The Tender Bar

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 17 Dec 2021 · English

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

Love Streams

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 22 Mar 1984 · English

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

The Skeleton Twins

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 5 Jun 2014 · English

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

The Color Purple

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 18 Dec 1985 · English

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

The Young One

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 5 Sept 1960 · English

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Manhattan Night

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 20 May 2016 · English

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

Life

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 9 Sept 2015 · English

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

Into the Forest

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 3 Jun 2016 · English

In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.

Shame

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 2 Oct 2011 · English

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

Louder Than Bombs

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 1 Oct 2015 · English

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

You Can Count on Me

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 3 Mar 2000 · English

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Raging Bull

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 14 Nov 1980 · English

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.