Screenplay
The Whale
HDA reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Heartburn
HDShe's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Rabbit Hole
HDLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Death of a Superhero
HDA dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Blue Like Jazz
HDDon, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.
The Whales of August
HDTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
The Milagro Beanfield War
HDAn accidental breakdown of a valve on the irrigation ditch launches a hot confrontation between local farmers and corrupt authorities.
Stars and Bars
HDA British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Crossing Delancey
HDA Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Miss Firecracker
HDCarnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.
A Chorus of Disapproval
HDWidower Guy is transferred to an English coastal town, where he joins an amateur operatic society to "meet people" and "have fun".
White Hunter Black Heart
HDA thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
Convicts
HDHorton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.
Secret Friends
HDDuring a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secre...
Prelude to a Kiss
HDA couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Sweet Talk
HDA blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.
The Cemetery Club
HDLifelong friends meet weekly to celebrate the past and present.
A Good Man in Africa
HDIn a West African nation, the womanizing British 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner deals with different issues.
Oleanna
HDWhen a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.
The Van
HDSet in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.
The Twilight of the Golds
HDWhen Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or...
A Simple Plan
HDThree diverse characters, for the most part intellectually challenged, find a deserted plane with a bag full of millions of dollars inside. They devise a simple plan to keep the money if no-one claims it. Ofcourse, nothing turns out simple...
Wishing for a Dream
HDActress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend Louis Digman struggle through the trenches of the entertainment industry to succeed in "Hollywood." Told in raw documentary style, the camera chronicles Mika's journey through Los Angeles, going to auditions and trying to make her mark in front of the camera. Louis's story shows his struggles behind the scenes as an up-and-coming writer-director. The film also follows their ups and downs as a young couple, supporting each other through the stresses, hopes, desires, disappointments and Mika's crippling insomnia, as they try to make ends meet and pursue their dreams in an often heart-breaking industry.
My Old Lady
HDMathias Gold (Kevin Kline), a penniless fifty-odd-year-old New Yorker, lands in Paris. Cynical, and at the end of his tether, he looks forward to selling the mansion house his late father owned in the Marais district. But what he finds out there just appalls him: his secretive dad had never told him he had acquired the property as a life lease, a typically French custom of which he never heard. As a consequence, not only will poor Mathias be unable to sell the house into cash (at least as long as Mathilde Girard (Dame Maggie Smith) stays alive), but he will have to pay the old lady a pension as part of the bargain.
If You're Gone
HDWhen high school senior Brad Lee disappears the night of his graduation ceremony, his girlfriend is forced to question everything she thought she knew about him and their relationship, as well as her own faith, in hopes of finding him.
Ordinary Happiness
HDAfter a deadly accident, Paolo comes back on Earth just 92 minutes more, thanks to a calculation error made in a paradise office.
Waiting for the Barbarians
HDAt an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate of an unnamed empire suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
To Dust
HDShmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
How to Build a Girl
HDThe novel charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.
Wild Mountain Thyme
HDThe headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony's (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.
Please Stand By
HDThe world is a confusing place for Wendy Welcott, a fiercely independent and brilliant young woman with autism. Wendy longs to leave her group home and return to living with her sister's family and new baby girl. She is sure that in order to reunite with her family, all she needs to do is convince them of her newfound competence and abilities. As a lover of all things Star Trek, Wendy writes in her free time; so when she hears about a Star Trek screenplay competition, she seizes the opportunity to submit her 500-page script and prove her worth. However, her only problem: if she doesn't hand in her 500-page script to Paramount Pictures in person, she will miss the deadline. Wendy sneaks out of her group home and travels hundreds of miles outside her protective boundaries and refuses to allow anything to stop her from achieving her goals.
French Exit
HD"My plan was to die before the money ran out," says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank-who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances's dead husband.