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Publisher
Universal
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
2) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal
Description
The film follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film is inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled 'The Hustlers at Scores' written by Jessica Pressler.
5) She said
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Publisher
BBC
Description
Laura Nielson, a smart and capable teacher not long out of a relationship, is set up on a date with recently widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham, the father of one of her students. However, the day after it is apparent that something has gone wrong, and the subsequent fallout rapidly spirals out of control, exposing the power of truth, deception, and trust.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Description
Cassie is wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past but will jeopardize her future.
"Fennell is a fearsome sensibility and a talent to watch out for, and the arguments you may have after the lights come up will be well worth having."--Boston Globe.
"Startling - the only way to describe Fennell's vision and execution...
8) Precious
Publisher
Lionsgate
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Description
"In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container....
11) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
Series
Publisher
LaserLight DVD
Description
Blackmail:A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.
Easy virtue: "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Description
Now experience the acclaimed remake that dares to go even further: Jennifer Hills is a big-city novelist who rents an isolated country cabin to write her new book. But when she is brutally raped by a group of sadistic rednecks, Jennifer has plans for more than mere revenge. One-by-one she will find them. She will inflict horrific acts of agonizing torment upon them. And no jury in America would ever convict her.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Description
Emma, John, and Mari Collingwood head out on vacation to their summer lake house. Shortly after arriving, Mari borrows the family car and drives into town to spend time with her friend Paige. While Paige is working the cash register at a local store, she and Mari meet Justin, a teenager passing through the town. Justin invites them both back to his hotel room to smoke some weed. After kidnapping and ruthlessly assaulting the two girls, Justin's father...
16) Heavens fall
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Description
A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
Publisher
FilmRise
Description
Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, single mother is brutally assaulted by a local gang with her daughter Bethie watching. Bethie is able to identify the rapists, but when the rapists hire a hot shot attorney who gets them free, Dromoor, a local police officer who was first on the scene when the police were called, starts to take matters into his own hands.
19) Road to Paloma
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Description
Wolf, a Native American, is being pursued by the FBI for taking the law into his own hands after his mother is raped and killed. Wolf sets out across the American West, discovering new friendships and lost loves, riding toward the Teton mountain range, where he will spread his mother's ashes.
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