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  • Brubaker

    The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

  • Daughters of Eve

    In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him – one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

  • South Central

    During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.

  • Radio Flyer

    A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the “Radio Flyer”, into a plane to fly him to safety.

  • Chained Heat 2

    An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.

  • Natural Born Killers

    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

  • A Family Divided

    College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family’s pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat’s last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son’s future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie’s mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.

  • The Piano Teacher

    Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

  • Enough

    Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch’s hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child’s safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford’s search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.