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A closeted gay movie director/actor in 1939 finds himself the target of the vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip columnist reporter who goes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Boyd

A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the...

Genre: History

Cast: Henry Darrow

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jose Alcala

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

An elderly woman, a former aviatrix, is gradually recovering from a stroke.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Cummings

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mako

A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Telly Savalas

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Starletta DuPois

Garnet Montrose (Michael Beihn) returns home to West Virginia after suffering horrible facial disfigurement from wounds at the battle of Guadalcanal....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Biehn

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

Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sada Thompson

A young man, searching for meaning and focus in his life, returns to the Mennonite farm community where he was born.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Moses

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dave Hoover

A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emmanuelle Chaulet

Anna Deveare Smith plays over 30 characters in a re-creation of the racial conflict that erupted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Deavere Smith

Director Jan Oxenberg's docu-fantasy narrative about aging and death, and how it affects her family.

Genre: Documentary

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