Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...
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...
Six strangers are sitting in a conference room. They’re in a focus group, but how much is there real...
Ten years ago, Ginny, an Architecture student, and Marco, a History professor, began a one-of-a-kind...
A Twilight Zone-inspired cautionary tale about a young mother forced to come face-to-face with her d...
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. ...
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who ...
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
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Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countrysi...
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a hou...
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar...
Jin-a, a young prostitute, moves into a seaside motel called the Birdcage Inn, run by a dysfunctiona...
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the ...