In a remote seaside village, a stranger becomes involved in public and personal crises.

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.

An advertising executive flying home for Thanksgiving finds himself seated beside a boisterous curtain ring salesman. When their flight is rerouted due to a snowstorm, the salesman's advice propels them into one disaster after another.

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel, overbearing mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister. An all-star version of the Tennessee Williams classic. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.

Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?

Ten of the world's greatest directors (including Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell, and Robert Altman) were commissioned to create short pieces based on the world's greatest opera music. The result is erotic, demented, funny, poignant, extravagant, outrageous, breathtaking and totally unique.

An Oscar nominated classic short film from legendary animator Bill Bill Plympton. As a second-rate crooner sings about the beauties of his lover's face, his own face changes into the most surreal shapes and contortions possible.. Nominated for a Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

Young, handsome and broke Vikram (Ashutosh Gowariker, director of Oscar®-nominated Lagaan) arrives from Mumbai to find his plans for college have completely fallen through. While exploring exotic San Francisco, he falls for Sue (Heidi Carpenter), a feisty bohemian artist. With his visa quickly running out, Vikram resorts to a series of increasingly elaborate - sometimes criminal, and occasionally romantic - schemes to stay in the country. A forgotten classic from the height of the American Independent era, David Rathod's WEST IS WEST will warm your heart and make you laugh out loud!

A stagecoach driver (Hugo Weaving) goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat (Rupert Everett) in 1860s Australia. The two men are soon involved in an intense, complex relationship with a spirited and beautiful young woman (Catherine McClements). A thoughtful drama with meditations on mortality, class, independence and love, it is an atypical journey into the nation's past. Directed and adapted for the screen by an all-female team (director DI DREW and screenwriter HELEN HODGMAN)-a rarity for the era-this lavish and ambitious Australian period drama was shot mostly on location in Bathurst, New South Wales.

Cohen Film Collection presents a newly restored and rarely seen film directed by Raphael D. Silver. A tale of hubris and hope, A WALK ON THE MOON finds an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer as he attempts to bring his version of progress to a rural Colombian village. Featuring stunning color cinematography by Adam Greenberg.

Based on the William Kennedy novel of the same name, IRONWEED is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up baseball player who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink; spending his days palling around with Rudy (Tom Waits). Wandering into his hometown of Albany, New York, Phelan blearily seeks out his girlfriend and erstwhile drinking companion of nine years, Helen Archer (Meryl Streep), who has begun prostituting herself for drink and lodging. When a chance for reconciliation with his wife (Carroll Baker) emerges, Francis must decide if he is ready to return to the life he abandoned. Nominated for Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Actress (Meryl Streep) in a Leading Role at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Jack Nicholson) at the **Golden Globes**. *"... An exercise in which two great actors expand their range and work together in great sympathy." - Roger Ebert, **Chicago Sun-Times***