Art Teacher As Protagonist
Comic Book Confidential
HDA survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
HDEach night, young Nemo goes to Slumberland and has adventures and befriends the king of Slumberland, Morpheus. But one night Nemo discovers Nightmare Land, and the evil nightmare king, throwing Slumberland and Nemo himself into da...
Cheetah
HDA "born free" type story set in Kenya about an orphaned cheetah cub that is adopted and raised by an American family.
The Top of His Head
HDA satellite dish salesman desperately attempts to find the radical woman he has fallen in love with while both of them are being pursued by the police.
Mr. Pip
HDAs a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
Home Invasion
HDAfter a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
Resident Evil: Retribution
HDAlice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
White Wedding
HDA teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon becomes fascinated by her. They fall passion...
Blancanieves
HDA twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Won't Back Down
HDTwo determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their chi...
Pitch Perfect
HDBeca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
Paulette
HDPaulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Postcards from the Edge
HDA substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
The Big Steal
HDTo impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.
Mermaids
HDAn unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
Alice
HDA spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
HDRight after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon th...
Not Without My Daughter
HDAn American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
The Perfect Weapon
HDAn expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.
The Unborn
HDA couple struggling to conceive visit a miracle doctor as a last hope for having a child. The wife gets pregnant, but after the initial joy comes horror, as she slowly discovers the nightmarish truth behind the doctor's success.
There's Nothing Out There
HDWhen a horror film buff tries to warn his friends spending spring break in a house in the woods of impending danger, they scoff at him, that is, until a huge mutant frog starts to pick them up one by one.
Imaginaerum
HDA coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.
Thousand Pieces of Gold
HDIn 1880s China, a girl is sold into marriage by her father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in a gold-mining town where she forges a path for her own freedom and, ultimately, true love.
The Double Life of Véronique
HDTwo parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Come Dance with Me
HDJack (Andrew McCarthy) is an executive in a financial brokerage firm trying to impress the firms president, Drew Clayton (Chris Gillett), in hopes of a promotion. However, Jack is dating the fabulously rich and elegant Demi Clayto...
The Making of a Lady
HDAfter losing her employment, Emily accepts a proposal that will give her a secure future. But she soon finds trapped in her new family's deception.
Boyz n the Hood
HDFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
Only Yesterday
HDA twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
Mystery Date
HDTom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.
La Belle Noiseuse
HDThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
By the Sword
HDA mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn that there's more to him than meets the eye. He gains (or regains?) his fencing ski...
Shout
HDA new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.