All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
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Whole New Thing (2005) Amnon Buchbinder, Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins
After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. Read More »
In a Year with 13 Moons AKA In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Read More »
Not of This Earth (1957) Roger Corman, Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
The Proposal (2018) Jill Magid, Federica Zanco
An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico’s most famous architect available to the public. Read More »
Husbands (1970) John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk
A common friend’s sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. Read More »
Red Beard AKA Akahige (1965) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide Read More »
Putty Hill (2010) Matthew Porterfield, Sky Ferreira, Cody Ray, Dustin Ray
A young man’s untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss. Read More »
The Dunwich Horror (1970) Daniel Haller, Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
H.P. Lovecraft meets Hollywood: Wilbur Whateley wants to help the Old Ones break through by consulting the Necronomicon, and Armitage must stop him. Read More »
Ghost Story (1981) John Irvin, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. Read More »
Camelot (1967) Joshua Logan, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
The story of the marriage of England’s King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. Read More »
Enbalming AKA Enbamingu (1999) Shinji Aoyama, Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige
Young female embalmer Miyako while performing the embalming process the head of the corpse shes restoring is stolen. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
Crazy Mama (1975) Jonathan Demme, Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. Read More »