My Son John
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Dean Jagger, Frank McHugh, Helen Hayes, James Young, Minor Watson, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Walker, Van Heflin
Lemon Popsicle
Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda’leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950’s Israel, which is not much different from 1950’s America if you believe what you see in the film….
CJ7
Ti, a really poor construction worker that struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to…
After Louie
As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor’s guilt,…
A Free Soul
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
The Maids
A film version of Genet’s play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
Robin-B-Hood
For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there’s only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep – having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his…
Wanderers of the Desert
The first of Nacer Khemir’s highly-regarded Desert Trilogy that includes The Dove’s Lost Necklace and Bab’Aziz – The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul. Khemir creates an exotic world with Wanderers…
The Accused
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on…
Eulogy
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch – unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Dodes’ka-den
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as…
Never Say Goodbye
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his “dead” wife’s now boyfriend, berates…