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The Spirit of Christmas
Kate, a workaholic lawyer, has three weeks to get a haunted bed and breakfast appraised and sold. The uncooperative manager claims a spirit who lives there will not approve. With Kate's possible promotion resting on accomplishing this task, she checks in and haggles with the aforesaid Christmas spirit, who suspiciously seems awfully solid for a ghost.

- 2015
A Christmas Detour
Two New York City-bound travelers find themselves inextricably linked when a snowstorm reroutes them to an airport hotel in Buffalo. The pair are joined on this misadventure by an older couple named Frank and Maxine trying to get to Connecticut. As their madcap journey ensues, our foursome will find plenty of surprises in store.

- 2015
All the Way
November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is now President. One of his first acts as President is to reaffirm the US government's intention to pass the Civil Rights Act. This Act was drafted while JFK was in office and gives people of all races the same rights, including voting rights, access to education and access to public facilities. However, he faces strong opposition to the bill, especially from within his own party. He will have to use all his political will and cunning to get it through.

- 2016
Bitter Harvest
Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist (Max Irons) as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love (Samantha Barks) and free his country.

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- 2017
Child of Grace
9-year-old Katie has spent most of her life traveling the country in an RV with her father. One day she sees a portrait of herself on a missing child poster and realizes that the man she thinks is her loving father may be her kidnapper. As Katie contends with this discovery, a small-town sheriff, her grandfather, simultaneously tries to figure out the truth of her disappearance when new evidence surfaces. Based on the novel June Bug by Chris Fabry.

- 2014
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Psiconautas, los Niños Olvidados ("Psychonauts: The Forgotten Children") is an obscure, disturbing and dismal story about Dinki and her friends and school partners Sandra and Zorrito, three children who live in an isolated island in the middle of the sea, ruined after a disaster in the nuclear power plant that devastated the most part of the island. Looking for a better life faraway of the suffocating atmosphere where they live, the three ones escape from their homes with all money they have reunited, trying to arrive to the coast to pay a ship that take them to the nearest continent. At the same time, Birdboy, another child and a junkie prosecuted by the police, tries to evade his capture at the same time that he tries contain the inner demons using drugs to relax him, trapped by horrible nightmares and delusions about black bird monsters. Meanwhile Dinki, Sara and Zorrito travel through the island facing all kind the dangers and discovering the impoverishment of the island and their inhabitants, Birdboy remembers the life with his father (island's lightkeeper) and cares of the last nature resort that he created in secret. Will can Birdboy defeat his inner demons and restore the prosperity of the island with his resort? And will can Dinki, Sara, and Zorrito leave the island before they be too late for them?

- Metascore76
- 2015
Radio America
Eric and Dave are two farmers who play music in their off time for fun, but when their friend Jane slips their music to a record company – their lives change in an instant. Suddenly the world is at their feet, a national tour follows, but when a tragedy during their tour happens – it brings into focus what really matters most to them…

- 2015
The Tiger
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.

- 2015
Pure Country Pure Heart
For Ada and Piper Spencer, singing is as natural as breathing. Blessed with talent and determination, these sisters hope to fulfill their dream of performing on the stages of Nashville. But there's a family secret the girls never knew. In his younger years, their dad chased his own musical dreams before he met their mom, before he joined the marines, and before he lost his life in Iraq many years ago. Ada and Piper never got to know their father. But the chance discovery of a letter leads the girls on a quest to discover who he really was. As they learn the truth about their dad and the choices he made, they also get a better understanding of themselves and the special bond that holds their family together.

- 2017
Valley Inn
Valley Inn tells the story of Emily Mason, a New Jersey college student, who finds herself in a dusty dying small southern town, a thousand miles from home, selling Christian books door-to-door. Through a series of misadventures in 'the Book field,' and her growing friendships with the endearing and often comical local residents, Emily begins to discover what is most valuable in life, at the Valley Inn. More than a movie, Valley Inn is a love-letter to small town America. A tribute to a quickly vanishing way of life. And above all, as all movies should, Valley Inn entertains and transports the audience. Just like Emily, audiences will fall in love with the Valley Inn, the small town setting and all its quirky characters.

- 2014
Suicide Note
When ambitious young, 21-year old psych student Molly White wakes up to discover her roommate Emma has committed suicide, she discovers only a suicide note detailing the devastating last moments of Emma's life. But when Molly begins to see haunting visions of Emma's death, Molly starts to suspect there is much more to Emma's suicide than meets the eye.

- 2016
Patient Zero
In the pandemic thriller, Patient Zero, humanity is battling intelligent, adrenaline-fueled creatures born from a viral super-strain. After being bitten, human survivor Morgan (Matt Smith) realizes he is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected, leading the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.

- 2018
Real Women Have Curves
This is the story of Ana, a first generation Mexican-American teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in the predominately Latino community of East Los Angeles. Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college. Torn between her mainstream ambitions and her cultural heritage she agrees to work with her mother at her sister's downtown LA sewing factory. Over the summer she learns to admire the hardworking team of women who teach her solidarity and teamwork. Still at odds with what her mother expects of her, Ana realizes that leaving home to continue her education is essential to finding her place proudly in the world as an American and Chicana.

- Metascore71
- 2002
My Father Die
Deaf and mute since having his hearing knocked out at the age of 12, Asher (Anderson) has been training for almost two decades to avenge himself on Ivan (Stretch), the man that killed his older brother, 21 years ago. And now that his nemesis is out of prison, he may get his chance. But Asher's target also happens to be his father.

- Metascore42
- 2016
Judwaa 2
Two brothers (twins) born to an honest businessman are separated at birth when their father exposes a smuggling racket and a king pin. One of the brothers is thought to be dead but only resurfaces stronger after living life on the streets to reunite with his family over a sequence of events and twist of fate. Genetically bound by reflexes both the brother's lives interlink in strange ways and a comedy of errors. They eventually come together to destroy the smuggling nexus and save their family from a downfall that awaits them.

- 2017
Ripley's Game
Set in present day Italy where art connoisseur, harpsichord aficionado, master of soufflés and genius of improvisational murder, Tom Ripley (John Malkovich) finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a local party. While any ordinary sociopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler, and infinitely more sinister.

- 2002
The Man Who Saved the World
Few people know of him - yet billions of people are alive because of him. The actions of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer, prevented the start of a unsurvivable worldwide nuclear war and the devastation of the entire Earth.

- Metascore55
- 2013
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes out of hiding to investigate the death of his brother when he learns that he committed suicide. Charlotte Rampling is his old girlfriend who owns a restaurant. Boad is the villain responsible for the bad things that happened to Will's brother.

- Metascore56
- 2003
Up the Down Staircase
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

- 1967
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
After having found a magic locket which shows the kingdom of Atlantica, Melody decides to run away from home and find the truth behind it. Ariel eventually discovers that her daughter has run away after being told by Sebastian. Ariel must turn back into a mermaid to go into the sea once more to find her missing daughter. However, Ursula's crazy sister, Morgana, intends to take control over the entire ocean. Ariel and her friends must stop Morgana from accomplishing the mission that Ursula failed and save Melody from her evil clutches.

- 2000
Jackie
OSCAR® Winner Natalie Portman leads an acclaimed cast in this powerfully stirring drama as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. As she grapples with unimaginable grief and trauma following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, “Jackie’s” faith and strength lead her to a new life with her children. While she honors her husband’s remarkable legacy, she also leaves her own indelible mark.

- Metascore81
- 2016
The Perfect Match
Terrence J. stars as Charlie, a playboy who's convinced that relationships are dead. His two best friends, Donald Faison and Robert C. Riley, bet him that if he sticks to one woman for one month, he's bound to get attached. Charlie denies this until he crosses paths with the beautiful and mysterious Eva, played by singer/actress Cassie. They agree to have a casual affair, but eventually Charlie is questioning whether he might actually want more.

- Metascore41
- 2016
Santiago
In 1898, during the Cuban War of Independence from Spain, a former U.S. Cavalry Captain, dishonorably discharged from the army, is a gun-runner. He, and other soldiers of fortune, renegades and outcasts, tempted by high profits, are defying the Spanish blockade of Cuba and are smuggling guns to the Cuban revolutionaries from Tampa, Florida. The ex-Cavalry Captain, Caleb Cash Adams, and his former Sergeant, Trasker, attempt to deliver a large weapon-shipment to representatives of the Cuban rebels but are told the weapons should be delivered straight to Cuba. Having no other customers for his weapons, Adams agrees but doubles his price. Fighting off a gang of hijackers they arrive in Tampa, where they are told to load the shipment onto an old river-boat, captained by an ex-Confederate Navy man, Capt. Sidewheel Jones. Adams and his men also notice that another gun smuggler and competitor, Clay Pike, is also loading a shipment of weapons on the river-boat. Adams and Pike are old enemies, going back to the days of the Indian Wars when Adams was in the Cavalry and Pike was selling guns to the Indians. During the sea voyage from Florida to Cuba, via Haiti, these two men often fight one another. To make matters worse, a passenger on the boat, Cuban revolutionary belle, Doña Isabella, who has been raising funds in Florida for the Cuban cause, is proving to be a bone of contention for the two American smugglers who are both attracted to her. The perilous voyage through a Spanish military blockade in the waters surrounding the Cuban island ends in Santiago where the weapons have to be unloaded on the shore and the payment has to be effected. However, things don't go as planned. The Spanish colonial troops are everywhere and the Cuban rebel General Maceo, who is supposed to pay the cash for the weapon-shipments, has retreated to the mountains. Pike wants to sell his weapons to the Spaniards while Adams wants to deliver them to Maceo. Things come to a head with a final showdown between the two rivals and their respective crews.

- 1956
Black or White
Kevin Costner is a grandfather left to care for his bi-racial granddaughter. When the maternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) seeks custody a legal battle ensues.

- Metascore45
- 2014