James Schamus Movies

Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music...

Murat, a Turkish gay youth living in Berlin’s Turkish ghetto, decides to come out to his family. What he doesn’t know yet is that his...

After the Waco siege, an unthinkable plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. A psychological thriller based on the harrowing real...

In the wake of his big brother’s violent death, 13-year-old Dayveon struggles to find his way in an economically depressed Arkansas town. With...

Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only...

After his boyfriend rejects his marriage proposal, Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him for his green card and offers to pay for her...

A love story between a Jamaican immigrant and his wife that turns bittersweet when the search for the American dream goes awry.

This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.

Manhattan, 1996. All mental hospitals must cut their patient load by a third, and LaRue (Will Keenan) is sent out onto the streets with "chronic...

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...

A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).

A young Karl Rove vies for the position of chief campus conservative under the guidance of Lee Atwater.

James’s film provides us with a thoughtful history of photography and the moving image that both pays tribute to the past and celebrates how...

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the...

Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not...

Welcome to Levittown, New York - America's first cookie-cutter community. From wife-swapping to bomb shelters, to flag burning, Wonderland takes a...

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well,...

Director Jan Oxenberg's docu-fantasy narrative about aging and death, and how it affects her family.