Mississippi Damned

2009

While growing up in rural Mississippi, three children from an impoverished black family with a long history of violence, addiction and abuse separately attempt to escape their suffocating circumstances but encounter devastating setbacks. Starring Tessa Thompson, Chasity Kershal Hammitte and Malcolm Goodwin, writer-director Tina Mabry's riveting drama takes viewers on an intensely emotional journey filled with heartache and tragedy.

4.4 Average Rating

Maria Holic: The Complete Series

2009

Teenage boarding school student Kanako prefers girls to boys, especially since the mere thought of the opposite sex can give her a skin rash. So what's she to do when Mariya, the girl of her dreams, turns out to be a meanspirited cross-dressing boy? The quest for true love takes surprising twists and turns as Kanako peruses her school's selection of cute girls in this anime series based on the popular manga.

4.3 Average Rating

The Lost Valentine

2011

Jennifer Love Hewitt stars as a jaded TV reporter who receives a sentimental Valentine's Day news assignment: the story of Caroline Thomas (Betty White), who's waited 60 years for her pilot husband -- declared missing in action during WWII -- to return to her. After first scoffing at the assignment, the journalist finds she has much to learn from both the story and Caroline's unique demonstration of love, faith and remembrance.

4.3 Average Rating

Hipsters

2008

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels (Anton Shagin) falls for Polly (Oksana Akinshina), a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew. Equally smitten, Polly introduces her new beau to jazz and other forbidden Western delights. Writer-director Valery Todorovsky helms this colorful take on the Cold War.

4.3 Average Rating

Lifted

2010

The chance to shine in a singing competition offers much-needed hope for a Southern middle-schooler who's drowning in worries, from bullies in the halls to turmoil at home -- and the news that his reservist father has been called back to Afghanistan.

4.3 Average Rating

China Beach: Season 1

1988

This Emmy Award-winning drama series views the horrors of the Vietnam War as it unfolds in the late 1960s through the eyes of the medics and nurses who tend to the sick, wounded and dying. At the show's center is nurse Colleen McMurphy (Dana Delany). She's trying desperately to cling to her humanity even as she faces brutality and the less-obvious casualties of war every single day. Co-stars Nan Woods, Marg Helgenberger and Michael Boatman.

4.2 Average Rating

Rivals

2000

Struggling to settle in at a new school, 16-year-old Laurie Show (Jennifer Finnigan) makes friends with popular Michelle Lambert (Marnette Patterson), only to become ensnared in a web of jealousy that leads to murder in this made-for-cable shocker based on real events. When Michelle's beau makes a move on Laurie -- and ends up raping her -- Michelle mounts a crusade of terror against Laurie that causes her to fear for her life … with good reason.

4.2 Average Rating

The Capture of the Green River Killer

2008

Abused teen Helen Remus (Amy Davidson) flees her trailer-park home to escape her stepfather and lands in the clutches of elusive serial killer Gary Ridgway (John Pielmeier). But Det. Dave Reichert (Tom Cavanagh) vows to flush out his vicious quarry. Putting his life on the line, Reichert embarks on a 20-year manhunt in which interviews with convicted killer Ted Bundy (James Marsters) lead to a startling breakthrough.

4.1 Average Rating

Generation Kill

2008

A platoon of young but highly trained Marines leads the charge of American forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq in this gritty, Emmy-nominated HBO miniseries that highlights the challenges soldiers face on the front lines. Alexander Skarsgård, James Ransone, Stark Sands and Jon Huertas head the cast in this realistic portrayal of war in the Middle East, based on a nonfiction book by Rolling Stone scribe Evan Wright.

4.1 Average Rating

Jane Eyre

2006

"Masterpiece Theatre" presents the Charlotte Brontë classic about the titular governess who, resist as she may, falls in love with her employer, Edward Rochester. Rochester feels the same way, but fate tears them apart.

4.1 Average Rating

Tomboy

2011

Uncomfortable living as a girl, 10-year-old Laure decides to spend her childhood as Michael. When Michael's family moves to rural France, the child wins friends and comes to understand the complexities of gender.

4.1 Average Rating

Anne of Avonlea

1975

This 1975 BBC television adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's beloved novel follows a maturing Anne Shirley (Kim Braden) on her journey from freckle-faced girl to beautiful woman. While working as a schoolteacher, Anne continues to pursue her dream of becoming a published writer by winning a baking soda company's essay contest; fends off several suitors; and returns to Avonlea whenever she can to visit her adoptive mother, Marilla (Barbara Hamilton).

4.0 Average Rating

Even the Rain

2010

In this provocative film-within-a-film, a director heads to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to shoot a movie about the trespasses of Christopher Columbus in the New World, only to find the locals protesting present-day exploitation of the poor.

4.0 Average Rating

Under the Same Moon

2007

In this tale illuminating the plight of illegal aliens, Kate del Castillo plays Rosario, a woman working illegally in the United States to provide a better life for her son Carlitos (Adrian Alonso), who remains at home in Mexico. Longing for his mother, Carlitos stows away on a van that's headed for the border. But an already treacherous journey becomes even more so when Carlitos is separated from his smugglers (Jesse Garcia and America Ferrera).

4.0 Average Rating

City of God

2002

Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues) is frightened he'll end up like the countless others around him -- troubled, violent or dead. But his saving grace is his photographer's eye, through which the stories of several people who live in his forsaken Cidade de Deus unfold. Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund direct this sobering look at life inside a Rio de Janeiro housing project, reputed to be one of the most dangerous parts of an otherwise magical city.

4.0 Average Rating

Arranged

2007

When Rochel (Zoe Lister Jones) and Nasira (Francis Benhamou) -- an Orthodox Jew and a Muslim, respectively -- meet as new teachers at a Brooklyn school, co-workers and students expect friction. But the women discover they have a shared expectation of entering into arranged marriages. As they experience tension between their traditional cultures and life in contemporary America, Rochel and Nasira form a special bond.

4.0 Average Rating