Best VODs Released August 2020
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Red Penguins
Detailing an incredible true story involving gangsters, strippers, and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink, Red Penguins tells the wild forgotten true story of capitalism and opportunism run amok in Moscow. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the famed Red Army hockey team formed a joint venture that redefined what was possible in the new Russia. Eccentric marketing whiz, Steve Warshaw, is sent to Moscow and tasked to transform the team into the greatest show in Russia, attracting some of the biggest names in Hollywood and advertising along the way. He takes the viewer on a bizarre journey highlighting a pivotal moment in U.S.-Russian relations during a lawless era when oligarchs made their fortunes and multiple murders went unsolved.
Gabe Polsky
Sports Documentary True Story
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Out Stealing Horses
November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up.
Stellan Skarsgard, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Curcic, Jon Ranes, Bjørn Floberg, Hans Petter Moland
Drama
The Silencing
Follows a reformed hunter (Coster-Waldau) living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Micah Ranum, Josh Cruddas, Cybill Lui Eppich, Annabelle Wallis, Robin Pront, Annastasia Boston, Daina Barbeau, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Action Thriller Crime
Boys State
Follows annual rite of passage in which a thousand teenage boys from across Texas come together to build a representative government from the ground up.
Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Documentary Coming-of-Age
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Words on Bathroom Walls
Adam, a young man diagnosed with schizophrenia, enrolls at a new school. He starts taking a new medication, which is promising at first, but soon the truth comes out about his illness and Adam is forced to make some difficult decisions.
AnnaSophia Robb, Andy Garcia, Walton Goggins, Nick Naveda, Devon Bostick, Pete Shilaimon, Lobo Sebastian, Taylor Russell
Drama Teen
Tesla
Serbian born Nicola Tesla immigrates to the U.S. in the early 1880s and begins working for Thomas Edison. What begins as a warm professional relationship turns into a fierce, hostile rivalry when Tesla quits Edison after feeling he has been unfairly compensated for designing improvements to the company’s inefficient motor and generators designs. Their rivalry forms the basis for the"current wars" in the 1880s and 1890s, as Edison is a proponent of direct current, while Tesla advocates for alternating current transmission of electricity.
Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Josh Hamilton, Uri Singer, Michael Almereyda, Lucy Walters, Jim Gaffigan, Eve Hewson
Drama Biography Period
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Fatima
A 10-year-old shepherd and her two young cousins in Fátima, Portugal report seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. Their revelations inspire believers but anger officials of both the Church and the secular government, who try to force them to recant their story. As word of their prophecy spreads, tens of thousands of religious pilgrims flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle. What they experience will change their lives forever.
Sonia Braga, Joaquim de Almeida, Valerio D’Annunzio, Stephanie Gil, Goran Visnjic, Harvey Keitel, Marco Pontecorvo, Barbara Nicolosi
Drama Faith