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Boyfriend Material 2023    star_border 8
A young man find the solution to his inability to find a partner.
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Lucky Penny 2022    star_border 10
Amanda has been dreaming of having her own real-life book romance. When one day, she stumbles upon a penny, her wish starts to become reality as it leads her to Felicity. Brought together by one very lucky penny, their paths cross, and sparks fly between the two.
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Cassandra 2021
When Cassandra witnesses a drunken encounter between her friend and her roommate, she is compelled to investigate if it was consensual.
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The Gray 2021    star_border 6.5
A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven and hell. One day, his 20 year old son appears.
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Francesco 2020    star_border 7.2
Francesco takes an unsparing look at the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century, asking deep questions about the human condition. The film is guided by Pope Francis who, with tremendous humility, wisdom, and generosity, offers moving lessons from his life that illuminate what it will take to build a better future. In doing so, he addresses issues such as climate change, immigration, peace and religious tolerance, LGBTQ support, gender and identity justice, and economic equality.
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These Things Take Time 2018    star_border 7.5
An eight-year-old boy experiences his first heartbreak when he falls in love with his male third-grade teacher.
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Obituaries 2014
A chronicle of lives lost in a school shooting. In the wake of another tragedy, we get a glimpse of each victim and see who they were, who they loved, who they hurt, and who they wanted to be.
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The Promised Land 2011
With immigration forces in pursuit, Mary, an illegal foreign worker living in Israel, must decide between uprooting her son from the only place he calls home or risk being deported.
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Cassandro the Exotico 2010    star_border 6
A lucid view on an extraordinary character, recognized and loved or reviled by the crowd of wrestling fans. Cassandro, the exotic gay lucha libre fighter.
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Sebastian's Voodoo 2008    star_border 6.6
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
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L.A. in My Mind 2006    star_border 5
A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley
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The Anniversary 2003
In 1963 a boy and his mother are left in Saigon while his father and brother flee to seek shelter from religious persecution in North Vietnam. The two brothers meet as strangers in a hapless confrontation during the war in 1973.
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The Changing Same 2001    star_border 5
An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.
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The Confession 2000    star_border 5.8
When an aged man feels the need to confess to the new catholic priest, his gay lover of many years is hurt and upset.
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Maid of Honor 1999    star_border 3
Serena starts reflecting on the commitment in her own relationship with Donielle when she is asked to be the maid of honor for her former lover Tisha's wedding.
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Just Out of Reach 1998    star_border 1
As the sun rises, we witness two male bodies emerge from the darkness. The younger of the two attempts to sneak out on the older man he just slept with.
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God@Heaven 1998
A short drama directed by Joseph Neulight.
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The Snake in My Bed 1995
In common with many L.A. Rebellion films, Snake touches on such themes as institutionalized racism, colonialism and the plight of women of color. Narrated in the first person by the filmmaker as an epistle to her son, The Snake in My Bed tells Diegu's story as a Nigerian woman in Lagos who is romantically pursed by a German national who has “gone native.” Despite his secretive and duplicitous actions, she eventually agrees to marry him and has his child, only to learn that he is a bigamist with a German wife and child.
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Cycles 1989    star_border 6.5
As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive
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Otemba 1988
Cultural traditions blend as a Japanese American family celebrates Christmas and a young girl tries to find her place within the family structure.
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