Bob Balaban
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
(2015)HD. Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock's famed interview with French auteur Francois Truffaut is the focus of this illuminating documentary.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
(2023)This is not a documentary about the making of 'Midnight Cowboy'. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

Recount
(2008)Kevin Spacey stars in this gripping film that explores the human drama surrounding the controversial 2000 presidential election.

End of the Line
(1987)When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Eva Hesse
(2016)Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960's.

Isle of Dogs
(2018)HD. Wes Anderson directed this hilarious stop-motion animated tale set in a future Japan in which all dogs have been exiled to Trash Island.

Altered States
(1980)A psychophysicologist's work on human consciousness intensifies, and only the strong-willed love of his anthropologist wife, Emily, can save him.

Mascots
(2016)Sports mascots reveal the peculiarities of their ultra-competitive world as they pursue the highest honour in their field: the Gold Fluffy.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
(2016)A nervous nurse who scares easily finds herself caring for an ailing horror novelist while living in a house with hidden secrets.

Marie and Bruce
(2004)A drama following a long-term married couple, Marie and Bruce, as they battle to undermine each other in the midst of an impending divorce.

2010
(1984)A belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (1968) - an earlier Arthur C. Clarke novel. Nine years after the Jupiter voyage of Discovery went mysteriously awry, the Soviet Union and United States team together to launch a salvage operation, despite being on the brink of nuclear war. The questions to which the crew seek an answer include ascertaining what happened to the ship'...

The Late Shift
(1996)In 1990, Johnny Carson announced he was retiring and all hell broke loose. While NBC schemed, CBS dreamed, and the question on everyone's lips was "Who will get Johnny's job?" Jay Leno thought he deserved it, David Letterman knew he had earned it and everybody else wanted a piece of the action. Kathy Bates won a Golden Globe(R) for her performance.

Dead Bang
(1989)A Los Angeles detective's investigation into a patrolman's murder leads him to a nest of neo-Nazis in the Midwest.
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
(1981)Ken Harrison, a respected sculptor, is left as a paraplegic after a horrific car accident, and argues for his right to die as his doctor does everything he can to keep him alive.

Lady in the Water
(2006)HD. M. Night Shyamalan's cinematic fairy tale about an apartment superintendent who discovers an otherworldly creature in the complex's pool.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977)In this Steven Spielberg classic, newly restored in 4K, Richard Dreyfuss is an average man who experiences a close encounter, leading him and the government on a path toward alien contact.

Capote
(2005)Based on the true story, Truman Capote finds himself becoming disturbingly close to one of the murderers of a Kansas family that he is writing about.

Carl Laemmle
(2019)Discover the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish immigrant, who founded Universal Pictures and saved Jewish families from Nazi Germany.

Ghost World
(2001)A mean-spirited prank on a lonely stranger morphs into a complicated relationship for a cynic drifting through life after her high school graduation.

Deconstructing Harry
(1997)Harry Block, who suffers from writer's block and eagerly awaits his award, remembers some incredibly momentous times from his past.