Joanna Merlin Movies

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands...

The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets...

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

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.

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...

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

A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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