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- DirectorJerry Allen DavisStarsEugenia YuanHill HarperPei-Pei ChengThe Shanghai Hotel is the story of a young woman named Yin Yin (Eugenia Yuan), who illegally buys her way to the USA from communist China hoping to make a better life for herself and her family. After a long, treacherous journey stowed away in a dark hull of an overcrowded cargo ship, Yin Yin arrives in New York City for what she thinks will be the beginning of a better life. Falsely promised a job in the technology industry, her dreams are shattered when she is told by the Snakeheads, an Asian gang, that her debt is much higher than expected. To pay off that additional debt she will have to work it off by being a prostitute. Yin Yin is devastated by the news that she is being sold into the sex slave trade. The rundown, decrepit building that Yin Yin and the other prostitutes live and work in is known as the Shanghai Hotel. Women from Thailand, Korea and China all reside in the Shanghai Hotel. Some of the women know what they are there for but most are just like Yin Yin, unwilling participants forced to sell their bodies. Upon arriving at the Shanghai Hotel, Yin Yin is isolated and locked in a room all by herself. The room has many windows, but the glass is spray painted black so that no one can see in or out. One window though is missing and is covered with just black tape. Yin Yin lifts the tape and has her only view of freedom and the outside world, the streets of New York City. While staring out the window, Yin Yin notices a bike messenger who is giving some food and blankets to the homeless people across the street from the Shanghai Hotel. She can tell that he is a kind-hearted person and decides to try and communicate with him. She gets his attention and passes him a note. The note tells of her horrible situation, but pleads with him not to tell anyone for fear of what repercussions the Snakeheads might take on her family in China. She ends the note by saying all she really needs is a friend. The bike messenger, named Carlos (Hill Harper), accepts her invitation of friendship but over time a love between the two of them develops through the passing of notes. The film explores the elements of human trafficking and the hardships that Yin Yin faces during her time at the Shanghai Hotel.
- DirectorJack NeoStarsJack NeoYun XiangRichard LowStory about life of 3 EM3's student in Singapore, who struggling with their education and personal life.$25 on amazon
- DirectorGregory KallenbergStarsKassi FitzgeraldReegis RichardMike Smith"Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future" takes place in the Louisiana backwoods, and follows the momentous discovery of the largest natural gas field in the United States (and maybe the world). The film examines the historic find (a formation called the "Haynesville Shale") from the personal level as well as from the larger perspective of the current energy picture and pending energy future. As the Haynesville Shale boom erupts, the film focuses on three lives caught in the middle of the find: A single mom takes up the defense of her community's environmental protections, an African American preacher attempts to use the riches to build a school for his congregants and a salt-of-the-earth, self-described "country boy" finds himself conflicted as he weighs losing his pristine land to an oil company's offer to make him a millionaire. From a broader perspective, "Haynesville" explores the current energy situation and what something the scale of the Haynesville (170 trillion cubic feet or the equivalent of 28 billion barrels of oil) could mean for the energy picture in the United States. The new, updated version of the film looks deeper into the lives of Mike, Kassi and Reegis. The "Haynesville" update also sheds new light on the natural gas discussion and its place in the clean energy future.
- DirectorKandeyce JordenStarsSandra CollinsDJ IreneDJ ColetteWhat started as a lark became an obsession after meeting the notorious DJ Sandra Collins. Kandeyce Jorden's exploration of a blossoming subculture of the electronic music scene slams her face to face with a connection that can only be found by getting completely lost.
- DirectorJohn HerzfeldStarsJudith LightLukas HaasMichael BowenThe story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
- DirectorSusan RohrerStarsHeather McAdamGabriel OldsDanny ZornWhen a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.
- DirectorRichard WongStarsLynn ChenParry ShenSheetal ShethA couple experiment with having an open relationship.
- DirectorBora ChhayStarsCheanick DoungLeang HongleeKwanlar NyiradyWhen a young Cambodian village girl is sold off into prostitution, a brash American documentary filmmaker ventures deep into the underbelly of Phnom Penh to pursue her story and rescue the girl, crossing paths with various other lives affected by the unspeakable terrain of the country's virginity trade.
- DirectorMonica TeuberStarsNikolai KinskiLinh-Dan PhamJason ConneryIn the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.
- DirectorJames FargoStarsGil GerardNancy StaffordKeye LukeAn old man who lives with his grandson, Ernie, is approached by a social worker who tells him that Ernie can't continue living with him because he is old and an invalid. He needs to find someone to take Ernie in and he picks a man named Jake Rizzo who is a cop. He sends Ernie to him and Rizzo finds the whole thing strange. Ernie continues to follow him and when he gets in trouble Ernie who's trained by his grandfather in martial arts helps him. Jake starts to warm up to him. And he also finds himself attracted to the social worker.
- DirectorSteve StaffordStarsLynda CarterMichele GreeneAmanda PetersonAlthough this movie is about the Playboy magazine, there are no erotic scenes. Instead it tells the story of three women, who seem to have nothing in common: Abigail is college student at Yale and daughter of one of the professors; Meredith is a married mother and owner of a bowling alley; Janet is a successful broker -- yet all of them decide to pose for the Playboy adult magazine, shocking their peers, friends and co-workers. They have to suffer the consequences, but manage to turn it into a precious experience of life.
- DirectorBradley ScottStarsRichmond ArquetteTrip DavisMichael LippmanIn any relationship there are things we hate about the other person. It's not wise to tell them and it's not wise to keep it bottled up. But then if they are sleeping when we tell them...
- DirectorStuart RogersStarsDanièle FerraroThomas BurrDrake Simpson
- DirectorJoy DietrichStarsKim Jiang DubaniewiczJane KimPatrick HeusingerEstranged from her family due to a childhood indiscretion with her white brother, a young Korean adoptee seeks to regain a sense of home by exploring ties with the East Asian Americans she meets in her new apartment building, until her brother shows up at the door, stirring long lost feelings that she has tried to bury.
- DirectorSarah HamblinStarsJames CunninghamDrexler McStyles
- DirectorGayle Ferraro"Anonymously Yours" is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women's strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty#million women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption.
- DirectorAung Ko LattStarsFrancis -Hin MaiKhin Mar WinThree women and a girl from a remote Kayan village in Myanmar go to a distant city to sell their crafts. In the city, the girl is kidnapped by human traffickers. Out of their element, the Kayan women are determined to find the girl.
- The K11 Journey is three intense years caught on tape of the stories and difficulties of a group of international filmmakers trying to expose the explosive subject matter of child trafficking and child prostitution in one of the most dangerous and corrupt countries in the world. The K11 Journey follows the project's two teams as they struggle to capture the terrifying reality of the sex trade in South East Asia. At the same time, the crew's own artistic and technical skills are challenged in this extraordinary endeavor.
- DirectorViet MaxStarsPhuong BellaPho Dac BietHuynh DongLOVE explores the relationship between friends, family, and lovers. This story begins with the origins of a blossoming friendship between two 10-year-old girls. Unfortunately, the childhood friends are suddenly separated due to the death of one of their brothers, then later reunited as young adults. Nhi is now a university student and the lead singer of a girl band. She has a handsome but uptight boyfriend, Hoang. On the other hand, Tu comes from a family whose father is struggling with depression and whose mother is working very long hours just to make ends meet. Tu is secretly loved by Mien, a colleague of Nhi. As the story progresses, the girls soon discover feelings that they did not know they had. They must decide if their feelings for one another are just as friends, or perhaps something more.
- DirectorJanus MetzWhat is the attraction of living in a remote fishing community in northern Europe? Still, this is where 575 Thai women have settled, all married to local men. Fifteen years ago, there were almost none. But Sommai, a former sex worker from Pattaya, was there. Now, she and a group of other industrious and strong Thai women are trying to find a husband for Sommai's young niece Kaeh, who is in Denmark on a three-month tourist visa. Love on Delivery is a touching, tragic and at times humorous tale of strong, decisive women who see themselves as entrepreneurs in a globalized world rather than victims of poverty and prostitution. They make great sacrifices and take high risks when they leave their children behind and travel half way around the world to marry complete strangers.
- StarsMichie KitaReiko KatsuraHirô OyokawaIn Victorian Flanders, a newly orphaned boy named Nello rescues an abandoned dog who becomes his best friend.
- DirectorWendy SchneiderStarsDave GrohlShirley MansonBilly CorganThe story of the pivotal Midwest link to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990's and the unassuming Madison, Wisconsin recording studio at its center.
- DirectorBradley WeatherholtStarsDoug AdamsMichael BarryteJames BerardinelliA documentary about the controversial Star Wars prequel trilogy.
- DirectorTony Sebastian UkpoStarsStephanie ShehHaruka AbeRebecca YeoThe journey of an applicant through the immigration system of an unspecified country.
- DirectorCathy CarlsonStarsLucas AstromByron BowersReginald BradfordDocumentary detailing funny, outrageous, positive stories about Andy Dick. Interviews range from club bouncers to celebrities. This Is Your Life meets Comedy Central Roast.
- DirectorBao NguyenStarsFred ArmisenAlec BaldwinAnne Beatts"Saturday Night Live" has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for 40 years. Live From New York! goes deep inside this cultural phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy and popular culture.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsNina FochNorman LloydBlythe DannerJust before the Salem witch trials, an embittered old woman, who's learned witchcraft, and brings a scarecrow to life, as part of her revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStu KriegerStarsRichard KileyTrey AmesAdam ArkinMini series that follows a family, a year after the death of the matriarch. Her husband tries to cope by cycling. And one of the daughters is going through a rough patch in her second marriage. And the other daughter is about to give birth. And one son is still trying to find himself. And the younger son is engaged but when he meets a girl who makes him feel things he doesn't feel for his fiancée.
- DirectorSteve McClureStarsRon KeelEddie TrunkKyle KrugerFacing a mid-life crossroads, two longtime friends risk everything as they set out to fulfill their dreams of achieving rock and roll stardom. First and last chances happen only once.
- An LA couple with a baby on the way closes on the perfect home, but immediately feel they've bitten off more than they can chew. From major plan changes to misplaced doors, this renovation proves to be a challenge at every turn.
- StarsTaz ZavalaArika GluckPia ToscanoAn unscripted and deeply personal glimpse into the journeys of nine young L.A.-based musicians as they follow their dreams.
- DirectorLuc TremouletStarsAnn CurryJoin Ann Curry for dramatic reunions between people who saved each other's lives in the midst of the Vietnam War, as a three tour US Army officer searches for the Helicopter pilot who brought him out alive, and a soldier sets out to thank the young MASH surgeon who saved him from long term disability five decades ago.
- DirectorArthur DongStarsHaing S. NgorJack OngSophia Ngor DemetriWhen Dr. Haing S. Ngor was forced into labor camps by the Khmer Rouge, little did he know he would escape years of torture and recreate his experiences in a film that would win him an Academy Award®. "The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor" tells the dramatic story about arguably the most recognizable survivor of the Cambodian genocide, a man who became a worldwide ambassador for justice in his homeland, only to be murdered in a Los Angeles Chinatown alley - a case still muddled with conspiracy theories. Through an inspired blend of original animation and rare archival material - anchored by Ngor's richly layered autobiography - the years encapsulating the Khmer Rouge's tyrannical rule over Cambodia are experienced though a politically charged transnational journey of loss and reconciliation.
- Episode: (2015)2008–202241mTV-PGTV EpisodeStarsTravis StorkJennifer BermanRachael RossA model discusses being drugged and electrocuted; using hypnosis to put children to sleep; money-saving tips for the pharmacy; outrageous acts caught on video.
- DirectorLily MariyeStarsNichole SakuraCourtney MunJessica TuckA 16-year-old half-Japanese teen's life spirals out of control after her parents divorce.
- DirectorFeroz KhanStarsVinod KhannaFeroz KhanAmala AkkineniThe story of Dayavan, a benevolent gangster who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate than himself.
- DirectorGregory C. HaynesStarsJulian McMahonAlison StorryMarklen KennedyMagenta, a precocious teenage girl, will stop at nothing to have her desires met in this thriller by Gregory C. Haynes. Michael seems to have it all, that is, until Magenta, his wife's sister, comes into the picture.
- DirectorTimothy A. CheyStarsErnie HudsonPam GrierMargaret ChoA Chinese baby boy is adopted by a black couple in ATL. Seventeen years later he moves with his mom and brother to a black LA hood. A Chinese girl ends up in the same hood for the summer with a black family. Will they fit in?
- DirectorPhan Quang Binh NguyenStarsTang Thanh HaDo Thi Hai YenNinh Duong Lan NgocThe film portrays the life of a family separated from the mainstream of modern society, yet containing within its microcosm the complex layers and dramas of human relationship: conjugal life, sexual trauma, and the failures and bonds of fatherhood, brother and sisterhood. The film is about a unique social stratum in a remote place in Vietnam with unspoken traditions, customs and lifestyles. But most of all, it is the universal story of a family that like all other families have to find the strength and direction in each other to navigate their way through the choices and consequences that make up human existence. Based on Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu's best selling short story "Boundless Rice Field", winner of the best short story prize from the Vietnam Writer's Association in 2007 and the ASEAN Literature Award recently, Floating Lives will draw audiences into the colourful daily life of unsophisticated peasants scratching out a living in the beautiful but forgiving landscape of the immense, mysterious and prescient Mekong Delta, characters whose strength, flaws and beauty, as they search for the sustenance of life and love, tear at one's heart.
- DirectorAlex ChuStarsMichelle AngElizabeth SungJim LauThe lives of a recovering addict and her single mother change forever when they move in next door to a widowed father and his adult daughter with autism.
- DirectorMargo HarkinStarsEmer McCourtMichael LiebmannCathy CaseyA pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.
- DirectorJanusz NasfeterStarsGrazyna MichalskaHenryka DoboszTadeusz JanczarIn an idyllic working class community, 13 year old Anka grows up, going through stages of adolescence, dreaming, first love and gossiping with girlfriends. Roughly disturbed by the shame and disgrace of alcoholism - leaves unwashable stains upon the community, that tries to cope with abuse and depression, and the system (including school teachers) who try to avoid the subject. This story was aimed at parents, to give them morally an insight into what happens when a young girl has to deal with the disgrace of an alcoholic father and a mentally instable mother. Very well acted by Grazyna Michalska as Anka. [translated from Polish by ALIPTES]
- DirectorRichard RichStarsNicholas KadiRichard EpcarEli AllemAn account of the birth of Islam.
- DirectorQuang Hai NgoStarsDo Thi Hai YenTa AmNguyen Thai AnSet in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsSidney PoitierDorothy DandridgeSammy Davis Jr.A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
- DirectorDonatella MaiorcaStarsValeria SolarinoIsabella RagoneseEnnio FantastichiniNothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
- DirectorStuart McDonaldStarsEmma LungEmily BrowningRobert MorganMembers of a group of female friends start to mysteriously disappear on a remote Caribbean island.
- DirectorGiorgio SteganiStarsAlessio OranoOrnella MutiLuigi PistilliA rich girl falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him.
- DirectorTommy Lee WallaceStarsChris MakepeaceYuji OkumotoCaron AbelliraIt's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime...
- DirectorNick MeadStarsPatrick DempseyLisa BonetJudge ReinholdA small-time crook hides out in a seedy motel where shady characters recognise him and demand money to keep quiet.
- DirectorMario Van PeeblesStarsMario Van PeeblesNia LongJoy BryantMario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).
- DirectorMartin DuffyStarsJanet PaparazzoElijah WoodJaneane GarofaloAn amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsDorothy McGuireRobert YoungHerbert MarshallA plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
- DirectorPhil JoanouStarsStephen DorffJudith GodrècheKelly MacdonaldStephen Dorff narrates this tale about how his life goes astray as his character attempts to strike a balance between the demands of directing his first film and the pressures of his new romance with a model. U2's Bono plays a role in this film as both himself and Dorff's character's concience.
- DirectorLucian S. DiamondeStarsDarcy DeMossMeredyth HolmesPía ReyesIn this erotic sci-fi adventure, three beautiful women find themselves unwilling subjects of an alien scientist's sexy experiments.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsGlenn CloseChristopher PlummerPierre-Marie EscourrouAn evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.
- DirectorDavid TausikStarsScott ValentineVanessa AngelTalia BalsamAn up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while seducing the young attorney. It then becomes the attorney job to cover up the murder he believes he committed, while finding out the truth about the D.A.'s "niece".
- DirectorSteven StarrStarsRichard EdsonCedella MarleyFred FondrenThe programmed life of Joey, a hot-shot movie agent in New York's fast lane, is turned topsy-turby by a series of unexpected events which culminates in a serendipitous romance with a thoroughly remarkable young Jamaican woman.
- DirectorEvan CrookeStarsBrett CullenTamlyn TomitaWes StudiMichael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
- DirectorÉlie ChouraquiStarsJean-Hugues AngladeJacqueline BissetChristine BoissonIn this bittersweet tale of couplings and uncouplings, a group of friends hole up for their annual Christmas gathering in Chamonix.
- DirectorZoe Clarke-WilliamsStarsTaye DiggsDominique SwainMia KirshnerA North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of an underachieving college girl, and uncovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.
- DirectorJung Soo KangStarsLee Sung HiJi-Ha YuJeff Anderson
- DirectorDanièle J. SuissaStarsSandrine HoltMiles O'KeeffeTony GoldwynEnglishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs. One Englishman, John Smith, is captured by the natives, and begins to learn their customs and beliefs. As Smith spends more time with them, specifically Pocahontas, he realizes that the white man may not be meant for the new world.
- DirectorJim DonovanStarsJane MarchStephen MendelLillo BrancatoIn 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsJason Scott LeeEsai MoralesSandrine HoltLove between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
- DirectorWilliam Blake HerronStarsKirk BaltzArianeJake WeberA Vietnam vet who suffers from flashbacks and impotency ever since he was captured and tortured in Vietnam now works as a tattoo artist for a local pimp and his Asian girls. His latest client gets him to finally deal with these issues.
- DirectorKlaus MenzelStarsSharon StoneIain GlenAndy GarciaTwo young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsHappy SalmaLaura BasukiArswendy Bening SwaraNana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.
- DirectorMorrisa MaltzStarsLily GladstonePam RichterTommy HeitkampAn unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSamuel LabartheJean-Paul BordesMickaël ChirinianA film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
- DirectorJared HessJerusha HessStarsTim Blake NelsonAn ode to the body's five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.