Documenting the creative brilliance and passion of three stand-up comedians working the comedy club circuit in the “flyover zones” of middle America, Road Comics: Big Work on Small Stages explores expectations of where and how comedy thrives today in the United States. Anthropologist and first-time filmmaker Susan Seizer follows comedians Stewart Huff, Tim Northern, and Kristin Key as they earn their living on the road, pausing along the way to discuss the business of being funny with regional club owners.

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their persona...

Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm whil...

Suffering from depression and marital problems, Alex mistakenly orders a life-size doll, whom he nam...

An abused wife's plan to escape her husband goes awry when she accidentally kills him, causing her t...

Portraits the crude reality a young and troubled teenage mother faces, while searching for her ident...

In the TV film Polonaise, traffic jams have grown into a phenomenon in which traffic jam call girls,...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

This comedy, set in 1983 in small town Virginia, centers around a 13 year old and her family. The st...

A single man must suddenly look after his nephew.

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla...

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June...

For almost 50 years, the world's population has grown at an alarming rate, raising fears about strai...

In the course of Alaide Foppa's life, she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico. She was an immig...

Katie doesn’t usually sleep with women, but that’s about to change.

The story of Pocahontas has been passed down through the centuries. Her relationship with John Smith...

Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, lonelines...

A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her e...

The first uncensored documentary about the Soviet Union ever made by an outsider. The film takes vie...

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly att...

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...