Watch movies directed by John Sayles

Go for Sisters

Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer- just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.

NR

5.7

2013 Crime 123 min Play

6

Honeydripper

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.

NR

6

2007 Drama 124 min Play

6

Silver City

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

NR

6

2004 Comedy 128 min Play

5.7

Casa de los Babys

A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties.

R

5.7

2003 Drama 96 min Play

6.4

Sunshine State

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

PG-13

6.4

2002 Drama 141 min Play

7

Limbo

Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom guards a secret.

NR

7

1999 Adventure 126 min Play

7.4

Men with Guns

Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.

NR

7.4

1997 Adventure 127 min Play

6.6

The Secret of Roan Inish

10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..

PG

6.6

1994 Drama 103 min Play

6.9

Passion Fish

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

R

6.9

1992 Drama 135 min Play

7.1

City of Hope

This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.

NR

7.1

1991 Drama 129 min Play

7.1

Eight Men Out

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

PG

7.1

1988 Drama 119 min Play

7.2

Matewan

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

PG-13

7.2

1987 Drama 132 min Play

6.7

The Brother from Another Planet

An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.

NR

6.7

1984 Comedy 108 min Play

6.1

Baby It’s You

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

R

6.1

1983 Comedy 105 min Play

6.7

Return of the Secaucus Seven

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.

NR

6.7

1980 Drama 104 min Play