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By the 80s, John Zielinski was a well-known author and photographer. Today he is the most blacklisted author in Iowa's history. The film traces the rise and fall of a true American original who sacrificed everything in his quest for justice.

In Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.

A young black man walks into the office of a rich, white executive and claims to be his illegitimate son. The executive tries to bring the man into his life, but his family, friends and co-workers turn against him and ultimately he is left without a home, a car or money.

Factory worker Anne Merrick tells her friend Lita that she misses her twin sister, who goes under the stage name of Elaine Manners. She explains that after they lost their fortune, they both tried to be entertainers, but because they had many quarrels, Anne gave it up, and she has not seen her sister in a long while. Anne turns down the marriage proposal of unscrupulous and tough newspaper reporter Lawson Rolt. When Jim Carter, who lives with his wife Jennie on the same floor as Anne, forces her way into Anne's room in a drunken state and tries to embrace her, she screams, but he tosses her on the bed. A shot is then heard, and when the police arrive, they find Carter dead and Anne gone. She goes to Elaine, who is getting ready to leave on a vacation from her nightclub act, despite the protestations of her manager, "Mike" Goldfish. Having no time to listen to Anne's plight, Elaine has the idea that Anne can go on in her place, and after they fool Mike with the ruse, he agrees to the switch. Although the public does not catch on, Rolt is suspicious. Meanwhile, Gilbert Frayle, a rich society boy, falls in love with Anne. To trap Anne, Rolt sends her a letter signed by Jennie. When Anne goes to see Jennie, Rolt arranges for the police to arrest her. Rolt is exuberant that he has broken the big story, but Jennie confesses that she followed her husband to Anne's room the night he was killed and, after hiding in the vacant room next to Anne's, shot her husband through the connecting transom. Anne explains to Gilbert that she is not really Elaine, but he is already aware of that fact, because he has been to see Elaine, who gave birth to a baby and is now in a quiet hotel with her secret husband. Elaine gives up her act, and Anne agrees to marry Gilbert.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS explores the death of a famous photographer (Isabelle Huppert), and how her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and sons, (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid) cope while unraveling the truth behind the mysterious accident that claimed her life.

Jamie Klein is an out-of-work butch lesbian actor willing to try almost anything for a role. Not being a traditionally feminine woman, Jamie dresses up for auditions as "Femme Jamie," but has no success in landing roles. To add insult to injury, her roommate Lola's cat (named Howard) is also an actor, and he gets cast in virtually anything he auditions for. After watching Howard's acting reel, Jamie is ready to rise to the challenge and prove to herself that she can be more successful than a stupid cat. Jamie's best friend David convinces her that the way to do this is to simply be yourself, which in Jamie's case, is what she refers to as "Butch Jamie" -- short hair spiked up with gel, Doc Martin boots, a studded belt, and a neck chain. This unintentionally tips Jamie's perceived gender in the opposite direction, and she gets offered a role in a film as a man - Steve. Offended by the reality that there is little room for butch women in show biz, Jamie is reluctant to take the role, but accepts. Under the producer's requests, she is bound to confidentiality as Male Jamie and cannot reveal her true identity as a woman. On set, Jamie confronts a whole new set of hoops to jump through as a male imposter. "He" meets a flirtatious and alluring straight woman named Jill, and despite Jamie's better judgement, the two begin a hilariously complicated and sexy affair.

Crooks set a trap for aerialist Tailspin Tommy (John Trent), who is flying through a storm to deliver a payroll.

An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria.

A computer hacker calculates a system of monitoring the slot machines at various Las Vegas casinos, and he and his girlfriend make a killing. Other criminals kidnap the duo and force them to give up the money.

A young woman moves to Hollywood to find fame and fails badly.

In JUST A SIGH, actress Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) meets a mysterious Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) on the train to Paris, where she is headed for an audition. Immediately drawn to him from this chance encounter, she follows him, and falls in love with him, before facing what could be a new life.

A woman's boyfriend dies in a fire after a fight over the couple's unborn child. After the woman is involved in a drowning accident a few years later, she wakes up on-shore to find that she's living two days before her boyfriend's fatal fire.

PEARLY GATES is a story about wanting to be remembered, and knowing that long after death, a person can live on through the memories of family, friends associates and even strangers whose lives that person touched.

Shakespeare's comedy about twins, Viola and Sebastian, shipwrecked on the island of Illyria.

A portrait, mostly chronological, of composer, cellist, and vocalist Arthur Russell (1951-1992). His parents, friends and colleagues such as Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass, his long-time companion Tom Lee, and others provide commentary. Arthur is shy, acne-scarred, from the prairie, constantly composing, and not always finishing works. After a few years in San Francisco, he settles in New York City and becomes music director at the Kitchen. He bridges pop and classical, records disco music with Lola Blank, has an unsuccessful collaboration with Robert Wilson, and is part of several bands. In archival clips, we see him perform. He leaves hundreds of tapes and other recordings.

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.

In World War II, the German pilots Lieutenant Horst Schopis, Josef Schwartz and Wolfgang Strunk crash their airplane in the wilderness of Norway after shooting down a British airplane. They walk through a snow storm until they reach shelter in an abandoned hunter cabin. Soon the British pilot Captain Charles P. Davenport and the gunner Robert Smith arrive in the cabin and they become prisoners of the German pilots. However, after the initial friction between the enemies, they realize that they should team-up to survive in the wilderness in the beginning of an improbable friendship.

Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.

An ex-bank robber embarks on a quest to save his bride after she is kidnapped by a pair of outlaw brothers hoping to auction her and dozens of other abducted women off to Mexican brothels.

After serving twenty-five years in the prison for the murder of his partner Eddy, the grifter Foley is released with the intention to live an honest life. He seeks his probation officer and finds a job in a construction site. But soon Eddy's son Ethan looks for him and offers a swindle to him, but Foley does not accept the proposal. Foley also meets the prostitute Iris and soon they have a relationship. But the Machievelian Ethan has a secret and uses it to blackmail Foley to accept his proposed confidence game to lure a dangerous kingpin.

When a girl returns to Wyoming to bury her mother, she reunites with her childhood friend, a hard-living rodeo princess, who forces her to confront a shared trauma from their past.

Sébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.

A tale of the New Orleans underworld, told in semidocumentary fashion and casting local citizens in several roles. A Navy vet purchases a government surplus vessel and becomes involved in the capture of racketeers trying to take over the New Orleans waterfront.