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Poster for Féfé de Broadway

1979 · ★ 4.5 (4)

Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obsession. To get there, she calls on her ex-lover Simon whom she left in the past, who has become a popular choreographer for stars on Broadway. The reunion is somewhat tormented ...

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Poster for Finishing School

1934 · ★ 6.0 (17)

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

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Poster for Chaos, Disorder

2012 · ★ 6.5 (3)

Zaki, Mounir and Manal are in their twenties, and living in a confined community where basic needs are met yet chaos and disorder brew. The two boys are in love with the same girl who finds herself the subject of a bet for a football match between them, the winner marries Manal. This story reflects a football and play-station youth and how they deal with their emotions in a community that is increasingly closed off and isolated.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2006 · ★ 5.0 (1)

This short from the anthology film Paris, je t’aime looks at the meeting between two teenagers, one a catcaller and the other a Muslim girl. Directed by Gurinder Chadha.

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2011 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Floating carefree in a water taxi, two people have sunk into love through weekly exchanges on the Aquabus. Devon, a 22-year-old art school student, and Rachel, a 41-year-old architect, have created an escape from their everyday life where they can share unhurried flirtations about love, life and the shades in between. While their relationship only exists between docks on a boat ride - on this day we come to discover that their time together also has a number of predefined stops. When Devon wants to move their relationship to the next level, we quickly understand the different worlds they come from. Through a unique partnership, this film examines whether some types of love can only exist in finite spaces and time.

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Poster for My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

2015 · ★ 6.4 (54)

A documentary directed by Winding Refn's wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.

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Poster for Matthew Perry: Not Just Friends

2023 · ★ 2.0 (2)

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Poster for Tales from the Void: Carry

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Katie is thrilled when she learns she's pregnant, fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a mother. But when she learns her unborn child isn't viable, she finds that termination is not in line with her religious community's expectations.

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Poster for Don't F*ck With Ba

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Disillusioned by corrupt authorities, Thao and their friends decide to seek street justice against a thieving gang, aiming to foster renewed solidarity and protect their community.

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Poster for Sister from the South

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Set in 1970's Melbourne at a school organized creek cleanup, a South African student attempts to circumvent her bully who has long held racial prejudices against her.

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Poster for Ten Years Challenge

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Atya, a 27-year-old woman whose life has fallen after being decided unilaterally by Diga. As if she hasn't had enough of being dumped by her boyfriend since high school, she also loses her job. One day Atya has an accident on her way home from a high school reunion. As soon as she wakes up, she finds herself thrown back ten years when he was still 17 years old. She also tries to improve the situation so that in the future her relationship with Diga can last. But the universe had other plans.

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Poster for Soul of a Nation Presents: Black in Vegas

2023 · ★ 2.0 (1)

This special explores the history of Black entertainers in Las Vegas and celebrating those who are now ruling the historic strip.

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Poster for The Strand

2014 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Alice and Louise are a couple. They want a child. Tom offers them his help. That weekend, they go for it.

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Poster for For the Love of George

2018 · ★ 3.6 (9)

A woman leaves her cheating husband in England and sets off on a trip to Los Angeles in hopes of meeting the man she considers to be perfect, George Clooney.

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Poster for Beat Down

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Beat Down is an irreverent comedy about wrestling, family and following your dreams no matter how painful that can sometimes be. Fran Whiteway (Marthe Bernard, Republic of Doyle) is eighteen and a real firecracker. More than anything, Fran dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. Her single-father Whitey (Robb Wells, Trailer Park Boys) is a former-pro, aka White Lightning, with broken dreams of his own and is dead set against Fran wrestling. Fran is determined though and when Whitey's old rival Dark Thunder (Tony Nappo, Saw II) comes to town, she runs away to join his tour. Whitey is devastated and while he tries to get his daughter back, Fran learns the ropes of the wrestling game and of life itself.

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Poster for Leona's Sister Gerri

1995 · ★ 6.4 (5)

Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, dead from a botched illegal abortion, lying on a motel room floor. The picture appeared in Ms. Magazine in April 1973, and quickly became a symbol for the abortion rights movement. LEONA'S SISTER GERRI tells the dramatic story of Gerri Santoro, a mother of two and the "real person" in the now famous photo. Should the media have used this image? What circumstances led to Gerri's tragic death? Powerfully addressing issues of reproductive rights and domestic violence, this video is a moving portrait of Gerri Santoro's life and society's response to her death.

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Poster for Tale of a Vampire

1993 · ★ 5.4 (21)

Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.

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Poster for Hiddensee

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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