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  • Ironweed

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    An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

  • A Hobo’s Christmas

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    A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it’s time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he…

  • Distant Thunder

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    A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he’s been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son,…

  • Taking Care of Terrific

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    14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered boy. The two hook up for some hilarious adventures in the park with a mysterious bag lady and a street musician. With the help of Enid’s boyfriend, Seth, they try to…

  • The Saint of Fort Washington

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    Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry,…

  • A Home of Our Own

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    In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.

  • Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

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    Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

  • Glue Sniffer

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    Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.

  • Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

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    Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib’s revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor – when he was living…

  • The Hours

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    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

  • LolliLove

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    A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.

  • The Pursuit of Happyness

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    A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

  • Wendy and Lucy

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    A near-penniless drifter’s journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

  • Where Is My Darling?

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    Meet Lanz Priestley, a charasmatic homeless man, who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers taps have run dry in drought-stricken outback Australia, he raises the money to deliver drinking water himself.

  • No Place to Go

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    Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There are no new jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diners and internet cafes are closed. Michiko is at her wits’ end, but there in front of…

  • Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home

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    Los Angeles’ Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course – but more importantly we found life, hope and…

  • 8 Minutes Idle

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    Based upon Matt Thorne’s award-winning novel about life in a call centre, “Eight Minutes Idle” is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to put your life ‘on hold’! Dan Thomas has always taken the path of least resistance – in his work life, home life and love life! But when Dan finds…

  • How to Steal a Dog

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    Ji-so, a young girl who doesn’t have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plan to steals wealthy people’s dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.

  • Squatters

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    A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home.

  • The Lady in the Van

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    The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

  • The Boy and the Beast

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    Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he’s looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.