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The Profit
This period piece is a fictional biography of a cult leader’s rise to power and his subsequent descent into isolation and paranoia.
The Matriarch
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by…
Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious
Fresh from his numerous appearances on late night TV and Comedy Central, cutting-edge comic Daniel Tosh brings his seriously funny brand of contemporary comedy to this riotous standup special. Like…
Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Wandering Willies
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that’s “jail” to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they…
Destinies of Women
Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West…
Yellowbeard
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he’s sentenced to 20 years in St….
The Prize
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn…
Relative Strangers
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to…
Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars…
My Home Is Copacabana
Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de Janeiro slums. They shine shoes, scavenge food, and pickpocket while dreaming of escape…
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