October Films

A screenwriter hires a real-life Muse to inspire creativity.

Sonny is a gifted Southern Pentecostal preacher loved by his community in Texas. When Sonny loses control and commits a crime of passion, he is forced to run from the law. Hiding out in the small Louisiana town of Bayou Boutte, Sonny adopts a new identity as the Apostle E.F. and sets out on a new mission--to find the road to redemption.

Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest him for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...

Joe Mitchell is a top writer at The New Yorker, specializing in profiles of urban eccentrics. But he's never met anyone as fascinating as Joe Gould, a cantankerous, unkempt, yet possibly brilliant street philosopher. When Mitchell decides to profile Gould, he has to decide whether Gould is a fraud or a genius.

The incredible true story of two sisters joined by music and torn apart by love for the same man.

A young girl growing up in Europe in the 1960s learns to not only deal with adolescence, but struggles to accept an adopted brother and a move back to the United States.

A man meets his true love in a late night vision, but she is actually a sexy con artist.

"Lucy Berliner, a once-famous photographer, is revitalized when she meets Syd, a beautiful young assistant editor for a prestigious photography magazine. Withdrawn from the art world, Lucy is reawakened by Syd who offers her the hope of escaping her drug-filled world. Before Syd realizes it, she is drawn into Lucy's seductive and dangerous mix while forced to make choices she never imagined"--Container.

A young black woman searches for her birth parents and finds that her mother is white.

"Two unlikely college roommates become close friends amidst a dizying whirl of books, booze and boyfriends. Reunited six years after graduation, Annie and Hannah take a funny, poignant look at the girls they were and the women they have become"--Container.