Better Than Chocolate
Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering…
Children of Shatila
Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut’s “belt of…
Widow Clicquot
After her husband’s death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of…
The Ghost and the Darkness
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew…
Pleasure or Pain
A young designer falls under a man’s erotic spell and is drawn into a world of sexual abandon from which she may never return.
Butcher’s Crossing
In the 1870s, a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a team of buffalo hunters led by a man named Miller. Together, they…
Carried Away
Based on Jim Harrison’s book, “Farmer”. 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and…
Bad 25
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers,…
28 Hotel Rooms
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their…
God on the Rocks
Growing up in a household incapable of showing love and affection, Margaret’s life is transformed when Lydia, a worldly teenage maid, arrives.
Trucker
Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that’s fine with her. But, when Peter’s father, Len, falls ill, he asks…
Five Loose Women
Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, the fifth was wrongfully convicted. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize…