Streaming the Best of Cinequest

Brooke Purdy in QUALITY PROBLEMS. Photo courtesy of Cinequest.

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.
Andrew Jenkins in Chris Scheuerman’s brilliant debut LOST SOLACE

INDIE DRAMAS

THERE WILL BE NO STAY

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.
Mads Mikkelson in THE HUNT

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)