Search Results for - Narrowed by: Shout Factory (Firm),SirsiDynix Enterprisehttps://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/hou/hou/qf$003dAUTHOR$002509Author$002509Shout$002bFactory$002b$002528Firm$002529$00252C$002509Shout$002bFactory$002b$002528Firm$002529$00252C$0026dt$003dlist$0026ps$003d1000?2024-05-19T09:41:34ZTitle Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141384812024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Black, Claudia, Edgley, Gigi, Pygram, Wayne,<br/>Summary When a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton, once sucked into the Peacekeeper galaxy through a wormhole. Crichton's task: Get the entire Peacekeeper race to safety before the last war of an era brings and end to the universe.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13138482">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Maya the Bee 2: the Honey Games.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:135222392024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Stadermann, Alexs, Cleary, Noel, Delfino, Sergio, Jack Anthony, Benson, Jack Gillies, Coco,<br/>Summary After a slow harvest season, the very survival of the hive is threatened. Maya, and her sidekick, Willy, go to Buzztropolis, where the Empress invites them to participate in the Honey Games. But if they lose, the hive will have to give the Empress all of their summer honey! Needless to say, Maya and Willy's teammates are neither enthusiastic nor athletic, but Maya remains positive and exclaims that "every bug has a talent!"<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12522240">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Maya the Bee 3: the Golden Orb.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:135222412024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Cleary, Noel, Jack Anthony, Benson, Jack Gillies, Coco, James Eaton, Jimmy, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary When Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her best friend Willi, rescue an ant princess they find themselves in the middle of an epic bug battle that will take them to strange new worlds and test their friendship to its limits.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12522242">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Storyteller: Greek Myths.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141385072024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Henson, Brian, Morrissey, David, Jacobi, Derek, Gambon, Michael, Varnom, Steve,<br/>Summary A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13138508">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farscape.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141281452024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Black, Claudia, Clarke, Jason, Hardy, Jonathan,<br/>Summary Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13128146">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farscape.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141280522024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Black, Claudia, Hardy, Jonathan, John Tupu, Lani,<br/>Summary Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13128053">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Storyteller.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141384872024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Henson, Brian, Hurt, John, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13138488">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farscape.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141280042024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Mendelsohn, Ben, Black, Claudia, Clarke, Jason,<br/>Summary Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13128005">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farscape.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141280992024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Mendelsohn, Ben, Black, Claudia, Hardy, Jonathan,<br/>Summary Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13128100">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farscape.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:141280062024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Simcoe, Anthony, Browder, Ben, Black, Claudia, Hardy, Jonathan, John Tupu, Lani,<br/>Summary Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/13128007">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Great Train Robbery.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:128756802024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Muir, Bethany, Synnott, Del, Hulme, Eric, Roth, Jack, Evans, Luke,<br/>Summary A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11875681">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Saint.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:128754202024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Summers, Jeremy, Ainsworth, John, Truman, Michael, S. Baker, Robert, Diamond, Arnold,<br/>Summary Simon Templar, a wealthy adventurer, travels around the world in his yellow Volvo.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11875421">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Saint.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:128754222024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Summers, Jeremy, Ainsworth, John, Truman, Michael, S. Baker, Robert, Diamond, Arnold,<br/>Summary Simon Templar, a wealthy adventurer, travels around the world in his yellow Volvo.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11875423">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Georgia Rule.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:133742902024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Marshall, Garry, Elwes, Cary, Mulroney, Dermot, Huffman, Felicity, Hedlund, Garrett,<br/>Summary A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12374291">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Pacific Heights.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:133742942024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Schlesinger, John, Lumbly, Carl, Harewood, Dorian, Metcalf, Laurie, Bercovici, Luca,<br/>Summary A couple work hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately, one of their tenants has plans of his own.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12374295">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Crimes of Passion.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:134092822024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Russell, Ken, Perkins, Anthony, Davison, Bruce, Hunt, Gordon, Laughlin, John,<br/>Summary 30-year-old hardworking Bobby Grady is married with two children, and his marriage to frigid Amy is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion-design studio whose owner believes that his talented, introspective designed Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub. Following Joanna after-hours, he discovers her double life, working as $50-hooker China Blue in the red-light district, satisfying her clients' fantasies with kinky sex. Bobby becomes obsessed with China Blue, and when the true thieves are found, he has sex with her and thinks he's in love with her. Meanwhile, insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12409283">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Elegy.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:134092842024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Coixet, Isabel, Cupo, Antonio, Kingsley, Ben, Rose, Charlie, Harry, Debbie,<br/>Summary David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married, who advises David to grow up and grow old. She invites him to meet her family. His own son, from a long-ended marriage, confronts him. Is the elegy for lost relationships, lost possibilities, beauty and time passing, or failure of nerve?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12409285">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Space: 1999.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:128752232024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11875224">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Space: 1999.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:128759332024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Bain, Barbara, Blessed, Brian, Schell, Catherine, Landau, Martin, Tate, Nick,<br/>Summary The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11875934">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Standing Up, Falling Down.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:129016262024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Ratner, Matt, Schwartz, Ben, Crystal, Billy, Mumford, Eloise, Gummer, Grace,<br/>Summary After four years of chasing his stand-up comedy dream in Los Angeles, 34-year-old Scott Rollins (Ben Schwartz, Parks And Recreation) has crashed and burned. Left with little money and a fledging "career," Scott has no choice but to regroup, lick his wounds, and return to his parents' house in Long Island. While trying to figure out what to do next, he pines after his ex, Becky (Eloise Mumford), a successful photographer who has since married a former mutual friend. On a night out at a local bar, Scott strikes up an unlikely friendship with a very flawed, but very charming dermatologist, Marty (Billy Crystal, When Harry Met Sally...), who has a few regrets of his own. Marty and Scott help each other find the courage to face the failures in their lives and take stock in what their futures could bring.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11901627">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:129016282024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Miller, Frank, Rodriguez, Robert, Willis, Bruce, Green, Eva, Alba, Jessica,<br/>Summary Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11901629">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Christmas for a Dollar.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308672024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Lyde, John, Krause, Brian, C. Ryan, Danielle, Hunt, Ethan, Beers, Heather,<br/>Summary During the Great Depression, the Kamp family struggles to get by after Mrs. Kamp passes away. The children expect another Christmas without presents until their father brings home one dollar for them to spend on gifts.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830868">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Hats Off to Christmas!.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308732024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Ingram, Terry, Cupo, Antonio, Duff, Haylie, Brazeau, Jay, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary For ten years, Mia has been a loyal and hard-working small-town Christmas hat shop manager. But this holiday season, her boss has gifted her a disappointing revelation. The position she had been coveting is going to his son Nick, who's coming from New York City to take over the family business. Less than thrilled with the prospect of training the boss' son, she quickly discovers Nick to be a charismatic charmer and falls quickly for him when he helps out with her handicapped son Scotty. Although Nick starts to have doubts about giving up his past big-city life, he and Mia slowly start to realize they're the Christmas miracle each has been waiting for.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830874">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Mrs. Santa Claus.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308772024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hughes, Terry, Lansbury, Angela, Jeter, Michael, Mann, Terrence, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A musical adventure in which Mrs. Claus leaves the North Pole and finds herself in 1890s New York. She explores this new world by getting a job in a sweat shop and befriending a young suffragette, only to become empowered by urban life.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830878">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Metroland.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:133742922024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Saville, Philip, Ryan, Amanda, Bale, Christian, Zylberstein, Elsa, Watson, Emily,<br/>Summary After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12374293">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:133742882024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Schrader, Paul, Kamerling, Antonie, Crawford, Billy, Bellar, Clara, Mann, Gabriel,<br/>Summary Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12374289">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The 12 Days Of Christmas Eve.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308612024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Coolidge, Martha, Krysko, Mark, von Pfetten, Stefanie, Weber, Steven, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Calvin Carter is a hard-charging, high-living guy who runs a hugely successful chain of discount stores. When he awakens in the hospital he is met by a no-nonsense nurse who gives him 12 days to relive Christmas Eve and find the true meaning of the holiday.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830862">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Christmas Comes to Willow Creek.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308652024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Lang, Richard, Schneider, John, Delaney, Kim, Wopat, Tom, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Two feuding brothers and one's teenage son spend four days in an 18-wheeler taking toys from California all the way to Alaska, facing blizzards and their own complicated history together.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830866">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Christmas Memory.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308692024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Jordan, Glenn, DeMunn, Jeffrey, Duke, Patty, Laurie, Piper, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Seven-year-old Buddy lives in a small Alabama town with his three elderly spinster cousins.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830870">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Mr. St. Nick.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308752024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Zisk, Craig, Ortiz, Ana, Bedford, Brian, Hendrix, Elaine, Grammer, Kelsey,<br/>Summary Take one Santa who's losing his powers, a Santa-to-be who is addicted to Miami nightlife, and a scheme to bring a totally unexpected new demographic to Christmas, and you have a wildly funny holiday romp from Sonar Entertainment.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830876">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Month in the Country.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:129018132024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor O'Connor, Pat, Firth, Colin, Carter, Jim, Atkinson, John, Branagh, Kenneth,<br/>Summary 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?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11901814">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Space: 1999.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:130101642024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12010165">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Just a Gigolo.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:134192152024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hemmings, David, Jürgens, Curd, Bowie, David, Pluhar, Erika, Weissner, Hilde,<br/>Summary After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12419216">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Boris Karloff: the Man Behind the Monster.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:135222312024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hamilton, Thomas, Munro, Caroline, Plummer, Christopher, del Toro, Guillermo, Landis, John,<br/>Summary Karloff, examining his illustrious 60-year career in the entertainment industry and his enduring legacy as one of the icons of 20th century popular culture.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12522232">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Language Lessons.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:135222352024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Morales, Natalie, Quesada, Christine, Terry, Desean, Duplass, Mark, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12522236">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title An American Christmas Carol.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308632024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Till, Eric, Wiggins, Chris, Wayne, David, Winkler, Henry, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A retelling of Charles Dickens' beloved A Christmas Carol in which Henry Winkler is a heartless finance company president in Depression era New England.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830864">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Night They Saved Christmas.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308792024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Cooper, Jackie, Carney, Art, Smith, Jaclyn, Lockhart, June, Adams, Mason,<br/>Summary A mother and her three children find themselves on a wondrous journey to the North Pole, where they alone can save Santa Claus and his massive toy factory from destruction.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830880">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Maya the Bee Movie.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:135222372024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Stadermann, Alexs, Weaver, Jacki, Smit-McPhee, Kodi, Roxburgh, Richard, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and simply won't follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules, of course, is not to trust other bugs, especially the hornets that live beyond the meadow. But sweet Maya can't help but make friends with all kinds of other bugs, including a violin-playing grasshopper, a dung beetle and even a young hornet named Sting. When the Royal Jelly is stolen, the hornets are the prime suspects and Maya is thought to be their accomplice. Now, it's up to Maya and all of her new friends to prove her innocence and find the missing Royal Jelly!<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12522238">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Real Blonde.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:133742962024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor DiCillo, Tom, Keener, Catherine, Hannah, Daryl, Berkley, Elizabeth, Thomas, Marlo,<br/>Summary Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high. He works as a waiter at a cafe. Mary works as a make-up stylist for hot fashion photographer Blair, and she pays most of the pair's bills. Joe finally lowers his standards and accepts a degrading bit in a Madonna video, while his friend and co-waiter Bob gets a high-paying job on a soap opera opposite siren Kelly.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12374297">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Elf Who Didn't Believe.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:138308712024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor McDonald, Rodney, Harshman, Margo, Mann, Rich, Donnelly, Sean, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Elmer is one of Santa's elves but he doesn't believe in Christmas anymore. He flees from the North Pole and is taken in by an orphanage. There he tries to get adopted by a nice couple. Join Elmer in his quest to become a regular little boy.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/12830872">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Fantastic Fear of Everything.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415792024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hopewell, Chris, Mills, Crispian, Karan, Amara, Freeman, Paul, Pegg, Simon,<br/>Summary A crime novelist, whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, must confront his worst fears, when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341580">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Stepfather.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121876002024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Ruben, Joseph, Lanyer, Charles, Schoelen, Jill, Stevan, Robyn, Hack, Shelley,<br/>Summary A family-values man named Jerry Blake marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine, who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie, and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11187601">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Loveless.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121992722024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Bigelow, Kathryn, Rosen, Danny, Gans, Elizabeth, Don Ferguson, J., Call, Ken,<br/>Summary Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11199273">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Piranha.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121875982024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Dante, Joe, Steele, Barbara, Brown, Barry, Balaski, Belinda, Dillman, Bradford,<br/>Summary When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11187599">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Bagdad Cafe.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415832024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Adlon, Percy, Pounder, CCH, Palance, Jack, Sägebrecht, Marianne, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341584">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Staged.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123447392024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Evans, Simon, Tennant, David, Tennant, Georgia, Sheen, Michael, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11344740">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Staged.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123447532024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Evans, Simon, Tennant, David, Tennant, Georgia, Sheen, Michael, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11344754">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415932024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Wright, April, Armstrong, Andy, Abdias, Juan, Jubilee Gonzalez, Michelle, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary An action-documentary about the evolution of stunt women from The Perils of Pauline (1914) and beyond.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341594">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Harder They Come.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130632024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Henzell, Perry, Bradshaw, Carl, Bartley, Janet, Cliff, Jimmy, Daniel Hartman, Ras,<br/>Summary With dreams of becoming a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds corruption from his record producers and the drug pushers they're connected to. Rather than fail his dreams Ivan lets nothing stand in his way, not even the law.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913064">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Bordertown.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130782024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Nava, Gregory, Banderas, Antonio, Alvarez, Irineo, Lopez, Jennifer, Zapata, Maya,<br/>Summary Lauren, an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican BORDERTOWN, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913079">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Nosferatu the Vampyre.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121875962024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Ganz, Bruno, Bodinus, Carsten, van Husen, Dan, Adjani, Isabelle,<br/>Summary Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11187597">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Prisoner.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123184422024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Factory, Shout, Muscat, Angelo, McGoohan, Patrick, Swanwick, Peter, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11318443">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title All of Me.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123203892024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Reiner, Carl, Tomlin, Lily, Martin, Steve, Tennant, Victoria, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11320390">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Going to Pieces: Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119471312024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor McQueen, Jeff, Green, Ed, Carpenter, John, Stefano, Joseph, Craven, Wes,<br/>Summary This historical and critical look at slasher films, which includes dozens of clips, begins with "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," and "Prom Night." The films' directors, writers, producers, and special effects creators comment on the films' making and success. During the Reagan years, the films get gorier, budgets get smaller, and their appeal wanes. Then, "Nightmare on Elm Street" revives the genre. Jump to the late 90s, when "Scream" brings humor and TV stars into the mix. Although some criticize the genre as misogynistic (Siskel and Ebert), most of the talking heads celebrate the films: as long as there are teenagers, there will be slasher films, says one.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10947132">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Stay Cool.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415912024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Polish, Michael, Polish, Mark, Astin, Sean, Ryder, Winona, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary An author who returns to his hometown to deliver a commencement address to a class of graduating high school students has to deal with his feelings for an old flame as well as the advances of a student who has the hots for him.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341592">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The TV Set.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121952532024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Kasdan, Jake, Duchovny, David, Kranz, Fran, Gruffudd, Ioan, Greer, Judy,<br/>Summary A television network is making a pilot of Mike's quirky comedy based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the network suits ask for change after change, and as Mike struggles with compromise, there are strains on families, execs who show rushes to their children, leads who feel each other out, and assistants who put a smile on everything. Can an honest show get made in the world of reality TV chasing an audience of teen-aged boys?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11195254">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121993062024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Okada, Mari, Kayano, Ai, Hirata, Hiroaki, Iwami, Manaka, Kuno, Misaki,<br/>Summary In the land of Iolph, all the people stop aging in their mid-teens and can live for hundreds of years. One resident, Maquia, feels lonely despite the peaceful and idyllic land she lives in. But one day, the Mesarte army invades Iolph, seeking the peoples' blood for their immortality. Maquia manages to escape the destruction and chaos of war, but with no home or people, she becomes a wanderer in a dark forest. She comes across Erial, an infant mortal boy who has lost his parents, and becomes his guardian. The story follows the relationship that evolves between the two as Erial grows up while Maquia does not.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11199307">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Brotherhood of the Wolf.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415852024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Gans, Christophe, Renier, Jeremie, Dacascos, Mark, Le Bihan, Samuel, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341586">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Heart of Glass.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130692024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Scheitz, Clemens, Bierbichler, Josef, Güttler, Stefan, Prechtel, Volker,<br/>Summary A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913070">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Cobra Verde.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130712024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Lewgoy, José, Ampaw, King, Kinski, Klaus, Basile, Salvatore,<br/>Summary The feared bandit COBRA VERDE (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913072">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303642024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Schepisi, Fred, Punch McGregor, Angela, Reynolds, Freddy, Barrett, Ray, Lewis, Tommy,<br/>Summary The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930365">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title My Best Fiend.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121875942024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Moreno Placido, Benino, Cardinale, Claudia, Mattes, Eva, González, Justo,<br/>Summary In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11187595">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Woman in Motion.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123416012024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Thompson, Todd, Eckstein, Ashley, Dorn, Michael, A. Fox, Vivica, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341602">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Assault on Precinct 13.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415812024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Carpenter, John, Stoker, Austin, Joston, Darwin, Zimmer, Laurie, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341582">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Candy.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885122024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Armfield, Neil, Cornish, Abbie, Rush, Geoffrey, Ledger, Heath, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of CANDY: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while CANDY changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other possessions and attachments become unimportant.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888513">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Smell of Success.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415972024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Polish, Michael, Bob Thornton, Billy, Polish, Mark, Leoni, Téa, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A comedy about manure salesmen in 1960s heartland America.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341598">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Wonderland.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121993082024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hara, Keiichi, Watanabe, Anne, Aso, Kumiko, Matsuoka, Mayu, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A girl without self-confidence meets a mysterious alchemist Hippocrates and his student Pipo who are on a mission to save the world. Together, they laid the groundwork for "Wonderland" and Akane is labeled as Wonderland's savior.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11199309">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Road to Wellville.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121876022024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Parker, Alan, Hopkins, Anthony, Fonda, Bridget, Meaney, Colm, Carvey, Dana,<br/>Summary A madcap portrayal of William Lightbody's (Matthew Broderick's) stay at the health farm run by cereal King Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Sir Anthony Hopkins). William's wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), has persuaded him to go to Kellogg to have his system cleaned of impurities. Kellogg is very unconventional, and almost barbaric in his treatments.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11187603">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Silver City.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121992702024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Sayles, John, Zane, Billy, Lindsey, Cajardo, Cooper, Chris, Martinez, Donevon,<br/>Summary Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11199271">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Ben.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119743142024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Karlson, Phil, O'Connell, Arthur, Campanella, Joseph, Montgomery, Lee, Murphy, Rosemary,<br/>Summary A lonely boy named Danny Garrison befriends Ben, the rat leader of the swarm of rats trained by Willard Stiles. Ben becomes the boy's best friend, protecting him from bullying and keeping his spirits up in the face of a heart condition. However, things gradually take a downward turn as Ben's swarm becomes violent, resulting in several deaths.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10974315">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Fata Morgana.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130592024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Des Montagnes, Eugen, William Gledhill, James, Eisner, Lotte, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913060">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Bright Young Things.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119471292024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Fry, Stephen, Aykroyd, Dan, Mortimer, Emily, Campbell Moore, Stephen, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date. He trades in gossip, wins money on wagers, then gives it to a drunken Major (Jim Broadbent), who suggested he bet on a horse in an upcoming race. Adam tries to get the money back, but can't find the Major. Meanwhile, Nina needs security, friends drink too much, and general unhappiness spoils the party. Then war breaks out. Is Adam's bright youth dimming with the fall of an empire?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10947130">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Knightriders.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119783392024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor A. Romero, George, Ingersoll, Amy, Harris, Ed, Lahti, Gary, Savini, Tom,<br/>Summary A travelling troupe of jousters and performers are slowly cracking under the pressure of hick cops, financial troubles and their failure to live up to their own ideals. The group's leader, King Billy, is increasingly unable to maintain his warrior's rule while the Black Knight is being tempted away to LA and stardom, as they all have to ask why they were here in the first place.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10978340">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Stroszek.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119742932024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, S., Bruno, Scheitz, Clemens, Mattes, Eva, von Homburg, Wilhelm,<br/>Summary Bruno STROSZEK is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10974294">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Freejack.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885182024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Murphy, Geoff, Estevez, Emilio, Jagger, Mick, Russo, Rene, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Auto racer Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak's (Mick Jagger's) twenty-first century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie (Rene Russo), now fifteen years older and an executive at McCandless.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888519">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119471352024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Page, Anthony, Piazza, Ben, Andersson, Bibi, Quinlan, Kathleen, Gary, Lorraine,<br/>Summary Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10947136">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Fitzcarraldo.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885162024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Cardinale, Claudia, Lewgoy, José, Kinski, Klaus, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888517">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Land of Silence and Darkness.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885202024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Fehrer, Elsa, Straubinger, Fini, Fleischmann, Heinrich, Baaske, M.,<br/>Summary Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888521">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Little Dieter Needs to Fly.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885222024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Dengler, Dieter, Deatrick, Eugene, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888523">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Farewell My Lovely.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119130672024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Richards, Dick, Rampling, Charlotte, Ireland, John, Mitchum, Robert, Miles, Sylvia,<br/>Summary This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10913068">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Downfall.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118885142024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Maria Lara, Alexandra, Ganz, Bruno, Matthes, Ulrich, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "DOWNFALL" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10888515">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Where The Green Ants Dream.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:114017702024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Spence, Bruce, Marika, Roy, Marika, Wandjuk, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**, **Sundance Film Festival**, and **Toronto International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10401771">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Lessons of Darkness.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303762024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration. Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930377">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Whale Rider.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119569652024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Caro, Niki, Curtis, Cliff, Castle-Hughes, Keisha, Paratene, Rawiri, Haughton, Vicky,<br/>Summary On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10956966">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Murderball.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118284002024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Alex Rubin, Henry, Cohn, Andy, Bishop, Joe, Soares, Joe, Cavill, Keith,<br/>Summary Quad rugby as played by the US team, between 2002 games in Sweden and the 2004 Paralympics in Athens. Young men, most with spinal injuries, play this rough and tumble sport in special chairs, seated gladiators. We get to know several and their families. They talk frankly about their injuries, feelings in public, sex lives, competitiveness, and love of the game. There's also an angry former team member gone north to coach the Canadian team, tough on everyone, including his viola-playing son. We meet a recently injured man, in rehab, at times close to despair, finding possible joy in quad rugby. After Athens, the team meets young men injured in war: the future stars of Team USA.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10828401">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Down in the Valley.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:120039992024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Jacobson, David, Dern, Bruce, Morse, David, Norton, Edward, Peña, Elizabeth,<br/>Summary Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father objects, she rebels. Harlan, meanwhile, thinks she's his soul mate, and he starts making plans to get her away from her father. Worlds are set to collide, but which ones?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11004000">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Jesus of Nazareth.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:120040012024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Zeffirelli, Franco, Bancroft, Anne, Plummer, Christopher, Borgnine, Ernest, McShane, Ian,<br/>Summary Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11004002">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:120040032024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Beauchamp, Keith, Sharpton, Al, Evers, Charles, Till Mobley, Mamie, Wright, Mose,<br/>Summary Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11004005">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Woyzeck.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119783412024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Mattes, Eva, Kinski, Klaus, Semmelrogge, Willy, Reichmann, Wolfgang,<br/>Summary Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But WOYZECK, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, WOYZECK is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, WOYZECK is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. WOYZECK, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10978342">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Company of Wolves.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303662024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Jordan, Neil, Lansbury, Angela, Warner, David, Crowden, Graham, Patterson, Sarah,<br/>Summary Rosaleen is a teenager, living in a country house in England with her family in the present days, and having a nightmare with wolves and werewolves in the Middle Ages. In her dream, her boring sister is dead, she lives with her father and her mother, but she spends lots of time with her lovely grandmother. Granny tells her many stories of werewolf and gives her the following advice: "Never stray from the path in the woods, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet." One day, Rosaleen, while going to visit her grandmother, meets a handsome man and bets who would arrive first at her granny's house. Soon she finds who he is.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930367">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303722024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Mira, Brigitte, S., Bruno, Ladengast, Walter, Semmelrogge, Willy,<br/>Summary Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930373">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Even Dwarfs Started Small.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303742024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Hertwig, Gisela, Döring, Helmut, Minkner, Hertel, Glauer, Paul,<br/>Summary A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad. Their immediate leader (also a dwarf) is forced to take refuge in one of the premises while waiting for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the rioters are having fun: they beat dishes and glasses, start a car and eventually break it, kill a big pig, scoff at blind dwarfs living next door, arrange cockfights, set fire to flowerpots with their favorite colors, and so on.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930375">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Liz and the Blue Bird.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121952492024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Yamada, Naoko, Tanezaki, Atsumi, Asai, Ayaka, Anzai, Chika, Fujimura, Konomi,<br/>Summary Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel - "LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD". Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as being together forever.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11195250">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Willard.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119303782024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Mann, Daniel, Sessions, Almira, Davison, Bruce, Lanchester, Elsa, Pat O'Malley, J.,<br/>Summary A social misfit, WILLARD is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10930379">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Magic.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415872024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Attenborough, Richard, Hopkins. Ann-Margret, Anthony, Meredith, Burgess, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341588">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Luv.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:121952512024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Candis, Sheldon, S. Dutton, Charles, Johnson, Clark, , Common, Glover, Danny,<br/>Summary An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the ex-convict uncle he idolizes.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11195252">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title One Man and His Shoes.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:123415892024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Bamiro, Yemi, Falk, David, Hill, Jemele, Jackson, Scoop, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary ONE MAN AND HIS SHOES tells the story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers showing their social, cultural and racial significance and how ground-breaking marketing strategies created a multi-billion-dollar business.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11341590">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Home Boy.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:119471332024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Seresin, Michael, Walken, Christopher, Feuer, Debra, Rourke, Mickey, Quinn, Thomas,<br/>Summary Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to keep on boxing, but its the only thing he does well.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10947134">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Staged.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:125671302024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Evans, Simon, Tennant, David, Sheen, Michael, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/11567131">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Glengarry Glen Ross.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:115906202024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Foley, James, Pacino, Al, Arkin, Alan, Baldwin, Alec, Altman, Bruce,<br/>Summary The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close". **Academy Award** nominee. **Venice Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10590621">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Spellbound.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:115906232024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Blitz, Jeffrey, Arenivar, Angela, Arenivar, Concepción, Arenivar, Jorge, McGarraugh, Lindy,<br/>Summary This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C. All work quite hard and practice daily, first having to win their regional championship before they can move on. Interviews include the parents and teachers who are working with them. The competitors not only work hard to get to the finals but face tremendous pressure as the original group of over 250 competitors is whittled down and the words they must spell get ever more difficult. **Academy Award** nominee. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10590624">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title On Golden Pond.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116141692024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Rydell, Mark, McKeon, Doug, Fonda, Henry, Fonda, Jane, Hepburn, Katharine,<br/>Summary The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last? Winner of 3 **Academy Awards** and a **BAFTA**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10614170">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Imposter.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116141712024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Layton, Bart, O'Brian, Adam, Gibson, Bryan, Gibson, Carey, Barclay, Nicholas,<br/>Summary A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10614172">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Pledge.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116141732024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Penn, Sean, Daniels, Beau, Del Toro, Benicio, Nicholson, Jack, Clarkson, Patricia,<br/>Summary On the night he retires as a Reno detective, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their age. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself the wizard, all clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blonde daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal? Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10614174">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Dark Star.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118284082024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Carpenter, John, O'Connell, Arthur, Luisi, James, Campanella, Joseph, Garas, Kaz,<br/>Summary Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late Commander Powell is stored in deep freeze, where he is still able to offer advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a "smart bomb" who thinks it is God.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10828409">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Aristocrats.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116141652024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Provenza, Paul, Jillette, Penn, Albrecht, Chris, Rock, Chris, Brenner, David,<br/>Summary Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats."<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10614166">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Death and the Maiden.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116141672024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Polanski, Roman, Kingsley, Ben, Vega, Jonathan, Mova, Krystia, Weaver, Sigourney,<br/>Summary Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina is torn between her psychological repressions and somber memory, Gerardo is torn between his wife and the law, and Dr. Miranda is forced to endure captivity while husband and wife seek out the uncertain truth about the clouded past.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10614168">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Sophie's Choice.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116051482024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor J. Pakula, Alan, Turken, Greta, Kline, Kevin, Streep, Meryl, MacNicol, Peter,<br/>Summary Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. **Academy Award** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10605149">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Delirious.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118284652024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor DiCillo, Tom, Costello, Elvis, Gershon, Gina, Corrigan, Kevin, Gorham, Mel,<br/>Summary Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10828466">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Gerry.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118284672024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Van Sant, Gus, Affleck, Casey, Damon, Matt, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Two friends that call each other GERRY decide to hide in the wilderness in order to see something. However, they do not find what they're looking for. They decide to return to the car but they get lost in the desert, without water, supplies or a compass. Now they have to walk, trying to find the road to survive. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10828468">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Rock N' Roll High School.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118535312024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Arkush, Allan, Dante, Joe, Elias, Alix, Howard, Clint, Young, Dey,<br/>Summary Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell, who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal, the rock-music-hating Miss Evelyn Togar, is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records, the students take over the high school, joined by the Ramones, who are made honorary students. When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do so, which leads to an explosive finale.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10853532">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116051532024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Lumet, Sidney, Finney, Albert, Palladino, Aleksa, Hawke, Ethan, Tomei, Marisa,<br/>Summary Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10605154">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Half Nelson.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116051552024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Fleck, Ryan, Mackie, Anthony, Silver, Bryce, Lima, Jeff, C. Pabon, Kaela,<br/>Summary Young Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, generally discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan's life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her father a virtually non-existent figure in her life and her EMT mother generally absent as she is always working to provide for Drey. Her older brother Mike is incarcerated for selling drugs for a local dealer named Frank. Mike took the fall for Frank, who in turn protects Drey whether she wants to be associated with him or not. Dan and Drey's relationship changes when Drey catches Dan, believing he is alone, smoking crack in the girl's locker room bathroom. He is totally stoned. Their resulting friendship, which is seen as inappropriate by the few who know, is based on each being unable to deal with their own life, but feeling like they can be at least a minor salvation in the other's life. **Academy Awards** Nominee. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10605156">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Taxi to the Dark Side.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:116051572024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Gibney, Alex, Cammack, Brian, Keith Allen, Brian, Beiring, Christopher, Cassel, Doug,<br/>Summary Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security. Winner of an **Academy Award**.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10605158">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Midnight Clear.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:118535282024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Gordon, Keith, Gross, Arye, Lowens, Curt, Jensen, David, Hawke, Ethan,<br/>Summary Set in 1944 France, in the Ardennes forest region, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and share a Christmas celebration. The surrender plan includes a mock battle that turns bad when one of the soldiers is unaware of the surrender plan.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/10853529">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Never Too Young To Die.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:24368512024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Bettman, Gil, Simmons, Gene, Stamos, John, , Vanity, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary In this star-studded B-movie romp, a top secret agent (George Lazenby, *On Her Majesty's Secret Service*) is murdered, leaving his estranged gymnast son Lance Stargrove (John Stamos, *Full House*) to face his father's killer. Along with his dad's seductive and deadly associate, Danja Deering, Lance must face the fiendish mastermind Velvet Von Ragner (Gene Simmons, the fiendish mastermind behind Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee KISS) and stop their scheme to poison the city's water supply. It's up to Stargrove and Deering to crush Velvet once and for all!<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/1436852">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Black Christmas.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:23326322024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Clark, Bob, Dullea, Keir, Kidder, Margot, Hussey, Olivia, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to stalk the house. One of the earliest examples of a slasher film, this creepy holiday classic is sure to terrify and delight classic horror lovers everywhere. Winner of Best Performance by a Lead Actress and Best Editing at the **Canadian Film Awards**. Nominated for Best Horror Film from the **Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture at the **Edgar Allan Poe Awards**. *"The film still manages a good slice of old-fashioned suspense." - **Time Out*** *"Generally heralded as the first of its kind, Black Christmas may actually be one of a kind." - Bill Chambers, **Film Freak Central***<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/1332633">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Rabid.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:23368512024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Cronenberg, David, Moore, Frank, Silver, Joe, Chambers, Marlyn, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary After undergoing radical emergency surgery, Rose develops an insatiable desire for blood. She searches out victims to satisfy her incurable craving, infecting them with an unknown disease which in turn swiftly drives them insane... and makes them equally bloodthirsty. RABID is one of acclaimed horror director David Cronenberg's first films. Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Special Effects at the **Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival**. *"None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication." - **Time Out*** *"Remains effectively squirmy, gruesome, and even prescient nearly forty years after its release." - Dustin Putman, **TheBluFile.com***<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/1336852">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Fear City.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260482024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Ferrara, Abel, Dee Williams, Billy, Scalia, Jack, Griffith, Melanie, Dawn Chong, Rae,<br/>Summary Matt runs a topless dancer talent agency in New York. When two of his dancers are brutally murdered, he suspects that Carmine, a mob-controlled competitor, is behind it. The killer takes a third victim and the newspaper headline scream out about a serial murderer. Matt and his partner Nicky attack Carmine and his gang in a terrible gunfight but they apparently have the wrong target.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226049">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Day of the Deadent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16526692024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary In the third film in the saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have they forever unleashed the hunger of the dead?. Lori Cardille, Joe Pilato and Richard Liberty star in this controversial classic with groundbreaking gore effects by Tom Savini.. "The zombies in DAY OF THE DEAD are marvels of special effects..." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/652670">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Something from Nothing: The Art of Rapent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:19548552024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Baybutt, Andy, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The craft. The history. The power. All these elements of the hip-hop movement are discussed with director Ice-T and the legends he interviews -Afrika Bambaataa, Eminem, Nas, Mos Def, Kanye West, Chuck D, KRS-One, Snoop Dogg, Run-DMC, and Ice Cube-in this compelling and gritty feature-length documentary.. An Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP explores and pays tribute to this most original American art form.. Nominated for Best Movie at the BET Awards. "In his debut as a documentarian, Ice T creates a vibrant portrait of how and why rap came to be." - Sara Stewart, New York Post. "A must-see for any music fan" - USA Today<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/954856">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Tale of Two Citiesent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16535192024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Goddard, Jim, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary This Golden Globe and Emmy nominee is a glorious telling of Dickens' tale of passion, intrigue, and revolution.. Charles Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES comes to magnificent life in a lavish adaptation of the literary classic set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Chris Sarandon (THE PRINCESS BRIDE, FRIGHT NIGHT) takes on a dual role as French aristocrat Charles Darnay and London lawyer Sydney Carton - both of whom are in love with the beautiful Lucie (Alice Krige, GHOST STORY). As the world around them grows more and more uncertain, one of them will make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of love and honor.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/653520">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Holy motorsent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16527092024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Carax, Léos Lavant, Denis, Mendes, Eva, Minogue, Kylie, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Join Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) on his rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of Paris as he transforms into multiple characters for a series of mysterious "appointment." Director Leos Carax melds monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, and anime in his mirthful, mind-bending masterwork, featuring new original music performed by Kylie Minogue. Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue also star alongside Denis Lavant, whose performance has been named Top 10 of the Year by TIME Magazine. One of the most acclaimed and beloved films of the year, HOLY MOTORS is a ravishing fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/652710">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Last Reefent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:24358272024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Fly across iridescent tropical reefs. Brush through a cloud of countless jellyfish. Visit an alien world where the closer you look, the more you see. We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little connection to our everyday world. Yet each of them is a hotspot of biodiversity, as vital to life on Earth as the rainforests. Just as the Amazon has its secrets, so too do the reefs.. "You'll be tempted to reach out and touch the hovering schools of jellyfish - just try not to get stung." - Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/1435828">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Brewster's millions.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260382024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Monty Brewster is the lucky recipient of an 8,000,000 inheritance. But there's a catch; O'Keefe will receive his legacy only if he spends 1,000,000 in two months. Prohibited from giving the money away, O'Keefe invests in several losing propositions, including a flop Broadway musical; alas, every one of his bad investments turns a profit.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226039">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Dead ringers.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:23367142024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Cronenberg, David, Bujold, Geneviève, Irons, Jeremy, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle (both played by Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons) are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women - including unsuspecting Claire.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/1336715">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title All Quiet On the Western Frontent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16533912024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Richard Thomas (The Waltons) stars in a powerful and dramatic adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's acclaimed novel, All Quiet On the Western Front.. At the rise of World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer (Thomas) and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert the superiority of their nation, the young men endure a brutal training camp and soon find themselves face to face with the full horrors of war when they are sent to the front lines to fight... and likely die. As the conflict rages, Paul grows from an eager boy to a disillusioned man who bears the scars of war on both his body and his soul.. Ernest Borgnine (The Dirty Dozen), Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape) and Ian Holm (Alien) also star in a gripping coming-of-age tale set in the shadow of war.. Winner of a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Made for Television.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/653392">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Ballad of the Little Soldierent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:19540882024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, Reichle, Denis, Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary In this complex documentary from one of the most iconic voices of the German New Wave, Werner Herzog follows the child soldiers of Nicaragua during the Miskito resistance against the Sandinistas. True to Herzog form, this film ultimately illustrates the futility and senselessness of such violence.. Drawing connections to co-Director Denis Reichle's experiences serving as a child soldier towards the end of WWII, BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER, rather than making a specific political stance on either side of the resistance in Nicaragua, illustrates the unspeakable horror the use of children in combat presents in conflicts all around the world and throughout history.. "BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER is not a rabble-rousing film. It's both a lament about the idiotic state or the world and a song in praise of the human spirit...in [this] short, splendid film, Mr. Herzog is scaling the peaks of his own, very personal cinema." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/954089">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Aguirre, the wrath of God = Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16532522024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Herzog, Werner, 1942- Rojo, Helena, 1944- Kinski, Klaus, Guerra, Ruy, Shout Factory (Firm),<br/>Summary Noted by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as one of his top ten favorite films of all time, this masterpiece from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog is an unforgettable portrait of madness and power. In the mid-16th century, after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro (Allejandro Repulles) leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature, and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), "The Wrath of God," is consumed with visions of conquering all of South America and revolts, leading his own army down a treacherous river on a doomed quest into oblivion.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/653253">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Kentucky fried movie.ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:16527662024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Landis, John, 1950- Bixby, Bill, 1934-1993, Sutherland, Donald, 1935- Han, Bong Soo, Evan, Kim,<br/>Summary The original take-off cult classic from the highly successful team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun), this "uproariously funny [film]" - TV Guide launched a thousand laughs and serves as a precursor to the raunch-fests of the '80s and the blockbuster success of the Farrelly Brothers films. Directed by the legendary John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers), THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE features a lewd, loosely connected collection of skits that spoof blaxploitation films, news shows, porno movies, TV commercials, kung fu flicks and more!<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/652767">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Line King: The Al Herschfeld Storyent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238972024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A documentary of the life of artist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003). While there might still be debate as to whether caricatures are art, anyone who has seen Hirschfeld's elegant depictions of stage personalities over the years would unequivocably classify them as such. This movie, which took nearly ten years to make, follows the chronology of Hirschfeld's life closely.. It includes many interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his second wife, and his beloved daughter Nina. His drawings had appeared in The New York Times since the 1920s, and they covered the entire modern history of theater in New York City, a fact underscored in this documentary. American actors have long known that one sign of their having "made it" as stage actors, was a published caricature by this charming man..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223898">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Ninth Configurationent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12239012024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own long-suppressed insanity.. It is based on Blatty's novel The Ninth Configuration (1978), which was itself a reworking of an earlier version of the novel, first published in 1966 as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane!. The initial 1966 publication of the novel featured an exclamation mark at the end of the title, while all subsequent publications saw it removed.. The first half of the film has the predominant tone and style of a comic farce. In the second half, the film becomes darker as it delves deeper into its central issues of human suffering, sacrifice and faith. The film also frequently blurs the line between the sane and the insane..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223902">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Seaent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12239032024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A distraught youth is troubled by his mother's new relationship with her sailor boyfriend who occasionally drops by when his ship is in. The sailor, Jim Cameron, is a caring man who offers a supportive relationship to the woman as well as a kind word for the kid. In his confused and addled adolescent state (which isn't helped any by his association with a local youth gang) the boy plans a vengeful rite for his mother's beau..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223904">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Trip to Bountifulent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12239072024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son and daughter-in-law, elderly Mrs. Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, she boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young Thelma. The two women immediately hit it off, and their trip is a most pleasant one.. Eventually, the local sheriff, ordered to find Page and bring her back to her family, catches up with the old woman just a few miles from Bountiful. Feeling sorry for her, he permits her to complete her sentimental journey, even though he knows full well that Bountiful is now a ghost town of empty ruins and dilapidated shacks. It doesn't matter, though: she sees Bountiful just as it was when she left it, and for the first time in years is truly happy and at peace with herself..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223908">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Very Edgeent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260682024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Tracey is pregnant and happily married to Lawrence, an architect. She has few cares in the world until the day a maniac breaks into the house, rapes her, and ultimately causes her to miscarry. Tracey falls to pieces and is so affected by the encounter she finds men repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not soften with time, and sooner rather than later, her husband takes up with his secretary. But in the meantime, the Scotland Yard detective has still not been able to track down the psychotic rapist, and there is no guarantee that Tracey is safe..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226069">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Tomorrowent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260662024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Framed in flashback, the film explores the personal reasons that a semi-literate farmer is the lone jury holdout in the guilty verdict for a young killer on trial. We learn in a gradually unfolding fashion that the boy is the son of a woman with whom the farmer had had an intense personal involvement some twenty years earlier. However, their relationship was damaged by the woman's family, who come looking to bring her back home..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226067">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Travellerent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12239052024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A clan of Irish-American con artists live in a secluded compound and have their own time-honored customs. Pat returns to the hideout for the funeral of his father, who irked the clan by marrying an outsider. Because his mother is not Irish, the compound's boss, Jack Costello, tells him that he's no longer welcome; but Bokky takes the younger man under his wing and teaches him the clan's trade.. Bokky specializes in cheating homeowners by charging them to apply driveway or roof sealant, then leaving before they discover that it's only oil. He also buys and resells shoddy mobile homes. Pat soon proves more nervy and creative than his boss. They try to scam a bartender, Jean; but Bokky falls in love with her. Jean needs cash to pay for an operation for her hearing-impaired daughter, so Bokky finally agrees to work for a cowboy con artist named Double D, who has been trying to recruit him for a big job in Nashville..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223906">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Boy and His Dogent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238212024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, A Boy and His Dog is set in a post-apocalyptic future where canned goods are used as currency and where entertainment often consists of old porn reels. Vic (Don Johnson) is a violent, illiterate scavenger, principally interested in getting laid. He communicates telepathically with his deceptively cute-looking dog Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire); Vic finds food for Blood, while Blood sniffs out girls for Vic.. One of these girls is the sexy Quilla June (Susanne Benton), who, unbeknownst to Vic is a spy for an underground society, headed by a Mr. Craddock (Jason Robards Jr.). This subterranean civilization needs a human "sperm bank" to stay alive, and the oversexed Vic fills the bill. Produced by character actor Alvy Moore (Mr. Kimball of TV's Green Acres), A Boy and His Dog was written and directed by another veteran actor, L.Q. Jones..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223822">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Taste of Honeyent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238292024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Jo is a working-class British teenager, living with her drink-sodden, libertine mother. Denied affection by her selfish parent, Jo is pushed further in the background when her mum impulsively marries her latest boyfriend. The girl takes a job at a shoe store, then moves in with her kindly homosexual employer.. The two lost souls live in harmony until Jo becomes pregnant after a casual affair with a black sailor. Her flatmate comes to the rescue by offering to look after the baby. This relatively blissful state of affairs is short-lived; before long, Jo's hateful mother, having been kicked out by her man descends upon her daughter and her "family," with all her debilitating emotional baggage intact..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223830">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The House That Dripped Bloodent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238952024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Shortly after renting an old country house, film star Paul Henderson mysteriously disappears and Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) from Scotland Yard is called to investigate. Inquiring at the local police station, Holloway is told some of the house's history. He then contacts the estate agent (John Bryans) renting the house, who elaborates further by telling Holloway about its previous tenants.. "Method For Murder"-A hack writer of horror stories (Denholm Elliott) moves into the house with his wife (Joanna Dunham) and is haunted by visions of Dominic (Tom Adams), the murderous, psychopathic central character of his latest novel.. "Waxworks" - Two friends (Peter Cushing and Joss Ackland) become fixated with a macabre waxwork museum that appears to contain a model of a lady they both knew.. "Sweets to the Sweet" - A private teacher (Nyree Dawn Porter) is perturbed by the cold and severe way a widower (Christopher Lee) treats his young daughter (Chloe Franks), even forbidding her to have a doll.. "The Cloak" - Temperamental horror film actor Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee) moves into the house while starring in a vampire film being shot nearby. He buys a black cloak from a peculiar shopkeeper (Geoffrey Bayldon) to use as his film character's costume. The cloak seems to instill in its wearer strange powers, something Paul's co-star (Ingrid Pitt) quickly discovers..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223896">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Stunt Manent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260622024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with a staged accident, causing the stunt man's death. Rather than turn Cameron in, director Eli Cross makes him an offer he can't refuse: replace the dead stunt man in return for safe harbor. Despite objections about Cameron's inexperience, Eli keeps him on, figuring that a vet will add an extra charge of realism to the World War I opus that he's filming.. As leading lady Nina returns Cameron's affections, and Eli becomes ever more inscrutably mercurial, Cameron begins to wonder how far Eli will go to get the screen effects he wants, and if he would think twice about killing the stunt man..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226063">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Newsfrontent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238652024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Directed by Phillip Noyce and produced by David Elfick, Newsfront represents a seminal moment in the emergence of the Australian movie industry on the world stage.. Highly acclaimed at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival and the winner of 18 international awards including 8 AFI Awards,Newsfront garnered raves from critics around the world and became a major box office success at home.. Newsfront is the story of the previously unsung newsreel cameramen, who raced to beat deadlines and dangers to capture on film, for a voracious audience of cinemagoers, the historic moments that were shaping a young nation. These were the men who lived and worked in post-World War 2 Australia; a turbulent time with the fear of reds under the beds , the tragic Maitland floods and national pride on show at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. But their days were numbered. A new technology would eventually bring the world into the living room instantly - it was called television.. Featuring one of the finest Australian casts ever assembled, many of whom were soon to become household names, NEWSFRONT stars Bill Hunter as Cinetone newsreel cameraman Len Maguire, Gerard Kennedy as his brother Frank, and Wendy Hughes as Amy, Cinetone s production assistant and lover of both men. Included in the support case are Chris Haywood, Bryan Brown, John Ewart, Angela Punch-McGregor and Drew Forsythe..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223866">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Doll's Houseent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238232024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Nora Helmer (Jane Fonda) lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald (David Warner), in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine (Delphine Seyrig) prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.. Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223824">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Night in Casablancaent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238252024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. French soldier Pierre suspects the involvement of ex-Nazis, specifically Count Pfefferman, in reality the notorious Heinrich Stubel. Pierre is accused of collaborating with the enemy, and attempts to clear to clear his name with the help of his girlfriend Annette and cagey buddy Corbaccio.. They enlist the aid of Pfefferman's beleaguered mute valet, Rusty, and discover a hoard of war booty the Nazis have stashed in the hotel..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223826">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title A Shock to the Systement://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238272024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary In this dark comedy, a middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death.. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously had thought, he begins plotting the death of several of his corporate enemies..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223828">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Alan and Naomient://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238312024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Alan is a typically streetwise Brooklyn teenager of the 1940s. Naomi is a French-Jewish refugee of Nazi oppression, recently moved into the apartment above Alan's. Ever since witnessing the murder of her father, Naomi has remained in a catatonic state. Alan's well-meaning efforts to help the girl at first seem to do more harm than good.. But eventually the boy's sincerity and hitherto untapped compassion win out, and the two young people form a strong, unbreakable bond..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223832">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Black Magicent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238372024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Alexandre Dumas, Sr. (Berry Kroeger) tells his son Alexander Dumas, Jr. (Raymond Burr) the story of Joseph Balsamo (Orson Welles). Through flashbacks we learn that Balsamo was a French gypsy boy who endured much hardship. He was tortured under the command of Viscount de Montagne (Stephen Bekassy) and his parents were ordered to hang. Some years later, he learns the secrets of hypnosis from Dr. Mesmer (Charles Goldner).. Ignoring the doctor's advice that he use his powers for healing, he exploits his new talent to the full, gaining wealth, fame and prestige. After changing his name to Count Cagliostro, he becomes famous all over Europe. Things begin to go downhill when he enters a plot to substitute a young girl called Lorenza (Nancy Guild) for the French queen Marie Antoinette along with gypsies Gitano (Akim Tamiroff) and Zoraida (Valentina Cortese)..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223838">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title David & Lisaent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260422024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Two adolescents make a connection with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters. David Clemens was placed in the home by his mother because of his constant fear of being touched; while Lisa is a 15-year-old schizophrenic who speaks only in rhyme, when she speaks at all. David rejects the help of psychiatrist Alan Swinford but makes an emotional connection with Lisa.. Because of his contact with Lisa, David eventually opens up to Swinford and his mother. But his mother is dissatisfied with his progress and takes him back home. Home life, however, consists of his mother's domineering ways and parental quarrels, so David runs away and returns to the home for disturbed youngsters. But then an argument with Lisa leads to a climactic confrontation..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226043">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Death of a Salesmanent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238412024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions is found in his two sons. One, Harold, is a ne'er-do-well gliding on inherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other, Biff, a mousy, retiring sort unable to reconcile the difference between his father's desperate impersonation of success and the truth..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223842">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Dreamscapeent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238452024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The US President is about to be assassinated in a dream where there is no morning after. Only one man can save him -- a man who must plunge himself into the President's horrendous nightmare. Alex Gardner is a psychically gifted young man recruited to help Dr Paul Novotny and the beautiful Dr Jane DeVries in an experiment to help patients disturbed by menacing nocturnal illusions.. But corrupt high ranking government official Bob Blair has darker plans for Alex's unusual powers. Soon Alex is propelled inside the President's nightmare, a frightening nuclear wasteland, and locked in a fantastic battle that could only happen in a dream..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223846">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Fannyent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238472024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Almost nineteen, Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a five-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her.. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223848">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Heartlandent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238492024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A woman arrives at the property of a reclusive Scottish famer to work as his housekeeper. Paid near-starvation wages, she continues working day and night, hoping to use her savings to ensure a bright future for her 10-year-old daughter.. Touched by her diligence, the farmer slowly falls in love with the woman, and after seeing her and her child through the torturous Wyoming winter, he marries her - but their union gets off to a shaky start and threatens to buckle, thanks to several unforeseen casualties..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223850">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Jefferyent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260502024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary This romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey, a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man. Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has started to terrify him so much that he decides he'd be better off never making love again. He is happy and relieved for a time, until he meets Steve, a handsome, charming dreamboat who also happens to be HIV-positive. Jeffrey wants nothing more than to be with Steve, but his anxiety over the disease and fear of commitment stand in the way..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226051">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Kit Carsonent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238552024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The legendary frontiersman Kit Carson and his two pals are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make their way to Fort Bridger, where Captain John "Frontier" Fremont hires Carson to guide a wagon train westward. The plot thickens when both Carson and Fremont fall in love with pretty Dolores Murphy, but all misunderstandings and rivalries are forgotten as the two heroes fight shoulder to shoulder against another Indian attack..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223856">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Miss Firecrackerent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238612024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Carnelle Scott is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge, a former Fourth of July "Miss Firecracker" contest winner who is taking time out from her life as a pampered wife in Atlanta to give a speech on "My Life as a Beauty" at this year's pageant.. Determined to follow in Elain's footsteps, Carnelle puts a damper on her libido and enlists the help of local seamstress Popeye Jackson in preparing for the pageant. She also implores Elain to let her borrow the red dress in which Elain won the contest in 1972. Meanwhile, Elain's brother, ne'er-do-well Delmount Williams, arrives with a get-rich-quick scheme that involves hocking the family estate. Into this mix steps Mac Sam, one of the men who contributed to Carnelle's scandalous past..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223862">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Outrageous!ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238672024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Two misfits find love and support in each other's company. One of them, Robin Turner, is a hairdresser and a gifted female impersonator, who tries out his act in local gay nightclubs. His roommate is Liza Connors, an old high-school friend who is now a mumbling pregnant woman, recently released from a mental hospital where she was treated for schizophrenia.. She is determined never to return to the hospital again, and he wants to be a show-business success with his impressions. When Robin loses his job, the two determine to try their luck in New York..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223868">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Queen of the Stardust Ballrooment://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238692024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Bea Asher has been faced with many new challenges since becoming a widow. She has been afraid for herself and her future since her husband's death, and friends concerned for her well-being take her to the Stardust Ballroom in the hopes that, for one night, she might dance her troubles away. While there, she meets Alvin Green. They spend the evening dancing and talking and, thanks to his charm and goodness, Bea begins to come out of her sheltered existence..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223870">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Seize the Dayent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238712024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary The time is the success-driven '50s; Tommy Wilhelm is a middle-aged man who has just lost his salesman's job. Margaret, his wife, is on the verge of divorce and fully intends to take him to the cleaners whether he has an income or not. Doctor Adler, Tommy's judgmental father, cannot abide having a failure in the family and refuses to lend his son a single penny.. In desperation, Tommy heads to New York City, where his old wheeler-dealer pal Dr. Tamkin has promised him a job. Even there, however, Tommy is defeated by the cold-shoulder treatment afforded him by the people whose opinions he values most..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223872">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Short Eyesent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238732024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly black or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrives. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him - pedophiles are considered the lowest form of prison life - except for Juan, one of the institution's older prisoners, who treats him with dignity. While Davis insists he doesn't remember raping the girl, he admits that he has molested several other children.. The prosecution's case against Davis is weak and, unless Juan tells prison authorities about Davis' confessions to him, it is only a matter of time before he is set free. As Juan struggles with what to do, the other prisoners plan to get rid of Davis permanently..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223874">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Smithereensent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238752024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Wren is nineteen and is determined to make it big in the world of rock 'n' roll. The pieces of her world are scattered over lower Manhattan: the abandoned train yards along the Hudson River; a grungy Lower East Side tenement; the copy shop where she works; and most of all, the helter skelter world of East Village rock clubs.. It doesn't matter then that Wren can't sing or play an instrument, or even write songs; or that her aggressiveness is often rewarded with a black eye or busted lip. Desperation makes people do dangerous things..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223876">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Star of Indiaent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238772024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A 17th-century French nobleman embarks upon a search for a valuable emerald which has been stolen from a Dutch collection. Dogging the nobleman's trail is a Dutch spy posing as a French aristocrat. Both are bedeviled by the epicene villain who stole the gem in the first place, but who enjoys the protection of King Louis XIV..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223878">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Telling Lies in Americaent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238792024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Karchy Jonas was born in Hungary and immigrated to Cleveland in the early 1960s, where he felt adrift in a strange sea of American culture. At home, his stern father insists that he adhere to traditional Hungarian ways. Karchy's only respite is the rock & roll he adores. A year before he arrived, flashy, failed disc jockey Billy Magic rolled into town and became the host of the High School Hall of Fame contest, something that Karchy decides he must win so he can impress his classmate Diney.. The DJ proves to be a real pal and pays Karchy to run errands and do odd jobs for him. When not working, Billy introduces Karchy to life's wild side. But despite the fun, there is much the naive youth is destined to learn the hard way about his new buddy Billy..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223880">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title That's the Way of the Worldent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260642024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226065">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmanent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260362024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement.. This Television adaptation on the famous novel won 9 Emmy Awards..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226037">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Corsican Brothersent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238852024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Mario and Lucien are twins who share a psychic bond:one feels the pain and experiences the thoughts of the other. The siblings are separated at birth because of a long-standing feud between various factions of their family. One twin is raised to be evil, the other to be good. In adulthood, the brothers become bitter enemies, not only because of family and political pressures but also because they both fall in love with the beautiful Isabelle.. Eventually, however, one twin gives up his life for the sake of the other during a climactic battle with tyrannical Corsican ruler Colonna..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223886">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Count of Monte Cristoent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260402024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Edmond Dantes has been wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, Dantes vows vengeance against the four conspirators who framed him. He is particularly anxious to give his ex-friend Mondego his comeuppance, since it was Mondego who married Dantes' fiancee Mercedes. Twelve years pass; with the help of ancient fellow prisoner Abbe Foria, Dantes digs his way out of the Chateau D'If and escapes. He finds the treasure of Monte Cristo, which makes him the wealthiest man in the world.. He uses his riches to put his plan of revenge into motion, methodically destroying every one of his enemies. Though he lives for vengeance, Dantes--alias the Count of Monte Cristo--has his humanity restored by the love of Mercedes, who despite her marriage has always remained spiritually faithful to him..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226041">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Last of the Mohicansent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260522024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through enemy lines. Hawkeye is assisted by his Indian friend Chingachgook, and Uncas, Chingachgook's son; the two are the last survivors of the Mohican tribe. During their travels to the fort, Alice falls in love with Hawkeye, while Cora falls in love with Uncas.. But along the way, the band is continually harassed by the demonic Huron Indian Magua. Magua causes the deaths of Cora and Uncas, while the British are attacked by the Hurons and the French and forced to flee Fort William Henry. Hawkeye is taken prisoner by the brutal Hurons and Maj. Heyward must organize a band to rescue Hawkeye before he is tortured to death..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226053">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Leather Boysent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260542024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Schoolgirl Dot and mechanic Reggie marry too early and quickly discover that adulthood is not nearly as much fun as expected. She's a social gadfly and he's a stick-in-the-mud homebody, and they bring out the worst in each other. Mere months after exchanging vows he moves out to care for his grandma, inviting his new mate Pete to bunk with him; but Pete's interest in Reggie, as we learn, is more than just friendly..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226055">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Chosenent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238832024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Set in the Brooklyn of the 1940s, the film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of differing factions. Danny is Hassidic, while Reuven is a Zionist. Though separated ideologically, the boys find a common bond through their love of stickball.. Based on a novel by Chaim Potok, The Chosen has become an annual Hannukah-season TV attraction in many cities; years after its release, the film served as the basis for a short-lived Broadway musical..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223884">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Holy Rollersent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238532024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A Jewish youth (Jesse Eisenberg) risks being ostracized from his religious community when he becomes a drug mule for his best friend's older brother. Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 90s..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223854">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Living in Oblivionent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238572024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Independent film director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) is making his first feature. Everything that can go wrong does: the rebellious catering crew refuses to replace spoiled milk, his actors are flakey and getting an unspoiled take is nearly impossible. Tension between lead actress Nicole (Catherine Keener) and actor Chad (James LeGros), who have just slept together, contributes to the many problems on set. As money and time run out, Nick struggles to complete his film.<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223858">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Class of 1984ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260722024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Andrew Norris is a new teacher in an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. This school is so dangerous that the students have to go through a metal detector at the front door and almost everything is run by a punk posse lead by a delinquent named Peter Stegman. Soon, Norris and Stegman clash and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226073">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Room at the Topent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260582024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A ruthless young working-class Englishman takes a job in a North Country village controlled by a local millionaire. The young man resents the magnate's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, while having an affair with a Frenchwoman.. Though he regards his lover as a mere self-gratifying conquest, she takes their romance seriously enough to kill herself when he impregnates the daughter. Only as he leaves the chapel after marrying the millionaire's daughter does he realize that his "smart" marriage, coupled with the guarantee of a fabulous career, has been attained at the cost of his soul..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226059">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title Starstruckent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12260602024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Jackie dreams of becoming a singing star and her cousin Angus thinks he has what it takes to be a successful manager. After a spot at the hip club in town fails to win Jackie any paying gigs, Angus enters her in a major talent competition to be held on New Year's Eve. If Jackie wins, her career is assured, and the<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/226061">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Bearent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238812024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary A young bear cub (Douce) is left alone, unable to feed or defend itself, when its mother is killed in a rock slide. The cub eventually attempts to bond with a male grizzly (Bart), who initially ignores him. When the grizzly is pursued by hunters and injured, the young cub comes to his aid and wins the grizzly's affection. However, when one of the hunters captures the cub, the grizzly must confront the armed hunters. The tale is told from the cub's perspective..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223882">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Decline of Western Civilizationent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238872024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Their message is brutally clear: Destroy the old and make way for the new. This is the punk's violent revolution; Their lawless world. This is THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A Riveting, unflinching account of the punk rock phenomenon and its alienated, reactionary subculture. This fierce, bleak portrait documents L.A.'s infamous punk bands as they perform on stage and discuss their lives, music and philosophy off stage.. Through interviews with punk fans, music critics and club owners, it is a crucial, compelling statement of the most significant and influential youth movementand musical transformation of the past 3 decades. It is perhaps a prophetic glimpse of the forces that will inherit our world.... Witness THE DECLINE..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223888">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Yearsent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238892024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary From the Director of DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and SUBURBIA comes the ultimate film about the world of heavy metal, THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART Il: THE METAL YEARS. Interviews with some of the music industry's hardest rockers, like Aerosmith, Kiss, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne. Performances by Faster Pussycat, Lizzy Borden, London, Odin and Megadeth.. In the mid 80's a new scene took over the Los Angeles nightlife--Heavy Metal. Loud, rude, sexy, sexist and anti-authoritarian. Penelope Spheeris' THE METAL YEARS takes an in-depth look at rabid fans, desperate groupies, wanna-be rock stars that go so far as to threaten suicide if they don't "make it." The film also portrays the harsh reality of the music business, where everyone's dream to become a star can't possibly come true. It's a real life "Spinal Tap" that makes us look back and ask, "What the hell were we doing?".<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223890">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Decline of Western Civilization 3ent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238912024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary DECLINE III is an unflinching look into the lives of the hardcore fans of punk rock in Los Angeles, 20 years later. Filmed over the course of 13 months , this 90 minute piece stands as the director's strongest work to date.. Whereas the first installment of the trilogy concerned itself with the birth of a new music genre, PART III focuses on the lifestyles and backgrounds of the fans. Many of them are homeless or occupy squats (abandoned buildings) as their living quarters. They simultaneously evoke emotions of deep empathy and severe distain, as they present a subculture that is impossible to ignore. DECLINE III delves into the underside of this subculture to indicate that Johnny Rotten's "No Future" reference has taken on a new meaning.. The film is a strange coupling of comedy and tragedy, combining interviews with faithful fans, thought provoking accounts from those who have an intimate knowledge of the scene and live performances by underground bands: Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, and The Resistance. Keith Morris (Circle Jerks), Rick Wilder (Mau Maus), and Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) compare the original late Seventies movement to present day punk rock. Unforgettable characters such as Why-Me?, Hamburger, Troll, Eyeball and Squid paint a seldom seen picture of life and death on the back streets of Hollywood..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223892">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>Title The Decline of Western Civilization Collectionent://KANOPY/0/KANOPY:12238932024-05-19T09:41:34Z2024-05-19T09:41:34ZAuthor Shout Factory (Firm), Kanopy (Firm),<br/>Summary Penelope Spheeris' THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981 and its two follow-up films were no less extraordinary and revealing. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as a historically significant works of art. Featuring some of the most influential and innovative musicians and groups of all time - Germs, Black Flag, X, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne, these riveting, unflinching and hard-core films adeptly captured the spirit of a major cultural phenomenon.. Now for the first time, all three films are available in one deluxe box set. And while all three films have been restored in high definition, they are in keeping with the feel of the rebellious times in which they were shot. Here's an immersive tour of in-your-face filmmaking and music..<br/>URL <a href="https://houstontx.kanopy.com/node/223894">A Kanopy streaming video</a><br/>