Joan Micklin Silver Movies

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East...

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker...

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic...

Young Gilbert lives in an urban apartment building. One day he discovers a duck in the building's elevator. Gilbert decides to keep the duck, but to...

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for...

Two young girls with a passion for touching fur coats become locked inside a furrier's shop after hours when two burglars break in.

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate...

A ride to the airport unites three women whose husbands are either prisoners or missing in Vietnam.

"A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has...

A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary...

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While...

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at...

The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the...

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's...

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second -...