Walker Payne

Porgy and Bess

1959 · ★ 6.3

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Amores Perros

2000 · ★ 7.6

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Dawgtown

As a competitor in the most well funded pit-fighting organization in the world, a young Pitbull leads a revolt in a dangerous break for freedom.

Bullet Head

2017 · ★ 5

A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

Conrack

1974 · ★ 6.8

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

Fresh

1994 · ★ 7.2

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

The Big Chill

1983 · ★ 6.8

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

The Patriot

2000 · ★ 7.2

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

The Tender Years

1948 · ★ 8

A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.

The Corndog Man

1999 · ★ 5

A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son...

In the Pit

2014

With a heavily pregnant wife who does not take him seriously, a young Iranian man struggles with the choice between searching for a respectable job and the fast money he can make with pitbull fights. A short but ruthless downfall that qualifies a violent world, but at the same time shows that, once having descended the downward spiral, escape is almost impossible.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016 · ★ 6.7

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.