La Memoria di Cavour (2011)

Actors: Luca Vigliani (editor), Tommaso Caroni (director), Tommaso Caroni (writer), Tommaso Caroni (producer), Rocco Riccio (writer), Maria Luisa Seravesi (actress), Alessia Donadio (actress), Franco Ghibaudi (actor), Marco Fasano (miscellaneous crew), Alex Curina (actor), Laura D'Amore (producer), Giorgio Bevilacqua (composer), Matteo Boniello (actor),

Miracle Mile (2004)

Actors: Sarah Lilly (actress), Alex Castillo (actor), Lyne Odums (actress), Vincent Angelo (actor), Chane't Johnson (actress), Ashley Jordan (producer), Christina Piovesan (producer), Dong-hyuk Hwang (director), Dong-hyuk Hwang (editor), Dong-hyuk Hwang (writer), Karl Yune (actor), Christian Hutcherson (actor), Eddie B. Smith (actor), Taylor Jacobson (costume designer), Gascia Ouzounian (composer),

Plot: James Hudson is Korean-American, driving a gypsy cab in L.A., using his Korean language skills to pick up fares at LAX's international terminal. One day he picks up a young Korean who's searching for her brother, given up for adoption 20 years before. Her English is poor, so she hires James to help. He gets her a room in a cheap, downtown hotel and drives her the next day to the county adoption office and to an old address of her brother's when he was adopted as a small boy. At that house, the residents are new and know nothing, but a boy on a swing triggers a childhood memory in James. Is a miracle of reunion and connection at hand in the City of the Angels?

Love and War in Mexico (1913)

Actors: Henry King (actor), Irene Hunt (actress), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Wilbert Melville (director), Carl von Schiller (actor), James Fitzroy (actor),

Plot: James Hudson, a young civil engineer, is engaged in surveying land in Southern California, when he meets and falls in love with Pequita, the daughter of Don Jose Alvarado, a Mexican farmer. Pequita learns to love Hudson and they are eventually married. Two years pass and Hudson has become addicted to the use of liquor, and has grown tired of Pequita. One day, while in a drunken rage, he strikes her, and as she falls unconscious, and he, being unable to revive her, believes her dead. He runs from the house, and, after a long journey, falls exhausted at the door of a mission. The padre finds him and takes him inside, where he is nursed back to health and eventually becomes a monk. In the meantime, Pequita has been found by her father and taken to his home, where her little son is born. Twenty years elapse and the son, grown to manhood, has joined the insurgent Mexican army and is selected to do duty as a spy. He enlists in the Federal forces and in the execution of his duties as a spy, he is discovered and tried by court martial. He is condemned to death, but when the commanding officer visits him in his cell, the boy overpowers him and escapes by donning the officer's cloak and bat. A detachment of soldiers give chase and overtake him at the door of the mission. The padre protects the boy and requests that he be allowed one hour for confession, after which the padre promises to deliver the prisoner to them. The officer consents and the boy is led inside. He requests that his mother be sent for and a monk goes to bring her. When she arrives she immediately recognizes the monk as her husband, and tells him that the boy is his son. At the expiration of the hour the officer demands his prisoner, and the men are waiting outside the mission gate to carry out the execution. As the boy and mother are kneeling in prayer, the father dons the cloak and cap in which the boy escaped and goes out. As he opens the gate and steps forth, be is met by a volley of bullets from the guns of the soldiers, who march away, believing they have done their duty. The mother and son rush from the mission and fall weeping across the body of the father who, with his life, atoned for the suffering he had caused them.