Walker Payne

Conrack

1974 · ★ 6.7

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.

The Big Chill

1983 · ★ 6.8

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fresh

1994 · ★ 7.2

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

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.

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.

Take the Shot

Take the Shot follows a quiet teenager, Caleb, who joins his old-school father, Ray, in the one place they seem to understand each other, on a hunting trip. When tensions in the woods rise and a moment shifts their path, the day becomes something neither of them expected.

A Gift for and from the Shallows

2022

After waking up alone by a backwoods lake next to a ring buried in the shore line, business man Jeff Sinclair is faced with not knowing what he did the night before or the story of whose ring he took.

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.