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A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.

A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.

Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over 30 years. The second story centers on the affairs of an airline pilot who shares a house but not a life with his wife. He crosses paths with an unusual woman and spends an extraordinary night with his son. The final chapter follows the homecoming of Elliot to his estranged family. As his father dies, Elliot meets and falls in love with a woman who sees past his tough-guy exterior.

Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.

After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, police detective Matt Dickson heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and gets a lead on him. However, just when he fails to catch up and arrest him, the chase becomes personal.

An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.

Johnny Woo is a Chinese doctor who has given up fighting in the ring. His brother is a teacher at a kickboxing club. When Johnny falls in love with Julie, whose brother is a teacher in a rival kickboxing club, tension begins to build...

A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.

Bell and Belle want to break out of their trailer park lives and get up and out to the "Big City" of Atlanta. Just when they think they are on their way to getting a nest egg Bell falls for a handsome police officer named Rhett Butler.

"Mitzi and Spanko run amok in a colorful world where reason is overrated, featuring the thumping, riotously fun music of the Asylum Street Spankers." A beautiful hand-animated short inspired by and done to the song "Monkey Rag" by Asylum Street Spankers. You can find the full short on YouTube at http://youtu.be/HqJQAgBPBSA

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.

Made with a message of hope, Rites of Passage is a raw, uncensored and honest film inspired by the life experiences of the young people involved in the making of this powerful feature-length drama. Six interwoven stories show these teenagers negotiating the dangers and discoveries of their age and because the cast were also the crew what emerges is a self portrait of resilient kids responding to the challenges surrounding them. They might live in public housing and come from families that have seen disadvantage and hardship. But with frankness and courage, these young people have dipped below the surface of their often tough exteriors to reveal what’s going on inside their lives.

 The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.

For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

Theo meets his perfect girl whom no one else can see. Her name is Sadie and she's everything he's envisioned; down to the eerily similar doodles he made while daydreaming about her. Denying the reality that others impose on him about her existence, he fights to hold on to her perfection.

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.

Billy Duncan (Robert Krantz) is a dance instructor who has fallen on hard times. After a misstep with the law, a judge sentences him to serve 500 hours of community service. His assignment? Giving dance lessons to the Yiayias and Papous at a local Greek Orthodox Church. Soon Billy, the "xeno", finds himself falling in love with Alexia Constarakis (Patricia Skeriotis) the daughter of a wealthy parishioner, and with the help of Father Chris (Robert Costanzo), the Church's off-beat, charismatic Priest, Billy is inspired into teaching dance again, and taking a chance on love.

An Icelandic volcano has blocked air traffic and Thelma’s parents are stuck overseas. Until planes start flying across the sky again Jean, Vincent and Thelma share the same roof.

"Paradoxical" is an independent science fiction film from the makers of international documentaries "Design & Thinking," "Maker" and "Hanzi."