Dramedy
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Natural Selection
Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW and nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Rachael Harris, NATURAL SELECTION is a wonderfully irreverent comedy about a devoted Texas housewife whose carefully ordered world is turned upside...Watch Movie
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Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest...Watch Movie
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Female Pervert
Phoebe is seeking a true connection, unfortunately she doesn't relate to people like most in "normal society." She starts making changes, and as her road to self improvement unfolds, her more eccentric interests lead her down a darker path. She meets a few men, hoping to spark a love connection....Watch Movie
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Quite by accident, film director Chunsu arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And...Watch Movie
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Forbidden Zone
In Richard Elfman's FORBIDDEN ZONE, sexy Frenchy falls into an insane underworld ruled by a horny little king and his jealous queen. Chicken-boy comes to the rescue, only to have his head cut off by the soul-singing Devil himself (played by Danny Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo...Watch Movie
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined...Watch Movie
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Stroszek
After casting Bruno S., the wide-eyed, child-like steelworker and street musician, in THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER, Werner Herzog wrote STROSZEK specifically for the odd, idiosyncratic non-actor. The biographical details of his starving street musician and social misfit released from prison into...Watch Movie
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The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it...Watch Movie
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Discontinuity
Tabitha and Stephen have been in each other's lives for a long time but because of their jobs they must periodically live apart. When Tabitha returns "home" after their longest separation, what they've been missing becomes opaquely clear and who they're becoming makes it hard for them to see each...Watch Movie
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Diamond Tongues
Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she...Watch Movie
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Dark Horse
In his mid-30s, Abe (Jordan Gelber) clings to the trappings of his adolescence, including the extensive collection of toys and action figures adorning his boyhood bedroom. Still living with his parents Jackie (Christopher Walken) and Phyllis (Mia Farrow), Abe works for his increasingly...Watch Movie
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The Day He Arrives
A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment,...Watch Movie
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The Crush
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Ardal Travis is in love. There's just one problem. He's an eight year old schoolboy and the object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene Ardal is heartbroken. His...Watch Movie
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A Town Called Panic
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult television series (which was released by Aardman Studios), PANIC stars three plastic...Watch Movie
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Surviving Desire
SURVIVING DESIRE is a comedy about obsessive love from the director Time Magazine called “the smartest new outlaw in the movies.” SURVIVING DESIRE is a bold and playful little tale about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful young female student. It is a...Watch Movie
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For the Plasma
In a remote house on the coast of Maine, a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers she can reconfigure her perception to predict shifts in global...Watch Movie
