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Splinters 2018 star_border 2
Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.

Decent People 2015 star_border 3.7
What would you do if a relative recently released from prison would move to your house? And you accidentally killed him...

Cloudburst 2011 star_border 6.4
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

Growing Op 2008 star_border 6.5
The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.

The Book Lady 2008
Pop culture icon and country music legend Dolly Parton is known around the world as a singer, songwriter and actress. But to a new generation of children in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., she is simply The Book Lady.

The Painted Veil 2006 star_border 7.2
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

3 Needles 2005 star_border 6.3
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety

Land of Plenty 2004 star_border 6.2
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

Ginostra 2003 star_border 4.6
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

The Event 2003 star_border 5.9
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members -mother Lila and sister Dana- she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.

Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit - Alltag einer Behörde 2002 star_border 6

The Sea 2002 star_border 6.4
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.

Simpatico 1999 star_border 4.9
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?

Beefcake 1998 star_border 5.3
A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

Canada Uncut 1995
A bedridden man is entertained by a friend with pornographic 'mad-libs'.

Im Himmel ist die Hölle los 1984 star_border 5.2
Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant

Night of Destiny 1981
A horror comedy directed by Helmer von Lützelburg.

Was halten Sie vom Tod der Wilma Montesi? 1977
The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life. By stringing together clichés and cinematic quotations, a certain reporting and narrative style about the glamor and misery of show business is presented in a critical and ironic, but at the same time entertaining way.

Sugar Highs 2022 star_border 4
Three roommates who can’t make rent would rather get high than work menial jobs. So they set out to find sugar daddies to pay their bills.

Cam Boy 2021 star_border 5
When Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New York, he turns to camming to make ends meet.

Sex & Violence 2013 star_border 6.8
Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.

Forgive Me 2013
A series that breaks the seal of the Catholic confessional booth. A young insomniac priest gets caught up in the sins of his congregants while a secret from his own past threatens his calling.