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Starring Austin Pendleton

Starring Austin Pendleton

Starring Austin Pendleton
IMDb: 7.3
87

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Genre: Documentary
The Strawberry Statement

The Strawberry Statement

The Strawberry Statement
IMDb: 6.7
109

A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Harper House

The Harper House

The Harper House
TMDb: 6.7
N/A

An overconfident female head-of-a-household struggles to regain a higher status for herself, and for her family of oddballs, after losing her job and moving from the rich side to the…

Status: Canceled
Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Chair (2021)

The Chair (2021)

The Chair (2021)
TMDb: 7.2
30 min

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Condor

Condor

Condor
TMDb: 7
53 min

Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Crime, Drama
Show Me a Hero

Show Me a Hero

Show Me a Hero
TMDb: 7.3
60 min

Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers’ worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the…

Status: Ended
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
IMDb: 7.3
119

Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do…

Genre: Drama
The Monster Hunter

The Monster Hunter

The Monster Hunter
IMDb: 5.3
88

Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Best in Show

Best in Show

Best in Show
IMDb: 7.5
90

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part…

Genre: Comedy
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice
IMDb: 6.9
116

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it…

Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo
IMDb: 6.2
90

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his “manager”, the duo quickly finds…

Genre: Comedy
Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom
IMDb: 7.8
94

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely
IMDb: 5.8
103

A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Genre: Comedy
Thin Ice

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
IMDb: 6.2
93

A dishonest insurance salesman’s life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dedication

Dedication

Dedication
IMDb: 6.7
95

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children’s book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water
IMDb: 5.5
110

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime…

No Reservations

No Reservations

No Reservations
IMDb: 6.3
104

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind
IMDb: 7.2
91

In “A Mighty Wind”, director Christopher Guest reunites the team from “Best In Show” and “Waiting for Guffman” to tell tell the story of 60’s-era folk musicians, who inspired by…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Gosford Park

Gosford Park

Gosford Park
IMDb: 7.2
131

In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these…

The Majestic

The Majestic

The Majestic
IMDb: 6.9
152

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Mexican

The Mexican

The Mexican
IMDb: 6.1
123

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as “the…

Three to Tango

Three to Tango

Three to Tango
IMDb: 6.1
98

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Ghost World

Ghost World

Ghost World
IMDb: 7.3
111

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
2010

2010

2010
IMDb: 6.8
116

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and…

Altered States

Altered States

Altered States
IMDb: 6.9
102

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that…

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie
IMDb: 6.5
111

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother’s encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
End of the Line

End of the Line

End of the Line
IMDb: 5.7
103

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Genre: Action, Drama
Rage

Rage

Rage
IMDb: 4.8
98

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
IMDb: 4.6
89

A young nurse takes care of elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs
IMDb: 7.9
101

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon…

Howl

Howl

Howl
IMDb: 6.7
84

It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led…

Genre: Drama
Capote

Capote

Capote
IMDb: 7.3
114

A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, ‘In Cold Blood’.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman
IMDb: 7.5
84

Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine’s 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner
IMDb: 6.6
112

Police officer Patty Butler, alias “Chicklet,” is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas ‘Stick’ Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she’s…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Bank Shot

Bank Shot

Bank Shot
IMDb: 5.5
83

A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men
IMDb: 6.1
118

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse
IMDb: 7
105

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in…

Genre: Documentary
Prince of the City

Prince of the City

Prince of the City
IMDb: 7.5
167

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
IMDb: 7.6
135

After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

The Late Shift

The Late Shift

The Late Shift
IMDb: 6.8
95

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from “The Tonight Show.”