Movies: F. Murray Abraham

A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose"....

The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution....

An American delegation travels to Russia in the midst of the Ukrainian war to try to find a solution to an economic dispute....

The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream...

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells matchsticks to survive....

In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future....

An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman....

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A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost her mind....

A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell....

In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren’t everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures — from warthogs and proboscis monkeys to bull elephant seals — are also the most fascinating. A stunning variety of these ghastl...

The film documents John Henry Newman's spirituality and influence on his contemporaries in Victorian England....

A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissi...

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this outstanding documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville, one of the greatest talents in American...

Nate is an excitable millennial novelist forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup. But when his Holocaust-surviving grandfather Saul shows signs of cognitive decline and his grandmother Miria...

A crooked lawyer gets killed in an accident. As punishment for his wrongful practices, he is sent back to Earth to redeem himself by working for a law firm that specializes in cases where miscarriage of justice occurred....

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government....

After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a twist of fate, much more than that....

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