Bastard Out of Carolina

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 15 Dec 1996 · English

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

Strange Weather

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 12 Sept 2016 · English

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

Lucky Them

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 6 Sept 2013 · English

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

Hounddog

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 19 Sept 2008 · English

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

The Safety of Objects

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 25 Oct 2002 · English

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Hellion

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 13 Jun 2014 · English

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

Iron Jawed Angels

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 16 Jan 2004 · English

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

A Dry White Season

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 20 Sept 1989 · English

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

The Trials of Cate McCall

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 28 Nov 2013 · English

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Tuesday

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 7 Jun 2024 · English

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 19 Feb 1998 · English

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Gracie

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 1 Jun 2007 · English

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