Get a Front-Row Seat to Tribeca Film Festival Without Leaving Your Sofa

Cinema buffs, this one's for you: The Tribeca Film Festival is coming to small screens this year. As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, from June 9 to 20, the festival that Robert De Niro cofounded will offer Tribeca at Home, a dedicated virtual cinema for home streaming.

With three levels of passes — $25 for short films only, $50 for the award-winning films (available June 19–20) and $150 for all of the festival's virtual content — you can tailor your experience to your interests and budget. You can also stream single films for $15. (Get details here: tribecafilm.com/festival/tickets) This is a rare chance to enjoy the festival's strong mix of features and documentaries without flying to Manhattan and standing in line. Whet your appetite and mark your watch list with these standout selections. When they hit it big later in the year, you can say you saw them at Tribeca!

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Brighton 4th

A contender in the International Narrative Competition, this smoked-fish-out-of-water comedy follows a father and former wrestling champ's trip to America. Kakhi (Soviet Olympic contender Levan Tediashvili, 73) travels from Georgia to Brooklyn's Brighton Beach to rescue his mob-indebted son, Soso (Giorgi Tabidze), from an American dream turned nightmare.

Check it out here: Brighton 4th

The One and Only Dick Gregory

At long last, a documentary about the influential, groundbreaking African American stand-up comic, and civil rights and vegetarian activist, from debut feature director Andre Gaines and executive producers Kevin Hart and Lena Waithe.

Check it out here: The One and Only Dick Gregory

False Positive

Forever 007 Pierce Brosnan, 68, plays a hunky fertility doctor, with Gretchen Mol as his faithful nurse. Dr. Hindle invades the life of a married couple (Justin Theroux and Broad City's Ilana Glazer, who also cowrote and produced) who are struggling to get pregnant. And that's just the start of the loving pair's problems in this twisted thriller (with a hat tip to Rosemary's Baby) about the extremes to which some parents will go to achieve their perfect family dreams — and the doctors who enable them.

Check it out here: False Positive

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

Legendary, big-haired, racy romance author Collins, who died in 2015, at 77, wrote 32 novels that sold more than 500 million copies. Two husbands, three children and a wild ride of a life that began in London and ended in Beverly Hills prove to be the stuff of multiple novels in Laura Fairrie's nonfiction narrative that embraces Collins’ motto, “Girls can do anything.”

Check it out here: Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story