Adela Quested is sailing from England to India with Mrs. Moore, the mother of Adela’s intended bridegroom…
Passing
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned African American who runs into a childhood friend, Clare Bellew at a hotel in New York…
The Past
Ahmad, an Iranian man, returns to France to finalize his divorce with his wife Marie…
A Patch of Blue
Selina D’Arcy is a blind teen-age white girl living in an apartment with a vulgar mother, who is ia prostitute, and her grandfather, Ole Pa. Selena’s mother is abusive and Ole Pa is an alcoholic…
Paths of Glory
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this is a harrowing film depicting trench warfare during World War I. French General Georges Broulard orders his subordinate, General Mireau, to attack a German stronghold. Mireau is reluctant to…
The Pawnbroker
Sol Nazerman is a Holocaust survivor. His two children died in a cattle car on the way to Auschwitz. His wife was brutally raped before she succumbed. He is tortured that he…
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Zak, a 22-year old with Down syndrome, lives in an assisted living facility in North Carolina. Eleanor is his compassionate primary caregiver…
Perfumes
Guillaume Favre, a divorced father, is informed he must find a larger apartment if he’s to have shared custody of his teenage daughter…
Persuasion
The film is set in 19th-century England, eight years after Anne was persuaded by others to reject Captain Wentworth’s proposal of marriage…
The Petrified Forest
A burnt-out, penniless, British writer, Alan Squier, wanders into a roadside diner in the Arizona desert. The diner, located at the edge of a petrified forest, is managed by…
The Phenix City Story
The town of Phenix City, Alabama can do little to stop the criminal activities of Rhett Tanner. Crime and corruption are rife as the police do very little. After all, most of the police are on Tanner’s payroll..
Philomena
English journalist, Martin Sixsmith, is persuaded by the daughter of Philomena Lee, to write a human interest story of her mother’s tragic life…
The Pianist
On September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist loses his job playing at the local radio station…
The Piano Lesson
Boy Willie and his friend Lymon travel from Mississippi to Pittsburgh with the hope that Boy Willie’s sister Berniece would give him the family’s heirloom piano…
Pickpocket
Michel’s first taste as a thief occurs at a racetrack. He steals money from a spectator but is caught. The police release him for lack of evidence…
Pillow Talk
This film was made at the time when having a telephone party line was common. Jan Morrow, an interior decorator, and the composer Brad Allen, a womanizing bachelor, share such a line. Jan complains that Brad is hogging…
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America is an alternate history TV series taking place in the years before the U.S. entry into World War II…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
It’s the end of the eighteenth century and Marianne, a young painter, is commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse…
Psycho
Marion Crane, a real estate secretary, is told by her boss to deposit $40,000 in cash that a client left as payment for a property. Marion and her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, are having trouble…
The Price of Sugar
The Vicini family owns one of the largest sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic…
Pride & Prejudice
During the late 18th century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, live at Longbourn, an estate in rural England…
The Prince of Egypt
An animated musical drama loosely based on the the biblical story of Moses. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh, fearing the alarming increase in the Hebrew population, orders that all newborn Hebrew boys be killed. Baby Moses is placed in a basket by his mother, who sets it floating in the Nile…
Prisoners of War (Hatufim)
Nimrode and Uri have just been released, in a prisoner exchange, after spending 17 years being tortured in a Syrian prison…
The Promise (La Promesse)
Igor, a teenager, works for his father, Roger in Belgium. They provide housing for illegal immigrants in dilapidated buildings in return for cheap labor…
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The film is set in a small New Jersey town in 1935 during the Great Depression. Cecilia is a clumsy waitress who seeks escape from her bleak life and abusive husband Monk by going to afternoon movies. The film now playing…
The Pursuit of Happyness
A true story. In 1981 San Francisco. Chris Gardner is struggling to support his wife and son by selling portable bone-scanners to doctors…
Queen of Katwe
Phiona is a 10-year-old living in Katwe, a slum in Kampala Uganda. Together with her mother, Nakku Harriet and her brother, they make ends meet by selling maize in the market. It looks like Phiona will…
The Queen’s Gambit
Nine-year-old Beth is adjusting to life in an orphanage after the untimely death of her mother…
The Quiet Girl
Nine-year-old Cáit is withdrawn and has difficulty in school…
Quincy
This documentary about the great Quincy Jones was put together lovingly by his daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. In his spectacular 70-year career, this giant in American music was a huge success as a record…
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Taking place in 1931, the film chronicles the loosely biographical experience of three Aboriginal girls, 14-year-old Molly…
Race
Race is a biographical sports drama about African-American athlete Jesse Owens who won what was then a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics…
Radium Girls
Bessie and Jo are teenage sisters who work at the American Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey…
Raise the Red Lantern
In the Chinese Warlord Era (1916-1928), nineteen-year-old Songlian is forced…
Ratatouille
Remy is a young rat living in the French countryside…
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon dramatizes the love story of American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares in Petropolis, Brazil, between 1951 and 1967…
Real Women Have Curves
Ana Garcia is an 18-year old student in Beverly Hills. She is an exceptional student hoping to get a scholarship to Columbia University…
RBG
This documentary chronicles the life and career of a remarkable woman, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She grew up in Brooklyn and attended Cornell University where she met…
Rectify
Daniel Holden was wrongfully imprisoned as a teenager for the death of his girlfriend. After enduring 19 years on death row, DNA testing is ordered and it proves he did not commit this crime. Daniel is now a free man and he returns to his hometown, Paulie, Georgia…
Red Joan
In 1938, Joan Smith, a Cambridge University physics student, joins a group of radical communists…
Red River
In 1851, Thomas Dunson, his trail hand Groot, and his adopted son, Matt, start a cattle ranch in Texas with one cow and one bull. Dunson names his spread the Red River D. After 14 years of fending off Indian attacks and…
Red Rock West
Michael Williams, an unemployed ex-marine, wanders into a bar in Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for work…
The Red Shoes
Julian Craster, a young classical composer, convinces Boris Lermontov, the imperious impresario of the Ballet Lermontov, to have him compose the music for his next ballet…
Renoir
The gorgeous Andrée Heuschling arrives at the home of famed artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Provence, France. She is there to help…
The Report
It’s a true story about Daniel J.Jones, a staff member of the U.S. Select Committee on Intelligence. In 2009, Daniel’s boss, Senator Dianne Feinstein, asked him to head up a Senate investigative committee and produce a report about the CIA’s use of…
The Restaurant
In May 1945, World War II ends and peace is proclaimed. The tightly-knit Lowander family, consisting of the tyrannical mother Helga, her two sons Peter and Gustaf and…
Richard III
King Edward IV of England was helped to the throne by his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester…
The Rider
Brady, his autistic sister, Lilly, and their father live in poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Lakota Sioux…
Riders of Justice
Emma and her daughter, Mathilde, board a commuter train in Denmark…
The River
Harriet, her brother, and four sisters are part of an upper middle-class English family residing on the banks of the Ganges River in India…
The Road Home
In present day China, Luo Yusheng returns to his hometown village from the city upon hearing…
Rocco and His Brothers
The Parondi family consists of the matriarch Rosaria and her five sons. They move from the poor rural village of Lucania…
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
This fascinating documentary/musical was not directed by Martin Scorsese. Instead, Scorsese edited the film brilliantly weaving together scenes from Bob Dylan’s historic 1975 Rolling Thunder tour with previously unseen archival footage…
Roma
A riveting account based on writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s early, middle-class life in Mexico in the early 1970s. The title refers to Colonia Roma, a neighborhood in Mexico City…
Romancing the Stone
Joan Wilder, a successful novelist, is handed a letter by her neighbor that contains a map from Eduardo, Joan’s brother-in-law…
Romeo and Juliet
In the Italian city of Verona, the Montague and Capulet families are constantly feuding and are at each other’s throats…
Room at the Top
Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man, moves from his dreary hometown of Dufton, in Yorkshire, England, to the more upscale Warnley…
A Room With a View
Adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy with her older cousin Charlotte, who is serving as her chaperone…
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Directed and produced by Ken Burns, the series covers the lives and times of Theodore Roosevelt (26th president), Franklin D. Roosevelt (four-term president), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Franklin’s influential wife)…
Rosemary’s Baby
Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, a likable young couple, move into the Branford, a rundown Renaissance Revival apartment building on Manhattan’s West Side…
Rules of the Game
After a momentous solo flight across the Atlantic (ten years after Lindbergh), André Jurieux lands at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris…
Running on Empty
Arthur and Annie Pope are active Anti-Vietnam War protesters…
Safety Last!
Harold Lloyd (called The Boy) says goodbye to his girlfriend (called The Girl) at the train station as he heads to the big city to become a big success. Once he makes good, he promises to marry her.
The Salesman
Emad and Rana are ordered to leave their apartment building as it was on the verge of collapsing. Fortunately, Babak, a friend in their acting group, helps them find another apartment…
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Arthur Seaton, a young machinist in a Nottingham factory, spends his weekends drinking and partying with his friends…
Saving Private Ryan
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the 2nd Ranger Battalion, led by Captain John Miller, lands on the beaches…
Scarface
In 1980, Cuban refugees Tony Montana and his friend Manny Ray arrive…
Scenes from a Marriage
It begins with the feeling that Johan and Marianne have a perfect marriage. Married ten years, Johan is a popular professor, Marianne is a successful lawyer…
Schindler’s List
Businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Krakow in 1939 ready to make his fortune…
Seabiscuit
The Great Economic Depression in the 1930s financially ruined the Pollard family forcing them to send their son “Red” to work for a horse trainer…
The Search
During World War II, mother and son, Hanna and Karel Malik, were separated at a German concentration camp…
Secrets of the Elephant
A superb series produced by National Geographic…
The Seduction of Mimi
Mimi is a dockworker in Sicily who is pressured by his employer to vote for the Mafia candidate in the local election…
Selma
Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, politicians in several Southern states made it difficult for Blacks to vote…
Sense and Sensibility
On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood implores his son, John, from his first marriage, to take care of his mother and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret…
Séraphine
A surprise winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars), including Best Film, Séraphine is about a middle-aged housekeeper who has a remarkable talent for painting…
Serpico
Serpico graduates from the police academy filled with optimism and pride. He gets assigned to the Bureau of Criminal Investigations where he’s allowed to grow a beard and mustache…
The Servant
Wealthy Londoner Tony moves into his town house while it’s undergoing a major renovation…
Seven Beauties
Pasqualino, a small-town gangster in Italy, kills and dismembers a pimp who forced Pasqualino’s sister into prostitution…
1776
While the Revolutionary War against England rages, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia is still debating the question of American independence…
Shadow of a Doubt
Charlotte (Charlie) Newton is a precocious bored teenager living in Santa Rosa California. One day she receives the wonderful news that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming for a visit…
Shane (1953)
In the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory, in the late19th century, a bitter feud is raging between the cattle ranchers and homesteading farmers…
Shampoo (1975)
George Roundy is a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser…
Shanghai Triad
Tang Shuisheng, a naive and provincial teenager from rural China…
She Loves Me
The musical play takes place in a fancy perfumery in Budapest operated by Zoltan Maraczek, a very strict…
The Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick from Stephen King’s best-selling novel, this suspenseful and troubling film examines a family becoming unhinged. Writer Jack Torrance, his wife Shelley, and young son Danny, accept a job as…
Shoeshine
Giuseppe and Pasquale are two friends who make ends meet by shining shoes in the streets of
Rome. One day, Giuseppe’s older brother, Attilio, recruits the boys to sell black market blankets…
Shoplifters
Osamu, his wife Noboyu, and son Shota live with family members in a cramped Tokyo apartment…
Shtisel
This Israeli television series is about the fictional lives of Hasidic (ultra-orthodox) families in the Geula section of Jerusalem. Although they are portrayed as fanatical about their religious beliefs, the series also portrays many of them struggling with the conflicts of difficult relationships. Shulem, the patriarch and a widower, rules his brood with an iron fist…
Sicario
Kate Macer, a rising FBI agent, is assigned to a task force headed by Matt Graver and Alejandra Gillick…
Sicko
Michael Moore’s investigative documentary attempts to expose the faults of the health care system in the U.S. before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Moore believes that the profiteering and abuses of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries are at the heart of the problem. It’s particularly relevant today as the politicians in Washington grapple with ways to provide universal health care for everyone…
The Silent Partner
Miles Cullen is an effete, bored bank teller in a dead-end job. When he’s held up at gunpoint, he has an idea…
Silver Linings Playbook
After eight months in a mental health facility, being treated for bipolar disorder, Patrizio “Pat” Solitano Jr. returns home to his family…
Singin’ in the Rain
This musical depicts the painful change in the motion pictures business when silent films converted to sound. Most in Hollywood, including actor Don Lockwood and his sidekick, Cosmo Brown, proceed to adapt. However, the…
Sitting Bull: A Stone In My Heart
Sitting Bull: A Stone In My Heart is a documentary that covers the life of the revered and heroic Lakota leader from 1830 to his death on December 15, 1890…
Six by Sondheim
Six by Sondheim includes half a dozen of Sondheim’s brilliant songs…
Slay the Dragon
This is a documentary about gerrymandering, which is the practice of redrawing a state’s electoral map to favor the party in power…
Small Axe Anthology
The anthology, created, written and directed by Steve McQueen, consists of five individual films about the lives of West Indian immigrants…
A Small Light
Miep Gies, a young woman, convinces Otto Frank, a distributor of Opekta jams, to hire her as his secretary…
Some Like It Hot
Joe and Jerry, two musicians, accidentally witness gangster Spats and his henchmen gun down members of a rival gang in a garage…
The Song of the Sparrows
In the outskirts of Tehran, ostrich farmworker Karim is fired because he allowed an ostrich to escape…
Sophie Scholl—The Final Days
In World War II Munich, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, join the White Rose, an anti-Nazi group…