Soul Power
84% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews
Skin
84% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 64 reviews
500 Days of Summer
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 235 reviews
Tom, the boy, still believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer, the girl, doesn’t. Not at all. But that doesn’t stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman – not that he minds any of that -- but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world.
The Princess and the Frog
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 201 reviews
Me and Orson Welles
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 157 reviews
Tyson
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 147 reviews
The House of the Devil
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 102 reviews
Lorna's Silence
85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 98 reviews
A Single Man
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 196 reviews
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 154 reviews
The White Ribbon
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 149 reviews
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 144 reviews
Big Fan
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews
Treeless Mountain
86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 64 reviews
Sin Nombre
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 120 reviews
"Sin Nombre" tells the story of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a teenager living in Honduras, and hungering for a brighter future. A reunion with her long-estranged father gives Sayra her only real option – emigrating with her father and her uncle into Mexico and then the United States, where her father now has a new family.
Meanwhile, Casper, a.k.a. Willy (Edgar Flores), is a teenager living in Tapachula, Mexico, and facing an uncertain future. A member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang brotherhood, he has just brought to the Mara a new recruit, 12-year-old Smiley (Kristyan Ferrer), who undergoes a rough initiation.
While Smiley quickly takes to gang life, Casper tries to protect his relationship with girlfriend Martha Marlene (Diana García), keeping their love a secret from the Mara. But when Martha encounters Tapachula’s Mara leader Lil’ Mago (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), she is brutally taken from Casper forever.
Sayra and her relatives manage to cross over into Mexico. There, they join other immigrants waiting at the Tapachula train yards. When a States-bound freight train arrives one night, they successfully rush to board – riding atop it, rather than in the cars – as does Lil’ Mago, who has commandeered Casper and Smiley along to rob immigrants.
When day breaks, Lil’ Mago makes his move and Casper in turn makes a fateful decision. Casper must now navigate the psychological gauntlet of his violent existence and the physical one of the unforgiving Mara, but Sayra bravely allies herself with him as the train journeys through the Mexican countryside towards the hope of new lives.