A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and ...
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtu...
A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into th...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...
Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the year...
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a ...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine secon...
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...
A young and successful insurance underwriter must allow her mentally unstable mother to move in with...
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pi...