Joanna Merlin Movies

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career...

A failed New Jersey inventor embarks on a career as a standup comic, turns to drink, and labors to keep his family together.

Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the...

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on...

The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York...

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a...

Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile...

A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which...