The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yoshitaro Nomura
Actors: Akiko Nomura, Atsuko Kawaguchi, Gō Katō, Kaneko Iwasaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Shima Iwashita, Shinsuke Ashida, Yoshio Inaba, Yôsuke Kondô, Yûsuke Takita
The Adopted Son
In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes…
Tracks
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Answers to Nothing
Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see.
A Promise
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Norwegian Wood
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie…
Rasputin and the Empress
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
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Intacto
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Man of Iron
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Five
The film’s storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to…