Narrative
see all genres ›Independence from mainstream production avenues is sometimes more necessity than choice for filmmakers. But it's long permitted them greater freedom in investigating characters, stories and environs well outside the confines of commercial formula.
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Genres / Independent / Narrative
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1988: The Remake
1988: THE REMAKE, the second film of the trilogy, is about a huge audition for the remake of the classic American musical "Showboat." For three nights, July 22-24, 1975, hundreds of San Francisco’s most bizarre talent turned up, while actor Ed Nylund, a real-life librarian and musicologist, tried to enact...Start your free trial to watch -
Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Start your free trial to watch
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Acholiland
Northern Uganda, 1999. War has raged for thirteen years. Thousands are killed, millions are displaced and everyone is starving. Set in the heart of this turmoil, four UN workers must embark on a frantic food delivery to a mass of desperate villagers. But when the militia strike and the situation explodes, these men will face...Start your free trial to watch -
After Freedom
A unique portrait of immigrants feeling like outsiders struggling to survive in America. Michael, an Armenian-American in his 30’s, is feeling a growing obligation to take care of his aging father, Leon, who had left a good job in Soviet Armenia to raise his children in the land of freedom. Michael has risen to become an...Start your free trial to watch
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Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane
A smoldering car wreck moves two brothers to ask their mother about a significant difference in their upbringings. The Zellners’ knotty dialogue touches upon Pilgrims, foreskins, European sexual preferences and smallpox, a welter of neurosis and shame. If the script seems unlikely, an autobiographical...Start your free trial to watch -
All the Days Before Tomorrow
A critically acclaimed, international festival award winning feature debut, ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW effectively captures the push-pull of two people attracted to each other. In this quirky tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be...Start your free trial to watch -
Altitude Falling
In the year 2029, everyone has been injected with an identification chip originally for medical emergencies which the corporate run government uses to track travel patterns, purchases, political affiliations, relationships and diseases. Greg Forrester perfected this technology but fled to a remote mountain...Start your free trial to watch
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American Orpheus
"Intended as a tribute to Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHÉE, Schmidt gives the Orpheus legend a very contemporary twist. Here the central bond, the love that reaches beyond death, is not between a young man and woman, but between a mother and her small daughter. Shot in a lean, composed style, what is...Start your free trial to watch -
Angora Ranch
ANGORA RANCH is a sweet, heartfelt movie about love that transcends age, stereotypes and meddlesome families. While driving to a business meeting, young and handsome Justin runs off the road to avoid a rabbit. Lucky for him he has ditched at Angora Ranch, a farm owned by hunk Jack, a man almost twice Justin’s age. Justin and...Start your free trial to watch -
Animal Room
Set in the future, the film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a high school student caught abusing drugs. When he's put in a controversial isolation program nicknamed the "Animal Room," his life is threatened. It's a classroom where no rules apply. Arnold is terrorized by a gang leader, Doug Van Housen (Matthew...Start your free trial to watch
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Anywhere USA
In a trailer deposited in an unkempt pastoral glade, a woman who used to be an alternate on her high school tennis team beats her boyfriend senseless once a week. She beats him, 'cause, well he deserves it. It’s his act of redneck contrition. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old girl finds accidental elucidation; the sort of...Start your free trial to watch -
The Apologies
A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York. Featuring Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann and Ireen Kirsc.Start your free trial to watch -
Armless
ARMLESS tells the story of a man who suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (B.I.I.D.), a real-life psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel “whole” unless he loses one or more major limbs. When he leaves his wife and goes to find a doctor willing to amputate his arms, it triggers a...Start your free trial to watch
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Art House
A communal house left in trust many years ago to provide art students support in the way of free housing, ART HOUSE has accumulated its share of legends, lore, art, art junk and a reputation for hard partying. When a university dean and an influential descendant of the original benefactor decide to turn the place into housing...Start your free trial to watch -
The Art of Travel
Conner Layne (Christopher Masterson) is about to embark on an adventure, just not the one he had planned. After discovering his fiance is having an affair with his best friend, he leaves her at the altar and heads off on his honeymoon alone. While experiencing the wonders that South America offers, he...Start your free trial to watch -
Asian Stories
Jim is a young close-fisted Chinese American living in LA who finds himself with a stack of white flower themed disposable cameras, fleur-de-lis invitations, a number of champagne bottles and a ten-thousand dollar engagement ring bill. The only thing missing is a bride. In financial debt and miserable for having his fiancée...Start your free trial to watch




