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A mother who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer prepares her mentally disabled son for her inevitable passing.

Under the creative direction of Gael Garcia Bernal, ten award-winning directors tell the story of the high school dropout crisis in Latin America in an anthology of narrative and documentary film as beautifully diverse and complex as the region. Travel to seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day.

Behind the scenes of a hit reality TV show, a jaded producer and a spurned beauty queen face off in mental mortal combat. One driven by cash rewards and ambition, the other clinging to her last shred of dignity. Only one can leave victorious.

Malditos Cartoonistas is a documentary (later turned into a TV series) directed by Daniel Garcia and Daniel Paiva. The documentary was released in 2010 during Rio Comicon, featuring interviews with 25 cartoonists, who spoke about various aspects of their work. Among the artists who participated in the 90 minutes of the film are Ziraldo, Jaguar, Nani, Angeli, Ota, Allan Sieber, Arnaldo Branco, and André Dahmer, among others. In 2012, testimonies recorded between 2007 and 2012 were gathered in a TV series of the same name, shown on Canal Brasil. The series had 13 episodes, each with a specific theme, such as the profession of cartoonists, the influence of the internet on cartoons and charges, and the work of women cartoonists, among other subjects. In 2011, the documentary won the HQ Mix Trophy in the "best production in other languages", and was awarded at the CineSul Festival and the Petrópolis National Film Festival. In 2013, the TV series won the HQ Mix Trophy again in the "best production in other languages" category.

This big-hearted romp from New York City to Hollywood, CA leads Oscar to the queer joy, love, and liberation that eluded him 141 years ago, with the attendant themes of diversity, identity, and inclusion beautifully expressed in the film's original song, "Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Taken", based on one of Wilde's most popular quotes. Filmed in London and in multiple locations across the United States, the film stars West End star Oscar Conlon-Morrey as Oscar Wilde, and features film/TV/stage veterans Rosemary Harris and Kate Burton.

Seahorse is the story of a first love, an unrequited love and a pregnant boy - Alex.

A coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old boy, who can't feel pain or emotion. It's only when his classmate, Kristen, takes a liking to him that James' condition improves. This journey through adolescence and love is inspired by true events.

Kenzie, a 20-something Angeleno discovers during a totally boring and routine general check up that she is fictional. And even worse, that she was written by a dude.

A musical adaptation of the 1984 movie by the same name. "A movie that most people only watched while stoned." A dystopian future of global warming and ecological disaster. While trying to get to the bottom of who's dumping the toxic waste in New Jersey, his discovery leads him to being dumped in the toxic waste to die only to come out as a super strong mutant.

In Europe's oldest city, Plovdiv, Bulgaria an old man who used to spy on his neighbors for the secret police, continues to do it over 30 years later as a pastime. He becomes convinced that a British man who lives opposite him is responsible for the disappearance of a Couchsurfer. It further becomes complicated when the foreigner starts a relationship with his grandniece. As he tries to uncover the truth he also is confronted by the change in culture from one of people trying to keep their private lives secret, to one where people are sharing their every move publicly. Along the way, his complex past reveals itself.

Jess is Alive. Hidden deep within the walls of Jess Bradford's mansion lies the evidence that will exonerate her former boyfriend Peter Smythe and expose the real 1974 Bedford killers. Picking up immediately where chapter 1 ended, Sam and her grandmother, now trapped and alone, must fight back against the clutches of Christmas evil before they're swallowed by its darkness. It's Me, Billy Chapter 2 is a not-for-profit fan and tribute film and sequel to the 2021 film It's Me, Billy: A Black Christmas Fan Film.

In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.

An escape artist trying to escape.

A story of a small-town boy growing up in love and despair and family troubles that make him take on a critical attitude towards his surroundings. Mato does not fulfill his father's wish for devoting his free time to playing soccer. Mato enjoys fishing with his friend Robo much more. He dreams of his schoolmate Terka and of an adventurous run-away from home.

When Eric pays an escort, Veronica, for 60 minutes of her time he intends to use this opportunity to convince her to quit this line of work. But Veronica is no damsel in distress and what ensues is a verbal battle of wits as sparks fly and the pair attempt to win their argument all the while peeling away the layers of who they really are. What they find out about themselves and the secret Eric holds will ensure nothing remains the same again. Told in real-time and set entirely in one location with only two characters 'The Escort' is a film about relationships today and the intimacy which is lost in the social media age.

General Warhawk and his cronies try to take over a peaceful fictional South American country. Colonel Samuel Trautman sends John Rambo and mechanic Edward "Turbo" Hayes to stop Warhawk. Katherine Anne "K.A.T." Taylor assists them.

An ex-cop turned hypnotist (Norris) battles a mysterious stranger (Bottoms) who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper.

LEYLA, a jazz club singer in Istanbul. As a child, she witnessed the unhappy marriage of her parents and finally their separation, the alcohol addiction of her Russian mother and finally her death and her father's depression. Traumatized from these experiences she detached emotionally from her father HIKMET and never really connected to any other person. The meeting with the street photographer MURAT completely will change her life. Murat stumbles on drunken Leyla on the street. After a while, a great love begins between them. For Leyla, this love has a different meaning in her life and she is afraid of it. She wants to go back to her old life. But it's too late. She needs to make a choice: back to the past and live her nightmare again and again or stay with Murat and try to find the key to the real world.

A look back at the history of one of the most successful and long-running film franchises of all time, Friday the 13th, including the evolution of the Jason character, how Kane Hodder came to play the part, and a look at makeup effects. Includes interviews with Hodder, Joe Bob Briggs, and Sean S. Cunningham.

Indiana Jones, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort.