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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Apollo II
Producer Todd Douglas Miller and his production team, with the assistance of NASA and the National Archives and Records Administration, discovered unreleased (…)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Basquiat
Basquiat chronicles the early career of the introverted, homeless, graffiti artist who worked anonymously under the name “Samo”…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Casting By
This documentary is a celebration of the casting profession. Before the emergence of the super-star casting directors like Marion Dougherty…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
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…
Death of a Salesman
This superb video rendition is noteworthy in that it reunites the original leads, Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock…
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…
Deutschland 83
In 1983, East Germany’s Secret Service (Stasi) is concerned that American troops stationed in West Germany may attack…
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…
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…
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…
Dog Day Afternoon
Sonny is determined to get enough money so his male lover, Leon, can get the sex-change operation he desperately wants…
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…
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…
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…
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…
The Emigrants
Karl-Oskar Nilsson, his wife Kristina, and Karl’s younger brother Robert live on a small farm in Sweden. The family struggles…
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…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
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…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
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…
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..”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Herself
Sandra, a mother with two young daughters living in Ireland, is beaten frequently by her abusive husband Gary…
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 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…
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)…
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…
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 Hurricane
Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…
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…
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…
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
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 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…
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…
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…
I Vitelloni
A heavy downpour interrupts a beachside beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Italian Adriatic coast…
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…
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…
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
Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lili
A naive, young, French girl arrives in a provincial town hoping to find an old friend of her father…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Margin Call
Shortly after the abrupt firing of Eric Dale, head of risk management at an investment banking firm, Eric warns his associate, Peter Sullivan, the firm is in a very dangerous situation…
Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, in the early ’40s, was a NAACP lawyer fighting cases of racial injustice around the country…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mrs. America
The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…
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…
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…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan, living in a small town in Pennsylvania, finds out she’s pregnant…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Orchestra of Exiles
Bronislaw Huberman was a world-renowned Jewish violinist who performed in every major city in Europe and North America…
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…
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. ..
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…
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 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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
The Rider
Brady, his autistic sister, Lilly, and their father live in poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Lakota Sioux…
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…
Rosemary’s Baby
Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building on the Upper West Side in Manhattan…
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…
Saving Private Ryan
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the 2nd Ranger Battalion, led by Captain John Miller, lands on the beaches…
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…
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…
1776
While the Revolutionary War against England rages, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia is still debating the question of American independence…
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…
Sicario
Kate Macer, a rising FBI agent, is assigned to a task force headed by Matt Graver and Alejandra Gillick…
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Backed by a Mexican drug cartel, a terrorist bombs a Kansas City supermarket killing 15 people…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Square
In the winter of 2011, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the removal of the dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak…
Stand and Deliver
In 1980, Jaime Escalante is hired by James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles to teach math…
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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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Avalon
In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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.
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…
Casting By
This documentary is a celebration of the casting profession. Before the emergence of the super-star casting directors like Marion Dougherty…
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…
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…
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…
City Lights
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin), while clowning around the city, encounters a beautiful Flower Girl on the street corner…
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…
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…
Collective
When a fire consumes the Colectiv, a Bucharest nightclub, 27 people die and 180 are injured. There are protests…
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…
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…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
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…
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…
Defending Jacob
Andy and Laurie Barber have been happily married for 20 years. He is a successful assistant district attorney…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
The Emigrants
Karl-Oskar Nilsson, his wife Kristina, and Karl’s younger brother Robert live on a small farm in Sweden. The family struggles…
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”…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Death of a Salesman
This superb video rendition is noteworthy in that it reunites the original leads, Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock…
The Glass Menagerie
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield supports herself and her handicapped daughter Laura by selling subscriptions from her dilapidated apartment…
Julius Caesar
Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…
The King and I
Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…
She Loves Me
The musical play takes place in a fancy perfumery in Budapest operated by Zoltan Maraczek, a very strict…
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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…
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…
Ballad of a Soldier
On the Eastern Front during World War II, Private Alyosha Skvortsov single-handedly destroys two attacking German tanks…
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…
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…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
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…
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…
I Vitelloni
A heavy downpour interrupts a beachside beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Italian Adriatic coast…
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…
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Germany. World War II. Maria and Hermann Braun are getting married while the Allies are bombing the church…
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 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…
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…
Taste of Cherry
Having completed digging his grave, Mr. Badii, a suicidal middle-aged man, must find someone to bury him…
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…
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…
Where Is the Friend’s Home?
A school in rural Iran has an extremely strict school teacher…
Young Ahmed
Thirteen-year-old Ahmed becomes a follower of the radical Imam Youssouf, who preaches an extreme form of Islam…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
Fandango Now
Advocate
Advocate is a film about Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she tirelessly navigates through Israel’s judicial system defending Palestinian prisoners…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Avalon
In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…
Babel
The film Babel weaves four separate stories that are based in four different locations, with different languages, and different cultures…
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…
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…
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…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Collective
When a fire consumes the Colectiv, a Bucharest nightclub, 27 people die and 180 are injured. There are protests…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dog Day Afternoon
Sonny is determined to get enough money so his male lover, Leon, can get the sex-change operation he desperately wants…
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…
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…
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…
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 Endless Summer
Bruce Brown filmed spectacular shots of surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they searched for the “perfect wave”…
The English Patient
Almásy, a survivor of a plane crash during World War II, is found in the North African desert…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Grizzlies
Russ Sheppard takes a teaching job in a remote Arctic school to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hidden Figures
Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…
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…
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…
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 Hurricane
Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…
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…
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
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 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…
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…
Invictus
Invictus (Latin for undefeated) takes place in the late 1990s in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison…
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Liberty Heights
In Baltimore, 1954, Jewish families like the Kurtzmans, are experiencing many changes: Schools are now desegregated, rock ‘n’ roll…
Lili
A naive, young, French girl arrives in a provincial town hoping to find an old friend of her father…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Margin Call
Shortly after the abrupt firing of Eric Dale, head of risk management at an investment banking firm, Eric warns his associate, Peter Sullivan, the firm is in a very dangerous situation…
Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, in the early ’40s, was a NAACP lawyer fighting cases of racial injustice around the country…
Midnight in Paris
Gil Pender and his fiancee Inez, are vacationing in Paris. Gil is an unfulfilled screenwriter struggling…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan, living in a small town in Pennsylvania, finds out she’s pregnant…
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…
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…
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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…
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 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…
Bad Education
Dr. Frank Tassone is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, New York. He’s revered by everyone…
Basquiat
Basquiat chronicles the early career of the introverted, homeless, graffiti artist who worked anonymously under the name “Samo”…
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…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
Big Night
Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…
Bird
In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Collective
When a fire consumes the Colectiv, a Bucharest nightclub, 27 people die and 180 are injured. There are protests…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
Diner
Five male friends, in their twenties, meet frequently at the local diner to discuss issues they are facing. Eddie vows to call…
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…
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…
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”…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
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..”
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…
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…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
Hidden Figures
Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…
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…
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…
Hud
The Bannon family owns a Texas cattle ranch…
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…
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
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…
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…
Jazz-Ken Burns
Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns reveals the history of jazz in the United States in just ten episodes…
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…
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…
The King and I
Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Lili
A naive, young, French girl arrives in a provincial town hoping to find an old friend of her father…
The Longest Day
From the vivid perspectives of both Allied and Axis powers, the events of D-Day are fiercely…
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…
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…
Margin Call
Shortly after the abrupt firing of Eric Dale, head of risk management at an investment banking firm, Eric warns his associate, Peter Sullivan, the firm is in a very dangerous situation…
Midnight in Paris
Gil Pender and his fiancee Inez, are vacationing in Paris. Gil is an unfulfilled screenwriter struggling…
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…
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…
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…
Mrs. America
The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…
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…
North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty depicts the brutal, unmerciful world that took place with a professional football team in the 1970s…
The Nun’s Story
In the late 1920s, Gabrielle “Gaby” van der Mal leaves her wealthy Belgian family to become a nun…
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…
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. ..
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…