The Toe Tactic

2008

While coping with her father's death, Mona (Lily Rabe) tries to visit her childhood home before her mother (Mary Kay Place) sells it. Along the way Mona loses her wallet, scours New York City looking for it, and comes across colorful characters both real and imagined. Featuring a sweet score by Yo La Tengo, this surreal fusion of live-action and animation includes the voices of David Cross, Don Bryon and Eli Wallach.

2.4 Average Rating

Destricted

2006

By packing a string of seven erotic shorts into one volume, Destricted removes a bit of the taboo surrounding pornography. Directors range from filmmakers such as Larry Clark to artists from other mediums like Richard Prince and Marilyn Minter. Included are Matthew Barney's "Hoist," in which a man gets intimate with a driveshaft; Prince's "House Call," a salute to 1970s cinema; and Clark's "Impaled," in which he holds auditions for a porn flick.

2.4 Average Rating

Stray Cats

2005

Best friends and hopeless romantics Boyet (Ricky Davao) and Martha (Irma Adlawan) cope with difficult relationships in this comic drama from the Philippines that highlights the special bond between gay men and straight women. As Boyet tries to tame his confusing boyfriend, Dom (Lauren Novero), who sometimes says he's straight, Martha deals with the frustrations of her long-standing relationship with Steve (Reggie Curley).

2.4 Average Rating

Mob Princess

2003

After her father goes to prison for murder, Patti (Keegan Connor Tracy) sets out to prove his innocence. To get the evidence she needs, Patti begins seeing Vladimir (Bruce Ramsay), a Russian mobster who draws her into a dangerous world of drug dealers and killers. This crime drama follows Patti's courageous efforts, putting her own life in great jeopardy to help the father she loves dearly.

2.4 Average Rating

Free Radicals

2003

Happenstance is the cornerstone of this intriguing film. A young woman miraculously survives a plane crash only to die in a head-on car collision six years later. The teenage driver of the car, who's barely injured, is the younger son in a family whose first son was abducted at a young age. And so the cycle begins -- an odd, chainlike link that encompasses reactions to the woman's family members and the people in their lives.

2.4 Average Rating

The Second Awakening of Christina Klages

1978

The first solo directing effort (in 1977) of New German Cinema wunderkind Margarethe von Trotta, this movie is based on the true story of a social worker who robs a bank to fund a failing day-care center. Christina (Tina Engel) is a militant revolutionary who becomes a fugitive hunted as much for her politics (very pro-feminist) as for her crime. Meanwhile, the young woman Christina held hostage tries to track her down for personal reasons.

2.4 Average Rating

Film Star

2005

When arrogant, self-absorbed movie star Hira Pandit (Mahima Chaudhry) begins to realize that her popularity is waning, she consults her erstwhile friend Digambar Puri (Priyanshu Chatterjee) for advice. But his critical words only inflame her overheated ego, sending her down a risky road to reclaim her lost luster. In the powerful drama that follows, Hira attempts to become a success again -- not just in her career but as a human being.

2.4 Average Rating

Can Go Through Skin

2008

After a violent act leaves her shaken and emotionally scarred, a young woman named Marieke (Rifka Lodeizen), bent on rebuilding her life, leaves Amsterdam for the countryside, where a new friendship with a local farmer (Wim Opbrouck) becomes vital to her emotional survival. All the while, Marieke journeys through mania, fear, mistrust, pain and a host of other raw sensations in Dutch director Esther Rots's unflinching odyssey.

2.4 Average Rating

Roads to Riches

2001

Middle-aged Jack (Robert Forster) has kept little from his days as a child star except a few memories. Still holding fast to his dream of acquiring riches, he latches on to Henry (Kip Pardue), who has good luck to spare. But rather than have his luck rub off on Jack, Henry sweeps the beautiful young Moira (Rose McGowan) off her feet. Jack's secret love for Moira now becomes an obsession, and he risks everything he has to win her back from Henry.

2.4 Average Rating

We Want a Child

1949

Infertile Else (Ruth Brejnholm) discovers a way to make her dreams of motherhood come true when her friend Jytte (Grethe Thordahl) becomes pregnant with a married man's baby and agrees to let Else adopt the child. But complications ensue when Jytte decides to keep the newborn. Abortion and sex before marriage -- scandalous subject matter at the time of the film's 1949 release -- are themes at the heart of this stirring Danish melodrama.

2.4 Average Rating

Dunia

2005

Looking for an outlet to express her feelings -- and to follow in her mother's footsteps -- Cairo University poetry student Dunia (Hanan Turk) pursues her ambition to become a belly dancer in this Egyptian drama. With religious and cultural constraints standing in her way, Dunia begins a journey -- aided by her literature professor (Mohamed Mounir) -- that forces her to confront the traditions that have crushed her ability to experience pleasure.

2.4 Average Rating

Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar

2001

Sarena (Amisha Patel), a pampered daughter of millionaire Vivek Dewan (Gulshan Grover), is on the threshold of a great musical career. But father and daughter's perfect world is torn apart when a young and intrepid reporter, Jai (Jimmy Shergill), stumbles upon a scoop: He discovers that Sarena is not Vivek's real daughter. The news makes headlines, and a devastated and enraged Vivek uses all the power at his command to suppress more information.

2.4 Average Rating

Me and Will

1999

After meeting in rehab and bonding over their love of motorcycles, Los Angeles club-hoppers Jane (Sherrie Rose) and Will (Melissa Behr) head out to Montana in search of the bike used by Peter Fonda in the counterculture classic Easy Rider. Co-starring Patrick Dempsey and Billy Wirth as Jane and Will's strung-out boyfriends, this touching road drama also features appearances by Traci Lords and Keanu Reeves.

2.4 Average Rating

Purgatory House

2004

Fourteen-year-old Celeste Davis wrote and stars in this stylized film chronicling the teen angst of Silver Strand, who feels disconnected from the world around her and is caught in a form of emotional limbo. After she dies, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and a quest for unconditional love. A dark and quirky nonlinear approach to storytelling by director Cindy Baer helps reinforce the confusion and turmoil of the main character.

2.4 Average Rating

Daman

2001

Durga (Raveena Tandon) endures constant abuse by her husband, Sanjay (Sayaji Shinde). One night, Sanjay brutally rapes Durga, resulting in the birth of their daughter, Deepa (Raima Sen). Determined that Deepa not suffer the same fate she's endured, Durga flees with the child. But when Sanjay tracks them down, Durga will have to make a final stand in this award-winning drama from Kalpana Lazmi with music by Bhupen Hazarika.

2.4 Average Rating

The Rat Tamer

1995

In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? The film's cast also includes Richard Piper and Sue Jones.

2.4 Average Rating