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Bessie

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Run time: 107m Tagline: Survival began with a song Release: 2015-05-16

Stars: Bryan Greenberg Charles S. Dutton Khandi Alexander Michael Kenneth Williams Mike Epps Mo'Nique Oliver Platt Queen Latifah Tika Sumpter Tory Kittles

Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs – and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.

Run time: 120m Tagline: Too beautiful to die. Too wild to live. Release: 1998-01-31

Stars: Angelina Jolie Elizabeth Mitchell Eric Michael Cole Faye Dunaway John Considine Kylie Travis Louis Giambalvo Mercedes Ruehl Mila Kunis Scott Cohen

Common Ground

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in "Amos and Andy", a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.

Run time: 105m Release: 2000-01-29

Stars: Beau Bridges Brittany Murphy Ed Asner Eric Stoltz Helen Shaver James Le Gros Jason Priestley Jonathan Taylor Thomas Margot Kidder Mimi Rogers

Ich will Dich

Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the two women fall for each other. This comes out and life gets out of control. Can there be a long-term solution?

Run time: 90m Release: 2014-07-02

Stars: Aljosha Horvat Erika Marozsán Gina Stiebitz Ina Weisse Linda Gegusch Marc Hosemann Margot Nagel Matti Schmidt-Schaller Petra Schmidt-Schaller Ulrich Noethen

Mulholland Dr.

Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.

Run time: 88m Release: 1999-01-01

Stars: Angelo Badalamenti Ann Miller Brent Briscoe Dan Hedaya Justin Theroux Katharine Towne Laura Harring Naomi Watts Robert Forster Scott Coffey

The Night Watch

Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.

Run time: 89m Tagline: Love and liberation in wartime Release: 2011-07-12

Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin Anna Wilson-Jones Claire Foy Claudie Blakley Harry Treadaway Jenna Augen Jodie Whittaker Kenneth Cranham Neal Barry Richard Cambridge

An Unexpected Love

Kate Mayer seems to have it all: a nice suburban house, two loving children and a devoted husband. But Kate is anything but happy. She is disappointed not only with her marriage, but with her entire life. In her pursuit of happiness, this frustrated mother files for divorce and gets her first-ever job, working in a small real estate agency. To complicate matters, Kate finds herself strongly attracted to her kindhearted boss, Mac. The surprising twist? Mac happens to be a woman. Will Kate have the courage to risk following her heart? It's one woman's emotional journey of self-discovery.

Run time: 90m Release: 2003-03-24

Stars: Alison Pill Brent Spiner Christine Ebersole D.W. Moffett Elizabeth Franz Fred Henderson Irma P. Hall Leslie Hope Margo Martindale Wendy Crewson

Aniara

Adaptation of Nobel prize laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem. The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. -- Wikipedia

Run time: 106m Release: 2018-09-07

Stars: Anneli Martini Arvin Kananian Bianca Cruzeiro Emelie Jonsson

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