Under The Domim Tree
recommended by Tonks

Restitution is only one of the many factors that was debated by Holocaust survivors after WWII- and not just by adults, but also by the thousands of orphaned children the Nazis left in their wake. In a boarding school in Israel, a group of rescued children have to deal with the question of "What do we do now?" But what if you're an orphan who was born in Israel (a "sabras")? And the war took your family away in a different way? The effects of the war are shaping Israel, but not having been "there"- not having had to run from the Nazis -do you have a right to decide certain things that affect the survivors? What do you do now?

Forbidden Zone
recommended by Anna Behnke

Danny Elfman plays the devil...Oingo Boingo does the music...Midget King of the Sixth Dimension...astral projection... A wild ride.

Party Monster
recommended by Swan Rubins

Macaulay Culkin in drag! Dude, this movie is fabulous! Drugs, make-up, sex, giant rat, and did I mention the drugs? This is a fun movie to rent with friends or a date- very colorful yet disturbing. It's about club kids & murder. Rent it and watch it and write a better reccomendation than this one!

The Harder They Come
recommended by The Hunt

My main man Jimmy Cliff stars in this shanty town classic!!! Rags to riches! Fortune! Fame! Hit records! God! Milk! Honey! The ganja trade! A wonderful soundtrack with Toots & The Maytals, and others...Rent this, rude boyz & girlz!

Spirited Away
recommended by Michelle Fee

This has beautiful animation and a creative story, with some underlying environmental themes. You must see this!

Dutchman
recommended by Madam Khar

The whole thing feels all too real (like most plays turned into films)...an ending that sneaks up on you...It won "Best Picture" at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival...Emotionally visceral. That's right, I said it.

The Insider
recommended by Aubrey Skillman

This movie is on my Top 5 List. It nails the tobacco industry and is a very realistic picture- it should be, because it's based on a true story. Russell Crowe & Al Pacino are brilliant together. The music rules, too. If you are undecided on the tobacco debate, check this movie out. Very cool.

Pickaxe & Breaking The Spell
recommended by Robert Paulson

This double-feature documentary will make you laugh, cry, want to dance, want to live life every day to the fullest. I've seen it five times, and there's always something new. Pickaxe deals with logging in old-growth forests...Breaking The Spell is about the '99 WTO anarchist movement.