Gabriela

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allow...

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Fred Coe

Cast

Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Barry Gordon

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast

Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunt...

Runtime

1h 5m

Director

George Amy, Busby Berkeley

Cast

Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot

A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Fernando Trueba

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah

As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Mario Azzopardi

Cast

Polly Walker, Luc Picard, Isabelle Blais