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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

October 1967 •English

Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.

Old Man

November 1958 •English

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

The Greer Case

January 1957 •English

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

No Time at All

February 1958 •English

An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.

...And this happened in Vichy

May 1989 •Russian

The action takes place in France in 1942. The Nazis herded people of different social classes and nationalities into a pre-trial detention cell, facing imminent death. One of them, Prince von Berg, receives the right to freedom. He renounces this right in the name of saving another person.

Life of Klim Samgin

November 1986 •Russian

Strict Girl

January 1969 •Russian

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked.

Le Dortoir

January 1991 •English

A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis. A convent school dormitory is the setting for a chronicle of fleeting impressions told through dance, music and images ranging from the erotic to the violent, and are infused with a mixture of high romanticism and gritty urban toughness.

Night of Execution

September 1955 •English

A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.

The Red Pony

March 1973 •English

A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.

The Neon Ceiling

February 1971 •English

A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.

Haywire

May 1980 •English

Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents.

Rubber Racketeers

June 1942 •English

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.

Homemakers

October 2015 •English

A rootless young singer with a penchant for destruction must reconcile her domestic fantasies as she attempts to restore her late grandfather's abandoned Pittsburgh home.

The Girl with the Blue Backpack

October 1979 •Spanish

In a fishermen's town in Texas, the kids Amy and Raul are close friends. Andrew, uncle and guardian of Amy is alcoholic, but she loves him. The three of them have to face the autorities when they try to take Amy away.

Ballad of Tara

April 1979 •Persian

Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two children from the country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he returns upon realizing that he has fallen powerfully in love with her.

Alterations

January 2025 •English

A single mom pleads with the cops to find her missing uni-bound daughter, but when she’s frustrated by their lack of help, she turns to vigilantism and unlikely allies — an unhoused man and the stepmother.

Himeyuri

June 2012 •English

The 30-minute film centers around a group of high school students who became nurses called Himeyuri and served during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. The Himeyuri Alumnae Incorporated Foundation, which runs the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Okinawa, produced the film with the aim to convey the experiences of those high school students, many of whom lost their lives during the battle, to children.