Carnage

2002

Carnage explores the connection between a gored bullfighter and a young girl who watches the incident on television. After the fight, the bull is butchered and dispersed to food markets throughout Europe. As the girl (Raphaelle Molinier) grapples with her understanding of death, a researcher (Jacques Gamblin) who's acquired the eyes of the bull becomes emotionally distant from his pregnant wife. Meanwhile, his brother covets the bull's horns.

2.7 Average Rating

Fires Within

1991

When her journalist husband Nestor is imprisoned in Cuba for his political beliefs, Isabel flees the country with her daughter. Saved off the shores of Miami by a fisherman, she soon falls deeply in love with her rescuer. But just as she's on the verge of building a life with him, Nestor unexpectedly appears.

2.7 Average Rating

Water Lilies

2007

A Caméra d'Or contender at Cannes, this coming-of-age drama from first-time feature film director Céline Sciamma tracks the sexual awakenings of three female friends over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adele Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction.

2.7 Average Rating

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

2003

This nuanced romantic comedy centers on evasive bride-to-be Katrine (Sidse Babett Knudsen), whose world turns topsy-turvy when her sister's ex-beau, Thomsen (Bjorn Kjellman), suddenly shows up on Katrine's doorstep two days before her nuptials. Ignoring their mutual attraction, they set off to put the finishing touches on her wedding, resulting in a series of madcap adventures. Meanwhile, Katrine withholds some life-altering news from Thomsen.

2.7 Average Rating

Wholphin: Issue 10

2010

Wholphin, the innovative DVD magazine, presents another collection of must-see shorts. Among the 11 films are director Jonathan Demme's "Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross" and Natalie Portman's directorial debut, "Eve." The compilation also features award-winning animation, films from Australia, Canada and Singapore, an homage to a 1960s Christian television show for kids and an excerpt from a documentary about a filmmaking preacher.

2.7 Average Rating

Boys

1996

After rescuing Patty Vare when she was knocked unconscious by falling off her horse, the last thing John Baker expected to happen was that he'd fall in love with her. But there's more to Patty than first meets the eye. She's running away from something, or someone, and her escape is stopped short only by love.

2.6 Average Rating

Blessed Events

2010

A meditation about people's inability to accept happiness when it makes a surprising appearance, this intense drama follows 37-year-old wallflower Simone (Annika Kuhl), who enjoys an uncharacteristic one-night stand with Hannes (Stefan Rudolf) and then discovers she's pregnant. Hannes seems thrilled by the pregnancy and quickly settles into domesticity with Simone, but she can't shake the idea that something is wrong with her idyllic new life.

2.6 Average Rating

Festival Shorts Collection

2008

This collection features eight live-action and animated shorts from around the world, including "The Great Zambini," which examines the plight of an aging circus performer, and "Diamonds in a Bucket," the tale of two longtime losers looking for love.

2.6 Average Rating

Freak Weather

1999

Selfish and despicable Penny (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her son (Jacob Chase) have just been booted out of Penny's boyfriend's apartment. And for the next 48 hours, the dispossessed twosome shuttles around Los Angeles in Penny's truck, conjuring a plan to get back on the boyfriend's good side -- and get off the street. Costars Aida Turturro as a freaked-out drug addict (shades of her role on "The Sopranos"). Written and directed by Mary Kuryla.

2.6 Average Rating

Tanner Hall

2009

A hint of Jane Austen runs through this coming-of-age drama set in a New England boarding school for the daughters of the rich. The arrival of Victoria (Georgia King), a manipulative new pupil, quickly signals the end of innocence for returning student Fernanda (Rooney Mara). In short order, the preppy, tranquil atmosphere of knee socks and cardigans at Tanner Hall gives way to a world of tangled emotions among the schoolgirls.

2.6 Average Rating

The Game of Death

2000

In 1899 London, depressed war hero Henry Joyce (David Morrissey) -- distraught over his wife's death -- joins the Suicide Club, a secretive aristocratic society that caters to the final desires of those willing to pay with their lives. But when Henry meets lone female member Sarah Wolverton (Catherine Siggins), he has second thoughts about his decision in this well-scripted drama based on Robert Louis Stevenson's short story "The Suicide Club."

2.6 Average Rating

Me & Will

1998

Hard-partying Los Angeles women Jane (Sherrie Rose) and Will (Melissa Behr) meet in rehab and discover they share a common dream: To ride the motorcycle Peter Fonda made famous in Easy Rider. Energized by their burgeoning friendship, the two women break out of rehab and begin their search for the illustrious chopper. The film's stars also wrote and directed this offbeat and touching road-trip drama.

2.6 Average Rating

Border Radio

1987

Los Angeles punk rocker Jeff absconds to Mexico with money owed him for a gig. Problem is, Jeff stole the cash from the club's safe. His band mate and roadie desperately want to locate their friend and get their hands on their share of the loot.

2.6 Average Rating

Just Like Home

2007

In this quirky drama from Lone Scherfig, residents of a small Danish town reconnect after they set up a phone line allowing them to call in the latest news about a streaker who's recently been spotted in their midst. As they dish the latest scoop on the naked man, the lonely provincial souls begin stripping away the facades that have long kept them apart. Lars Kaalund and the rest of the ensemble cast largely improvised the script for this film.

2.6 Average Rating

The End of Innocence

1990

Stephanie Lewis (Dyan Cannon) is an overachiever who's determined to be everything to everybody -- the perfect daughter, employee and lover ... in essence, the perfect woman. But Stephanie's life doesn't measure up to that lofty goal. When she reaches a crisis point and falls apart, she's forced to leave everything behind and embark on a journey toward self-discovery. Co-stars John Heard and Bridget Fonda.

2.6 Average Rating

The Girl on the Stone

2005

After pretty small-town Mati rejects the advances of Mexico City teen Gabino, he's stung by her rejection and the constant humiliation she heaps on him. With his rage simmering, Gabino lets his bully friends egg him into teaching her a lesson.

2.6 Average Rating