Ride the Wake

2009

Still reeling from her mother's sudden death, wakeboarder Jessica Evans (Jenny Ladner) can't possibly concentrate on an upcoming tournament that could take her into the big time. That is, until a cute snowboarder (Erik Valdez) asks her to teach him everything she knows. With a budding relationship to occupy her time, Jessica's thinking a lot more positively. But she still hasn't dealt with her biggest fear: proving herself against the guys.

2.0 Average Rating

Francisca

2002

Helmut Busch is a German spy who comes to Mexico with phony paperwork. He's arrested, but Mexican police strike a deal and ask him to spy on a group of activist students. Helmut pretends to be a French professor and gets close to the students, soon falling in love with the ringleader. But he's faced with a painful decision when the police want him to eliminate his new love. Stars Ulrich Noethen, Fabiola Campomanes and Arcelia Ramírez.

2.0 Average Rating

Our Burden Is Light

2000

Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel co-stars with Denise Coates, Nathan Webb, Jessica Ballard and Jack Rooney in this inspiring love story about an edgy female artist named Karen who, after her mother's recent suicide, is feeling bereft, drowning in a sea of grief. All that changes when she meets Kyle -- a musician who's sold out by writing jingles -- under tragic circumstances that fail to squelch their burgeoning friendship.

2.0 Average Rating

Clubland

1999

Jimmy Tuckett shines as the lead singer of a Los Angeles-based rock 'n' roll band whose path to success is obscured by indifferent club owners, drugs, jealousy and scads of groupies. Lori Petty plays the band's resident troublemaker, ingesting drugs and swilling booze so prodigiously that she seems hell-bent on living up to the old rock maxim about "living fast and dying young."

2.0 Average Rating

Helen

2008

When a girl named Joy goes missing, Helen, who lives in a care home, is recruited to stand in for her in a police reconstruction of her final moments. Soon, Helen is taken in by Joy's parents and begins a relationship with Joy's boyfriend.

2.0 Average Rating

Russian Bride

2006

Restless in Russia and pining for a better life, Tanya (Elena Roth) desperately adds her photograph to a catalog of mail-order brides. She soon heads to America to wed a middle-aged workaholic (Richard Virga), naïvely believing this will solve all her problems. But the normal complexities of married life are accentuated by the fact that Tanya and her new husband barely know each other -- and that he has no clue how to communicate with women.

2.0 Average Rating

Rage

2009

A young blogger attempts to document the inner workings of a top New York fashion house in the week leading up to a major show, but his behind-the-scenes interviews take on much greater significance when a runway model is murdered. A celebrity supermodel (Jude Law), a war photographer (Steve Buscemi), a critic (Judi Dench) and other personalities share their versions of the week's events in Sally Potter's darkly comic riff on the information age.

2.0 Average Rating

An Existential Affair

2004

During the 1990s, a highly sexual affair -- nearly 10 years in duration -- between two strangers, Petra and Johnny, begins behind the closed doors of a hotel room in Los Angeles. But when they decide to venture beyond the confines of the room, their desire wanes and reality intrudes. Can they shift their relationship to a more prosaic level that real life demands? Stars Alex A. Quinn, Martin Landau, Sean Delgado and Gretchen Becker.

2.0 Average Rating

Cananea

1977

Jose Carlos Ruiz, Carlos Bracho and Milton Rodriguez star in this historical drama about the attempts of Col. William Greene to traverse the Sonora desert and his subsequent discovery of a copper mine in Mexico. Later, when mine workers go on strike demanding better working conditions, the fight grows exponentially and morphs into an all-out war, giving birth to the Mexican Revolution.

2.0 Average Rating

Wait Up Harriet

2006

In the wake of his wife's sudden death, a grieving firefighter nearly gives up on living. But with the arrival of his wife's spiritual mentor and the encouragement of his own 12-year-old son, he begins to believe in love again. His progress is thrown off track, however, when he discovers some previously unknown truths about his wife's past. Filmmaker Angus Benfield also stars in this independent drama he co-directed with Hanna Eichler.

2.0 Average Rating

My Heart Is Mine Alone

1997

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.

2.0 Average Rating

The Puppet Grave Digger

2003

The mentally handicapped son of a protective mother may be at the root of a series of grisly murders in a small German village. Like the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, 18-year-old Ben likes to collect small, inconsequential trinkets during his wanderings. But when he brings home a severed finger, Ben becomes the prime suspect in a string of abductions -- with only his mother convinced of her son's innocence.

2.0 Average Rating

Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

1975

Straining under the realization that they have lost their revolutionary fervor, lovers and former radicals Grischa (Grischa Huber) and Heinrich (Heinrich Giskes) take up a new political cause by fighting a proposed abortion law. But fresh, more pressing questions arise when Grischa unexpectedly becomes pregnant. Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this provocative drama that also stars Ursula von Berg and Gesine Strempel.

2.0 Average Rating

The Young Lovers

1949

Just as her career is about to take off, hoofer Carol Williams (Sally Forrest) learns that she has polio, and though her friends and dance partner (Keefe Brasselle) try to support her, she grows bitter and shuts herself away from them -- at first. With her career over, Carol eventually begins to look for ways to recover and to carry on with life. Director Ida Lupino's absorbing drama also stars Hugh O'Brian, Eve Miller and Lawrence Dobkin.

1.9 Average Rating

Tax Day

1998

En route to the post office to mail their tax forms on April 15, Paula (Donna Sorbello) and Irene (Kathleen Monteleone) get sidetracked by two men who take them on an urban canoe ride on which they're repeatedly diverted by odd encounters, sidewalk spectacles and flashbacks. Writer-director Laura Colella helms this award-winning indie film about cherishing friendships, living in the moment and taking advantage of unexpected opportunities.

1.9 Average Rating

Goldirocks

2003

Instead of pursuing her own rock 'n' roll dreams, Goldi (Sasha Ormond) chases after rock musicians to sleep with. While cozying up to members of the band Neglected, Goldi seizes her opportunity to perform on stage and discovers her true calling as a singer. But as Goldi becomes increasingly popular and gains confidence, her new lover, Miles (Greg LeGros), becomes resentful and starts pushing her away.

1.9 Average Rating