Joaquin Phoenix
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A raw documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's career transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
2) Two Lovers
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After moving back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, Leonard must decide between the woman his parents think would be perfect for him and the gorgeous neighbor he can't get out of his mind.
4) C'mon C'mon
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Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together on a road trip.
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As the Cold War winds down, U.S. soldier Ray Elwood enjoys the rush of trading anything he can get his hands on in West Germany's booming black-market. Everything is perfect - until he starts dating the new sergeant's daughter! But before he can pull off one last big score, his escalating personal war with Sergeant Lee will send him deeper into a deadly mess that may not have a way out!
7) Hotel Rwanda
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The film chronicles the true story of Paul Rusesabinga (Don Cheadle), a brave hotel manager who risked his life and those of his family to take in more than 1,000 refugees during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsus by Hutu militia.
10) The Yards
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Released from prison after taking the fall for his friends, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerful Uncle Frank and reconnects with his old friend Willie, he is unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs and even murder. Then he discovers a secret that makes him the target of the city's most ruthless family - his own.
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More than ten years in the making, the feature documentary THE ANIMAL PEOPLE, from directors Cassandra Suchan and Denis Henry Hennelly, follows the journey of six young activists who find themselves indicted as terrorists by the United States government. The reason for indictment: the activists' leadership of a controversial open protest campaign aiming to close down the largest animal testing laboratory in the world. The activists used the then fledgling...
12) Russkies
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It is during the Cold War and all Americans have a view of Russians as one thing: bad people. A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.
13) Unity
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A study in the duality of man. Even after thousands and thousands of years, mankind still can't get along with each other, the animals, or the environment, despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy and religion.