Joanna Merlin Movies

It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding...

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...