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Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent PreciousWhen young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who j...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Across the UniverseOne unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fe...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Dinner RushA small, elite fraternity of high-altitude skiers climb the highest peaks in the world in pure Alpine style, carrying their skis and declining to use supplemental oxygen. At the top of the world, high...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Skiing EverestAn intimate portrait of reclusive poet/musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife Cassie, and the rest of th...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Silver JewGus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Finding ForresterLou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, Lo...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Lou Reed's BerlinIn 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Far from HeavenAfter running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Pictures of Hollis WoodsEx-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, int...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Sexy Beast