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poster Hard Luck
Hard Luck
22mn - Comedy
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that thi…
poster The Singing Fool
The Singing Fool
(3.2/5)
102mn - Drama, Music
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging …
poster Twisted Minds
Twisted Minds
81mn - Drama, Horror
Local banker Bruno Adani's life is turned upside down when his stepbrother, Greg Tillney's darkened past catches up with him.
poster Exposé
Exposé
(2.7/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
poster The Woes of Roller Skaters
The Woes of Roller Skaters
7mn - Comedy
A group of people take roller skating too far.
poster Extra Innings
Extra Innings
(3.0/5)
120mn - Drama
In 1960s Brooklyn, young David Sabah dreams of a baseball career but faces fierce opposition from his traditional Syrian Jewish family who expect him to join the family business and marry within their com…
poster Shoes
Shoes
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.
poster Fireside Reminiscences
Fireside Reminiscences
8mn - Drama, Fantasy
A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.
poster America Adrift
America Adrift
(3.3/5)
80mn -
Cecelia Fernandez thought she had achieved the American Dream when she moved her family to a beautiful Long Island home, but her world crumbles when her youngest son Cameron falls victim to the heroin epi…
poster Shell
Shell
(3.2/5)
90mn - Drama
In the remote Scottish Highlands, seventeen-year-old Shell tends a decaying gas station with her reclusive father Pete, their world reduced to passing trucks and fleeting customers. Abandoned by her mothe…
poster The Floor Below
The Floor Below
(3.2/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…
poster The Mischance of a Photographer
The Mischance of a Photographer
3mn - Comedy
A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.
poster The Soul of Youth
The Soul of Youth
80mn - Drama
Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to s…
poster Summoners
Summoners
89mn - Horror, Drama
Jessica Whitman isn’t a witch. Not anymore, at least. She left it behind when she left her hometown almost ten years ago. But when a childhood friend needs her help performing a dark spell, she’ll find he…
poster The Little Tease
The Little Tease
25mn - Drama
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…
poster Shadows
Shadows
(3.1/5)
68mn - Drama
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…
poster Fire in the Dark
Fire in the Dark
(3.4/5)
124mn - Drama, Short
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious …
poster Paper Year
Paper Year
(2.6/5)
89mn - Drama, Romance
Young newlyweds encounter a series of challenges during the first year of their marriage.
poster So Near, Yet So Far
So Near, Yet So Far
15mn - Romance, Drama
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy bot…
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
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