The movie follows a Chicago mob collector sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss. He then calls on a Kansas cattleman who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O’Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. Wishing to lose his virginity, Mark contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
After learning how to surf by using the local wave tanks, Rick uses his winnings from a recent contest to fly to Hawaii and try to make a living as a professional wave rider. But he knows nothing about the local habits, what causes him some starting problems…
Although Los Angeles doctor Zack is happily married to television executive Claire, he finds himself struggling with his increasing attraction to other men. Things start to get more and more complicated when a gay patient shows up.
Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste, discovers that her family’s affluent existence is merely a facade. She can not forget a traumatic incident she witnessed and shares a secret with her older sister. Lies start to roll…
Famed stage stress Elisabeth Vogler suffers a moment of blankness during a performance and the next day lapses into total silence. A nurse is put in charge of the actress and finds that that actress’s persona is melding with hers.
The film tells the modern love story set over a period of 12 months in London, England, between a man and an American woman who met at a rock concert in England and had intense sexual encounters together.
Based on Bizet’s classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones. The movie tells the story of an engaged Philadelphia policeman who falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
Raised in rural Kentucky poverty and married at the age of 13, Loretta Lynn begins writing and singing her own country songs in her early 20s, and at 25, she cut a demo tape that earned her a deal with an independent record label. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the […]
As television writer Jerry Stahl becomes more successful, his heroin habit grows worse. More and more, he is unable to separate his addiction from his working life, especially when he moves in with another addict.
In 1971, Immaculata College finds a new coach, Cathy Rush, to head its women’s basketball team. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms, and the school itself is in danger of being sold, Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.
A fatherly chemistry professor indulges two young lovers in their ever-increasing heroin habits. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Crooklyn is a vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, Carolyn, her stubborn jazz-musician husband, Wood, and their five kids living in ’70s Brooklyn. It focuses on one of the kids, Troy, as she learns life lessons through her four rowdy brothers, her loving but strict mother, and her naive, struggling father.
Answering a NASA message intended for aliens, a space being tries to contact mankind, but an American missile grounds his ship. The alien takes the form of a young widow’s husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona while the government tries to stop them.
Widow Frances Lacey is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children. She then drives north to find a home of their own away from the bad influences of the big city and struggles to make a fresh start.
The Sessions
North Shore
Making Love
Eve’s Bayou
Persona
9 Songs
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Permanent Midnight
The Mighty Macs
Candy
Crooklyn
Starman
A Home of Our Own