Understated Movies

Journeying home to the Bulgarian hinterlands on the border of Turkey and Greece, Saïd seeks out a fuel-smuggling deal with a small-time crook,...

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.

With the rent due and his car booted, Sean has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc, suggests that Sean get...

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth...

Even though Gwyn Marcus is engaged to her boyfriend, Matt, she is still afraid of commitment. While she admires her parents' loving relationship, she...

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house...

A French academic is seduced into a world of untold histories in her scholarly quest to uncover the mystery of a history-capturing camera-like...

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.

Life is not easy for anyone and the money is getting shorter for Antonia, who is unemployed. But she doesn't lose her sense of humor even when she...

After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.

Kelly is an electronic forró singer in search of ascension. She does shows in the backlands of Brazil, but does not have many opportunities....

Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter...

The world's greatest blue sapphire, the "blue lapis fist", said to have sunk in a pirate ship in the late 19th century, on the coasts of Singapore. A...

A bisexual woman struggles to accept her own identity when she looks to a local LGBTQIA+ book club for a sense of belonging.

Pedro earns a living in chat rooms. He transforms himself into NeonBoy in front of the webcam. Slowly, this young man dips his fingers into pots of...

Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each...

Wendy Day is a young woman struggling to find her place in a world that has always felt slightly out of step. When a string of brutal murders shakes...

A door-to-door salesman of dental appliances encounters beautiful, well-endowed nude women everywhere he goes.

The second coming is upon us, and Jesus has returned to earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead,...