In an effort to avoid paying of a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.

Upon his father’s sudden death, a talented medical student returns to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family’s survival.

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and ’30s.

The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.

A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people’s lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.

In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.

Mia Roarke is an actress quickly approaching 40. She’s had her moment in the spotlight and now struggles to get back to where she once was. Or anywhere. Mia can’t catch a break, and in the cutthroat world of The Business, Mia is her own worst enemy. No matter how hard she tries, she’s competing in a younger woman’s world and she can’t get used to the idea that she’s ‘too old’ and no longer viable. Her agent wants to get rid of her, she’s got a controlling mother she supports and an ex husband who is poised for stardom. Then, a strange and humiliating turn of events gives her the chance to come back into the spotlight.

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.

Demetri Martin brings his off-kilter take on acoustic guitar, hairless cats, color schemes, and the word “nope” to Washington in his original special.