The Endless Hourglass
Documents and illustrates the antithesis between the need to keep moving, and the imposed stillness of lockdown, for a single older person.
Documents and illustrates the antithesis between the need to keep moving, and the imposed stillness of lockdown, for a single older person.
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
