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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980
4
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the alter. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.
Committed

1984

Committed

1984
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

1985

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

1985
4
The story of the last years of Handel.
Destino anunciado

2013

Destino anunciado

2013
4
Nothing in Los Angeles

2013

Nothing in Los Angeles

2013
4
A young artist's bittersweet love affair with the city of LA.
Smart Alec

1986

Smart Alec

1986
6
A young filmmaker arrives in Hollywood and tries to get his first movie financed.
Deadly Vows

1994

Deadly Vows

1994
5
Tom Weston is a short tempered truck driver who has always aspired to live big. He begins dating Bobbi Gilbert, who is half his age and plans on marrying her, which is a problem since he's already married to Nancy. Now to achieve the life he's always wanted, Tom begins to concoct a web of lies that lead to betrayal, deceit, arson and murder. Based on a shocking true story.
The Prodigal

1983

The Prodigal

1983
8
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
Amazon Falls

2010

Amazon Falls

2010
1
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her leg in the B-movie game, and pursues her career with a zealous fervor.
Driving by Braille

2011

Driving by Braille

2011
10
Sarah Corso thinks her relationship with Xander West is great--until he proposes. She loves him, and he makes her very happy, but her mother loved her father, too, until the psychotic break.
Game of Life

2007

Game of Life

2007
1
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.
Remembrance Of Love

1982

Remembrance Of Love

1982
6
Joe Rabin is a Holocaust survivor. After the war he went to America, married someone and had a family. Today, he is on his way to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. It seems that he has another reason for going. It seems like during the war, he had a girlfriend and they were separated and she was pregnant. He has never found out what happened to her, or their baby, he hopes to find out now.
Border

2014

Border

2014
5
When two sisters learn that a member of their family has decided to desert the Syrian Army and join the Free Army, they must embark on a hazardous journey to Turkey, in this powerful account of contemporary Syria from filmmaker Alessio Cremonini.
Approaching Midnight

2013

Approaching Midnight

2013
3
Young Army staff sergeant Wesley Kent returns to his small hometown from war in Afghanistan. He must cope with burying the body of his best friend under his command and enduring the news of the death of his girlfriend Aspen Malverne who passed away in a car accident while he was abroad.
Bastardo

2013

Bastardo

2013
7
Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.
Lightnin' Bill Carson

1936

Lightnin' Bill Carson

1936
5
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to have doubts as to whether the Kid actually committed the crimes.
Shirley Adams

2009

Shirley Adams

2009
6.5
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left. The shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example.
Apartment 4E

2012

Apartment 4E

2012
7
Three months ago, Piper met Mollie online. And Mollie changed everything. Now a knock at the door. John Sharp. Mollie's brother. He was sent to talk Piper out of the thing's she's threatening. But neither may be who they claim to be.
Peloton

2011

Peloton

2011
10
The painful and humorous journey of a selfish athlete who is now down on his luck, unable even to keep his job as a bike messenger. He finds a way to redeem his life through the support of friends and by learning that to break from the large group of bikers, the peloton, the winning cyclist must first work with the team.
Hunt Angels

2006

Hunt Angels

2006
5
Filmmaking partners Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks are determined to get their films made by almost any means necessary. Set in the 1930s, this docudrama relates the moviemakers' struggles to jump-start Australia's film industry.