Drama

Benjamin Bratt plays the Puerto Rican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero who was very active in art community in New York and Philadelphia in the 1970s and '80s. He had an insight into struggles of the poor and the poor people's control by the rich. Like most poets who have something to say, he was demonized by the corporate powers and mass media but still managed to reach those who had ears to hear the truth; Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto.

International Drama

This film is about the trail of tears in 1980 of the black Falashas in Ethiopia (who consider themselves sons of Solomon and Jews) and their migration to Jerusalem. Thousands die or are killed by bandits. Those who make it to Jerusalem have, of course, difficulty integrating into the Jewish way of life but find acceptance in some Orthodox circles. It is a story of a mother's sacrifice of her son to give him a life and the son's adventure of finding himself through ...
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Documentary

An eccentric starseed Midwestern farmer, John Peterson, mixes an alternative lifestyle and quests, art, music, and filmmaking with organic gardening and gets a lot of opposition from neighbors who call his farm a cult and invent stories and gossip of Satan worshiping, drug use, and other nonsense. He overcomes the persecutions to become one of the most successful Community Supported Agricultural programs in the country. I know this story well; Filmmaker Taggart Siegel.

Drama

This film adaption of a novel by Jodi Picoult will keep you in tears. One of the hardest things for any parent would be for the child to die before the parent, and especially at such a young age and in particular once you get to know them a little better and their personality develops. The grief is almost unbearable. I know; I went through it with my 7-year-old daughter. This picture brought back the pain. It is about a little girl diagnosed with cancer when she was very young ...
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International Film
UK/Spanish Drama

This film is about two young revolutionaries in 1920s Madrid and their relationship between two of the 20th century's most notable Spanish artists: poet Federico Garcia Lorca and surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Along with filmmaker Luis Buñuel, they bring their avant-garde talent into the revolution and suffer the consequences of the status quo. In their early life they confuse their love and respect for each other’s talent and ...
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Sometimes a movie comes along that gives you hope for humanity. This is the true story of parents who try to raise large sums of money to help Dr. Robert Stonehill (played by Harrison Ford) to continue research to cure a rare genetic disorder. The parents have 2 children (a boy and girl), pre-teens who are dying of this rare disease, and the parents determination (as well as the doctors) to find not only a cure but to fight against the system of bureaucracy in the healthcare system that ...
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Drama, with adult themes

The true story of Temple Grandin, an autistic child who grows up, goes to college to becomes a doctor of animal husbandry, and invents many designs for livestock, particularly cows who are slaughtered for human consumption. This movie shows that the faith that a mother or father may have in a child and the faith of a sick child to become more than what society says they can is triumphant with the help of God. Temple overcomes many obstacles because of her ...
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