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Summary: A perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S., creating a form of modern slavery for a large percentage of African-Americans. Rev. C.L. Bryant presents an insightful and compelling look at how freedom can be restored.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Ground Floor Video
Countries: United States, Israel
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 71,737
Summary: In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 133,000
Domestic: $ 371,111
International: $ 80,225
Summary: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Runtime: 2 h 50 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 700,000
Domestic: $ 7,830,611
International: $ 4,000,000
Summary: Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,492,203
International: $ 116,271,443
Summary: A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Release Date: November 21, 1997
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,263,585
Summary: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, France
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,441,705
International: $ 2,799,951
Summary: Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Domestic: $ 421,454
International: $ 338,864
Summary: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Production: Grandelusion
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 300,000
Domestic: $ 220,165
Summary: With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 479,169
Summary: In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
Summary: A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Summary: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,337,722
International: $ 6,873,453
Summary: In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
Summary: Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,790,801
International: $ 228
Summary: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the village...
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Canada
Language: French
Domestic: $ 9,844,180
International: $ 3,899,136
Summary: This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its member...
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,305
Summary: The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney S...
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
Summary: Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 712,095
Summary: Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in ReykjavĂ­k? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: Icelandic
Domestic: $ 126,404
International: $ 420,055
Summary: A social movie about life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy i...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000