Movies: Shirley Venard

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer....

Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it....

Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer uncovers their royal lineage and inheritance, the brothers’ fate intertwines in unexpected ways....

Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the...

A struggling grocery-store owner makes a deal with Satan that gives him the power to gamble in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos without losing. However, his deal is threatened with exposure when a casino boss suspicious of his "winning streak" beg...

Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband...