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The Frog Prince
Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."

- 1986
Clipped Wings
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.

- 1937
Memorial Day
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.

- 1983
From a Whisper to a Scream
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter: An elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond; a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit with the secret to eternal life; a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside; and Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.

- 1987
P.O.W. the Escape
When the United States announces the pullout from the Vietnam war, a prison camp full of Americans is evacuated and the men are shipped to Cambodia to be sold into slavery. Cooper, an American prisoner, plans an escape for the captives over the long and treacherous journey. Without warning, the Americans overtake the Vietnamese in an explosive finale.

- 1986
Persona
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona.

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- 1966
Otello
Verdi's famous opera is brought to vivid life in this magnificent production. The immortal tale of the noble Moor and his beautiful young wife, and of his lieutenant, whose jealousy and lust for power lead him to commit the ultimate treason. Otello is a figure larger than life, driven by his own jealousy to murder the woman he adores. Placido Domingo as Otello is at his peak in this role.

- 1986
Portrait of a Stripper
A young widow forced to become a stripper to support her son, is fighting a custody battle with the boy's grandfather who is trying to ruin her good name.

- 1979
Incident on a Dark Street
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

- 1973
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
A writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible. He attempts to function again by consulting an analyst and becoming married, but eventually succumbs to his strange anxiety by disappearing into the picture.

- 1963
The Passage
During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by underground operatives who want him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while they're being pursued by a sadistic German officer.

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- 1979
Meet the Boy Friend
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress.

- 1937
A Gift to Remember
After visiting one of Philadelphia's last old-fashioned bookstores, handsome Aiden Harris has a fluke traffic accident, landing him in hospital with major amnesia. The bookstore's eager beaver employee Darcy Archer feels guilty, visiting him, minding his dog, trying to help identify him and his mystery life. They soon bond over books, dogs and more, but a ring in his apartment suggests he has a fiancee in another state, yet nothing is quite what it seemed. Meanwhile the store owner is retiring and wants a successor, or else he'll sell to a soulless chain.

- 2017
Adam & Steve
Teenage Goth couple Adam and Rhonda are club hopping when Adam spots a dancer he is immediately attracted to. Taking the dancer home, Adam is introduced to drugs by him, but their sexual escapade is interrupted by an embarrassing episode and the dancer leaves quickly. Years later Adam accidentally stabs his dog and brings him to a hospital where he is treated by a psychiatrist who once studied veterinary medicine. The doctor (Steve) and Adam start dating and fall in love. Rhonda, who has stayed Adam's close friend through the years, begins to date Steve's straight roommate at the same time. Months later Steve realizes that Adam was the Goth teenager with whom he had the embarrassing encounter, and breaks off the relationship, afraid that Steve will reject him when he finds out the truth.

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- 2005
Life Support
In Brooklyn, New York, the former crack addicted Ana Wallace is HIV positive and is a volunteer in the Life Support, an organization that promotes a fight against AIDS in the African American community. Ana wanders through the streets handing out condoms and helping people with AIDS through lectures and advices. She lives with her mate Slick, who has transmitted AIDS to her, and their little daughter Kim. She has lost the custody of her older daughter Kelly that lives with her estranged mother Lucille. When Kelly's childhood gay friend Amare, who is sick and rejected by his sister Tanya, vanishes on the streets of Brooklyn, Ana seeks him out and tries to save him. Meanwhile Lucille decides to move to Virginia with Kelly, and Ana reflects about her life and the relationship with Kelly.

- 2007
The Fever
Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

- 2004
Blank Generation
The classic punk rock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell, illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock. Nada (Carole Bouquet), a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of up and coming punk rock star, Billy (Richard Hell). Featuring members of the Voidoids and the Ramones. A time capsule from ’80’s New York City.

- 1980
The Nanny Diaries
After graduating from Montclair State, New Jersey Girl Annie can't make up her mind about what to do with her life. After saving a little boy from being run over in the park, she is quickly employed as a nanny for a rich Upper East Side couple. Mr X is occupied with his business, Mrs X loves shopping, and neither really likes to spend time with their little boy Grayer. Annie quickly learns that she has more than her hands full taking care of him. Her busy schedule doesn't give her much spare time. Mrs X fired her last nanny because she was dating and that gives Annie problems when Harvard Hottie who lives in the same building asks her out on a date.

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- 2007
Dark Blue Almost Black
Jorge is a 25-year old janitor who is desperately searching for a better job. This undertaking is complicated by the fact that he takes care of his handicapped father who had a heart attack 7 years ago. Meanwhile, his jailed brother Antonio finds a girlfriend, Paula, who wants to get pregnant--then finds out he's infertile and asks Jorge to get Paula pregnant. While Jorge is considering this, his childhood sweetheart Natalia returns after several years. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (nicknamed Sean) secretly photographs men visiting an erotic masseur to find out something unexpected.

- 2006
Unconscious
In 1913 Barcelona, Alma is perhaps one of the most modern women of her day. Her husband, Dr. Leon Pardo, is a psychiatrist. This summer, he visited Vienna and became a follower of the revolutionary Dr. Sigmund Freud and his advanced theories about hysteria and sexuality. It all starts the afternoon Alma comes home and finds her husband in tears, about to disappear from her life and everyone else's. Giving no more explanation than a few incoherent mumbles, Leon runs off, leaving Alma alone and about to give birth. Salvador, Alma's brother-in-law, is also a psychiatrist; he is much more conservative than Leon--and deeply in love with Alma. The only clue they have is a manuscript about hysteria and female sexuality based on four patients: an actress with a persecution complex; a psychotic woman who tried to murder her husband; a woman with a serious crisis concerning her sexual identity; and a stranger who has discovered a terrible secret about her past. Following those signs, Alma and Salvador start a Sherlock-Holmesque adventure where hypnosis, love, danger, and every imaginable taboo are all intertwined.

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- 2004
Teacher
TEACHER is an unflinching portrayal of trauma as a contagion passed between people and generations, all set within the prism of modern suburbia. The film follows the downward spiral of a high school English teacher (Dastmalchian) as he goes to disturbing lengths to protect his favorite students from bullies and challenge the power of a wealthy patron (Pollak) within the community.

- 2019
Go West
In the 1990s the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and take shelter there, waiting for Milan's father Ljubo to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and present him as his wife Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion is Ranka, a waitress in a local café, whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers around her.

- 2005
Get That Man
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.

- 1935
According to Greta
After her mother Karen (Melissa Leo) gets married for the third time, 17-year-old Greta (Hillary Duff), who had witnessed her father kill himself, withdraws into herself and turns rebellious. In lieu of boot camp, she's sent to live with her mother's parents, Katherine (Ellen Burstyn) and Joseph (Michael Murphy), where she makes it known that she is determined to kill herself. She then falls for Julie (Evan Ross), a cook at the local restaurant, much to her grandparents' chagrin--especially when they find out that he'd been interned in a juvenile-correction facility. Unhappy with her life and faced with all-around opposition, Greta plans her suicide during a boating trip--a plan that will not only expose closeted skeletons, but also shatter everyone's lives forever.

- 2009