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Costa Brava, Lebanon

2022

Costa Brava, Lebanon

2022
6.6
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
No Right Way

2025

No Right Way

2025
Georgie, a brazen 13-year-old, has her life uprooted when she’s thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister Harper and torn away from her life in Las Vegas. Harper sees this turbulent time as a window of opportunity to pave a brighter future for her half-sister in Los Angeles, but Harper’s self-righteous attempts to protect Georgie only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.
Wedding in Galilee

1987

Wedding in Galilee

1987
6
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
Dispatched

2020

Dispatched

2020
Officer Carl Thomas was revered by his colleagues for his fearlessness at going after the bad guys, but Thomas had a dark side. In Dispatched, you will learn how God changed the heart of a street-hardened cop into an ambassador of God's love, and how through God, an entire community was changed.
The Silly Ones and the Stupid Ones

2014

The Silly Ones and the Stupid Ones

2014
7.8
A group of movie professionals go into a studio to, over a single day, read / test/ count / live the story of 'The Silly Ones and The Stupid Ones'. Sitting around a table and following the directions of the director, the actors show us the evolution of the creating process and how the characters through the trials, indications, lighting or props, that at first were just a story captured on a script becomes a film, in cinema, the great optical illusion, the visual lies that allows us to enjoy the stories we see on the screen.
Two Lives in Pittsburgh

2023

Two Lives in Pittsburgh

2023
1
A blue-collar Pittsburgher struggles to open his heart and mind as his child explores their gender identity amid his mother’s final days.
I Hear the Trees Whispering

2022

I Hear the Trees Whispering

2022
2.7
Running from his tormented past, a man takes a job in the middle of the woods, only to find his quiet life shattered when it soon turns out nothing around him is what it seems.
The Legacy of Cloudy Falls

2024

The Legacy of Cloudy Falls

2024
Set in the Cloudy Falls residence, a run-down apartment complex in Niagara Falls that seems destined to be torn down, the film tells the story of a handful of its tenants, chosen randomly by the narrator, Rita, the building’s glib superintendent. They include Terry, an uptight, middle-aged gay man who grows enamoured of the erratic, young drifter squatting next door; Brigit, a spiritual debunker who exposes psychic frauds on her little-seen YouTube channel; Riley, a compulsive liar whose many tall tales are starting to catch up to her; and the collection of neighbours who surround them.
An Old Man's Gold

2012

An Old Man's Gold

2012
Dying of cancer, former thief Charlie Dawson decides to leave his gold to his namesake Charlene, the great grand daughter of his two former partners. Not wanting to steal from family, the two former partners decide to rob Charlie before he dies. They hire a poker playing buddy, the violent loan shark Eddie, to do the job. Eddie decides to kidnap Charlene to convince Charlie to give up the gold, but Charlene's friend Emma gets in the way and is murdered. With the clock ticking, Eddie goes after the gold but runs afoul of Charlene's protective mother. The soccer mom is forced into a violent showdown to save her daughter and get the treasure.
Taking the Fall

2021

Taking the Fall

2021
5.5
Tyler Richards returns from a six year prison sentence to a surprise reunion with his former college friends, only to discover that they've nearly all veered off course under the pressure of millennial culture.
School of Fear

1969

School of Fear

1969
4.5
A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows.
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

2012

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

2012
2
Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.
Silent No More

2015

Silent No More

2015
1
Based on true events, a cry for help from women that have been abused. Speaking out is one of the hardest things to do. Are they ready?
Allure

2014

Allure

2014
6
Based on true stories, ALLURE is a process-driven film, where filmmakers and actors worked together through a series of improvisations to tell the stories of five women in New York, who come from five very different countries. Each one struggles to overcome her personal conflict, set against the Occupy Wall Street movements of 2011. These stories touch and inform each other, and create a larger narrative about gender, emigration, power, class, and personal politics.
This Train

2023

This Train

2023
4
An aging rock star, Ricky "Hellcat" Heller, returns home to Indiana years after disappearing, following the tragic death of his son. Shunned by his estranged wife and much of the town, Ricky believes that he is better off dead until a kid, haunted by his own demons, shows him otherwise.
Foreign Bodies

2013

Foreign Bodies

2013
5.8
Antonio and his son Pietro are in Milan to fight Pietro's brain cancer. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Jaber, an immigrant from North Africa, lives in Milan and assists his best friend at the hospital. Antonio and Jaber, two lonely souls both fighting their own battles, connect at the hospital.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life

1952

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

1952
4.8
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Crowdsource Murder

2024

Crowdsource Murder

2024
6
Monica is encouraged by her friend to start a crowdsource fund to pay for her daughter's hospital bills. But as a seemingly attractive and generous man, Noah, donates more and more money, she begins to question his motives.
Murder Gardens

2018

Murder Gardens

2018
Murder Gardens is the story of Chase Washington, a 19-year-old young man whose world has been turned upside down after he leaves a comfortable home provided by his foster father for a life of crime and corruption that he's introduced to by his older brother Rell Washington.
The Wishing Tree

2020

The Wishing Tree

2020
5
Broken by a lifetime of disappointment and pain, Julia leaves behind her crumbling marriage and sets off alone on an arduous hiking expedition in a quest for answers, healing and peace, searching for the fabled Wishing Tree, believed to bring good fortune to those who come to ask. On the trail, Julia encounters Caleb and Ryan lost in the woods, both struggling with their own demons of denied sexuality and addiction. Thrown together unexpectedly, they embark on a soul-searching journey of transformation, discovering that hope is sometimes found in the most unlikely ways.