"Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years."--IMDb.

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army. ..On practically the same day as the birth of...

An astute mix of classic Italian crime and giallo, Duccio Tessari's Death Occurred Last Night is a dark slow burning murder mystery. A mentally handicapped woman is kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, sending her distressed father and a jaded police detective on the hunt for clues in Milan's underworld. Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly) keeps a tight rein on the action, focusing on the characters and their collective desire for justice and...

Claire Martin, a diligent American art student studying in Paris, suffers a blow to her head that transforms her into a woman of questionable morals. She then becomes involved with Scott Houghton, an unscrupulous artist who paints a suggestive portrait of her. When Houghton attempts to seduce Claire, she resists and in the struggle strikes her head and is restored to her former personality. Claire returns to America with no recollection of her lurid...

In a 15th-century feudal village a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows that the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter she too is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age a horrible deadly plague sweeps the land and she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during...

Salvator Cangemi is a produce purveyor in Milan, Italy, but he also runs a profitable twin business moonlighting as a pimp. The appearance of a ruthless and greedy French gangster called Le Capitaine threatens Totos livelihood. Le Capitaine wants to unite the organized crime in Milan and take a large share of the profits for himself. Toto wants no part in Le Capitaines plan and wants to continue quietly running his own low-key ring, but no one says...

A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.

Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative....

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion.. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam's crises of religious extremism,...

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication,...