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A young girl from Uganda trains to become a world chess champion. (imdb)

Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life -- sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor. (Milestone Film & Video)

An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming, a bright and promising young college student is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized young woman who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and the real Aubrey is still in mortal danger. (Sony Pictures)

An emotionally troubled young woman makes it her mission to exact revenge against the people who wronged her father.

An African-American's eyewitness accounts of notable events of the 20th century during his tenure as a White House butler. (imdb)

Set in an American maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. (imdb)

Ruth is seven months pregnant and, like all mothers, feel a complete connection with your baby. But in his case we find a special feature: the unborn child urges women to kill anyone who gets in his way.

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film... (imdb)

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost. (imdb)

From one of the world's most acclaimed comic filmmakers comes an unexpected and unforgettable fable about the power of laughter to move the human heart and the power of the imagination to bolster the human spirit. (Miramax Films)