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Helena Bergstrom stars as a seductive nightblub singer who turns a small village upside-down when she inherits her grandfather's rural estate, Angel Farm.

Limbo tells the story of people trying to reinvent themselves in the Southeastern islands of Alaska. The story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatised by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo and her disaffected daughter Noelle who come into Joe's life. When Joe's fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever.

In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, poor Jewish caf owner Jakob Heym (Williams) accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces. To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants, spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed, and optimism is reborn. The Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.
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In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband.

Four stories weaved together about the loss of sexual innocence.

The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.

This is the story of the perils faced by a wagon train of courageous black settlers. It's the 1860s and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has just freed the country's slaves, but a group of vigilante nightraiders are resentful of the black men's newly-gained freedom.

Two Navy Petty officers are detailed to take a prisoner from Washington to jail in New Hampshire and decide to give the prisoner one last good time.

"A hilarious and mysterious journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession, Crumb is a wild ride through the mind of R. Crumb--creator of Zap Comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat"--Container.

Acclaimed filmmaker Errol Morris paints a fascinating portrait of four obsessed eccentrics. Morris weaves interviews with a wild animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot designer and an expert on the naked mole rat together with old movies, cartoons and stock footage for a compelling, kaleidoscopic look at the very thin line which separates madness from genius.

An elderly shoeshiner resembles a mob kingpin and is asked to confess to murder in return for his ultimate dream of owning a fishing boat and retiring to the "old country."

A mobster's ex-mistress befriends a boy left orphaned by a murderous gunman. Now they're both running for their lives.

Story of love, dependency, abuse and poverty as a family struggles to get by in South London.

Documentary about the filming of the movie, Short Cuts. In it you watch as director Robert Altman stages scenes and draws out his large cast with his legendary improvisational technique. Includes the comments of poet Tess Gallagher, (widow of author Raymond Carver, on whose writings the film is based), and various cast members.

A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.

"A wacky comic adventure packing non-stop laughs from California to Milan, starring the legendary Mel Brooks and Italy's comic sensation Ezio Greggio at their outrageous best. Bernardo Puccini's father has one last wish before he dies: to be reunited with his old war buddy Jake Gordon. Dutiful son Bernardo flies to America and finds Jake at a hospital for the mentally insane! With no time to lose, Bernardo kidnaps Jake but Jake's beautful doctor Barbara follows then to Italy, and when Jake disappears, it isn't long before Bernardo shows signs of having his own screw loose!"--Container.

Paul Quinn scripted and made his directorial debut with this period drama about middle-aged schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who finds evidence indicating that his real father was an Irish farmer and not a French seaman as he had been told. Since his mute and paralyzed mother offers no answers, he investigates by traveling to an Irish village with his teenage nephew (Jacob Tierney). After this prologue, the film flashes back to the family roots: Kieran's mother Fiona Flynn (Moya Farrelly) back home from convent school, catches the eye of dirt tenant farmer Kieran O'Day (Aidan Quinn). Their romance gets underway despite disapprovals from family and friends. Shown at 1998 film fests (Montreal, Toronto).

With his wedding a week away, hot-blooded Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of the rakish Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing.

A young woman devoted to underground "happenings", hot clubs, and amassing a couture wardrobe on the cheap is busted for throwing an illegal rent party at her New York City apartment. Her long-neglected godmother posts her bail in exchange for Mary's labor at the woman's workplace--a branch of the N.Y. Public Library. Mary's grudging steps towards responsible adulthood are given a boost by her romance with a handsome immigrant falafel vendor and her startled realization that she might actually make one pretty good librarian!