Salaam Bombay!
Mira Nair's award-winning first feature is the wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real life street kid Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless kids and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets.

Directed by Mira Nair
India, 1988, Not Rated
Movie starts at Dusk

Beginners
In Mills' autobiographibcal film, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for his protrayal of a man who finds happiness toward the end of his life. The story is told in flashback as Oliver struggles with intimacy as he falls in love with a beautiful actress.

Directed by Mike Mills
USA, 2010, Rated R
Movie starts at Dusk

Paris is Burning
This documentary is an unblinking behind the scenes story of fashion obsessed New Yorkers who created "voguing" and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of personal pride.

Directed by Jennie Livingston
USA, 1990, Rated R
Movie starts at Dusk

The Royal Tenenbaums
Anderson directs an all-star troupe of players in this artful, hilarious, and heart wrenching story of an estranged family of former child prodigies that reunite when their manipulative father Royal announces he has a terminal illness.

Directed by Wes Anderson
USA, 2001, Rated R
Movie starts at Dusk