Dancing in the Ring

Synecdoche, New York

2008 · ★ 7.5

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Before Night Falls

2000 · ★ 6.7

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

An American Tail

1986 · ★ 6.8

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

Storm Over Jamaica

1958 · ★ 7

A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.

Working Girl

1988 · ★ 6.6

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.

Fame

1980 · ★ 6.4

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Paraagan

A feisty but down-on-his-luck thug starts rebelling in unexpected ways after his emotionally manipulative boss keeps him trapped and working in a mechanic shop for four years.

Gisela

2005 · ★ 5.1

Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.

Mad Dog Coll

1961 · ★ 5.4

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

Underground

1928 · ★ 6.8

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...

Frankie and Johnny

1991 · ★ 6.8

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, he develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

American Gangster

2007 · ★ 7.6

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.