In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
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Adepero Oduye
Nina Simone
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Stuck with her father’s mission to pick up defeated thru-hikers from The Appalachian Trail, a woman encounters one hiker who, over the course of a night, will set her on a new path forever.
Self-conscious 13-year-old Taylor dreads her annual shopping trip with her mom, until one day when she discovers the perfect top, sparking a new-found confidence.
The daughter of a famous ventriloquist decides to put on one last show.
Erkan changes his gender and become a transexual. The doorman of his apartment has a crush on Erkan's woman view. The doorman witnesses the argument between Erkan and two men. He finds out that that Erkan is originally a man under the attractive woman view. The doorman is frustrated.
The story follows a young man, Rok Kocijancic, who struggles to fit into society despite numerous attempts. However, behind his sense of being lost and his desire for acceptance lies a deeper reason.
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
A ten year-old kid tries his best to salvage what is left of his family when his home in Nepal is torn apart by an earthquake.
At a beautiful hotel near the beach, the Danish and Swedish operations of an international company are having a very important lunch meeting. A merger is imminent, and Karsten is under a lot of pressure from his boss Henrik; if the special entertainment Karsten has prepared for the occasion fails to succeed, he might lose his job.
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
As an older man reflects on the shame he feels about his lack of self-awareness in his youth, a younger man embodies that same selfishness, making choices that clash with his young family at home.
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
On what should be the most prestigious day of her 8 years on earth, Princess Mahakwe is humiliated in front of the whole school.
There is a rumor that a private LEE reported the irrational incident in his platoon.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star."
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning of success.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
