Alphabetical Listing (By Film)

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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…

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…

Sounder

Nathan Lee Morgan, his wife Rebecca, and three kids are sharecroppers, along with their dog Sounder, living in rural Louisiana during the Depression…

Sound of Metal

Drummer Ruben performs in a heavy metal duo with his girlfriend Lou…

The Southerner

Sam Tucker is a Texas sharecropper picking cotton with his wife Nona and his elderly uncle Pete. Pete suddenly collapses from the heat and dies…

Spotlight

On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe had a first page headline that shocked the city, “Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years.”…

The Spy

In the late 1960s, Eli Cohen (no relation to the actor) is an Egyptian-born Israeli stuck in a boring job as a clerk in a department store. Applying for an adventurous job as a Mossad operative, he’s unfortunately rejected…

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Alec Leamas is a burnt-out British spy operating in West Berlin. He is recalled to London…

The Square

In the winter of 2011, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the removal of the dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak…

Stagecoach

In June,1880, a group of strangers board a stagecoach traveling from the Arizona Territory to Lordsburg…

Stand and Deliver

In 1980, Jaime Escalante is hired by James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles to teach math…

Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi

General Hux, leader of the nefarious First Order, is determined to destroy the rebels, headed by the fearsome Rey. To help in the fight, Rey tries to persuade Jedi master Luke Skywalker to abandon his self-exile and rejoin…

Stella Dallas

In post-World War I Massachusetts, Stella Martin, a mill-worker’s daughter, manages to elevate her social position by marrying Stephen Dallas, a wealthy local…

Story of Women

In Vichy France during World War II, Marie is impoverished, raising two children in a squalid apartment while waiting for her prisoner-of-war husband, Paul, to return…

The Stranger

Mr. Wilson of the United Nations War Crimes Commission has been hunting Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler for some time. He hasn’t had much success. So he decides to release incarcerated Nazi criminal, Meinike, hoping Meinike will lead him to Kindler…

Styx

Rike is a white female doctor working in the emergency section of a German hospital. The job is high stress as Rike is the first responder when injured…

Suffragette

In 1912, 24-year-old laundry worker, Maud Watts, and her co-worker Violet Miller, become involved in the protests by the suffragettes…

The Sundowners

Paddy Carmody, his wife Ida, and teenage son Sean, are sundowners. They travel…

Sunrise at Campobello

It’s 1921 and the Roosevelt family is happily vacationing on the island of Campobello off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada…

The Sunshine Boys

Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a very popular Vaudeville team, known as “The Sunshine Boys.” After 47 years together they parted ways on unfriendly terms…

Supernova

Sam and Tusker, partners for 20 years, are traveling across England’s Lake District. Sam, a concert pianist, is scheduled to give a performance…

Sweet Bean

Sentarô is a middle-aged man operating a dorayaki snack shop inTokyo…

Swept Away

Raffaella, an arrogant, wealthy woman, is vacationing with friends on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean Sea…

Swimming Pool

Sarah Morton, a middle-aged writer of mystery novels, is at a dead-end in her career…

The Talented Mr. Ripley

When rich industrialist Herbert Greenleaf notices that Tom Ripley, the piano player at a cocktail party he’s hosting, is wearing a Princeton jacket, he has an idea: offer Tom $1,000 plus all expenses to go to Italy and convince Greenleaf’s philandering son, Dickie, to return to the United States…

The Taming of the Shrew

Grumio and Hortensio are rivals for the hand of the beautiful Bianca…

Tampopo

During a rain storm, two truck drivers, Gorô and his younger sidekick Gun, stop off at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle diner…

Tangerines

Ivo and his friend Margus are Estonians living in a rural village in the newly independent Caucasian country of Georgia…

Taste of Cherry

Having completed digging his grave, Mr. Badii, a suicidal middle-aged man, must find someone to bury him…

The Teacher

The story takes place in Communist Bratislava in 1983. Maria Drazdechova is the new teacher at a suburban school. At first she seems like a good soul. But she then makes the students uneasy as she calls on each one and asks what their parents do for a living…

Tehran

Tamar Rabinyan is a Jewish Mossad agent born in Iran but raised in Israel…

Tel Aviv on Fire

Salam Abbas, a charismatic 30-year-old Palestinian living in East Jerusalem, is a trainee on the Palestinian TV soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire”…

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin, a young, precocious girl, was diagnosed with severe autism as a child…

The Ten Commandments

The Pharaoh of Egypt has ordered the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile…

There Is No Evil

Executions in post-Revolutionary Iran are currently done primarily by hanging rather than the previous method by firing squads…

There Will Be Blood

In 1902, Daniel Plainview, a prospector, discovers oil in California and establishes an oil drilling company. During the drilling there is an accident and a worker, the father of an infant, dies…

They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson’s First World War documentary used original footage from the Imperial War Museum’s archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of the film’s release…

The Thin Blue Line

When documentarian Errol Morris heard about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist who testified in hundreds of murder cases, always recommending the death penalty…

Thief

After spending 12 years in prison, Frank continues a life of crime with a major haul…

Thirteen Days

In October 1962, U-2 aerial surveillance photos reveal Soviet Union missile launchers installed in nearby Cuba…

This Happy Breed

It’s 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, and the Gibbons family is settling in their rented home in Clapham, South London…

This Land Is Mine

Albert Lory is an unmarried school teacher secretly in love with a fellow teacher, Louise…

Three Colors: Blue

In a tragic car accident, Julie survives while her husband, Patrice, a famous symphony composer, and her daughter, are killed…

Three Colors: Red

While Valentine Dussaut, a college student and part-time model, is driving home, she accidentally hits and wounds a Belgian Malinois dog…

Three Colors: White

Karol, a Polish emigré living in Paris, is being divorced by his beautiful wife Dominique…

The Third Man

Penniless and desperate for work, Holly Martins, a struggling novelist, arrives in post-World War II Vienna hoping to land a job offered by his childhood pal, Harry Lime…

Thunder Road

The film opens with Jim Arnaud’s rambling 12-minute eulogy at his mother’s funeral. He tries playing his mother’s favorite song, Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road,” on a boombox, but he can’t get it to work.

The Times of Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk, an openly gay candidate, was defeated three times in his efforts to be a member of the San Francisco…

Tin Men

In 1963 Baltimore, two aluminum siding salesmen, Ernest Tilley and Bill “BB” Babowsky are fierce rivals…

To Have and Have Not

It’s 1940 and Harry Morgan is busy operating a small fishing boat in Fort-de-France, Martinique, a French colony in the Caribbean. World War II is…

To Kill a Mockingbird

In the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, Sheriff Heck Tate visits lawyer Atticus Finch. He persuades Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young girl named Mayella. With an all-white jury in the Deep South, it doesn’t look promising for Tom…

Tokyo Story

Retired couple Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama and their daughter Kyōko, live in a coastal village in rural Japan…

To Leslie

Leslie, a West Texas single mother, wins $190,000 in a local lottery. But being an alcoholic, her money is gone in a few years…

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown and the roles played by Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary)…

Top Hat

Jerry Travers, an American dancer, comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick…

Touching the Void

In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both experienced mountaineers, set off to climb the treacherous west face of the 21,000-foot…

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (first two episodes) examines the horrendous effects of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that was passed by Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson…

The Train

During the late stages of World War II, Colonel Franz von Waldheim is ordered to ship Impressionist masterpieces from the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris to Germany…

Transit

The story starts in Paris when the city is undergoing a brutal occupation. Although it’s likely that this is a Nazi occupation, the film doesn’t define it as such. Georg is asked by his friend to deliver two letters to a writer…

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Staying in a flophouse, two vagrants, Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, encounter Howard, a grizzled but wise old prospector, who regales them with stories about finding gold in the Sierra Madre mountains. Luck is with…

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

In Lombardy, Italy, in 1898, four peasant families struggle to survive on farms owned by an unsympathetic landlord…

Trial 4

Sean Ellis was a 19-year old African-American man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time…

The Trial of the Chicago 7

In August 1968, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines, and Bobby Seale decide to protest the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago…

The Trial of Joan of Arc

In 1431, Jeanne (Joan), a French peasant girl, insists her heroic military successes were achieved with God’s help…

The Tribe

Teenager Sergei arrives at a boarding school for the deaf. The school is drab and dreary…

Trumbo

At the height of his career, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) regarding his former membership in the Communist Party…

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

In 1945, as World War II dies down, Detroit engineer, Preston Tucker, with support from…

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Biographer Robert Caro is 87. Editor Robert Gottlieb is 91…

Turtles Can Fly

In a Kurdish refugee camp in Iraq in 2003, thirteen-year-old Soran, known by the locals…

12 Angry Men

It’s a simple story. A teenaged boy is accused of killing his father. There are two witnesses whose testimonies convince eleven of the jurors…

Twelve O’Clock High

The 918th Bomb Group, flying missions over Germany during World War II, is experiencing heavy losses. Known as the “hard luck group,” they are commanded by Colonel Keith Davenport. Davenport is at this time exhausted and demoralized with these losses…

22 July

The film, directed and produced by Paul Greengrass, depicts the horrific massacre of 77 children while on a camping trip on Utoya, an island off Norway. Anders Behring Breivik, dressed in a police uniform, drives a van loaded with explosives…

Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit)

In Seraing, an industrial town near Liege, Belgium, Sandra, a worker at the solar panel factory, returns to work after a medical leave only to learn she may lose her job.

Two Lovers

Leonard Kraditor, probably manic-depressive, comes to live with his parents, Ruth and Reuben, after a failed suicide attempt…

The Two Popes

In 2012, Cardinal Bergoglio is frustrated with the direction of the church so he notifies Pope Benedict of his wish to retire. Pope Benedict summons the Cardinal, his harshest critic (and his eventual successor), to come to Rome to discuss this decision…

Two of Us

Nina and Madeleine (“Mada”) are middle-aged, retired women…

Two Women

In war-torn Rome, 1943, Cesira, a widowed shopkeeper and her daughter Rosetta, flee Rome after an Allied bombing. They head for Cesira’s birthplace…

Umberto D.

Umberto is an elderly retired civil servant unable to live on his annual pension. He returns one day to his one-room apartment only to be told by the landlady that he’s being evicted…

Ugetsu

A tale about two men, Genjūrō, a potter, and his brother-in-law, Tōbei, living in 16th-century Japan…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Madame Emery and her beautiful 17-year old daughter Genevieve own a struggling umbrella boutique in the French coastal town of Cherbourg…

Unbelievable

This is about a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado. The story first focuses on the rape of Marie Adler, a disturbed teenager living in a foster home. What she goes through with the police investigators and the medical examinations…

The Unknown Girl

Jenny Davin is a hard-working young doctor in a small clinic in Liege, Belgium. She is prepared to go home after a long day when her front door buzzer rings…

Unorthodox

Esther (“Esty”) is a 19-year old woman feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage and living in a suffocating ultra-orthodox…

The Untouchables

During the Prohibition era, Chicago gangster, Al Capone, controls illegal liquor…

Us

The film begins with a family spending a pleasant day on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California. The young daughter, Adelaide, separates from the family and finds herself in an abandoned hall of mirrors shack. She sees her…

Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a middle-aged woman, living in England, caring for her husband, children, elderly mother, and a sick neighbor…

The Verdict

1982 | Courtroom Drama | 129 minutes | In English Info Frank Galvin is a has-been lawyer and a big time alcoholic. He spends his time in bars and playing pinball machines. Out of compassion, Mickey Morrissey, his friend and former teacher, throws him a malpractice...

Veronika Voss

In 1955 Munich, has-been German film star Veronika Voss gets caught in a rainstorm…

Vertigo

While chasing a fugitive over the rooftops of San Francisco, detective Scottie Ferguson encounters vertigo, falls, and hangs over the side of the roof…

Vincere

It’s 1907 in Rome and Ida Dalser is captivated by a dynamic young socialist named Benito Mussolini. They fall in love and begin a torrid love affair…

Virunga

The survival of Virunga National Park in the Congo, the oldest park in Africa, is being threatened. Home to the world’s last mountain gorillas…

Wadjda

This is a funny, romantic drama about Wadjda, a spirited 10 year-old Saudi girl living in the capital city of Riyadh…

Waltz with Bashir

unusual Israeli animated war documentary that’s rated “R.” The film was written, produced and directed by Ari Folman. Ari was a 19-year old IDF (Israel Defense Force) infantry soldier during the war in Lebanon…

The War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

The series vividly recounts the experiences of World War II veterans who now live in…

The War Is Over

In this touching real-life drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II…

Water

In 1930s India, eight-year-old Chuyia becomes a widow before she knows what it is to be a child, let alone a wife. In those days, India regarded…

The Wedding Banquet

Gao Wai-Tung is a gay Taiwanese immigrant living in Manhattan with his partner Simon…

Weissensee

This series grievously depicts the deep-divide between two families in Communist East Germany before unification. Hans Kupfer, and his son Falk, are senior officers at the East German Security office…

What’s Love Got to Do With It

Born Anna Mae Bullock, Tina Turner was raised in the small town of Nutbush, Tennessee. At a young age, Tina was abandoned by her parents and cared for by her grandmother. Following her grandmother’s death, Tina moved to St. Louis to be with her mother and close sister.

When They See Us

On April 19, 1989, while jogging in Manhattan’s Central Park, Trisha Meili, a White investment banker, was assaulted and raped…

Where Is the Friend’s Home?

A school in rural Iran has an extremely strict school teacher…

Winchester ’73

Dodge City, Lin McAdam enters a shooting contest for a coveted “One of One Thousand” Winchester ’73 rifle. His opponent is the despicable Dutch Henry Brown…

The Witch

In 1630s New England, William, his wife Katherine, son Caleb, and daughters Mercy and Jonas are banished from their Puritan Plymouth Colony over a religious dispute. They flee to a secluded forest and build a farmhouse. Katherine gives birth to a son, Samuel. One day, Samuel suddenly disappears…