Terry Stevens worked his entire life for the opportunity to captain his own houseboat and spend his twilight years alone, fishing the mighty Mississippi like Mark Twain's characters in "Huckleberry Finn." However, things don't always work out the way we plan. One foolish mistake finds Terry lost in the swamps of the Louisiana bayous and facing more adventure than he has bargained for. Trying to find his way back to his intended course, he becomes...

"Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan's underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast,...

She Bewitches With Her Dance... Carys's livelihood depends on her agility, beauty, and balance. She enchants crowds with her exhilarating rope dance, but one wrong move leads to disaster-a twisted ankle and no way to survive. Alone and unprotected in war–torn England, she has no one to trust but a handsome stranger-a man most unlikely to give up his wandering ways. He Enchants With His Song... Telor is a man skilled with his hands. A gifted musician...

A Shi'ite militiaman who has never received answers about the father who disappeared in Saddam Hussein's gulag years earlier participates in the dictator's execution in ways that profoundly change his life and reflect the politics and violence of America's war in Iraq.

"The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope follows Gil Henry, a Kentucky lawyer who begins investigating a stock fraud and winds up investigating a murder. When Ruth McClure approaches Gil and asks him to investigate the stock she inherited from her father, he reluctantly agrees, never expecting to be embroiled in scandal, subterfuge, and murder. But the more he digs the deeper the manipulation scheme goes, and it becomes unclear whether Gil will find a way...

A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.

Charlotte Beckford watched helplessly as the man she loved was gunned down in the middle of a dusty Kansas street. In another month, they would have married. Now, as she knelt and cradled Adam's broken body, she screamed hysterically at his murderer, swearing that she would see him hang. But Bowie Rayburn laughed at her threat, her words echoing behind him as he rode away unconcerned. After all, he thought, what could she do? She was just a girl. Shadow...

"The Day of the Rope" is a fictional tale about what can happen in a country that has rejected its heritage and descended into degeneracy and decadence. A handful of the inhabitants discover the true power behind the ruling class, and the methods they use to remain above the law. Feeling like strangers in the land of their forefathers, Ethan and Wayne navigate the ethical minefield of violent revolution as they try to reclaim their nation from those...

After arresting Antoine and Suzanne, Marchetti hopes their captivity will help his negotiations with the Resistance. Directed by Jean-Philippe Amar, 2014.