An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Coming of age, summer camp and first love…
Isabelle is an inspired dancer, but when her sister and a classmate make her doubt herself, she’s motivated by a ballerina to find her own way to shine. Stars Erin Pitt & Grace Davidson.
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim’s grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting ...
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late ’60s.
Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the gridiron, faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Conrad is a gay man living in NYC. He’s also CEO of an ad agency and by nature a control freak. Although Conrad is still in love with Martin (his ex), he hires a young Aussie hustler named ...
Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of ...
Woo-Jin changes into a different person when he wakes up. He falls in love with Yi-Soo.
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor’s success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like ...
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a ...
Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process, he has failed at practically everything, most ...
Kindhearted Samantha Parkington’s world starts to change the day Nellie O’Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be ...
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician’s wife, without expecting any pay. One of his ...
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies ...
Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, ...
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, “The Anarchist Cookbook,” and the role it’s played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at 19 in the midst ...
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.
A young woman who dreams of being a children’s author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
Based on a Japanese manga, “Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu,” this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous ...
Roman Porno from 1985. A young teacher heads off to teach fencing in a school in the countryside.
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly’s life. An English girl comes to live with Molly’s family to escape the bombings. They slowly become ...
The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish ...
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans ...
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization “The Man” defending the values of the black people in North America. When ...
With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. ...
