Tribeca Productions
1) Flawless
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An ex-cop suffers a stroke and is paralyzed and unable to speak clearly. On the advice of his doctor, he seeks voice lessons from a musically-inclined neighbor, a female impersonator whom he vehemently dislikes.
2) Being Flynn
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A "compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child ... Nick Flynn ... is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan ..., however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles...
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Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
4) A Bronx tale
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A hard-working bus driver must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime.
5) Rent
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Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The "bohemians" live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. It is carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger, an aspiring songwriter, find out they owe a year's rent to Benny. Benny is a former friend who had promised them free rent when he married the landlord's daughter. Roger has also attracted the attention of his downstairs neighbor, Mimi. Mark's...
6) Cape Fear
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Fourteen years after being imprisoned, psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden.
7) House of D
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By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
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Short-money hustler Joe May always believed he had a glorious future ahead of him, despite all evidence to the contrary. Released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia, Joe is forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: Everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Even as Joe doggedly pursues his comeback, he finds the odds stacked against him. Bonus features included.
9) 15 minutes
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When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they...
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Unemployed, divorced, and estranged from his daughter, Frederik is stuck in Loserville with no hope of getting back on the right track. His luck changes when a botched prank gives him the idea to mold his motley buddies into Sweden's only all-male synchronized swimming team, with the World Cup finals in Berlin as the seemingly unattainable goal.
12) Meet the parents
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Greg is in love with Pam, and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house as a perfect opportunity to ask her to marry him. Once Greg is introduced to Pam's parents, however, things slide steadily downhill. Pam's dad, Jack, takes an instant and obvious dislike to Greg, remarking constantly about the fact that he is a male nurse. The weekend goes from bad to worse when Greg manages to, almost, destroy the house and the wedding.
15) Analyze that
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Fearful of his emotional stability, prison officials release Paul Vitti into the custody of his psychiatrist, Dr. Ben Sobel, who becomes even more exasperated when he learns Vitti will be moving into his home. As Sobel tries to get to the root of Vitti's real problems, he tries to help Vitti find a straight job. And adding to all this confusion, several members of Vitti's old crew are after him, who are determined to see that he doesn't pass along...
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Casper and Dominic have been fiercely loyal friends since childhood. Desperate for a way out of their quiet town on the Maine-Canada border, the boys make a pact to pool their earnings on a car and hit the road. But when Casper is drawn into drug smuggling with his outlaw father to pay his share, their friendship is pushed to the brink and adult choices forced on them all too soon.
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Teenage siblings Hansel and Gretel are shaken out of suburbia when an intense new marijuana strain named 'Black Forest' takes Los Angeles by storm. When Gretel's stoner boyfriend mysteriously disappears while on a run to buy more drugs; the siblings follow his breadcrumbs to the house of a little old lady who has a very green thumb. When the seemingly sweet woman turns out to be a drug-dealing, drug growing evil witch who cooks and eats her wasted...
18) Public enemies
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1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to Chicago, where he meets hatcheck girl Billie Frechette...
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An American intelligence officer's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him.
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his...
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A smart, subversive comedy that skips through 35 years in the life of Max Youngblood, his best (and only) friend Sal, and the woman they both adore. As they stumble in and out of hilariously misguided relationships-strung together with animated vignettes by Bob Sabiston and an original score by Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio-Max never ages, holding on to a mysterious briefcase that may or may not contain the secret to life.