Storyline: I Am Slave (2010) Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer,the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia,daughter of champion wrestler Bah,is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum,who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London,where her name is changed,but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
Cinema Verite (2011)
A behind the scenes look at the making of the first American family to be the subjects of a reality TV show
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Trio of stories about lesbian couples in three different decades
An American Crime (2007)
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s
Jindua (2017)
In Calgary, a young Indian man attempts to gain citizenship by marrying a woman wanting to be a rock star while harboring feelings for the girl next door
Team Marco (2019)
Young Marcos grandfather introduces Marco to bocce ball and to the neighborhood crew of old Italian men who play after Nonno moves in With sport, laughter and love, Marco rounds up a team of neighborhood kids to take on Nonnos
Sun Belt Express (2014)
A down on his luck ethics professor ends up on a completely unhinged run across the Mexican border with his teenage daughter in tow and four undocumented immigrants in the trunk
Catwoman (2004)
A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur
Scrapper (2023)
Georgie, a dreamy 12 year old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality
One Must Fall (2018)
A horror comedy slasher set in the 80s about a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew With a maniacal serial killer on the loose leaving them lots of work, d
Classic Albums Lou Reed Transformer (2001)
Transformer is considered to be one of the best albums of the 1970s This documentary examines it with Lou Reed and engineer Ken Scott talking about Perfect Day and Vicious among others
The Lost World (1960)
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there
A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
A Los Angeles police detective partners up with a talking gnome in order to bring down the head of a crime ring
Five Piece (2018)
With 24 hours until Battle Of The Bands, drummer Brandon finds himself in constant conflict with his fellow bandmates Unbeknownst to them, he lives with dissociative identity disorder, hosting four other distinct personalities withi