Known for Art
Filmography
50 films, 6 shows


Finestkind
2023 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.


The Rainbow Prince
2022 · 35m
country: United States
The Rainbow Prince is a contemporary live action fairy tale, with a twist on The Sleeping Beauty story. Rainbow, who changes colors with his feelings, is left on the castle steps of a King and Queen. Now a Prince, he is put to sleep by an evil Wizard and his dangerous cohort scheming to take over the kingdom. Rainbow is temporarily awakened for 21 years by the Mother of the Forest, a wise, powerful healing woman. The sole remedy to reverse the spell forever is a kiss from True Love. This happens to be from a beautiful Brown Princess. Marea must save the Prince and his entire kingdom. The Rainbow Prince is a 30-minute live action film for a K-6 audience that flips the traditional fairy tale narrative to expose children to new models of power and heroism.


Safety
2020 · 2h 2m
country: United States
The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.


Emperor
2020 · 1h 39m
country: United States
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.


Second Act
2018 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Value Shop assistant manager Maya Vargas wants only one thing for her 43rd birthday -- a promotion. While her résumé may not scream upper management, her track record certainly does; she is an innovator who listens to her customers and delivers results. When she loses the job to a college-educated candidate, Maya sets out to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts -- and it's never too late for a second act.


Marshall
2017 · 1h 58m
country: Hong Kong
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.


Brad's Status
2017 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.


The Last Word
2017 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.


Sisters
2015 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.


McFarland, USA
2015 · 2h 8m
country: United States
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.


Top Five
2014 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.


42
2013 · 2h 8m
country: United States
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other players.


Bachelorette
2012 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.


Soul Men
2008 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter, accompanies them as a new singer.


The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2008 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.


Henry Poole Is Here
2008 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · 2h 40m
country: Canada
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.


Suburban Girl
2007 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of his own issues, including alcoholism, diabetes and a difficult relationship with his daughter. Intent on helping Archie get past his problems, she turns to her dying father for advice.


North Country
2005 · 2h 6m
country: United States
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.


Lackawanna Blues
2005 · 1h 35m
country: United States
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.


The Hamburg Cell
2004 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.


Blind Horizon
2003 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...


Live from Baghdad
2002 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.


The Mothman Prophecies
2002 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.


The Prime Gig
2001 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who scams people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast cash, he's called to work for a shady, veteran con businessman Kelly Grant. The situation takes a turn for the worst when Penny begins a relationship with Grant's mistress, Caitlin.


Fail Safe
2000 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.


Girl, Interrupted
1999 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.


Cradle Will Rock
1999 · 2h 12m
country: United States
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.


Payback
1999 · 1h 40m
country: United States
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.


Apt Pupil
1998 · 1h 47m
country: France
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.


Nightwatch
1997 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.


Dead Man Walking
1995 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.


Panther
1995 · 2h 4m
country: United Kingdom
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.


Zooman
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though dozens of neighbors saw the unintentional shooting, no one is willing to come forward with information. Life goes on, a killer goes free, and one grieving, broken father (Louis Gossett Jr.) is forced to take his cry for justice to the media, hoping to spark a confrontation with his daughter's murderer. Charles Dutton and CCH Pounder costar in this powerful original drama.


Dream Lover
1994 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.


Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy
1994 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Stand up comedy by Martin Lawrence, filmed in the Majestic Theater in New York City. Martin Lawrence talks about everything from racism, to relationships, to his childhood.


Bob Roberts
1992 · 1h 42m
country: Germany
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.


Storyville
1992 · 1h 53m
country: United States
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.


Heat Wave
1990 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.


Teach 109
1990 · 25m
country: United States
In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients. However, her latest patient Teach 109 changes her mind.


Prime Target
1989 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow police officer.


Torch Song Trilogy
1988 · 2h
country: United States
Arnold Beckoff is looking for love and acceptance, but as a gay man working as a female impersonator in 1970s New York City, neither come easily. After a series of heartaches, Arnold believes he has found the love of his life in Alan, and the couple make plans to adopt. But when tragedy strikes, Arnold's life is shaken to its very core, leading to a confrontation with his overbearing mother, who has never approved of her son's lifestyle.


It Takes Two
1988 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Travis is due to marry Stephanie in a few days when he is convinced by beautiful saleswoman Jonni to buy a fancy sports car. The car looks good, but it turns out to be a piece of junk. Travis is determined to get satisfaction and he and Jonni hit the road to confront the crooked car dealer.