These 2012-2020 Cinequest favorites are available to stream now:
FEEL GOODS AND COMEDIES
- Quality Problems: A screwball comedy for the sandwich generation. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Venus: Meeting your kid for the first time while transitioning. Amazon, AppleTV.
- The Sapphires: Here’s a crowd pleaser: Motown meets Aborigines. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu.
- Threesomething: Original and cheeky. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Grand Seduction: An entire tiny hamlet is enlisted in an absurdly elaborate and risky ruse in this Canadian knee-slapper. Amazon (included with Prime), Vudu, YouTube.
- Hunting Elephants: Apparently, Israelis see just as little generosity, fair-mindedness and decency in their bankers as we do in ours. AppleTV.
- Travel Ban: Make America Laugh Again: Using comedy to explore the uncomfortable. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Linoleum: highly original and sweet. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
- Summertime: no longer invisible and unheard, giving voice through verse. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
INDIE DRAMAS
- Driveways: Authentic, heartfelt, brilliant. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Before the Fire: when sanctuary brings its own terror. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Center: Sliding into a cult. Amazon (included with Prime), Vudu, YouTube.
- Lost Solace: a psychopath afflicted by empathy. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Mine 9: Betting your life…every day. Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
- Dose of Reality: You won’t predict this ending. For SURE. Amazon.
- The House on Pine Street: Does she see a ghost? Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: captivating docufiction. Amazon (included with Prime), YouTube.
- Prodigy: She doesn’t LOOK like a monster. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Lune: funny, searing, and richly authentic. Amazon.
DOCS
- The Brainwashing of My Dad: When TV changes not just opinions, but mood and personality, too. Amazon, Vudu, YouTube.
- Meet the Hitlers: Wouldn’t you change YOUR name? Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu.
- There Will Be No Stay: In a society with capital punishment, someone must perform the executions. AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
WORLD CINEMA
- Ida (Oscar winner): Identity rocked at a pivotal time. Amazon, Netflix, YouTube.
- The Hunt (Oscar-nominated): Terrifyingly plausible. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Wild Tales (Oscar-nominated): Hilariously dark tales of revenge. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu.
- The Teacher: A peek into Communist dread. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu.
- Revenge: The web is spun. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Fever at Dawn: Romance, identity and a moral choice. Hoopla.
- The Wave: Everything you want in a disaster movie. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Magallanes: Some wrongs cannot be righted. AppleTV, YouTube.
- The Bra: Just your average silent Azerbaijani comedy. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Buy Me a Gun: Children in narcopolypse. AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Memory of Water: Grief, exquisitely explored. Netflix.
- Los Hamsters: Riotously dysfunctional. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
When and if these Cinequest highlights become available to stream, I’ll add them to the list:
- Bikini Moon
- Class Enemy
- Corn Island
- Dead Man and Being Happy
- For Grace
- Heaven’s Floor
- Los Moderns
- Visible World (Vidite ny svet)