USA

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”.Read More »

In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. ‘How to Die in Oregon’ tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today — terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends — as well as the passage of an assisted suicide law in Washington State.Read More »

An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective try to track him down.Read More »

Quote:
Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack’s lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash’s former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack’s Spartan lifestyle, she returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off Cash’s operation. The film comes to a head during a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside, who isn’t all he seems to be).Read More »

Synopsis:
Carey Wilson attends a party where he knows no one. Among those at the party is the young and gay Mary Dosier. But he learns from another guest that a year earlier, Mary was in the deepest despair. This phase of her life started three years earlier. She had just gotten married to her husband, the gifted but shy concert violinist and composer John Dosier. No one was happier for them than John’s mother, who gave them a year long vacation as a wedding gift. On their first anniversary in Venice, John played for her “A Sonata to a Kiss”, a composition he wrote dedicated to her and which has since become a worldwide sensation. The sound waves from that private performance shattered a champagne glass in their room, which Mary felt to be an ominous sign. Indeed, John was shortly thereafter stricken with an illness and died. Mary could not overcome her grief, but an incident while she listened to a recording of “A Sonata to a Kiss” played by John may have saved her life and given her new…Read More »

Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.Read More »

This film is based on a real case, the Wylie-Hoffert murder. A case that led to a fundamental change in US law. 
Two young girls are found murdered in their apartment in East Manhattan and Theo Kojack heads up the investigation. When a young black man is arrested and confesses to the murder Kojack is suspicious. Getting a lead from a junkie, Kojack goes on to prove the innocence of one man and the guilt of another.Read More »

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.Read More »

In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.Read More »