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Starlet (2012)

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Mammal

Mammal

2016 ★ 6.2

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

True Colors

True Colors

1991 ★ 6.2

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Me Without You

Me Without You

2001 ★ 6.5

During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.

Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016 ★ 5.8

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Paterno

Paterno

2018 ★ 6.2

After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.

Scarecrow

Scarecrow

1973 ★ 7.1

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Pain Hustlers

Pain Hustlers

2023 ★ 6.7

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs.

Othello

Othello

1995 ★ 6.4

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

Gracie

Gracie

2007 ★ 6.2

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

The Last Showgirl

The Last Showgirl

2024 ★ 6.4

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022 ★ 6.7

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.

Palo Alto

Palo Alto

2014 ★ 6.1

A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.

Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016 ★ 6.3

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

Tyler Perry's Finding Joy

Tyler Perry's Finding Joy

2025 ★ 5.9

Joy, a successful designer, seeks a proposal at Christmas. In Wyoming's mountains, she finds what she truly needs when the man she loves sees her as just a friend.

Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas

2013 ★ 6.9

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Adoration

Adoration

2013 ★ 6.1

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

Burning Sands

Burning Sands

2017 ★ 5.8

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

Charm City Kings

Charm City Kings

2020 ★ 7.8

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.

Sunshine State

Sunshine State

2002 ★ 6.4

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

2073

2073

2024 ★ 6.6

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.

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