“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977)….

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned…

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Blaze Starr, playing herself, is tired of performing the duties of a star. At a movie theater, she watches an advertisement for the Sunny Palms Lodge, only 30 miles from…

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren’s smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that…

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he…

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries…

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn’t know is that his…

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and…