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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…
Amazon
Amazon Prime & Amazon Instant Video (amazon.com). Amazon Prime is a subscription service (SVOD) that is included if you are signed up for their shopping program. Otherwise the cost is $12.99 per month or $119 per year. Amazon Instant Video (TVOD) is a non-subscription service. You simply pay for each film you access. Major devices: iPad, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Roku, iOS, Amazon Fire, Apple TV.
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent in Cambodia from 1972to 1975, covered the defeat of the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime by the Communist Khmer Rouge forces…
Michael Collins
The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…
VIVA ZAPATA
From 1810 to 1821, the peasants (called campesinos) following the leadership of Emiliano Zapata, fight the corrupt government and its president, Porfirio Diaz…
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu was the cite of the final battle in the First Indochina War…
1945
In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…
The 39 Steps
During a performance at a London Music Hall, Richard Hannay hears a gunshot…
3 Faces
Behnaz Jafari is a popular actress in Iran. She sees a video of a young girl, Marziyeh, pleading for help to escape the stifling restrictions of her conservative family…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In 1987 Communist Romania, Otilia and Gabriela, two female college students, share a dorm room…
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln leaves his Kentucky home for the first when he and two friends are hired to take a boatload of pigs to New Orleans…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
A French Village
In June 1940, German military forces occupied the fictional French village of Villeneuve. They quickly took control of all aspects of the village’s life and businesses. All political dissent and resistance were brutally suppressed…
The African Queen
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German-controlled East Africa…
A Hard Day’s Night
The madcap events start when the Beatles escape a horde of fans at the train station in Liverpool before boarding the train to London. They display patience and good humor as they encounter many interruptions…
A Hero
Rahim is given a two-day leave from an Iranian debtor’s prison. Rahim borrowed money from a loan shark and was unable pay it back when it came due…
Airplane!
Ted Striker is a traumatized former war veteran pilot. He’s been unemployed since his discharge. His girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, a flight stewardess, ditches him as she boards a plane. Hoping to get her back, Ted buys a ticket for the same flight…
A League of Their Own
When America faced a shortage of professional baseball players during World War II, Walter Harvey, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, decided to start…
A Prairie Home Companion
In Saint Paul, Minnesota, the long running radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion is preparing its final broadcast…
A Taste of Honey
Jo is a 17-year-old teenager living in the post-industrial area of Salford, England…
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt’s husband is killed in an auto accident in New Mexico…
Alien
The film begins with the return to earth of the space tug “Nostromo,” with seven crew members on board. The ship’s computer receives a distress signal from a ship on a nearby moon. “Nostromo” reverses course and heads for…
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi, a 60-year-pld window-cleaner and a widow in Munich, enters a bar to get out of the rain. With the jukebox playing music…
All Creatures Great and Small
A 2020 adaptation of James Herriot’s endearing memoirs of his days as a veterinarian in a small village in Yorkshire, England…
All In: The Fight for Democracy
This searing documentary traces the origins and history of voter suppression in American political history. We no longer require voters to pass incomprehensible literacy tests or pay poll taxes…
All the Way
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States. With the assistance of his wife Lady Bird, and the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson is fiercely determined to pass the Civil Rights Act before the next election…
All Quiet on the Western Front
This Oscar-winning film was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and many feel it makes a most persuasive anti-war statement. When World War I breaks out in 1914 in Europe, adolescent students in a German school heed…
All Screwed Up
Workers from rural southern Italy relocate to Milan, share a house, and try to adjust living in a big city…
A Man Called Ove
Ove Lindahl lives in a Swedish townhouse neighborhood. He’s had three recent emotional setbacks: he was deposed of his chairmanship of the neighborhood association, six months ago he lost his beloved wife, Sonja…
A Man Escaped
Lieutenant Fontaine, a French resistant fighter during World War II, is captured by the Nazis and imprisoned…
A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey is attempting to obtain from the Pope an annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a marriage that has not produced a male heir…
America America
In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…
Anatomy of a Murder
Paul Biegler, a retired small-time Michigan lawyer, is contacted by Laura Manion and asked to defend her husband, Lt. Frederick Manion. Pushed by his alcoholic mentor and friend, Parnell McCarthy, Biegler agrees to take the case. Lt. Manion was arrested…
Anatomy of a Murder
Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…
American Graffiti
As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…
Amores Perros
Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…
A Most Beautiful Thing
Ken Alpart, a man who excelled at rowing while a student at Penn, decided to recruit African Americans from Manley High School and form a rowing team….
A New Leaf
Henry Graham, a playboy who inherited a substantial amount of money, has been informed by his lawyer that he’s dead-broke. He spent all his wealth on maintaining a profligate lifestyle. Henry has no skills and no interest in pursuing work…
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
For 19 seasons, travel writer/personality Anthony Bourdain travelled around the world visiting places as exotic as the Congo, Saigon, Cuba and as contemporary as New York and Las Vegas…
Antz
Z is the name of a neurotic working ant in an anthill with millions of inhabitants. He meets the ravishing Princess Bala, a much more refined ant. As Z revs up his efforts to woo Bala, he antagonizes General Mandible, Bala’s fiance…
Apollo II
Producer Todd Douglas Miller and his production team, with the assistance of NASA and the National Archives and Records Administration, discovered unreleased (…)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Youngers are a lower middle-class black family living in Chicago’s South Side…
L’Argent
Norbert, a student in Paris, is in debt to a classmate. He tries to borrow money from a friend by hocking his watch…
Art and Craft
Mark A.Landis was the only son of a globe-trotting military officer and a mother with a love for the finer things…
A River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
At Eternity’s Gate
Vincent van Gogh’s last years are spent in Arles, the sunny part of France. His brother, Theo, supports Vincent and also buys…
Au Hasard Balthazar
On a French farm near the Pyrenees, a donkey is born and adopted by Jacques and Marie, his sweetheart…
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Jane Pittman, a 110-year-old former slave…
Avalon
In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…
A Very English Scandal
Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal member of the British Parliament, had for several years, a relationship with a younger man, Norman Josiffe, a former stable boy. Josiffe, however, was unstable and difficult, so Thorpe decided to end the affair…
Babette’s Feast
Babette is a French female chef de cuisine of five-star repute who is forced to leave Paris during the uprisings of 1871…
Bad Day at Black Rock
In late 1945, John J. Macreedy steps off a train in the dusty, isolated town of Black Creek in the California desert…
La Bamba
LA BAMBA is a musical bio of the life of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll phenom Ritchie Valens (born Richard Valenzuela). At age 17, he makes it big with two songs, “La Bamba” and “Donna,” that reach the top…
Band of Brothers
Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the final victory in 1945…
The Band Wagon
Tony Hunter is an aging star of musical shows who is no longer sought after by the big producers. His good friends, writers Lester and Lily Marton, convince Tony…
The Banshees of Inisherin
It’s 1923. On the green island of Inisherin, Pádraic, a milk farmer, and Colm, a violinist in the process of composing a song, meet every day at the local pub for a pint of Guinness…
Baran
A construction site in Teheran managed by Memar employs many Afghan refugees. They have no identity cards, are illegal, and work cheaply. Lateef, a 17-year-old young man…
Barbara
Dr. Barbara Wolff is a physician in East Germany in 1980. Because she filed a request for a visa to leave East Germany, the government forcefully moves her from her prestigious hospital in Berlin to a pediatric clinic in a remote province of the country. That isn’t enough.
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…
Becoming Astrid
An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
Belle de Jour
Despite their love for each other, young and beautiful Séverine Serizy and her husband Pierre have a problem. Their sexual life is restricted. Although frustrated by his wife’s frigidity, he respects her wishes to lead her own life which…
Bellissima
Maddalena is an overbearing, working-class mother in Rome…
The Best Years of Our Lives
Three World War II veterans return home to their families in a small midwestern town…
Between the Lines
Staff members working at the alternative Boston weekly, The Back Bay Mainline, are young, ambitious, but also smart enough to realize that changes are coming…
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting was dated in1906, four years before the works of Wassily Kandinsky…
The Bicycle Thieves
In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…
The Biggest Little Farm
John and Molly Chester followed their dream. When they were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment because their dog would not stop barking, they bought…
The Big Heat
Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion is sent to investigate the suicide of a fellow rogue officer, Tom Duncan. His wife, Bertha Duncan, tells Bannion her husband was despondent about his deteriorating health…
Big Night
Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood. His flighty daughter Carmen incurred gambling debts to Arthur Geiger and he’s now blackmailing her…
Billy Budd
Aboard an eighteenth-century naval ship, Billy, an overly optimistic eighteen-year-old, sets off on his first voyage…
Bird
In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…
Birdman
Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…
Birdman of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker, the prison warden…
Bitter Rice
The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…
Black Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (designated the Sister Superior) and four other nuns are sent to a remote Himalayan village to set up a school and hospital…
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles. Retired police officer, Rick Deckard, returns to his former supervisor, Bryant, for a vital assignment. Previously, Deckard’s job was to track down bioengineered beings, known as “replicants,” and retire (destroy) them…
Blood Simple
Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…
Blow-Up
Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Adele is an introverted 15-year-old high school student who is sexually ambivalent. Her sex experience with Thomas, a high school friend, is a total disappointment. Her gay friend Valentin, sensing her confusion, takes Adele to a gay dance bar. Adele meets Emma, an art student and painter with blue hair. They connect. There’s that first kiss at a picnic and before long they begin a passionate love affair. The relationship then fast-forwards to the two women now living together…
Blue Velvet
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his picture-perfect town of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father suffered a near-fatal stroke. He notices a severed ear in a vacant lot. He brings it to the police station where the police detective’s daughter…
Boardwalk Empire
The series covers the violent, crime-filled years of the Prohibition era in the U.S., between 1920 and 1931. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, a powerful political figure in Atlantic City…
Body Double
After losing his acting job and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finds himself adrift and homeless…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski spent two years living in Kolkata, India’s appalling red light district…
Born To Be Blue
In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…
Boys Don’t Cry
Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…
The Brave One
A cow that just calved is killed in a storm…
Breaker Morant
This true story is set in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The Boers were Dutch colonialists and their descendants who were battling the British for more control and influence in South Africa…
The Breaking Point
Harry Morgan and his mate Wesley Park operate a fishing vessel out of San Diego to people interested in spending…
Breaking the Code – The Rise of Enigma
Breaking the Codes – The Rise of Enigma began when Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication…
Breaking the Codes–The Triumph of the Codebreakers
U.S. military planners knew the next big Japanese attack after Pearl Harbor was imminent…
Bride of Frankenstein
Villagers surround the burning windmill and rejoice that the the Monster is dead. But the villagers are also saddened that the scientist Henry Frankenstein was in the wreckage and presumed dead…
Bridge of Spies
James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…
Broken Arrow
BROKEN ARROW is a landmark film produced by a courageous studio that was one of the first to sympathetically depict the plight of the American Indian…
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Following their victory at Little Big Horn, the United States continued to push the Sioux off the Black Hills of the Dakotas, this time looking for gold…
By the Grace of God
Alexandre Guérin is a successful banker in Lyon, France, with a wife and five kids…
Bye Bye Birdie
As popular rock ‘n’ roll star Conrad Birdie prepares to go into the Army, Albert Peterson, an unsuccessful songwriter, and his girlfriend, Rosie DeLeon, are hoping Conrad will sing their song when he appears on the Ed Sullivan Show….
The Caine Mutiny
Commander Queeg’s minesweeper, the “USS Caine,” is informed that a typhoon is approaching. It hits the “Caine” forcefully, creating damage and panic. The rolling sea threatens to capsize the “Caine”…
The Cakemaker
Thomas is an amazing gay German baker in Berlin. Oren, a businessman from Jerusalem, stops by every time he’s in Berlin to enjoy one of Thomas’s pastries. They become intimate….
Call 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…
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
Carol
While working behind the counter in a fashionable Manhattan department store during the Christmas season, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet meets an upper-society customer, Carol Aird…
Carousel
Carousel is a tragic romance between Julie Jordan, a naive but loving factory worker, and Billy Bigelow, a ne’er-do-well carnival barker. They fall instantly in love and marry…
Carrie
Shy 16-year-old Carrie White lives with her fanatically religious mother, Margaret…
Casting By
This documentary is a celebration of the casting profession. Before the emergence of the super-star casting directors like Marion Dougherty…
Casualties of War
Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…
The Cave
The filming of this documentary takes place in the underground tunnels beneath the town of Ghouta, located on the outskirts of Damascus. It has become the last-resort…
Le Cercle Rouge
Corey, a prisoner in a Marseilles prison is released. Meanwhile, another prisoner, Vogel, is on a train, handcuffed by Police Inspector Mattei…
The Chambermaid
Eve is a thirtysomething woman toiling as a chambermaid in a posh hotel in Mexico City. She covers an entire floor of rooms. The film follows her dreary routine of cleaning each room, tidying up the mess, changing the sheets and towels…
Charley Varrick
In rural New Mexico, Charley Varrick, his wife Nadine, and their two accomplices, Al Dutcher…
Chasing 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…
Children of Men
Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote that “CHILDREN of MEN, set in 1927, pictures a world that looks like a lot like our own, but darker, grimmer and more frighteningly, violently precarious…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
The China Syndrome
Los Angeles television news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her cameraman, Richard Adams, are assigned to do a story about the nearby (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant…
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The utterly shameful and blatantly racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 shut down all Chinese immigration to the United States…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
Cinderella Man
During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, a New Jersey Irish-American, James J. Braddock, is forced to give up boxing due to an injury in his right hand…
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…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
In 1937, there is an awareness of a Nazi spy ring operating in the U.S….
The Conformist
Considered by many a Bernardo Bertolucci masterpiece. Working for Mussolini in Rome in 1938, Marcello departs on his honeymoon to Paris. His boss gives him an assignment: while in Paris he is to kill…
Conspiracy
On January 20, 1942, several Nazi party officials, led by SS head, Reinhard Heydrich, gathered in the German town of Wannsee to discuss the “Final Solution.”…
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…
Crimson Gold
Crimson Gold opens inside a jewelry shop…
Criss Cross
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles to try and rekindle the relationship with his ex-wife Anna. He gets a job as a driver with an armored-truck company. It’s a bit complicated; even though Anna is now married to the mobster Slim Dundee…
Crossfire
Captain Finlay is called to investigate the beating to death of a Jewish man named Joseph Samuels…
Crossing Delancey
Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman is a 30-ish, attractive, smart woman, who has a dream job working in a bookstore where she can meet interesting and intellectual authors…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the 19th-century Chinese Qing dynasty, Li Mu Bai, a renowned swordsman, decides to follow another path…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
Cry Freedom
After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…
The Current War: Director’s Cut
In 1880, Thomas Edison introduced the electric lightbulb utilizing Direct Current (DC)…
Dances with Wolves
Union officer John Dunbar is given the command of Fort Sedgwick, the Army’s remote outpost in the Dakota territory…
Darkest Hour
On May,1940, the opposition Labor Party in England demands the resignation of Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain…
Dark Passage
Vincent Parry, convicted of murdering his wife, manages to escape from San Quentin Prison. Irene Jansen gives him a lift and smuggles him past a police roadblock. She offers him shelter…
Dark Waters
Robert Bilott is a promising lawyer in a prestigious Cincinnati law firm with a roster of major corporate clients including DuPont. One day, Wilbur Tennant…
Das Boot
In 1942, during World War II, Hitler launched his submarines (U-boats) in the Atlantic with the mission to destroy English merchant shipping and starve the English people. And thus began what is known as the “The Battle of the Atlantic.” However, in time, Britain and the U.S. were able to destroy many of the submarines by protecting merchant ships with destroyer escorts, using breakthrough radar technology, and dropping depth charges when submarines were spotted…
Daughters of the Dust
The film is set in 1902 and focuses on the members of the Peazant family. They live on St. Simons Island located off the Georgia-South Carolina coast. They are descendants of African-American slaves. Being relatively isolated…
The Dead
Adapted from a James Joyce short story…
Death of a Salesman
This superb video rendition is noteworthy in that it reunites the original leads, Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock…
Delicious
In 18th-century France, prior to the Revolution, gastronomy was strictly limited to the aristocracy…
Deutschland 83
In 1983, East Germany’s Secret Service (Stasi) is concerned that American troops stationed in West Germany may attack…
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…
The Dissident
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist in the 1980s with easy access to members of its Royal Family…
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio, the son of a factory foreman. Diagnosed in early childhood with hemophilia, he lived his entire life with the threat of death. Director Alexis Bloom utilized archival footage and interviews to show…
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…
Double Lover
When Chloé, a young museum attendant, experiences abdominal pain, her doctor informs her the cause is depression and she should see a psychiatrist…
Dressed to Kill
Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife, is being treated by her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott…
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…
Dr. Strangelove
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is informed by the crazy American officer General Jack Ripper that he has issued an order to preemptively attack Russian strategic targets with nuclear bombs…
Duck Soup
The small country of Freedonia is bankrupt. The very wealthy Mrs. Teasdale agrees to provide financial assistance on condition that her friend, Rufus T. Firefly, is appointed its leader. To make matters worse, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex Freedonia…
The Duke
Kempton Bunton, a grouchy unemployed taxi driver, is furious the British government requires the elderly to pay a TV tax…
Edge of the City
Axel North, a young drifter, arrives at a New York waterfront pier seeking employment as a longshoreman…
Eleanor and Franklin
The first of the two-part series follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were children, their courtship and marriage, and his political start as Assistant Secretary of the Navy…
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
This is the second of a two-part made-for-television film series Eleanor and Franklin that was adapted from Joseph P. Lash’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography…
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…
Empire of the Sun
James “Jim” Graham is a schoolboy living a privileged and affluent life with his family in the Shanghai International Settlement…
Encounters at the End of the World
Director/Writer Werner Herzog lived for a period of time at the McMurdo Research station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. While there, Herzog interviewed not only…
The Endless Summer
Bruce Brown filmed spectacular shots of surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they searched for the “perfect wave”…
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance departed England on August 14, 1914, four days before the outbreak of World War I. Ernest Shackleton, the captain of the ship, set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent via the South Pole…
The English Patient
Almásy, a survivor of a plane crash during World War II, is found in the North African desert…
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Shortly after Kenneth Lay founded Enron, he hired Jeffrey Skilling as CEO and Andrew Fastow…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
Ethel & Ernest
Ernest is a milkman in London. On his route he spots Ethel, a young maid in a rich household, looking out the window…
Everybody Knows
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Argentina, and her teenage daughter, Irene, and young son, Diego, return to their small hometown in Spain to attend the wedding of Laura’s younger sister…
Executive Suite
When Avery Bullard, president of Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company…
Faces Places
Agnes Varda, an 89-year old filmmaker, teams up with 34-year old JR, a photographer of public art. Despite their age difference, they are a perfect fit: both are environmentalists and humanists…
Fail Safe
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. radar spots an unidentified aircraft in American airspace…
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe is the young son of a diplomat living in a large mansion…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
The Father
Anne visits her father, Anthony, in his London flat…
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..”
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Shortly after World War II, preparations were proceeding rapidly in Nuremberg for the trial of the most heinous Nazi criminals…
Fireworks Wednesday
Mozhdeh and Morteza are a troubled couple as they attempt to salvage their marriage with a vacation to Dubai…
First Cow
A woman walking her dog in the woods discovers the skeletons of two human beings, curled together, as if they were still seeking warmth…
Flee
In Copenhagen, film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen is interviewing Amin Nawabi, a man he has known since they were teen-agers…
The Fog of War
This superb and heartbreaking documentary by Errol Morris focuses primarily on Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during the early stages of the Vietnam War. While President Kennedy expressed doubts about winning the war…
Footnote
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…
For Sama
This documentary covers five years in the lives of Waad, her husband Hamza, and infant daughter Sama in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. As Assad brutally tries to destroy the rebels, he bombs…
The 400 Blows
Antoine Doinel is a troubled youngster growing up in Paris with a mother and stepfather who do not understand him. He skips school, steals, and…
Foreign Correspondent
August 1939 is a month before Europe became engulfed in World War II. Mr.Powers, the editor of the New York Morning Globe is fed up with the inability of his celebrated reporters to get…
Frantz
Anna is a grieving young woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in battle during World War I…
The French Connection
After hearing about a large shipment of heroin scheduled to enter the United States…
Frenzy
Unlike most suspenseful films, the serial killer terrorizing London by strangling women with a tie is identified right from the start. His name is Bob Rusk…
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…
Great Expectations
When orphan Pip visits his parents’ graves, he encounters an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, who coerces Pip to return the next day with a file so he can remove his chains…
Green Book
African-Americans, travelling in the United States, often carry a Green Book, which lists the hotels, motels, and restauarants that do not racially discriminate…
The 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…
Hamlet
There is a celebration in the Danish castle’s Great Hall of the marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius…
Hannah Arendt
After the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most elusive and hated Nazi criminals, William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, assigned Arendt to cover the trial in Jerusalem…
Happening
In 1963 France, Anne, a young, precocious student with an eye on becoming a writer, becomes pregnant after a one-night stand…
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…
The Harvest/ La Cosecha
A searing documentary of three American teenagers who endure working 12 to 14 hours a day on a farm, exposed to pesticides, and receive minimal education…
Haute Cuisine
Based on a true story. Hortense Laborie gets the job of a lifetime when the President of France appoints her to be his personal chef at the Élysée Palace…
The Heavy Water
During World War II, Hitler was determined to beat the U.S. in developing an atomic bomb…
Hell or High Water
Toby and Tanner Howard, two impoverished brothers whose ranch is facing foreclosure, pull off several robberies at different branches of the Texas Midlands Bank…
Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Hemingway “loved being in love,” commented writer Michael Katakis…
Henry V
King Henry of England believes he has a justifiable claim to the throne of France…
Hero
In ancient China, during the Warring States period, the king of Qin has eluded several…
Herself
Sandra, a mother with two young daughters living in Ireland, is beaten frequently by her abusive husband Gary…
He Walked By Night
Roy Morgan is a brilliant but diabolical murderer who eludes capture by eavesdropping on the police radio frequencies. It starts when Roy shoots and kills a patrolman when Roy is suspected of being a burglar. There are…
Hidden Figures
Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…
High and Low
Kingo Gondo is a wealthy stockholder and executive of a company called National Shoes…
High Noon
Sheriff Will Kane, newly married, is looking to retire and start a new life in another part of the country. He’s informed that gunslinger Frank Miller was recently released from jail and is looking to settle the score. Kane was the one who sent Miller to prison. Kane’s wife, Amy, a Quaker and a pacifist, abhors violence and urges her husband to move on. He explains to Amy that if he runs, Frank Miller will hunt him down, no matter where they go…
High Sierra
The aging gangster, Big Mac, is planning to rob a fashionable resort in Tropico Springs California. To help him…
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour is basically a series of conversations between a French actress (Elle) and a Japanese architect (Lui). From graphic newsreels, viewers…
Hive
Hive is based on a true story of a woman, Fahrije, who, with other women in the village, search for their missing husbands shortly after the Kosovo War in 1998-1999…
Hollywood on Trial
In the midst of the Red Scare, several Hollywood elites were fined and jailed for their refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)…
Hombre
John Russell, an Apache-raised white man, returns to the white world to claim his father’s inheritance, a gold watch and a run-down boarding house…
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in an isolated village in North Macedonia where there are no roads, electricity or running water…
Hoosiers
Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship…
House of Flying Daggers
In 9th century China, the Tang Dynasty is in decline. The House of Flying Daggers, a rebel…
House of Sand and Fog
Colonel Massoud Amir and his wife Nadi escaped Iran after the Shah was overthrown; they relocated in San Francisco…
How Green Was My Valley
Huw Morgan is the youngest son in a Welsh coal mining family of nine. His childhood is idyllic: everyone in town gets along; the men working…
How the West Was Won
Set between 1839 and 1889, the film follows three generations of families (starting with the Prescotts) as they moved from western New York all the way to the Pacific…
Hud
The Bannon family owns a Texas cattle ranch…
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Abbu Kadam and his family flee unstable Mumbai and receive asylum in France…
The Hurricane
Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…
The Ice Storm
Two families, the Hoods and the Carvers, neighbors in an affluent Connecticut suburb, are bitterly disappointed with their unfulfilled lives…
Ida
In 1960s communist Poland, Anna, a young novice, is told by her prioress, before taking her final vows, she must visit her aunt, Wanda Gruz, her only surviving relative…
IKE: Countdown to D-Day
General Eisenhower’s decision to invade the European continent was agonizing…
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged civil servant who worked in a dead-end boring job for over 30 years. His wife died and Watanabe now…
The Imitation Game
In 1939, the beginning of World War II, the British government recruited brilliant Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing to help break the German code, Enigma…
The Immigrant
In 1921, Ewa and her sister Magda, leave their impoverished home in Poland and arrive in Ellis Island hoping for a better life…
In a Lonely Place
Dixon Steele is a fading screenwriter out of work primarily as a result of his heavy drinking and violent temper. His agent, Mel Lippman, encourages him to adapt a book for a film…
In Bloom
Eka and Natia are 14-year-olds and best friends growing up in post-Soviet Georgia. Natia, more precocious than Eka, has two boys interested in her, Kote and Lado…
Inglourious Basterds
SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa arrives at the remote dairy farm belonging to Perrier LaPadite…
In the House
Germain is a middle-aged teacher in a French high school.
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1912, 13-year-old Henry “Indiana” Jones and his Boy Scout troop are exploring caves in Utah’s Arches National Park…
The Innocents
The story takes place in Warsaw, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. In one of the clinics, Mathilde, a Red Cross doctor, is treating wounded and sick survivors. She is interrupted by a hysterical Benedictine nun
In the 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…
Into the Woods
The musical weaves the stories of several Grimm fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel…
Inside Job
Inside Job is about the late-2000s financial crisis. Director Charles Ferguson explains that the film covers “the systemic corruption of…
The Insult
Tony Hanna, a Lebanese Christian, discovers contractors fixing a gutter running from his balcony to the street. When Tony becomes aware that the worker, Yasser Abdallah Salameh, is a Palestinian refugee…
Into the Arms of Strangers
During World War II, the British implemented a rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia…
Invictus
Invictus (Latin for undefeated) takes place in the late 1990s in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison…
Invisible Hands
Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary that exposes abusive, law-breaking child labor within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations…
The Invisibles
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels announced in May 1943 that Germany was at last “free of Jews…”
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…
I Vitelloni
A heavy downpour interrupts a beachside beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Italian Adriatic coast…
I Want To Live!
San Francisco, 1950. Barbara Graham is a petty criminal and prostitute working for the unsavory Emmett Perkins, luring men to his gambling parlor…
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
After a triumphant military victory, Julius Caesar enters Rome with his troops, cheered by an adulating crowd…
Julius Caesar
Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…
Keeping Faith
They seem to be the perfect Welsh family: Faith, a beautiful mother and wife, three adorable kids, and Evan, a warm-hearted successful husband…
Key Largo
Embittered World War II army veteran, Frank McCloud, arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to the family of George Temple…
The Kid With a Bike
Cyril, a precocious 11-year-old boy, is suddenly abandoned by his father who also absconds with Cyril’s bike. Cyril has no mother so this loss is devastating…
The Killers
Two hitmen, Max and Al, arrive at a diner in Brentwood, New Jersey, with the intention of killing Pete Lund (known as “Swede”). Swede supposedly double-crossed the mob boss, Big Jim Colfax, stealing a ton of money…
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
Hungary was the last stop in Hitler’s campaign to eradicate the Jews of Europe. Even before Hitler’s arrival in Hungary, Rudolph Kasztner, a Jewish lawyer and journalist…
The King and I
Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…
The King of Comedy
The most unusual film Martin Scorsese has ever directed. Rupert Pupkin is a mentally deranged wannabe comic trying to launch his career by appearing as a guest on the “Jerry Langford Show.” He practices his stand-up shtick…
Kinky Boots
In Northampton, England, Charlie Price is struggling to save a floundering shoe factory he inherited when his father died. On a business trip to London, Charlie rescues a drag queen, Lola, being attacked by a group of hoodlums…
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…
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The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent in Cambodia from 1972to 1975, covered the defeat of the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime by the Communist Khmer Rouge forces…
Michael Collins
The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…
VIVA ZAPATA
From 1810 to 1821, the peasants (called campesinos) following the leadership of Emiliano Zapata, fight the corrupt government and its president, Porfirio Diaz…
1945
In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…
The 39 Steps
During a performance at a London Music Hall, Richard Hannay hears a gunshot…
3 Faces
Behnaz Jafari is a popular actress in Iran. She sees a video of a young girl, Marziyeh, pleading for help to escape the stifling restrictions of her conservative family…
42
In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defied the major league color barrier…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In 1987 Communist Romania, Otilia and Gabriela, two female college students, share a dorm room…
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln leaves his Kentucky home for the first when he and two friends are hired to take a boatload of pigs to New Orleans…
About Elly
The film, About Elly, begins when a group of three married couples, their three children, Ahmad, a recently divorced young man, and Elly, the attractive, single teacher…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
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…
A Taste of Honey
Jo is a 17-year-old teenager living in the post-industrial area of Salford, England…
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 the Way
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States. With the assistance of his wife Lady Bird, and the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson is fiercely determined to pass the Civil Rights Act before the next election…
All Quiet on the Western Front
This Oscar-winning film was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and many feel it makes a most persuasive anti-war statement. When World War I breaks out in 1914 in Europe, adolescent students in a German school heed…
All Screwed Up
Workers from rural southern Italy relocate to Milan, share a house, and try to adjust living in a big city…
A Man Called Ove
Ove Lindahl lives in a Swedish townhouse neighborhood. He’s had three recent emotional setbacks: he was deposed of his chairmanship of the neighborhood association, six months ago he lost his beloved wife, Sonja…
A Man Escaped
Lieutenant Fontaine, a French resistant fighter during World War II, is captured by the Nazis and imprisoned…
America America
In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…
Anatomy of a Murder
Paul Biegler, a retired small-time Michigan lawyer, is contacted by Laura Manion and asked to defend her husband, Lt. Frederick Manion. Pushed by his alcoholic mentor and friend, Parnell McCarthy, Biegler agrees to take the case. Lt. Manion was arrested…
Anatomy of a Murder
Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
In 1987, Michael Morton, an inventory clerk for a grocery store chain, was arrested and indicted for the brutal beating and murder of his wife…
American Graffiti
As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…
Amores Perros
Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…
A 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 Raisin in the Sun
The Youngers are a lower middle-class black family living in Chicago’s South Side…
Art and Craft
Mark A.Landis was the only son of a globe-trotting military officer and a mother with a love for the finer things…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
Au Hasard Balthazar
On a French farm near the Pyrenees, a donkey is born and adopted by Jacques and Marie, his sweetheart…
Avalon
In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…
Babette’s Feast
Babette is a French female chef de cuisine of five-star repute who is forced to leave Paris during the uprisings of 1871…
Bad Day at Black Rock
In late 1945, John J. Macreedy steps off a train in the dusty, isolated town of Black Creek in the California desert…
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…
Becoming Astrid
An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…
Belle de Jour
Despite their love for each other, young and beautiful Séverine Serizy and her husband Pierre have a problem. Their sexual life is restricted. Although frustrated by his wife’s frigidity, he respects her wishes to lead her own life which…
Bellissima
Maddalena is an overbearing, working-class mother in Rome…
The Best Years of Our Lives
Three World War II veterans return home to their families in a small midwestern town…
Between the Lines
Staff members working at the alternative Boston weekly, The Back Bay Mainline, are young, ambitious, but also smart enough to realize that changes are coming…
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting was dated in1906, four years before the works of Wassily Kandinsky…
The Bicycle Thieves
In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…
The Biggest Little Farm
John and Molly Chester followed their dream. When they were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment because their dog would not stop barking, they bought…
The Big Heat
Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion is sent to investigate the suicide of a fellow rogue officer, Tom Duncan. His wife, Bertha Duncan, tells Bannion her husband was despondent about his deteriorating health…
Big Night
Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood. His flighty daughter Carmen incurred gambling debts to Arthur Geiger and he’s now blackmailing her…
Billy Budd
Aboard an eighteenth-century naval ship, Billy, an overly optimistic eighteen-year-old, sets off on his first voyage…
Bird
In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…
Birdman
Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…
Birdman of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker, the prison warden…
Bitter Rice
The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…
Black Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (designated the Sister Superior) and four other nuns are sent to a remote Himalayan village to set up a school and hospital…
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles. Retired police officer, Rick Deckard, returns to his former supervisor, Bryant, for a vital assignment. Previously, Deckard’s job was to track down bioengineered beings, known as “replicants,” and retire (destroy) them…
Blood Simple
Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…
Blow Out
While in post-production for a low-budget film, sound technician Jack Terry is told by the producer to record more realistic sound effects….
Blow-Up
Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Adele is an introverted 15-year-old high school student who is sexually ambivalent. Her sex experience with Thomas, a high school friend, is a total disappointment. Her gay friend Valentin, sensing her confusion, takes Adele to a gay dance bar. Adele meets Emma, an art student and painter with blue hair. They connect. There’s that first kiss at a picnic and before long they begin a passionate love affair. The relationship then fast-forwards to the two women now living together…
Blue Velvet
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his picture-perfect town of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father suffered a near-fatal stroke. He notices a severed ear in a vacant lot. He brings it to the police station where the police detective’s daughter…
Boardwalk Empire
The series covers the violent, crime-filled years of the Prohibition era in the U.S., between 1920 and 1931. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, a powerful political figure in Atlantic City…
Body Double
After losing his acting job and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finds himself adrift and homeless…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski spent two years living in Kolkata, India’s appalling red light district…
Born To Be Blue
In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…
Boys Don’t Cry
Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…
The Breaking Point
Harry Morgan and his mate Wesley Park operate a fishing vessel out of San Diego to people interested in spending…
Breathless
Michel is a misfit who decides to steal a car so he can go to Italy. He is also out of control when he shoots a pursuing policeman…
Bride of Frankenstein
Villagers surround the burning windmill and rejoice that the the Monster is dead. But the villagers are also saddened that the scientist Henry Frankenstein was in the wreckage and presumed dead…
Bridge of Spies
James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson, a middle-class British woman, is waiting to return home in a smoky railroad station…
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Following their victory at Little Big Horn, the United States continued to push the Sioux off the Black Hills of the Dakotas, this time looking for gold…
By the Grace of God
Alexandre Guérin is a successful banker in Lyon, France, with a wife and five kids…
Bye Bye Birdie
As popular rock ‘n’ roll star Conrad Birdie prepares to go into the Army, Albert Peterson, an unsuccessful songwriter, and his girlfriend, Rosie DeLeon, are hoping Conrad will sing their song when he appears on the Ed Sullivan Show….
The Caine Mutiny
Commander Queeg’s minesweeper, the “USS Caine,” is informed that a typhoon is approaching. It hits the “Caine” forcefully, creating damage and panic. The rolling sea threatens to capsize the “Caine”…
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
This biographical film, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is about writer Lee Israel. Once successful, she now hasn’t been able to keep up with the times. One by one her books are rejected by publishers…
Capernaum
Capernaum, which stands for “chaos,” is about a whip-smart 12-year old boy named Zain, who sues his parents for bringing him into a world filled with slums and poverty.
The Card Counter
William Tell learned to count cards while serving time in military prison. After being released he’s determined to be a professional card player.
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
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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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The 39 Steps
During a performance at a London Music Hall, Richard Hannay hears a gunshot…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In 1987 Communist Romania, Otilia and Gabriela, two female college students, share a dorm room…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
A Kind of Loving
Vic Brown and Ingrid Rothwell work in the same Manchester factory. Vic finds Ingrid attractive and they meet…
A Taste of Honey
Jo is a 17-year-old teenager living in the post-industrial area of Salford, England…
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 Screwed Up
Workers from rural southern Italy relocate to Milan, share a house, and try to adjust living in a big city…
A Man Escaped
Lieutenant Fontaine, a French resistant fighter during World War II, is captured by the Nazis and imprisoned…
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…
Au Hasard Balthazar
On a French farm near the Pyrenees, a donkey is born and adopted by Jacques and Marie, his sweetheart…
The Bad Sleep Well
Public Development Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi is attending the wedding reception of his daughter Yoshiko to his ambitious secretary Kôichi Nishi…
Ballad of a Soldier
On the Eastern Front during World War II, Private Alyosha Skvortsov single-handedly destroys two attacking German tanks…
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…
Black Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (designated the Sister Superior) and four other nuns are sent to a remote Himalayan village to set up a school and hospital…
Body Double
After losing his acting job and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finds himself adrift and homeless…
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson, a middle-class British woman, is waiting to return home in a smoky railroad station…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
Elvira Madigan
Hedvig Jensen is a tightrope walker at a circus performing under the name Elvira Madigan…
The Entertainer
Jean Rice, a young art teacher in London, visits a seaside English resort to see her family…
The Fiancés (I Fidanzati)
Opening in a dance hall with lonely couples dancing languidly, Giovanni and Liliana sit at a table…
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…
Great Expectations
When orphan Pip visits his parents’ graves, he encounters an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, who coerces Pip to return the next day with a file so he can remove his chains…
Hamlet
There is a celebration in the Danish castle’s Great Hall of the marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius…
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…
Henry V
King Henry of England believes he has a justifiable claim to the throne of France…
High and Low
Kingo Gondo is a wealthy stockholder and executive of a company called National Shoes…
Il Posto
With his family in need of money, Domenico, a teenager living in a small Italian village…
I Vitelloni
A heavy downpour interrupts a beachside beauty pageant in a provincial town on the Italian Adriatic coast…
La Bête Humaine
Jacques Lantier is a railroad engineer who finds his work helps distract him from his recurring headaches, seizures, and violent rages…
La Chienne
“Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter…”
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…
Limelight
Calvero, once a famous stage performer, is now a washed-up alcoholic…
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is a brutally vicious man who vents his anger against Alison, his submissive wife…
Love and Anarchy
Tunin learns his friend, an anarchist, was killed in his attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini…
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Germany. World War II. Maria and Hermann Braun are getting married while the Allies are bombing the church…
The Mirror
Mina, a first-grader, waits for her mother to pick her up after school. Mina’s mother doesn’t show…
Mouchette
Mouchette is a teen-age girl with many responsibilities. She has to deal with an alcoholic, abusive father, a terminally ill bedridden mother, care for an infant brother, and doing all the housework…
ODD MAN OUT
In Belfast, Irish nationalist Johnny McQueen and fellow rebels, Nolan and Murphy, carry out a robbery to fund their organization…
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 Passion of Joan of Arc
During the Hundred Years’ War in the 15th century, Joan of Arc led the French to many victories against the English…
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 Red Shoes
Julian Craster, a young classical composer, convinces Boris Lermontov, the imperious impresario of the Ballet Lermontov, to have him compose the music for his next ballet…
Richard III
King Edward IV of England was helped to the throne by his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester…
The River
Harriet, her brother, and four sisters are part of an upper middle-class English family residing on the banks of the Ganges River in India…
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…
Room at the Top
Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man, moves from his dreary hometown of Dufton, in Yorkshire, England, to the more upscale Warnley…
Rules of the Game
After a momentous solo flight across the Atlantic (ten years after Lindbergh), André Jurieux lands at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris…
The Seduction of Mimi
Mimi is a dockworker in Sicily who is pressured by his employer to vote for the Mafia candidate in the local election…
The Servant
Wealthy Londoner Tony moves into his town house while it’s undergoing a major renovation…
Seven Beauties
Pasqualino, a small-town gangster in Italy, kills and dismembers a pimp who forced Pasqualino’s sister into prostitution…
Story of Women
In Vichy France during World War II, Marie is impoverished, raising two children in a squalid apartment while waiting for her prisoner-of-war husband, Paul, to return…
Tampopo
During a rain storm, two truck drivers, Gorô and his younger sidekick Gun, stop off at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle diner…
Taste of Cherry
Having completed digging his grave, Mr. Badii, a suicidal middle-aged man, must find someone to bury him…
The Thin Blue Line
When documentarian Errol Morris heard about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist who testified in hundreds of murder cases, always recommending the death penalty…
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…
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
In Lombardy, Italy, in 1898, four peasant families struggle to survive on farms owned by an unsympathetic landlord…
The Trial of Joan of Arc
In 1431, Jeanne (Joan), a French peasant girl, insists her heroic military successes were achieved with God’s help…
Ugetsu
A tale about two men, Genjūrō, a potter, and his brother-in-law, Tōbei, living in 16th-century Japan…
Veronika Voss
In 1955 Munich, has-been German film star Veronika Voss gets caught in a rainstorm…
Where Is the Friend’s Home?
A school in rural Iran has an extremely strict school teacher…
The White Balloon
As is the custom, on the eve of the Iranian New Year, seven-year-old Razieh nags her mother to buy her a goldfish she saw in a store window…
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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Flee
In Copenhagen, film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen is interviewing Amin Nawabi, a man he has known since they were teen-agers…
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…
Ratatouille
Remy is a young rat living in the French countryside…
Secrets of the Elephant
A superb series produced by National Geographic…
A Small Light
Miep Gies, a young woman, convinces Otto Frank, a distributor of Opekta jams, to hire her as his secretary…
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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…
The Thin Blue Line
When documentarian Errol Morris heard about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist who testified in hundreds of murder cases, always recommending the death penalty…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chef
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of the high-end Gauloise Restaurant in Brentwood, California…
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…
The Cove
The Cove focuses on the slaughtering of thousands of dolphins every year by Japanese whaling companies. They herd migrating dolphins into a cove where they are netted and speared to death…
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…
Diner
Five male friends, in their twenties, meet frequently at the local diner to discuss issues they are facing. Eddie vows to call…
Dirty Pretty Things
Olatokumbo “Okwe” Fadipe is a doctor. Because he is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London, he must toil as a cab driver during the day and at night he is the front desk clerk in a hotel…
The Dissident
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist in the 1980s with easy access to members of its Royal Family…
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio, the son of a factory foreman. Diagnosed in early childhood with hemophilia, he lived his entire life with the threat of death. Director Alexis Bloom utilized archival footage and interviews to show…
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…
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…
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…
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The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent in Cambodia from 1972to 1975, covered the defeat of the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime by the Communist Khmer Rouge forces…
Michael Collins
The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…
VIVA ZAPATA
From 1810 to 1821, the peasants (called campesinos) following the leadership of Emiliano Zapata, fight the corrupt government and its president, Porfirio Diaz…
1945
In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln leaves his Kentucky home for the first when he and two friends are hired to take a boatload of pigs to New Orleans…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
A League of Their Own
When America faced a shortage of professional baseball players during World War II, Walter Harvey, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, decided to start…
A Prairie Home Companion
In Saint Paul, Minnesota, the long running radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion is preparing its final broadcast…
All Screwed Up
Workers from rural southern Italy relocate to Milan, share a house, and try to adjust living in a big city…
America America
In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…
Anatomy of a Murder
Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…
Amores Perros
Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…
Apollo II
Producer Todd Douglas Miller and his production team, with the assistance of NASA and the National Archives and Records Administration, discovered unreleased (…)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Youngers are a lower middle-class black family living in Chicago’s South Side…
A River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
Bad Day at Black Rock
In late 1945, John J. Macreedy steps off a train in the dusty, isolated town of Black Creek in the California desert…
Bad Education
Dr. Frank Tassone is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, New York. He’s revered by everyone…
The Banshees of Inisherin
It’s 1923. On the green island of Inisherin, Pádraic, a milk farmer, and Colm, a violinist in the process of composing a song, meet every day at the local pub for a pint of Guinness…
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…
Becoming Astrid
An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting was dated in1906, four years before the works of Wassily Kandinsky…
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…
Birdman
Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…
Blow-Up
Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski spent two years living in Kolkata, India’s appalling red light district…
Born To Be Blue
In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…
Boys Don’t Cry
Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…
Bridge of Spies
James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…
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…
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
Casualties of War
Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…
Le Cercle Rouge
Corey, a prisoner in a Marseilles prison is released. Meanwhile, another prisoner, Vogel, is on a train, handcuffed by Police Inspector Mattei…
The Chambermaid
Eve is a thirtysomething woman toiling as a chambermaid in a posh hotel in Mexico City. She covers an entire floor of rooms. The film follows her dreary routine of cleaning each room, tidying up the mess, changing the sheets and towels…
Charley Varrick
In rural New Mexico, Charley Varrick, his wife Nadine, and their two accomplices, Al Dutcher…
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 Men
Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote that “CHILDREN of MEN, set in 1927, pictures a world that looks like a lot like our own, but darker, grimmer and more frighteningly, violently precarious…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
The China Syndrome
Los Angeles television news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her cameraman, Richard Adams, are assigned to do a story about the nearby (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
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…
Compulsion
In a perverted desire to commit the perfect crime, sociopathic friends, Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
In 1937, there is an awareness of a Nazi spy ring operating in the U.S….
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.”…
Crossfire
Captain Finlay is called to investigate the beating to death of a Jewish man named Joseph Samuels…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the 19th-century Chinese Qing dynasty, Li Mu Bai, a renowned swordsman, decides to follow another path…
Cry Freedom
After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…
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 Dead
Adapted from a James Joyce short story…
Delicious
In 18th-century France, prior to the Revolution, gastronomy was strictly limited to the aristocracy…
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…
Dr. Strangelove
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is informed by the crazy American officer General Jack Ripper that he has issued an order to preemptively attack Russian strategic targets with nuclear bombs…
The Duke
Kempton Bunton, a grouchy unemployed taxi driver, is furious the British government requires the elderly to pay a TV tax…
Eat Drink Man Woman
To his consternation, Tao Chu, a widower and master chef, has three unmarried daughters: Chu Jia-Jen, a school teacher, Chu Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Chu Jia- Ning, a college student…
Edge of the City
Axel North, a young drifter, arrives at a New York waterfront pier seeking employment as a longshoreman…
Eleanor and Franklin
The first of the two-part series follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were children, their courtship and marriage, and his political start as Assistant Secretary of the Navy…
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
This is the second of a two-part made-for-television film series Eleanor and Franklin that was adapted from Joseph P. Lash’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography…
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…
Empire of the Sun
James “Jim” Graham is a schoolboy living a privileged and affluent life with his family in the Shanghai International Settlement…
Encounters at the End of the World
Director/Writer Werner Herzog lived for a period of time at the McMurdo Research station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. While there, Herzog interviewed not only…
The Endless Summer
Bruce Brown filmed spectacular shots of surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they searched for the “perfect wave”…
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Shortly after Kenneth Lay founded Enron, he hired Jeffrey Skilling as CEO and Andrew Fastow…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
Ethel & Ernest
Ernest is a milkman in London. On his route he spots Ethel, a young maid in a rich household, looking out the window…
Executive Suite
When Avery Bullard, president of Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company…
Fail Safe
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. radar spots an unidentified aircraft in American airspace…
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe is the young son of a diplomat living in a large mansion…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
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…
Footnote
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…
For Sama
This documentary covers five years in the lives of Waad, her husband Hamza, and infant daughter Sama in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. As Assad brutally tries to destroy the rebels, he bombs…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
Frantz
Anna is a grieving young woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in battle during World War I…
The French Connection
After hearing about a large shipment of heroin scheduled to enter the United States…
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…
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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…
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…
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 River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
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…
Carrie
Shy 16-year-old Carrie White lives with her fanatically religious mother, Margaret…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
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…
Deutschland 83
In 1983, East Germany’s Secret Service (Stasi) is concerned that American troops stationed in West Germany may attack…
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…
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…
Flee
In Copenhagen, film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen is interviewing Amin Nawabi, a man he has known since they were teen-agers…
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…
Hidden Figures
Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…
Into the Arms of Strangers
During World War II, the British implemented a rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia…
Lincoln
In January 1865, President Lincoln, expecting the Civil War to end soon, fears his 1863 Emancipation…
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…
Loving
Richard Loving, a white construction worker, falls in love with Mildred Jeter, a black woman and family friend…
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of…
Minding the Gap
Rockford, Illinois, a midwestern rust-belt city, is the home of astonishing first-time filmmaker Bing Liu. Over a 12-year period he filmed two of his skateboarding friends, Zack and Keire, as they grappled with their…
MLK/FBI
MLK/FBI explores the investigation and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. by J.Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI…
Mrs. America
The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…
My Darling Clementine
In 1882, Wyatt Earp and his three brothers are driving cattle from Arizona to California…
Nomadland
Based on the nonfiction book by Jessica Bruder. In 2011, the U.S. Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shut down driving the town out of existence…
Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a tired, small-town textile worker trying to support her family on her small salary. She’s a woman with no great education but with a lot of common sense…
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…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
It’s the end of the eighteenth century and Marianne, a young painter, is commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse…
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…
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…
A Small Light
Miep Gies, a young woman, convinces Otto Frank, a distributor of Opekta jams, to hire her as his secretary…
Some Like It Hot
Joe and Jerry, two musicians, accidentally witness gangster Spats and his henchmen gun down members of a rival gang in a garage…
The Talented Mr. Ripley
When rich industrialist Herbert Greenleaf notices that Tom Ripley, the piano player at a cocktail party he’s hosting, is wearing a Princeton jacket, he has an idea: offer Tom $1,000 plus all expenses to go to Italy and convince Greenleaf’s philandering son, Dickie, to return to the United States…
They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson’s First World War documentary used original footage from the Imperial War Museum’s archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of the film’s release…
Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown and the roles played by Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary)…
Vincere
It’s 1907 in Rome and Ida Dalser is captivated by a dynamic young socialist named Benito Mussolini. They fall in love and begin a torrid love affair…
HBO
The 39 Steps
During a performance at a London Music Hall, Richard Hannay hears a gunshot…
42
In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defied the major league color barrier…
A Taste of Honey
Jo is a 17-year-old teenager living in the post-industrial area of Salford, England…
All the Way
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States. With the assistance of his wife Lady Bird, and the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson is fiercely determined to pass the Civil Rights Act before the next election…
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…
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…
Arthur Miller: Writer
Rebecca Miller’s loving documentary of her famous father, Arthur Miller, includes his origins as the son of a Polish immigrant who made a fortune and then lost it all during the Great Depression. Rebecca moves on…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Jane Pittman, a 110-year-old former slave…
Bad Education
Dr. Frank Tassone is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, New York. He’s revered by everyone…
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…
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…
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…
Blood Simple
Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…
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…
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…
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson, a middle-class British woman, is waiting to return home in a smoky railroad station…
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 Card Counter
William Tell learned to count cards while serving time in military prison. After being released he’s determined to be a professional card player.
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…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
In 1937, there is an awareness of a Nazi spy ring operating in the U.S….
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.”…
Cry Macho
Former Texan rodeo star, Mike Milo, is washed-up due to a severe back injury and old age…
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…
Eleanor and Franklin
The first of the two-part series follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were children, their courtship and marriage, and his political start as Assistant Secretary of the Navy…
Elevator to the Gallows
Florence Carala and Julien Tavernier are in love. The problem is Florence is married to Julien’s boss, Simon Carala…
Emma
After her governess gets married, Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naive young woman, proudly takes credit for bringing the couple together…
The Entertainer
Jean Rice, a young art teacher in London, visits a seaside English resort to see her family…
Great Expectations
When orphan Pip visits his parents’ graves, he encounters an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, who coerces Pip to return the next day with a file so he can remove his chains…
Hamlet
There is a celebration in the Danish castle’s Great Hall of the marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius…
Harlan County USA
Initially, the film intended to follow the attempt of the Miners for Democracy to unionize the miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky…
Harriet
n 1840s Maryland, a slave state, Araminta “Minty” Ross is newly married to a freedman, John Tubman. Living on the Brodess farm, Gideon Brodess, the owner, reneges on the promise to give Minty her freedom…
Henry V
King Henry of England believes he has a justifiable claim to the throne of France…
Hero
In ancient China, during the Warring States period, the king of Qin has eluded several…
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Abbu Kadam and his family flee unstable Mumbai and receive asylum in France…
In the Heights
This is a marvelous film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, In the Heights. Film critic Monica Castillo offers the following synopsis: “IN THE HEIGHTS represents many things for many different viewers…
In The Mood For Love
In British Hong Kong in 1962, two young couples, Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and his wife, rent an apartment next door to Su Li-zhen and her husband…
In the Same Breath
Nanfu Wang’s superb and frightening documentary, In the Same Breath, is both personal and analytical….
Laëtitia
Based on a true story. Eighteen-year-old Laëtitia’s scooter is found on the road in front of her foster home located in western France…
L’Amore – The Human Voice & The Miracle
L’Amore consists of two episodes. Episode One, The Human Voice, is about an unnamed woman talking on the phone with her former lover…
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…
Limelight
Calvero, once a famous stage performer, is now a washed-up alcoholic…
Lincoln
In January 1865, President Lincoln, expecting the Civil War to end soon, fears his 1863 Emancipation…
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is a brutally vicious man who vents his anger against Alison, his submissive wife…
Mare of Easttown
In a bleak suburb of Philadelphia, police detective Mare Sheehan is juggling two crimes: the recent murder of a teenage mother and a young girl missing for almost a year…
Maria Full of Grace
A seventeen-year-old Colombian, Maria Álvarez, is in a dead-end job de-thorning roses in a sweatshop factory…
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Germany. World War II. Maria and Hermann Braun are getting married while the Allies are bombing the church…
My Brilliant Friend
This film series is an adaptation of the first of the four novels by Elena Ferrante. Protagonist Elena Greco is an elderly woman living alone in her book-filled apartment in Naples. She is told that the most important friend in her life has disappeared.
The Natural
Roy Hobbs is a young boy growing up in 1910s Nebraska. When lightning strikes a tree, splintering it, Roy carves a baseball bat from the tree trunk and burns into the bat the word “Wonderboy” into the bat…
Navalny
On August 29, 2020, Alexei Navalny, a critic of Putin, was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan, living in a small town in Pennsylvania, finds out she’s pregnant…
The Night Of
A riveting crime drama of a native Pakistani-American student, Naz, ( terrific performance by Riz Ahmed), living in Queens. One night, Naz takes his father’s cab to a party and picks up a young woman who seduces him.
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…
The Pacific
Whereas the film series “Band of Brothers” focused on the men of Easy Company fighting in Europe, THE PACIFIC focuses on three…
Paris, Texas
Travis Henderson, a strange, lost soul, is wandering the West Texas desert going nowhere…
The Passion of Joan of Arc
During the Hundred Years’ War in the 15th century, Joan of Arc led the French to many victories against the English…
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…
Pride & Prejudice
During the late 18th century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, live at Longbourn, an estate in rural England…
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…
The Red Shoes
Julian Craster, a young classical composer, convinces Boris Lermontov, the imperious impresario of the Ballet Lermontov, to have him compose the music for his next ballet…
Richard III
King Edward IV of England was helped to the throne by his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester…
The River
Harriet, her brother, and four sisters are part of an upper middle-class English family residing on the banks of the Ganges River in India…
Six by Sondheim
Six by Sondheim includes half a dozen of Sondheim’s brilliant songs…
Stagecoach
In June,1880, a group of strangers board a stagecoach traveling from the Arizona Territory to Lordsburg…
Tampopo
During a rain storm, two truck drivers, Gorô and his younger sidekick Gun, stop off at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle diner…
Taste of Cherry
Having completed digging his grave, Mr. Badii, a suicidal middle-aged man, must find someone to bury him…
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, a young, precocious girl, was diagnosed with severe autism as a child…
They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson’s First World War documentary used original footage from the Imperial War Museum’s archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of the film’s release…
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 Times of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk, an openly gay candidate, was defeated three times in his efforts to be a member of the San Francisco…
Tokyo Story
Retired couple Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama and their daughter Kyōko, live in a coastal village in rural Japan…
Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown and the roles played by Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary)…
The Trial of Joan of Arc
In 1431, Jeanne (Joan), a French peasant girl, insists her heroic military successes were achieved with God’s help…
Ugetsu
A tale about two men, Genjūrō, a potter, and his brother-in-law, Tōbei, living in 16th-century Japan…
Wild Strawberries
Grouchy and egotistical Swedish professor, Isak Borg, sets out by car from Stockholm to Lund University, his alma mater, to receive an honorary doctorate…
The Wind Rises
In 1925, Jiro Horikoshi, a talented aeronautical engineer, is assigned by Mitsubishi to design a Japanese fighter plane…
Woodstock
Often referred to as “the weekend that defined a generation,” the Woodstock festival in 1969 became known as the beginning of the Hippie Generation…
Young Mr. Lincoln
In New Salem, Illinois, a traveling family stops to buy groceries at a store run by Abraham Lincoln…
MHz Choice
MHz (watch.mhzchoice.com). A subscription service (SVOD). $7.99 per month or $89.99 per year. Major devices: Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Android, Android TV, Xfinity1.
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 Heavy Water
During World War II, Hitler was determined to beat the U.S. in developing an atomic bomb…
The Library Thief
Not to be confused with The Book Thief, a 20th Century Fox film, or with The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. The Library Thief is based on a true story. John Johansson, brilliant but hapless, is fired from his teaching job in Stockholm…
The War Is Over
In this touching real-life drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II…
Weissensee
This series grievously depicts the deep-divide between two families in Communist East Germany before unification. Hans Kupfer, and his son Falk, are senior officers at the East German Security office…
Netflix
Netflix (netflix.com). A subscription service (SVOD). $8.99 per month for Standard Definition (SD) on a single screen; $12.99 per month for High Definition (HD), up to two screens; $15.99 per month for 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD), up to four screens. Major devices: Amazon Fire, Apple TV, iOS Roku, Chromecast, Xbox.
The African Queen
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German-controlled East Africa…
Alias Grace
Set in 19th century Canada, “Alias Grace” is about convicted murderess Grace Marks. Grace left Ireland as a child on a filthy, unhealthy ship…
All Is Well
Janne is an unemployed thirty-something publishing professional who encounters an old friend, Robert. He offers her a job…
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox, a 20-year-old American, doing post-graduate work in Perugia, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are accused of brutally murdering Amanda’s roommate, Meredith Kercher…
American Factory
Two days before Christmas, in 2008, General Motors closed its plant in Moraine, Ohio, a small town outside Dayton. 10,000 people became unemployed (…)
Babel
The film Babel weaves four separate stories that are based in four different locations, with different languages, and different cultures…
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a great, unheralded true story…
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…
Bodyguard
Police Sergeant David Budd, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, suffers from PTSD. One day while on a train bringing his kids home to his estranged wife, he confronts a female suicide bomber…
Borgen
Birgitte Nyborg is the leader of a minority political party in Denmark. In a closely fought general election, and against all odds, she becomes Prime Minister…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A true story about William Kamkwamba, a young schoolboy, living with his family in an impoverished farming village in Malawi…
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…
Call My Agent
Set in a Parisian talent agency, the series focuses on four agents, Andréa, Arlette, Gabriel, and Mathias. These clients can be troublesome…
Chasing Coral
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem. However with carbon emissions warming the seas…
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
The documentary begins with John Coltrane, a member of the Miles Davis quintet, at the epicenter of the jazz universe…
Chef
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of the high-end Gauloise Restaurant in Brentwood, California…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
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…
Croupier
Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…
The Crown
“The Crown” is an epic historical drama that will eventually run for ten seasons. The first three seasons can now be streamed…
Daughters of the Dust
The film is set in 1902 and focuses on the members of the Peazant family. They live on St. Simons Island located off the Georgia-South Carolina coast. They are descendants of African-American slaves. Being relatively isolated…
The Devil Next Door
John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian who came to the U.S. shortly after the end of World War II. He became an American citizen, was a reliable worker at a Ford plant in Cleveland (…)
The Dig
In Suffolk, England, 1939, Edith Pretty hires local excavator/archeologist Basil Brown to dig on her property. She has an instinct…
Dolemite Is My Name
Rudy Ray Moore was hungry and poor. Needing an income, he started making “party” records he culled from stories he heard from the local drunks. No established distributor wanted to carry these records so Rudy sold them under-the-counter at record stores…
Dolly Parton: Here I Am
This biographical documentary examines the life and career of Dolly Parton. It includes interviews with friends, companions, business associates and the artist herself…
Double Indemnity
Walter Neff, a successful insurance agent, is in his office dictating a confession for a crime he committed. The whole story is now revealed in flashback. It begins with Neff visiting the Dietrichson home…
The Edge of Democracy
The documentary was influenced by director Petra Costa’s past and her family’s activist left-wing history. It chronicles Brazil’s political upheavals from the euphoria…
The Elephant Whisperers
Bomman and Bellie are an indigenous couple living in southern India…
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…
Fauda
Filmed primarily in the occupied West Bank, the plot revolves around the conflicts between Israeli Special Forces and Hamas. There are brutal attacks by both sides…
Frida
Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo, living in Mexico, suffers a serious injury when her bus collides with a streetcar…
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 Grizzlies
Russ Sheppard takes a teaching job in a remote Arctic school to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Don’t be put off by the overly adorable title, the film offers the kind of cushiony stealth charm that’s easy to sink into. Director Mike Newell’s warm, light touch…
Happy as Lazzaro
Alfosino de Luna is the ruthless owner of a tobacco farm in the Italian town of Inviolata. She has 54 sharecroppers who are constantly in debt to her, so they receive no pay…
High Flying Bird
High Flying Bird is a sports drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Sports agent Ray Burke represents the #1 draft pick, Erick Scott, a basketball player ready to become a pro with a huge contract. However, the league is in a lockout due to a dispute between the players’ association and the owners. Ray needs to get Erick signed or he risks losing his job at the agency. The film uncovers the disconnect between the players who make up the team and the owners who shell out the money…
I Lost My Body
Naoufel, is a kid happily living in North Africa, has lost his hand, how, we don’t know. But the hand manages to escape the freezer in the hospital lab and is now searching to find Naoufel’s body…
The Irishman
The man narrating the life and times of the Mafia is Frank Sheeran, “The Irishman.” A retired gangster and now insignificant, Frank freely relates stories about Mob killings, graft, extortion, and influence peddling…
The Ivory Game
The past five years, 120,000 elephants have been killed for their ivory; today, one elephant is slaughtered every 20 minutes. At this rate, the African elephant will be extinct in 15 years…
John Lewis: Good Trouble
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.
Klaus
Jesper Johansson is a lazy and spoiled son of a wealthy Postmaster General. When he does poorly at the Postman Training Academy, his father sends him to the desolate town of Smeerensburg…
The Kominsky Method
It’s about a long-term friendship between Sandy Kominsky, a revered acting coach, and Norman Newlander, a retired successful Hollywood agent. The two genuinely cherish their friendship even with its many ups-and-downs…
The Life Ahead
Madame Rosa is a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor. In her old age, feeble and sickly, she makes a living caring for children of prostitutes…
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Glafïira Rosales, a Long Island resident, visited the prestigious Knoedler Gallery in New York, saying she represented a wealthy anonymous collector looking to sell a vintage Rothko…
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is the true story of Bernie Madoff and the way he criminally operated a $60 billion Ponzi scheme…
Maid
The series is inspired by Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.”…
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela fought against Apartheid in South Africa. When he resorted to violence, he was caught, tried, and spent 27 years in prison where he suffered harsh and brutal treatment…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
In a music recording studio in Chicago, a band of musicians await the arrival of their leader, Ma Rainey, known as the “Mother of the Blues.”…
Marriage Story
Successful playwright/director Charlie and his actress wife Nicole decide to part ways. Her work is on the West Coast and he’s in charge of a theater group…
Marwencol
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked and beaten outside of a bar when five thugs found out he was a cross-dresser. After being in a coma for nine days…
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…
Mindhunter
“Mindhunter” is about two FBI agents, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, and the psychologist Wendy Carr, who work in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Their job is to find out why these serial killers…
Miracle
In 1980, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in the midst of a bitter, dangerous Cold War. Neither country was ready to fight on the battlefield, but the 1980 Winter Olympics was coming up…
My Happy Family
Manana is a 52-year-old housewife and teacher living in a cramped three-bedroom apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia, with an indifferent husband, her parents, children…
Narcos
The series describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar from a small-time black marketeer in Medellin, Colombia to the billionaire kingpin of the cocaine industry. Trafficking mostly in illegal alcohol, cigarettes, and household appliances, Escobar meets Mateo “Cockroach” Moreno, a Chilean chemist, who convinces Escobar to switch to a far more profitable product, cocaine. They strike a deal: Moreno will produce the cocaine and Escobar will distribute it.
Our Planet
Each segment of this eight-part series documents the destruction of a major part of this planet. Highlights are: polar bears, walruses, seals, and penguins dying…
Our Souls At Night
Louis Waters, a widower, and Addie Moore, a widow, have been neighbors for decades but hardly know each other. One day, Addie stops by…
Paris is Burning
This extraordinary documentary chronicles the elaborately-structured ball culture in which African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender contestants compete. Like fashion models, they “walk” the runways…
Passing
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned African American who runs into a childhood friend, Clare Bellew at a hotel in New York…
Philomena
English journalist, Martin Sixsmith, is persuaded by the daughter of Philomena Lee, to write a human interest story of her mother’s tragic life…
The Queen’s Gambit
Nine-year-old Beth is adjusting to life in an orphanage after the untimely death of her mother…
Quincy
This documentary about the great Quincy Jones was put together lovingly by his daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. In his spectacular 70-year career, this giant in American music was a huge success as a record…
Radium Girls
Bessie and Jo are teenage sisters who work at the American Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey…
Red Joan
In 1938, Joan Smith, a Cambridge University physics student, joins a group of radical communists…
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
This fascinating documentary/musical was not directed by Martin Scorsese. Instead, Scorsese edited the film brilliantly weaving together scenes from Bob Dylan’s historic 1975 Rolling Thunder tour with previously unseen archival footage…
Roma
A riveting account based on writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s early, middle-class life in Mexico in the early 1970s. The title refers to Colonia Roma, a neighborhood in Mexico City…
Scarface
In 1980, Cuban refugees Tony Montana and his friend Manny Ray arrive…
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…
Shtisel
This Israeli television series is about the fictional lives of Hasidic (ultra-orthodox) families in the Geula section of Jerusalem. Although they are portrayed as fanatical about their religious beliefs, the series also portrays many of them struggling with the conflicts of difficult relationships. Shulem, the patriarch and a widower, rules his brood with an iron fist…
Spotlight
On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe had a first page headline that shocked the city, “Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years.”…
The Spy
In the late 1960s, Eli Cohen (no relation to the actor) is an Egyptian-born Israeli stuck in a boring job as a clerk in a department store. Applying for an adventurous job as a Mossad operative, he’s unfortunately rejected…
The Square
In the winter of 2011, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the removal of the dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak…
The Stranger
Mr. Wilson of the United Nations War Crimes Commission has been hunting Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler for some time. He hasn’t had much success. So he decides to release incarcerated Nazi criminal, Meinike, hoping Meinike will lead him to Kindler…
Suffragette
In 1912, 24-year-old laundry worker, Maud Watts, and her co-worker Violet Miller, become involved in the protests by the suffragettes…
To Kill a Mockingbird
In the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, Sheriff Heck Tate visits lawyer Atticus Finch. He persuades Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young girl named Mayella. With an all-white jury in the Deep South, it doesn’t look promising for Tom…
Trial 4
Sean Ellis was a 19-year old African-American man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time…
The Trial of the Chicago 7
In August 1968, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines, and Bobby Seale decide to protest the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago…
Trumbo
At the height of his career, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) regarding his former membership in the Communist Party…
22 July
The film, directed and produced by Paul Greengrass, depicts the horrific massacre of 77 children while on a camping trip on Utoya, an island off Norway. Anders Behring Breivik, dressed in a police uniform, drives a van loaded with explosives…
The Two Popes
In 2012, Cardinal Bergoglio is frustrated with the direction of the church so he notifies Pope Benedict of his wish to retire. Pope Benedict summons the Cardinal, his harshest critic (and his eventual successor), to come to Rome to discuss this decision…
Unbelievable
This is about a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado. The story first focuses on the rape of Marie Adler, a disturbed teenager living in a foster home. What she goes through with the police investigators and the medical examinations…
Unorthodox
Esther (“Esty”) is a 19-year old woman feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage and living in a suffocating ultra-orthodox…
Virunga
The survival of Virunga National Park in the Congo, the oldest park in Africa, is being threatened. Home to the world’s last mountain gorillas…
Wadjda
This is a funny, romantic drama about Wadjda, a spirited 10 year-old Saudi girl living in the capital city of Riyadh…
When They See Us
On April 19, 1989, while jogging in Manhattan’s Central Park, Trisha Meili, a White investment banker, was assaulted and raped…
The Witch
In 1630s New England, William, his wife Katherine, son Caleb, and daughters Mercy and Jonas are banished from their Puritan Plymouth Colony over a religious dispute. They flee to a secluded forest and build a farmhouse. Katherine gives birth to a son, Samuel. One day, Samuel suddenly disappears…
Witness for the Prosecution
Sir Wilfrid Robarts, a brilliant London barrister, recovering from a heart attack, and over the severe objections of his feisty private nurse, Miss Plimsoll, is persuaded to take on a juicy murder case…
World War II in Color
World War II in Color is a British docuseries recounting the major events of World War II…
Open Culture Films
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…
PBS Passport
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…
Baseball – A Film by Ken Burns
Similar to previous documentaries by Ken Burns, Baseball includes archival photos and film footage mixed with interviews by noted writers, players, and baseball historians…
The Codebreaker
The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the legendary groundbreaking cryptanalyst…
Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Hemingway “loved being in love,” commented writer Michael Katakis…
Jazz-Ken Burns
Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns reveals the history of jazz in the United States in just ten episodes…
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…
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…
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Directed and produced by Ken Burns, the series covers the lives and times of Theodore Roosevelt (26th president), Franklin D. Roosevelt (four-term president), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Franklin’s influential wife)…
The War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The series vividly recounts the experiences of World War II veterans who now live in…
World on Fire
The world that’s on fire stretches across most of Europe: Warsaw, London, Paris, Manchester, and the evacuation at Dunkirk…
PeacockTV
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….
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela fought against Apartheid in South Africa. When he resorted to violence, he was caught, tried, and spent 27 years in prison where he suffered harsh and brutal treatment…
Parenthood
Parenthood, a bittersweet adult comedy, weaves the experiences of several members of the Buckman family…
Red Rock West
Michael Williams, an unemployed ex-marine, wanders into a bar in Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for work…
Schindler’s List
Businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Krakow in 1939 ready to make his fortune…
Vudu
Vudu (vudu.com). A transactional service (TVOD). You pay for each film you access. From $1.99 for Standard Definition (SD); $2.99 for High Definition (HD). Currently, there is no opportunity for offline viewing. When you order an episode, it is not downloaded to your device. Instead, it streams using your broadband connection on devices such as PlayStation 3 and 4, Blu-ray, HD televisions, and Apple iOS devices.
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent in Cambodia from 1972to 1975, covered the defeat of the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime by the Communist Khmer Rouge forces…
Michael Collins
The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…
VIVA ZAPATA
From 1810 to 1821, the peasants (called campesinos) following the leadership of Emiliano Zapata, fight the corrupt government and its president, Porfirio Diaz…
1945
In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln leaves his Kentucky home for the first when he and two friends are hired to take a boatload of pigs to New Orleans…
About Elly
The film, About Elly, begins when a group of three married couples, their three children, Ahmad, a recently divorced young man, and Elly, the attractive, single teacher…
Adam’s Rib
Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…
Advocate
Advocate is a film about Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she tirelessly navigates through Israel’s judicial system defending Palestinian prisoners…
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…
A Prairie Home Companion
In Saint Paul, Minnesota, the long running radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion is preparing its final broadcast…
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…
America America
In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…
Anatomy of a Murder
Paul Biegler, a retired small-time Michigan lawyer, is contacted by Laura Manion and asked to defend her husband, Lt. Frederick Manion. Pushed by his alcoholic mentor and friend, Parnell McCarthy, Biegler agrees to take the case. Lt. Manion was arrested…
Anatomy of a Murder
Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…
American Graffiti
As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…
Amores Perros
Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…
A 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…
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 (…)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Youngers are a lower middle-class black family living in Chicago’s South Side…
L’Argent
Norbert, a student in Paris, is in debt to a classmate. He tries to borrow money from a friend by hocking his watch…
Art and Craft
Mark A.Landis was the only son of a globe-trotting military officer and a mother with a love for the finer things…
A River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
The Asphalt Jungle
Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…
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…
Bad Day at Black Rock
In late 1945, John J. Macreedy steps off a train in the dusty, isolated town of Black Creek in the California desert…
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…
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…
Beanpole
Shortly after World War II, Lya, known as “Beanpole,” a hospital nurse in Leningrad, is caring for Pashka, her friend’s Masha’s six-year-old boy. Suffering from PTSD…
Becoming Astrid
An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship…
Beginners
Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting was dated in1906, four years before the works of Wassily Kandinsky…
The Bicycle Thieves
In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…
The Biggest Little Farm
John and Molly Chester followed their dream. When they were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment because their dog would not stop barking, they bought…
The Big Heat
Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion is sent to investigate the suicide of a fellow rogue officer, Tom Duncan. His wife, Bertha Duncan, tells Bannion her husband was despondent about his deteriorating health…
Big Night
Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood. His flighty daughter Carmen incurred gambling debts to Arthur Geiger and he’s now blackmailing her…
Bird
In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…
Birdman
Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…
Birdman of Alcatraz
Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker, the prison warden…
Bitter Rice
The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles. Retired police officer, Rick Deckard, returns to his former supervisor, Bryant, for a vital assignment. Previously, Deckard’s job was to track down bioengineered beings, known as “replicants,” and retire (destroy) them…
Blood Simple
Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…
Blow-Up
Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Adele is an introverted 15-year-old high school student who is sexually ambivalent. Her sex experience with Thomas, a high school friend, is a total disappointment. Her gay friend Valentin, sensing her confusion, takes Adele to a gay dance bar. Adele meets Emma, an art student and painter with blue hair. They connect. There’s that first kiss at a picnic and before long they begin a passionate love affair. The relationship then fast-forwards to the two women now living together…
Blue Velvet
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his picture-perfect town of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father suffered a near-fatal stroke. He notices a severed ear in a vacant lot. He brings it to the police station where the police detective’s daughter…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Zana Briski spent two years living in Kolkata, India’s appalling red light district…
Born To Be Blue
In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…
Boys Don’t Cry
Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…
Breathless
Michel is a misfit who decides to steal a car so he can go to Italy. He is also out of control when he shoots a pursuing policeman…
Bride of Frankenstein
Villagers surround the burning windmill and rejoice that the the Monster is dead. But the villagers are also saddened that the scientist Henry Frankenstein was in the wreckage and presumed dead…
Bridge of Spies
James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…
Broken Arrow
BROKEN ARROW is a landmark film produced by a courageous studio that was one of the first to sympathetically depict the plight of the American Indian…
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Following their victory at Little Big Horn, the United States continued to push the Sioux off the Black Hills of the Dakotas, this time looking for gold…
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…
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
Casualties of War
Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…
The Cave
The filming of this documentary takes place in the underground tunnels beneath the town of Ghouta, located on the outskirts of Damascus. It has become the last-resort…
Charley Varrick
In rural New Mexico, Charley Varrick, his wife Nadine, and their two accomplices, Al Dutcher…
Chef
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of the high-end Gauloise Restaurant in Brentwood, California…
Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Facility indicated something was very wrong. Valery Legasov, an important Soviet nuclear physicist…
The Child
After the birth of her baby, Sonia returns home from the hospital and is told that her live-in boyfriend, Bruno, has sublet the apartment…
Children of Heaven
The Children of Heaven is primarily about Ali and Zahra, a brother and sister, in an impoverished family, who create a big problem they do not want their parents to know about…
Children of Men
Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote that “CHILDREN of MEN, set in 1927, pictures a world that looks like a lot like our own, but darker, grimmer and more frighteningly, violently precarious…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
The China Syndrome
Los Angeles television news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her cameraman, Richard Adams, are assigned to do a story about the nearby (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
Cinderella Man
During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, a New Jersey Irish-American, James J. Braddock, is forced to give up boxing due to an injury in his right hand…
City Lights
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin), while clowning around the city, encounters a beautiful Flower Girl on the street corner…
The Class
In an immigrant, working-class Parisian neighborhood, Francois Marin, a young teacher, begins the year with twenty-five teenage students in his class…
Clemency
Bernardine Williams is a warden in a death row prison. She has the reputation of being a stickler for procedure…
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Loretta Webb was one of eight children born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Her father, Ted Webb, was a coal miner The family was dirt-poor. Loretta was 15…
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…
Compulsion
In a perverted desire to commit the perfect crime, sociopathic friends, Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder…
The Conformist
Considered by many a Bernardo Bertolucci masterpiece. Working for Mussolini in Rome in 1938, Marcello departs on his honeymoon to Paris. His boss gives him an assignment: while in Paris he is to kill…
Conspiracy
On January 20, 1942, several Nazi party officials, led by SS head, Reinhard Heydrich, gathered in the German town of Wannsee to discuss the “Final Solution.”…
The Conversation
Harry Caul, the owner of a surveillance company, and his assistant Stan, are hired by a person referred to as The Director, to bug the conversation of a couple, Ann and Mark, as they walk around Union Square in San Francisco…
Corpus Christi
Daniel, in prison for second-degree murder, has a spiritual awakening. He wants to study for the priesthood when he is released…
The Courier
A true story. In the 1960s, the height of the Cold War, the CIA recruited Greville Wynne, an insignificant British businessman…
Criss Cross
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles to try and rekindle the relationship with his ex-wife Anna. He gets a job as a driver with an armored-truck company. It’s a bit complicated; even though Anna is now married to the mobster Slim Dundee…
Crossfire
Captain Finlay is called to investigate the beating to death of a Jewish man named Joseph Samuels…
Crossing Delancey
Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman is a 30-ish, attractive, smart woman, who has a dream job working in a bookstore where she can meet interesting and intellectual authors…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the 19th-century Chinese Qing dynasty, Li Mu Bai, a renowned swordsman, decides to follow another path…
Cry Freedom
After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…
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 Dead
Adapted from a James Joyce short story…
Delicious
In 18th-century France, prior to the Revolution, gastronomy was strictly limited to the aristocracy…
Diner
Five male friends, in their twenties, meet frequently at the local diner to discuss issues they are facing. Eddie vows to call…
Dirty Pretty Things
Olatokumbo “Okwe” Fadipe is a doctor. Because he is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London, he must toil as a cab driver during the day and at night he is the front desk clerk in a hotel…
The Dissident
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist in the 1980s with easy access to members of its Royal Family…
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio, the son of a factory foreman. Diagnosed in early childhood with hemophilia, he lived his entire life with the threat of death. Director Alexis Bloom utilized archival footage and interviews to show…
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…
Dressed to Kill
Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife, is being treated by her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott…
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…
Dr. Strangelove
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is informed by the crazy American officer General Jack Ripper that he has issued an order to preemptively attack Russian strategic targets with nuclear bombs…
Duck Soup
The small country of Freedonia is bankrupt. The very wealthy Mrs. Teasdale agrees to provide financial assistance on condition that her friend, Rufus T. Firefly, is appointed its leader. To make matters worse, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex Freedonia…
The Duke
Kempton Bunton, a grouchy unemployed taxi driver, is furious the British government requires the elderly to pay a TV tax…
Eat Drink Man Woman
To his consternation, Tao Chu, a widower and master chef, has three unmarried daughters: Chu Jia-Jen, a school teacher, Chu Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Chu Jia- Ning, a college student…
Edge of the City
Axel North, a young drifter, arrives at a New York waterfront pier seeking employment as a longshoreman…
The Emigrants
Karl-Oskar Nilsson, his wife Kristina, and Karl’s younger brother Robert live on a small farm in Sweden. The family struggles…
Empire of the Sun
James “Jim” Graham is a schoolboy living a privileged and affluent life with his family in the Shanghai International Settlement…
Encounters at the End of the World
Director/Writer Werner Herzog lived for a period of time at the McMurdo Research station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. While there, Herzog interviewed not only…
The English Patient
Almásy, a survivor of a plane crash during World War II, is found in the North African desert…
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Shortly after Kenneth Lay founded Enron, he hired Jeffrey Skilling as CEO and Andrew Fastow…
Erin Brockovich
In 1993, a struggling mother, Erin Brockovich, wangles a job in Ed Masry’s law office…
Ethel & Ernest
Ernest is a milkman in London. On his route he spots Ethel, a young maid in a rich household, looking out the window…
Fail Safe
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. radar spots an unidentified aircraft in American airspace…
Fanny’s Journey
France was occupied by the Germans during most of World War II…
The Farewell
Chinese-born, New York-raised writer Billi Wang, maintains contact with her grandmother, Nai Nai, who lives in Changchun, China. Her parents, Haiyan and Lu Jian, inform Billi that Nai Nai has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only a few months to live…
The Father
Anne visits her father, Anthony, in his London flat…
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..”
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Shortly after World War II, preparations were proceeding rapidly in Nuremberg for the trial of the most heinous Nazi criminals…
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…
The Fog of War
This superb and heartbreaking documentary by Errol Morris focuses primarily on Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during the early stages of the Vietnam War. While President Kennedy expressed doubts about winning the war…
Footnote
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…
For Sama
This documentary covers five years in the lives of Waad, her husband Hamza, and infant daughter Sama in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. As Assad brutally tries to destroy the rebels, he bombs…
The 400 Blows
Antoine Doinel is a troubled youngster growing up in Paris with a mother and stepfather who do not understand him. He skips school, steals, and…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
Frantz
Anna is a grieving young woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in battle during World War I…
Free Solo
The documentary is simple in concept: to record the death-defying climb by Alex Honnold of the 3,000 ft. El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Alex did this without a rope, which made this one of the greatest feats in the history of rock climbing. Before each climb, Alex studies the surface, entering in a notebook details about the rock. He commits all this to memory along with the moves he’s going to make to do the climb…
The French Connection
After hearing about a large shipment of heroin scheduled to enter the United States…
Frenzy
Unlike most suspenseful films, the serial killer terrorizing London by strangling women with a tie is identified right from the start. His name is Bob Rusk…
Frida
Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo, living in Mexico, suffers a serious injury when her bus collides with a streetcar…
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity consists of intertwining stories taking place at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, Hawaii…
The Front
In 1953, Howard Prince, a restaurant cashier and small-time bookie, agrees to be a “front” for his good friend Alfred Miller, a blacklisted TV screenwriter…
Gallipoli
Archy and Frank are young, penniless Australians who decide to hop a freight train and join the Australian army. Australia is part of the British Empire that is in the midst of fighting Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Frank and Archy end up together and are sent…
The Gatekeepers
Directed by Dror Moreh, The Gatekeepers consists of in-depth interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service…
Get Out
Black photographer Chris Washington and his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, have been dating for several months. Rose now feels it’s time for the two of them to visit her parents at their large country home in upstate New York…
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Under Israeli law, a wife can only divorce her husband if he gives her a religious “Bill of Divorce” called a Gett. Without a Gett, no divorce. And this is the plight of Viviane Amsalem who requests the religious court…
Gigi
Based on the novella of the same name by Collette, this musical film is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Paris and Deauville. Several amazing characters’ lives interconnect: Gaston, the bored bon vivant; Honore, the old lover-man who narrates much of the story; the youthful and precocious Gigi; and Madame Alvarez, Gigi’s caring grandmother, who keeps a watchful eye on everything going on…
Girlfriends
Susan Weinblatt is a photographer who supports herself taking photos at bar mitzvahs and weddings. She’s ecstatic when a magazine buys three of her photos. Her happiness, however, is jolted when her roommate…
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Griet, a young 17th-century girl, arrives in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the city of Delft, to work as a maid…
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
Good Night and Good Luck
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was on a rampage stating that the government was infiltrated by Communists and Communists sympathizers. Bullied and fearful, most Washington politicians…
Grand Illusion
During the First World War, two French airmen, the aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, are shot down over Germany and taken prisoner…
The Grapes of Wrath
An adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel of the same name, the film, directed by John Ford, follows the excruciating journey of the Joad family from the Oklahoma dust bowl to a hopefully new life in California. They pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 Hudson sedan…
Grave of the Fireflies
In war-torn Kobe, Japan, the home of teenager Seita and his younger sister Setsuko is destroyed in a firebombing…
Grease
After a summer romance, Sandy Olsson, an Australian exchange student, and Danny Zuco, head of the T-Birds greaser gang, are now seniors at Rydell High School…
Green Book
African-Americans, travelling in the United States, often carry a Green Book, which lists the hotels, motels, and restauarants that do not racially discriminate…
The Grizzlies
Russ Sheppard takes a teaching job in a remote Arctic school to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government…
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…
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…
Happening
In 1963 France, Anne, a young, precocious student with an eye on becoming a writer, becomes pregnant after a one-night stand…
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…
Hero
In ancient China, during the Warring States period, the king of Qin has eluded several…
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…
Hive
Hive is based on a true story of a woman, Fahrije, who, with other women in the village, search for their missing husbands shortly after the Kosovo War in 1998-1999…
Hombre
John Russell, an Apache-raised white man, returns to the white world to claim his father’s inheritance, a gold watch and a run-down boarding house…
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in an isolated village in North Macedonia where there are no roads, electricity or running water…
Hoosiers
Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship…
House of Flying Daggers
In 9th century China, the Tang Dynasty is in decline. The House of Flying Daggers, a rebel…
House of Sand and Fog
Colonel Massoud Amir and his wife Nadi escaped Iran after the Shah was overthrown; they relocated in San Francisco…
How Green Was My Valley
Huw Morgan is the youngest son in a Welsh coal mining family of nine. His childhood is idyllic: everyone in town gets along; the men working…
How the West Was Won
Set between 1839 and 1889, the film follows three generations of families (starting with the Prescotts) as they moved from western New York all the way to the Pacific…
Hud
The Bannon family owns a Texas cattle ranch…
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Abbu Kadam and his family flee unstable Mumbai and receive asylum in France…
The Hurricane
Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…
The Ice Storm
Two families, the Hoods and the Carvers, neighbors in an affluent Connecticut suburb, are bitterly disappointed with their unfulfilled lives…
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…
The Imitation Game
In 1939, the beginning of World War II, the British government recruited brilliant Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing to help break the German code, Enigma…
The Immigrant
In 1921, Ewa and her sister Magda, leave their impoverished home in Poland and arrive in Ellis Island hoping for a better life…
In a Lonely Place
Dixon Steele is a fading screenwriter out of work primarily as a result of his heavy drinking and violent temper. His agent, Mel Lippman, encourages him to adapt a book for a film…
In Bloom
Eka and Natia are 14-year-olds and best friends growing up in post-Soviet Georgia. Natia, more precocious than Eka, has two boys interested in her, Kote and Lado…
Inglourious Basterds
SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa arrives at the remote dairy farm belonging to Perrier LaPadite…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1912, 13-year-old Henry “Indiana” Jones and his Boy Scout troop are exploring caves in Utah’s Arches National Park…
The Innocents
The story takes place in Warsaw, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. In one of the clinics, Mathilde, a Red Cross doctor, is treating wounded and sick survivors. She is interrupted by a hysterical Benedictine nun
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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…
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…
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 River Runs Through It
In Missoula, Montana, the Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, and their father John…
A Separation
Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…
Ash Is Purest White
Qiao is Bin’s girlfriend. Bin is the local gangster involved in borderline crime while running a mahjong parlor…
A Special Day
On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…
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…
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 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…
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…
Blow Out
While in post-production for a low-budget film, sound technician Jack Terry is told by the producer to record more realistic sound effects….
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…
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….
Carlito’s Way
After serving five years of a thirty-year sentence in prison, Carlito Brigante is released…
Casualties of War
Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…
Charley Varrick
In rural New Mexico, Charley Varrick, his wife Nadine, and their two accomplices, Al Dutcher…
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…
Chinatown
It’s 1937 in Los Angeles when private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes is approached by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray…
Chocolat
Unwed mother, Vianne, and her young daughter, Anouk, blow into a tiny French town and rent a former patisserie. This concerns the stiff-necked mayor, Comte de Reynaud…
Cinderella Man
During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, a New Jersey Irish-American, James J. Braddock, is forced to give up boxing due to an injury in his right hand…
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…
Compulsion
In a perverted desire to commit the perfect crime, sociopathic friends, Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder…
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.”…
Cry Freedom
After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Footnote
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…
Ford v Ferrari
Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…
The French Connection
After hearing about a large shipment of heroin scheduled to enter the United States…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in an isolated village in North Macedonia where there are no roads, electricity or running water…
Hoosiers
Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship…
House of Flying Daggers
In 9th century China, the Tang Dynasty is in decline. The House of Flying Daggers, a rebel…
Hud
The Bannon family owns a Texas cattle ranch…
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…
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…
Incitement
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1912, 13-year-old Henry “Indiana” Jones and his Boy Scout troop are exploring caves in Utah’s Arches National Park…
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…
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…
JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI
Director Jafar Panahi drives through the streets of Tehran pretending to be a taxi driver…
John Lewis: Good Trouble
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The film is based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. Jacob, the father, favors Joseph, much to the resentment of Joseph’s brothers. When Jacob gives…
The Joy Luck Club
In San Francisco, four aging Chinese-American mothers gather frequently to play mahjong and compare stories of their Americanized daughters and grandchildren…
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…
La Chienne
“Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter…”
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…
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…
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…
Lost Illusions
In 1820s France, 20-year-old Lucien de Rubempré, an idealistic poet and writer, travels from his provincial country home to Paris to seek his fortune…
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 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in the frontier town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of…
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…
Margin Call
Margin Call takes place at an unnamed major investment firm. Eric Dale, a senior risk…
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…
Mrs. America
The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Red Joan
In 1938, Joan Smith, a Cambridge University physics student, joins a group of radical communists…
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…
Scenes from a Marriage
It begins with the feeling that Johan and Marianne have a perfect marriage. Married ten years, Johan is a popular professor, Marianne is a successful lawyer…
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…
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…
Suffragette
In 1912, 24-year-old laundry worker, Maud Watts, and her co-worker Violet Miller, become involved in the protests by the suffragettes…
The Sundowners
Paddy Carmody, his wife Ida, and teenage son Sean, are sundowners. They travel…
The Sunshine Boys
Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a very popular Vaudeville team, known as “The Sunshine Boys.” After 47 years together they parted ways on unfriendly terms…
The Talented Mr. Ripley
When rich industrialist Herbert Greenleaf notices that Tom Ripley, the piano player at a cocktail party he’s hosting, is wearing a Princeton jacket, he has an idea: offer Tom $1,000 plus all expenses to go to Italy and convince Greenleaf’s philandering son, Dickie, to return to the United States…
Tel Aviv on Fire
Salam Abbas, a charismatic 30-year-old Palestinian living in East Jerusalem, is a trainee on the Palestinian TV soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire”…
The Ten Commandments
The Pharaoh of Egypt has ordered the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile…
The Thin Blue Line
When documentarian Errol Morris heard about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist who testified in hundreds of murder cases, always recommending the death penalty…
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…
The Times of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk, an openly gay candidate, was defeated three times in his efforts to be a member of the San Francisco…
Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown and the roles played by Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary)…
The Train
During the late stages of World War II, Colonel Franz von Waldheim is ordered to ship Impressionist masterpieces from the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris to Germany…
Trumbo
At the height of his career, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) regarding his former membership in the Communist Party…
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
In 1945, as World War II dies down, Detroit engineer, Preston Tucker, with support from…
Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit)
In Seraing, an industrial town near Liege, Belgium, Sandra, a worker at the solar panel factory, returns to work after a medical leave only to learn she may lose her job.
The Unknown Girl
Jenny Davin is a hard-working young doctor in a small clinic in Liege, Belgium. She is prepared to go home after a long day when her front door buzzer rings…
The Untouchables
During the Prohibition era, Chicago gangster, Al Capone, controls illegal liquor…
Us
The film begins with a family spending a pleasant day on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California. The young daughter, Adelaide, separates from the family and finds herself in an abandoned hall of mirrors shack. She sees her…
Water
In 1930s India, eight-year-old Chuyia becomes a widow before she knows what it is to be a child, let alone a wife. In those days, India regarded…
The Witch
In 1630s New England, William, his wife Katherine, son Caleb, and daughters Mercy and Jonas are banished from their Puritan Plymouth Colony over a religious dispute. They flee to a secluded forest and build a farmhouse. Katherine gives birth to a son, Samuel. One day, Samuel suddenly disappears…
The Whistleblower
Kathryn Bolkovac, an American police officer, takes a job with Democra Security, a private contractor for the United Nations International Police in post-war Bosnia…
Wind River
On the Wind River Native American Reservation, Cory Lambert, a tracker of mountain lions killing livestock, discovers the frostbitten body of teenager, Natalie Hanson…
Winter Sleep
As winter approaches, Aydin, a retired actor, stays in his hotel in remote Anatolia…
Woodstock
Often referred to as “the weekend that defined a generation,” the Woodstock festival in 1969 became known as the beginning of the Hippie Generation…
Working Woman
Orna is a married mother of three. Her husband, Ofer, opened a restaurant but it’s struggling. To help support the family, Orna lands a job working for Benny, an Israeli real estate developer…
World on Fire
The world that’s on fire stretches across most of Europe: Warsaw, London, Paris, Manchester, and the evacuation at Dunkirk…
Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg
The phenomenally popular TV series, The Goldbergs, appeared at the height of the McCarthy era and the blacklisting of actors and writers suspected of being Communist sympathizers…
Young Ahmed
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