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

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...

The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...

Tim Donovan, a juvenile probation officer for the city of Boston, is assigned the case of Nikki, a troubled teenage girl who's been arrested for...

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....

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants...

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH...

Set in 1952, this tells of two young men who are polar opposites being assigned to the same dorm room at Northwestern University.

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering...

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

After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.