Comedy drama, Drama, Political Satire, romantic comedy
Fisheries expert Alfred Jones receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alfred dismisses the project as "fundamentally unfeasible" because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon. Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister's press secretary, Patricia Maxwell, suggests the salmon fishing story to the Prime Minister's office as a positive story to help improve relations between Britain and the Islamic world.
A seedy traveling carnival's barker, Stanton "Stan" Carlisle, is fascinated by everything there, including a grotesque geek, who prompts an observation from Stanton that he "can't understand how anybody could get so low." Stanton works with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete. Once a top-billed vaudeville act, Zeena and Pete used an ingenious code to make it appear that she had extraordinary mental powers, until her attentions to other men drove Pete to drink and reduced them to working in carnivals. Stanton learns that many people want to buy the code from Zeena for a lot of money but she refuses to sell; she is saving…
Willie Starr, an unkempt girl, tells the story of her sister Alva to Tom, a boy whom she meets on the abandoned railroad tracks of Dodson, Mississippi, in the 1930s. Her story begins with a stranger, Owen Legate, arriving in the small town of Dodson and making his way to the Starr boarding house, where a loud birthday party is in progress for the landlady, Mrs. Hazel "Mama" Starr.
Ray operates a hardware store with his brother Junior in a small Texas town. He gets several photographs from private detective Skip. Taken during a stake-out at a local motel, the pictures indicate infidelity by Ray's wife Stacy-Lynn.
James Parker is a big game hunter in Africa, searching for a place in the jungle where elephants allegedly go to die, wanting to retrieve its ivory. For this, he abandoned his wife and daughter, when the latter was but a child. After her mother's death, Jane, James's estranged daughter, decides to visit him and eventually joins the expedition.
Deeply religious April Epner, a 39-year-old Brooklyn elementary school teacher, finds her life derailed by a series of events over which she has no control. Her husband Ben abruptly leaves her, her abrasive adoptive mother Trudy passes away the following day, and shortly after she is contacted by Alan, a representative of Bernice Graves, the flamboyant host of a local talk show, who introduces herself as April's biological mother. Although intrigued by Bernice's claim she was fathered by Steve McQueen, April initially resists her efforts to forge a relationship.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, teen film, Tragicomedy
The opening scene is 1980. A group of teenage girls head to Camp Little Wolf, an all-girls camp for the summer. The group includes Angel Bright, a poor, cynical, streetwise girl, and Ferris Whitney, a romantic, naive rich girl.
Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, historical drama, Historie, Political Thriller
In modern-day New York, Derek Jacobi arrives at a theatre where he delivers a monologue questioning the lack of manuscript writings of William Shakespeare, despite the undeniable fact that he is the most performed playwright of all time. Ben Jonson is preparing to enter the stage. The narrator offers to take the viewers into a different story behind the origin of Shakespeare's plays: "one of quills and swords, of power and betrayal, of a stage conquered and a throne lost." Jumping to Elizabethan London, Ben Jonson is running through the streets carrying a parcel and being pursued by soldiers.
Arranged Documentary, Cultural Film, documentary film, Drama, silent film
thumb|left|Nyla, wife of Nanook thumb|left|Nanook (Allakariallak), 1920 The film follows the lives of an Inuk, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in the Ungava Peninsula of northern Quebec, Canada. Nanook, his wife Nyla and their family are introduced as fearless heroes who endure rigors no other race could survive. The audience sees Nanook, often with his family, hunt a walrus, build an igloo, go about his day, and perform other tasks.
Rita and Sue are two teenage girls in their final year of school who live on a run-down council estate in Bradford. They babysit for Bob and Michelle, a middle-class couple who live in a better part of town. While driving the girls home, Bob stops on the Yorkshire moors and complains about his wife's lack of interest in sex.
Eva, the wife of Viktor, the village pastor, invites her mother Charlotte for a visit to her rural home after seven years of separation. Charlotte is a world-renowned pianist, aging and eccentric, who has survived several husbands or partners and lived a cosmopolitan life. Eva, though less artistically gifted than her mother — despite having written two books and playing the piano competently — takes pride in her quieter existence as a wife, mother and care-giver.
DeeDee Rodgers leaves an eminent New York ballet company after becoming pregnant by Wayne, another dancer in the company. They marry and later move to Oklahoma City to run a dance studio. Emma Jacklin stays with the company and eventually becomes a prima ballerina and well-known figure in the ballet community.
Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric, 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, with whom she had lived her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, and especially get rid of the excessive possessions hoarded there over decades. Doris had been caring for her mother for years, thereby neglecting her own social life and development.
Biography, Crime, Drama, mystery film, Political Thriller
In 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb interviews drug dealer Ronny Quail, who is outraged that the government used civil asset forfeiture to keep his house even after he was acquitted. Webb's ensuing article about the abuses of forfeiture garners repeated phone calls from a woman named Coral, whom he agrees to meet when she says she has documents that prove the government sponsored cocaine sales in the U.S. Coral gives Webb a transcript of grand jury testimony (normally kept secret) which was accidentally released to her boyfriend, an accused drug dealer, during discovery.
Before the "Phantom-attacks", which occurred about eight months after World War II, Texarkana was pleasant and citizens were preparing for a good future. On the night of Sunday, March 3, 1946, Sammy Fuller and Linda Mae Jenkins park on a lovers' lane. Soon, the hood of the car opens and closes and a man with a bag over his head with holes cut out for his eyes is seen holding wires he had yanked from the engine.
After a swift courtship, provocative stand-up comedian Henry McHenry publicly declares his engagement to world-famous soprano Ann Desfranoux. Shortly afterwards, Ann gives birth to their daughter Annette, portrayed by a wooden marionette puppet. The marriage becomes rocky when Henry begins to take care of Annette while Ann's career flourishes and takes her overseas.
James is forced to live in an underground bunker with his parents Ted and April Mitchum. While Ted tells James that the outside world is dangerous, James often sees him leaving the bunker with a gas mask on. James is fascinated with an educational children's show titled Brigsby Bear Adventures, centered on the titular bear helping characters escape from trouble, because it is the only show he owns and is allowed to watch.
After the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, William Shakespeare, aged 49, returns home from London to Stratford-upon-Avon to rejoin his wife, Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare and Anne have a distant relationship, as he has spent most of their marriage working in London, and she is a down-to-earth country woman who cannot read or write. Their marriage has never recovered from the death of their son Hamnet, aged 11, of plague in Stratford, while his father was in London.
In 1947, the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, aged 93, lives in a rural Sussex farmhouse with his widowed housekeeper Mrs Munro and her young son Roger. Having just returned from a trip to Hiroshima, Holmes starts to use a prickly ash plant he acquired there to try to improve his failing memory. Unhappy about Watson's fictionalisation of his last case, The Adventure of the Dove Grey Glove, he hopes to write his own account, but has trouble recalling the events.
Crime, Drama, hood film, Mafia Film, thriller film
Jeffrey Cole is a recent graduate of the Cincinnati police academy who dreams of working undercover. Cole manages to get an undercover assignment the day of graduation and earns the praise of his superiors. He is soon given the task of taking down statewide crack dealer Dwayne Gittens, an underworld boss so powerful that his nickname is "God".
Emmet Ray is a jazz guitarist who achieved some acclaim in the 1930s with a handful of recordings for RCA Victor, but faded from public view under mysterious circumstances. Although he is a talented musician, Ray's personal life fell into shambles after his disappearance from public view. He's often late in or even absent from performances with his quintet due to heavy drinking.
Long Island housewife Natalie Ravenna leaves her husband sleeping at home and sets off on a road trip in the family station wagon. She visits her parents, who are quite upset with her. At a gas station, Natalie makes a collect phone call to her husband and tells him she's pregnant.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, female buddy film, teen film
At the first meeting of the summer, Kristy Thomas, the president and founder of a babysitting club called "The Babysitter's Club", has the great idea of holding a day camp for their babysitting charges for the entire summer. She and her co-founders (Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Stacey McGill, Dawn Schafer, Mallory Pike, and Jessi Ramsey) vow to keep an eye on the children. Mary Anne and Dawn, who are stepsisters, offer their parents' backyard to serve as the campsite, as long as the kids do not come inside the house and the barn (leading the club to rent a porta potty for the summer).
In a Baltimore neighborhood known for having the thickest local accent, unassuming 18-year-old Pecker works in a sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, becomes unexpectedly popular when savvy New York art dealer Rorey Wheeler "discovers" his work. Pecker's pictures, taken with a cheap Canon Canonet 28, are grainy, out-of-focus studies of unglamorous subjects, but they strike a chord with New York art collectors.
