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Havana
High-rolling poker player Jack Weil is trying to make a big score in 1958 Havana, a pleasure-seeker's paradise on the verge of revolution. But his plan doesn't include falling for Roberta, the beautiful, enigmatic wife of revolutionary Arturo Duran. After Arturo is removed by the police, Jack is drawn closer to Roberta, who ignites a passion that threatens his last chance for the big score.

- 1990
Sonatine
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.

- Metascore73
- 1993
Rachel, Rachel
Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

- Metascore74
- 1968
Eenie Meenie Miney Moe
Red-hot thriller #EM3 (Eenie Meenie Miney Moe) chronicles the tense journey through Miami's dark underworld of Raul, a tow-truck driver, car thief, and drug dealer. It is Miami Beach, but it may as well be LA, Chicago, NY, Atlanta, Dallas, or anyone's backyard, where hustlers play and the game has no rules.

- 2013
TalhotBlond
Based on the true story of a 47-year-old machinist with a troubled marriage who meets a teenage girl online. Their relationship quickly evolves into cybersex and an engagement.

- 2012
Somewhere Slow
When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.

- Metascore48
- 2013
Barbie in the Nutcracker
In her first movie brimming with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's enchanting music, Barbie (Kelly Sheridan) gives life to the plucky young girl, Clara, as she narrates the fascinating story of the Nutcracker to her younger sister, Kelly (Chantal Strand). When Clara receives a lustrous wooden nutcracker from Aunt Elizabeth Drosselmeyer (Kathleen Barr) as a Christmas present, that same night, the magical toy comes to life to protect her from the army of the evil Mouse King (Tim Curry). However, the invader manages to shrink her to toy size. Now, Clara and her defender, the brave Nutcracker (Kirby Morrow), embark on a marvellous adventure, in search of the beautiful Sugarplum Princess - the only one capable of breaking the spell. Can a dash of valor help Clara thwart the King's plans?

- 2001
Crazy/Beautiful
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.

- Metascore61
- 2001
The Vagina Monologues
Coochie Snorcher. Powder box. Toadie. Fannyboo. Mushmellow. Call it what you like, the vagina is many things to many women. Acclaimed writer/performer Eve Ensler is the star of this innovative special that features some of the candid, funny, painful, yearning insights of women talking about their no-longer-so-private part. Based on Ensler's award-winning stage show of the same name, the special includes all-new interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary added to the original performance material. The end result is a daring and refreshingly liberating experience filled with compassion, humor, intelligence and honesty that will leave you thinking inside the box!

- 2002
Planet Earth
Dylan Hunt is a 20th century man awakened from suspended animation on a post-apocalyptic Earth, now a member of PAX, the last remnant of technological civilization. When a PAX leader is critically wounded by violent mutants, Dylan and his teammates must seek out a missing surgeon, lost long ago in a mysterious agrarian region where women claim all the power and all men are inexplicably subservient and traded as slaves.

- 1974
Death in Venice
Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.

- 1981
Communion
A writer who has a family of three goes on holiday with friends to their very upscale cabin outside of town in mainland USA. As they all settle in for the night, an unexpected series of events unfolds. Lights that are so bright it's like the noonday sun at midnight blast through the windows waking everyone. The next morning, their friends are so unnerved, they persuade the writer's family to take them back to town immediately. After the experience with their friends in October, the writer's family goes back out to their vacation home for Christmas holidays and experience unusual lights during the night again. It's impossible to ascertain exactly what happened. The writer's family and friends make a great deal of endeavor trying to understand what they have all experienced. Is a group dream? Hallucination? Or real? Who are the little blue Dr's? Are they helping humanity in some way?

- 1989
Nice Guy
An unemployed stay at home dad begins venturing out at night. Befriended by a group of petty criminals and strippers, he begins to feel alive. But when he is implicated in a murder, he finds himself indebted to a psychotic gangster and is drawn into a world of violence that threatens his life and his family's safety.

- 2012
Like Water for Chocolate
In a forgotten Mexico village Tita and Pedro fall in love, but their marriage is forbidden as to traditions. Mother Elena sees Tita's role as her caretaker for life - no youngest daughter has ever married and her daughter will not be the first to break tradition. Tita's heart breaks when her mother offers Pedro her sister instead of her, and he accepted it just to live near Tita- he says. Now they live in the same house, and mother Elena cannot forbid their love as she did their marriage.

- Metascore86
- 1992
Wings of Desire
Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. Among those they are currently observing are: the cast and crew of a movie - a detective story set in WWII Nazi Germany - which include a sensitive and perceptive Peter Falk; an elderly man named Homer looking for eternal peace; and the troupe of a financially failing circus, which has closed early for the season because of those financial problems. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realization that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely because he has fallen in love with Marion, the trapeze artist with the circus. If he does decide to become a human, there is no guarantee that as a human that he will be able to locate Marion or that she will return his affection. His angels, however, may be looking out for him.

- Metascore79
- 1987
St. Ives
Abner Procane, top Los Angeles burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for his next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

- 1976
Tonka
White Bull is a young Indian brave who captures and tames a wild stallion and names him Tonka. But when White Bull's cruel cousin claims Tonka for his own and mistreats the horse, White Bull sets it free. Tonka finally finds a home with Capt. Keogh and the 7th Calvary, and in 1876, rides into The Battle Of The Little Big Horn with General Armstrong Custer.

- 1958
The Silence
Police detective Richard Treloar (Richard Roxburgh) is taking some time out. Traumatized and unable to use his gun when a woman is murdered in front of him, he has been reassigned to a desk job at the Police and Justice Museum. His task is to curate an exhibition of 1960s crime scene photos while undergoing counseling with police shrink Juliet (Essie Davis), trying to convince her that he's stable enough to return to his old job. His situation is made worse by his girlfriend Helen's (Alice McConnell) continued accomplishments as a detective in his own unit. Her successes make the celebrations at the pub with his ex-colleagues decidedly uncomfortable. Richard is being assisted with the photos by fashion student Evelyn (Emily Barclay). One day they notice a woman lurking on the edges in more than one of the old photos, and when she turns up as a victim in a crime-scene photo, Richard's instincts tell him that it's no coincidence. All he knows is that the woman is a prostitute, but there is no name on the photo. He becomes obsessed with solving the case, but trying to get information from retired and reluctant cops 40 years after the event will be difficult. Who is the woman and why can't he get her out of his mind? As he becomes more deeply involved, everyone around him starts to distance themselves, and he begins to wonder who he can trust.

- 2006
Beyond Tomorrow
Melton (Harry Carey), Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith) and O'Brien (Charles Winninger), rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. Only two show up, James (Richard Carlson) and Jean (Jean Parker). They fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors, until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots. Can ghostly O'Brien help the young folks?

- 1940
Owning Mahowny
Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four, he was Assistant Manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues, he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive, and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny, the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over ten million dollars in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

- Metascore70
- 2003
Take Shelter
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.

- Metascore85
- 2011
Murder 3
A hot-shot fashion and wildlife photographer Vikram gets into a relationship with Nisha. She moves in with him in his palatial house outside of the city. The old world house, made decades ago is as beautiful as it is scary. It holds many secrets which Nisha is soon to unearth; of the life of the man who made it and of Vikram, who is dealing with the mysterious disappearance of his former girlfriend Roshni.

- 2013
The Grandmaster
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

- Metascore73
- 2013
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors meet when Rose's sister answers Gregory's "personals" ad. Several times burned, the handsome-but-boring Gregory believes that sex has ruined his life, and has deliberately set out to find and marry a woman with absolutely no sex appeal. Greg thinks he's found what he's looking for in Rose, a plain, plump English Lit professor who can't compete with her gorgeous mother and sister. More out of mutual admiration and respect than love, Greg and Rose marry. Greg assumes that Rose understands that he is not interested in a sexual relationship. He's mistaken, and their marriage is nearly destroyed when Rose tries to consummate their relationship. While Gregory is out of the country on a lecture tour, Rose diets and exercises to transform herself into a sexy siren in a last-ditch attempt to save her marriage.

- Metascore50
- 1996