The Third Planet
โ 3.9 ยท 1991 ยท 93m ยท Science Fiction ยท Drama
Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.
More Like This
Tasteless
2025
When confronting a restaurateur with a secret a customer bites off more than he can chew.
More info โ
Grapes and Cheese
2021 ยท โ 9
Grapes and Cheese is a feature-length experimental amateur film directed by Henry Zagarella, featuring an inventive score that pays homage to classic American music and blends famous songs with original compositions. You don't want to miss this mind-bending emergent narrative set and filmed in the summer of 2016, also known as The Last Great American Summer.
More info โ
Bridge of Spies
2015 ยท โ 7.2
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
More info โ
The North Star
1943 ยท โ 6
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
More info โFrom Two Worlds as a Keepsake
2012
In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally bring Ashen freedom? Official selection of the Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.
More info โ
Vague Void
2026 ยท โ 10
The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.
More info โ
The Star
2002 ยท โ 6
In the summer of 1944, the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
More info โJohnny Montana
2006
Johnny in his mid-20's, from Brooklyn tries to grow beyond his provincial background in his quest for self-discovery but falls into a dark underworld that brings him everything he thinks he wants
More info โ
Frankie & Alice
2010 ยท โ 5.9
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
More info โMirage
2006
A robot boy's obsessive quest to make his life better by realizing the way is through following his heart.
More info โ
Golden Mountains
1931 ยท โ 6.3
Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.
More info โ
Careful
1992 ยท โ 6
The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.
More info โ