The Way Way Back (2013)
An excellent comedy-drama, this is the story of 14 year-old Duncan’s emerging from his cocoon of shyness, thanks to the help of the crazy talking Owen who hires him at a water park.
An excellent comedy-drama, this is the story of 14 year-old Duncan’s emerging from his cocoon of shyness, thanks to the help of the crazy talking Owen who hires him at a water park.
Ex-con Percy with a tragic past finds a job at a smalltown restaurant where she has life-changing influences upon the owner & its cook.
A highly fictionalized account of a real-life Home Security agent who rescued a boy and then his sister from sexual slavery in Mexico & Columbia.
Through the story of a fictional Chicago housewife needing an abortion the story of the underground Jane Collective, the pre-Roe vs. Wade group providing abortions, is told.
Though Amsterdam is a romantic comedy-thriller set in the 30s, it deals with racism & fascism, making it very relevant to today’s fascists movement.
A girl growing up alone in a Southern marsh, forgotten by a lover who goes away & accused of killing another, succeeds as an author.
A humble London cleaning woman’s dream of buying a Christian Dior dress inspires her to go to Paris and struggle to make it come true.
A sad but true story of how innocent Danish children become victims of war courtesy of “friendly” bombers during WW 2.
There are a great many films dealing with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust readily available to watch this Thursday, April 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many of them tell heroic stories of those who tried to save as many Jews as possible, calling to mind what Fred Rogers said when asked what to tell a child during …
This character transformation film about a teacher is set in an isolated village of yak herders in the mountains of Bhutan.