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"Follow a mother and her son into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will come into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of abandonment. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question."--

"A struggling addict chooses to accompany her faith healer father on a journey across the Louisiana swamp to bury a mysterious dead woman." --

An unforgettable and inspiring journey that takes a family from the center of crisis to the edge of salvation when a mother's faith and the hands of a healer are a young boy's only hope.

"Mony, a traditional Healer in a rural Cambodian village, exploits the deeply rooted stigma of mental health with his harsh treatment methods, which include locking patients inside cages for days on end. When a visiting psychiatrist from the city of Phnom Penh cures an epileptic with modern medicine, Mony is humiliated and locked up by the villagers inside his own cage as punishment. Soon, Mony escapes in a violent rampage and heads to the city where...

The story of a rugged, down-to-earth Montana rancher with the ability to understand and care for troubled horses, who befriends a young woman who has suffered a terrible riding accident.

An oncologist in the professional fast lane hits a detour when a desperately ill patient kidnaps him at gunpoint. Across highways and backroads, kidnapper and hostage seek a fabled Navajo healing place while a manhunt closes in on them. Miles roll by quickly, but the distance between the men is not so easily bridged. At the same time, the doctor starts recovering something lost during his grab for wealth and status: his humanity. Through narrow escapes...

A beautifully shot, intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard's family is murdered for seemingly no reason. A mysterious girl that appears in town is the link to his family's killings, ultimately leading to tragic, violent consequences for all.

"Jan Mikolasek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for 'urinary diagnosis'. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell, his assistant, Frantisek. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are...

Miracles happen in unexpected places, even on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates.

"Set amidst the large and prosperous Indian community in mid-20th century Trinidad, [the film] is a magical, bittersweet fable about Ganesh (Aasif Mandvi), a young, aspiring author whose unexpected talents as a healer bring him local fame and enable him to realize his ambitions as a writer. But he also realizes his limitations when his reputation as the legendary 'mystic masseur' propels him to national renown and draws him far from his roots and...