Notes for My Son

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Camino

2008★ 7.6

A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Carne

1968★ 6.3

A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.

ma ma

2015★ 6.2

After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Burning Sands

2017★ 5.8

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

Effie Gray

2014★ 5.9

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

Dear Zoe

2022★ 6.5

Tess enlists her biological father – a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks – and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.

Norman

2010★ 6.1

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

Mothers' Instinct

2024★ 6.8

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.