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In genre films like “Cinnamon” and “Murder City,” new voices are delivering genuine thrills with a loose energy and a generous sense of drama.

A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”

The documentary “Casa Susanna” explores the Catskills boardinghouse community that allowed denizens to express their identity when that was taboo.

Though it has detractors, scholars and advocates have largely embraced this film for the way it shows people just living their lives while disabled.

From animated partygoers to real families embracing a name, this basket of goodies includes seven titles, among them comedy, tragedy and documentary.

In this moody epistolary film, a woman in Paris works through a close friend’s death with the help of video correspondences.

Three films showing at the Tribeca Festival tell stories over several years, a challenge for the filmmakers and the subjects.

This refreshingly grounded French crime procedural portrays what happens when a brutal murder case eludes the diligent efforts of a by-the-book investigator.

A hapless man who barely speaks becomes a movie star in Charlie Day’s scattershot Hollywood satire.

This big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.