Crystal Lake

The Man Who Cried

August 2000 •English

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Sunset Park

April 1996 •English

A school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.

Hollywood Lucifer

January 2014 •English

Silver Forest

January 2011 •German

Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the forest they finally find a release for their aggression by joining a Nazi gang - only to discover the boundaries where harmless play turns into murder.

The Land of Steady Habits

September 2018 •English

After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.

Voodoo

January 2010 •Portuguese

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?

Matador

July 2014 •Spanish

A gritty drama focusing on Street Fighter's sociopathic and self-adoring Spanish ninja, Vega. Matador, details Claw's traumatic upbringing and the pivotal sequence of events that made him into the assassin he is today.

On the Edge

June 2001 •English

A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.

The Growler Story

January 1957 •English

True story of Lt.Cdr. Howard W.Gilmore who was awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save his submarine, February 1943.

A Menina que Nunca Viu o Mar

July 2022 •Portuguese

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.

The One You Never Forget

February 2019 •English

A 14 year old boy excitedly prepares for his first dance, but when his date arrives he's faced with a split-second decision.

Goddess of the Fireflies

September 2020 •French

Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her social life is no better as bullies and boys add to the pressure of growing up in the chaotic '90s.

The Pride

September 2019 •English

This film unites the themes of war, religion and LGBTQ issues by wrapping them in the values and emotions of one complex family.

Hangry

January 2019 •English

Expectations run high as Alicia and John get their first child-free weekend in ages.

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

November 1996 •English

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Diary for My Father and My Mother

January 1990 •Hungarian

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.

Miss Man

August 2019 •Bengali

A man's discovery of his own sexuality against all odds and finding himself in the process.

My Brother is a Mermaid

June 2019 •English

A short film about the experiences of a non-binary teenager, as seen through the eyes of their 7-year old brother. Set in a desolate seaside town, the film fuses social realism with fairytale, as it examines how a child's innocence and unconditional love can be a powerful and disruptive force for good.

Ratcatcher

November 1999 •English

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

Greased Lightning

July 1977 •English

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.