Young Soul Rebels
1991
5
Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Young Soul Rebels
1991
5
A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
The Pool Boys
2009
5
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Иваново детство
1962
7
The stunning Dreya Weber stars as a former top gymnast who discovers love and a new life path when she teams up with a dancer (played by former L.A. Lakers cheerleader Addie Yungmee) for an ambitious Las Vegas aerial act show.
The Gymnast
2006
6
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
The War Within
2005
5
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Downtown '81
2001
6
A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
Killer Diller
2004
5
When a suicidal prostitute confesses to a priest her plans to end her life on her birthday, he searches for her to intervene.
Into Temptation
2009
8
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Slingshot
2005
3
A cult-like rehabilitation center abuses, brainwashes and imprisons vulnerable teens.
Over the GW
2007
3
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
Me Without You
2001
6
Carter, a troubled teen stays with a friend of his dads and starts flirting with her son Danny. After the weekend school returns, however Carter a school jock tells Danny he does not want to be seen with him at school. Their relationship grows outside school hours though & soon enough Danny falls in love with Carter & after Danny is attacked romance ensures, but can it last.
Watercolors
2008
5
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
12 and Holding
2006
6
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
3 Needles
2005
6
Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The question is: "What?" Tate attempts to isolate himself to his apartment - hiding from the world.
Something Is Killing Tate
2008
5
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
SubUrbia
1997
6
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
6
A sheep rancher's visit to the big city triggers a mischevious adventure with his teenage grandson.
Wooly Boys
2001
5
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Une Femme est une femme
1961
7
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
American Buffalo
1996
5