5.8

Holy Rollers

2010, USA

• Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor, Jason Fuchs, Q-Tip, Bern Cohen, Mark Ivanir, Charlie Hewson, Elizabeth Marvel, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Andrew Levitas, Marc Rose, Omer Barnea, Stella Keitel, Eli Gelb, Penny Bittone, Evan Mathew Weinstein, Court Young, Karina Arroyave, Lou Cantres, Caroline Clay, Keith Davis, Sruli Federman, Alizée Guinochet, Rachel Heller, Sruli Leider, Joseph R. McConnell, Leslie C. Nemet, Robert Oppel
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Kevin Asch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 90s.

  7.2

Adam

2008, USA

• Actors: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker, Haviland Morris, Adam LeFevre, Mike Hodge, Peter O'Hara, John Rothman, Terry Walters, Susan Porro, Maddie Corman, Jeff Hiller, Steffany Huckaby, Karina Arroyave, Mark Doherty, Tom Levanti, Ursula Abbott, Luka Kain, Brooke Johnston, Lonnie McCullough, Tyler Poelle, Andrew Patrick Ralston, Torsten N. Hillhouse, Bill Dawes, Hunter Reid, Susan Cagle, Gary Cherkassky
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Max Mayer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating.

  5.4

Adrift in Manhattan

2007, USA

• Actors: Victor Rasuk, Richard Petrocelli, Nicole Leach, Karen Olivo, Heather Graham, Marlene Forte, Dominic Chianese, Elizabeth Peña, William Baldwin, Erika Michels, Liam de Villa, Keren Love Perilman, Karina Arroyave, Alexis Smith, Anthony Cirillo, Felix Solis, Adrianna Bremont, Damian Porter, Frank Picarazzi, Nicole Kohnen, Marti Vendetti, Tony Chiroldes, Jaime Tirelli, Teddy Coluca, Stefanie Field, Jesse Green, Dave Herring, Sam O'Brien, James P. Stephens
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alfredo De Villa
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help--something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence. - Caroline Libresco

  8.0

Crash

2003, USA, Germany

• Actors: Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Art Chudabala, Sean Cory, Tony Danza, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Ime Etuk, Eddie J. Fernandez, William Fichtner, Howard Fong, Brendan Fraser, Billy Gallo, Ken Garito, Nona Gaye, Octavio Gómez Berríos, James Haggis, Terrence Howard, Sylva Kelegian, Daniel Dae Kim, Bruce Kirby, Ludacris, Jayden Lund, Jack McGee, Amanda Moresco, Thandie Newton
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Paul Haggis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

  5.9

Empire

2001, USA

• Actors: John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Isabella Rossellini, Sonia Braga, Delilah Cotto, Nestor Serrano, Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Rafael Báez, Fat Joe, Carlos Leon, Felix Solis, Omar Pastran, Rob B. Campbell, Granville Adams, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Nicole Gomez-Fisher, Maritza Morgado, Sam Coppola, Karina Arroyave, Mike Figueroa, Marta Vidal, Andre De Leon, Monica Steuer, Teo Castellanos, Tanya Byers, Giovanna Gomez, Jaime Velez, Rosanne Lucarelli
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Franc. Reyes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Victor, is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack, a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name (and money) written all over it.

  6.5

One Eight Seven

1997, USA

• Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana, Karina Arroyave, Lobo Sebastian, Jack Kehler, Jonah Rooney, Demetrius Navarro, Ebony Monique Solomon, Johnny Bogris, Dominic Hoffman, Martha Velez, Method Man, Sage Allen, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Donal Gibson, Liza Del Mundo, Vic Polizos, Leonard L. Thomas, Antwon Tanner, Gannon Brown, Larry A. Costales, David Reyes, Joanna Sanchez, Richard Riehle, Harri James, Esther Scott, Esther Mercado
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Kevin Reynolds
• Available languages:
  • English English.

High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.

  5.3

The Cowboy Way

1993, USA

• Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono, Marg Helgenberger, Tomas Milian, Luis Guzmán, Angel Caban, Matthew Cowles, Joaquín Martínez, Kristin Baer, Christian Aubert, Emmanuel Xuereb, Francie Swift, Christopher Durang, Laura Ekstrand, Graciela Lecube, José Zúñiga, Travis Tritt, Dan Spoon, J.D. Garfield, Duke Jackson, Larry Pennington, Frank Girardeau, Harsh Nayyar, Allison Janney, Karina Arroyave, Ira Newborn, Kenneth Simmons
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Gregg Champion
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two buddies and championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar, after he disappears after travelling to New York City to pick up his daughter, Theresa. When Pepper and Sonny find that neither is anywhere to be found, they go about the wacky adventure of finding Nacho and Theresa, and in the process, test the foundation of their friendship. Along the way, they find themselves entwined in the inner workings of a New York sweat shop where Theresa has been enslaved after traveling to the U.S.A. from Cuba. Going about doing things in a cowboy way, Pepper and Sonny put their small town skills to the test in a big city kind of way and rescue Theresa from the thugs.

  7.6

Falling Down

1992, France, USA, UK

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Lois Smith, Joey Hope Singer, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond J. Barry, D.W. Moffett, Steve Park, Kimberly Scott, James Keane, Macon McCalman, Richard Montoya, Bruce Beatty, Matthew Saks, Agustin Rodriguez, Eddie Frias, Pat Romano, Julian Scott Urena, Karina Arroyave, Irene Olga López, James Morrison, Benjamin Mouton, Dean Hallo, John Fleck, Dedee Pfeiffer
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Joel Schumacher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene.....

  7.1

Lean on Me

1989, USA

• Actors: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North, Lynne Thigpen, Robin Bartlett, Michael Beach, Ethan Phillips, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Sloane Shelton, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Karen Malina White, Karina Arroyave, Ivonne Coll, Regina Taylor, Michael P. Moran, John Ring, Tyrone Jackson, Alex Romaguera, Tony Todd, Mike Starr, Michael Best, Stephen Capers Jr., Dwayne Jones, Kenneth Kelly, Yvette Hawkins, Nicole Quinn, Elsie Hilario, Michael A. Joseph, Richard Grusin
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Director(s): John G. Avildsen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.