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In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward James Olmos

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward James Olmos

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julianne Moore

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Alexander

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Lee Day

During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruce Davison

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert John Burke

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...

Genre: Western

Cast: Edward James Olmos

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Winfield

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Linda Hunt

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Dern

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens,...

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Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martin Donovan

Several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernadette Peters

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Randall Adams

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Love

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dillon