Joanna Merlin Movies

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

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...

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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