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Almost Summer

Almost Summer

Comedy

In this hilarious teen movie that paved the way for Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Breakfast Club, Bobby DeVito is the “senior campaign strategist” in a highly contested high school student body presidential election.

American Delivery

American Delivery

Health · Documentary

Amid a growing maternal health crisis in the U.S.—especially for women of color—nurses are at the core of systemic efforts to catch new mothers before they fall through the broken healthcare safety net.

Animals

Animals

World Cinema · Artsploitation

This very unconventional coming-of-age tale is an intoxicating blend of fantasy and cold reality as it follows shy teenager's perilous period when exciting but troubling sexuality enters into his formerly innocent world.

Applause

Applause

Drama

Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen) has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys.

The Boat is Full

The Boat is Full

Jewish Interest · War · Drama

Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), The Boat is Full is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII.

Breaking Free: The Shale Rock Revolution

Breaking Free: The Shale Rock Revolution

Politics · Documentary

Witness the controversial yet booming business behind oil fracking in BREAKING FREE: THE SHALE ROCK REVOLUTION, a documentary focusing on the risks and the opportunities presented by fracking technology.

Casanova, Last Love

Casanova, Last Love

World Cinema · Drama

London, 18th century. Casanova (Vincent Lindon), famous for his taste of pleasure and gambling, arrives from Paris, forced into exile. In this city he knows nothing about, the libertine meets on several occasions a young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon (Stacy Martin).

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Documentary · LGBTQ · Sexuality

Dirty Diaries is a collection of twelve short pornographic films created by a group of feminist filmmakers in Sweden. The series of shorts is intended as a feminist response to traditional pornography -- porn films made by women to explore and celebrate, rather than exploit, female sexuality.

Drawing Flies

Drawing Flies

American Independent · Comedy

Drawing Flies is a quirky, indie comedy that tells the story of Donner (Jason Lee), the unofficial leader of a troupe of slackers who've just been kicked off of welfare. Donner convinces his friends that what they need to turn their lives around is a camping trip; but as they go deeper and deeper in…

The Experts

The Experts

Comedy

Two hip but down-on-their-luck New Yorkers think they’re relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don’t know is that they’ve been abducted by a KGB operative.

Fantasy Life

Fantasy Life

Comedy · Romance · Drama

An anxious law school dropout stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother, an actress in a rocky marriage.

Fever

Fever

Crime · Thriller

Two high school students kill a woman and seemingly get away with it in this taut psychological thriller.

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This documentary argues for the importance of film preservation through the voices of archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers who have contributed to making sure moving images survive and remain accessible.

Free Time

Free Time

Comedy

Drew is approaching the end of his twenties and, with it, his relative youth. Looking to make a sudden change, he decides to quit his cushy desk job and “embrace life.”  - only to realize he has no idea what to do with his newfound freedom.

The Giants

The Giants

World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival · Drama

THE GIANTS is a moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth (Martin Nissen) and Zak (Zacharie Chasseriaud) are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them in their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer da…

Godard Mon Amour

Godard Mon Amour

Comedy · History · Drama

Director Michel Hazanavicius's (THE ARTIST) loving tribute to one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries her.

I Am MLK Jr.

I Am MLK Jr.

Documentary · History · Biography

I AM MLK JR. celebrates the life and explores the character of an American icon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with interviews from history-changing activists, writers and outspoken celebrities. 

In Search of Kundun

In Search of Kundun

Documentary

In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese is a deeply insightful film documenting the unique encounter of filmmaker Martin Scorsese (The Irishman, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) with the Tibetan people and their spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama. Filmed in 1997, this emotional saga takes us from the s…

Islands

Islands

Crime · Drama · Thriller

In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of amissing persons mystery.

Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue

Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue

Cult · Erotic

Based on Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine:?The Misfortunes of Virtue, Chris Boger’s visually sumptuous film is a dark tale of sexual depravity and Sadean excess.

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

African-American · Documentary · National Film Registry

King: A Filmed Record...from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 3-hr documentary that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Academy Award nomi…

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Documentary

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.

The Mad Doctor

The Mad Doctor

Crime · Romance · Horror

Dr. George Sebastien is a smooth and sinister physician who woos, weds and murders several of his wealthy women patients for their fortunes.

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

Documentary

Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Martin Scorsese explores ithe films of Powell and Pressburger - two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950’s.

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles

Documentary · History · Biography

A look at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker.

Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Period Drama · Based on Literature · Drama

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London and operating in the tradition of the great Italian classics, Martin Eden tells the story of a dashing young proletarian who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station in order to marry a bourgeois university student.

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie

Romance · Comedy Drama

Slightly awkward Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller meets handsome David Harris, who finally convinces her that she’s a worthwhile human being and not the ugly duckling she always imagined herself to be.

Meet the Fokkens

Meet the Fokkens

Documentary

Meet Louise and Martine Fokkens: 69-year-old identical twins who have worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district for over 50 years.

Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Music · Documentary · Music Documentaries

The film takes us on cult Scottish band Mogwai's journey from their very beginnings, in the mid 1990s, to the band writing and rehearsing their tenth studio album in their hometown of Glasgow, Scotland in 2020 - a record made during lockdown.

Obit.

Obit.

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Obit. explores their world, inviting essential questions about life, history, and the inevitable passage of time.

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man

Music · Documentary · Biography

The extraordinary life of Peter Asher, a child actor who became a pop star and then a manager and producer to the likes of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre

Drama

During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most …

The Robber

The Robber

World Cinema · Based on True Story · Drama

Based on the real-life story of one of Austria’s most-wanted bank robbers, The Robber is a breathless thriller “as lean and taut as its marathon-winning title character.” (LA Times).

Savior for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?

Savior for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?

Documentary

A modern tale of globalization, Savior for Sale delves into the secrets of the art world and explores the influence that one painting can exert on personal and geopolitical interests.

The Sex Thief

The Sex Thief

Cult · World Cinema · Comedy

From its opening title sequence, it is apparent that director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE, GOLDENEYE) intended his first feature, a low-budget sex romp called THE SEX THIEF, to be an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women of every variety, the roguish title character (David Warbec…

Toad Road

Toad Road

Artsploitation

Presented by Elijah Wood and his SpectreVision production company, unfolds like a hallucinatory cross between the sexual candor of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, and the backwoods creep-out of The Blair Witch Project.

Unit One: Complete Series

Unit One: Complete Series

Television · Crime · Drama

A mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases.

Violette

Violette

Period Drama · World Cinema · Drama

Violette is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette LeDuc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle Devos (Coco Before Chanel) and Sandrine Kiberlain (Mademoiselle Chambon) make this gorgeously shot and directed life story an engrossing and memorable ci…