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Heartbeats
Richard Andrews' latest attempt to set straight his marriage with bitching Michelle is to take his family to India to attend a week-long semi-traditional wedding. Their college-student daughter Kelli Andrews must get over her family frustration and her fate to study law when she really wants to dance, and to start appreciating the exotic splendor of Bombay. Rehearsals for the Bollywood-style dances, notably at the sangeet, bring her and her friends in contact with the charming crew dancing instructors from the countryside, Aseem Kapoor and DJ Basu, who take them along to the nightclub where they pursue their musical dream. Conflicting expectations, debts, and Cupid's arrows complicate life for all, but the end of the week approaches, requiring outcomes before the Americans return to L.A.

- 2017
Fall City
Just before Christmas, recently-paroled thief, Jon Price, is forced to return to his small, rainy hometown of Fall City, Washington where he unexpectedly begins to find joy as he meets a struggling single mother who shows him true kindness, and he begins filling the role of a father for her young daughter.

- 2018
The Untamed
In a small Mexican city, Alejandra and her husband Ángel struggle to maintain their deteriorating marriage, while her brother, Fabián, works as a nurse at a local hospital. Their lives are disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Verónica, who introduces them to a secluded cabin in the woods. There, she reveals the existence of an extraterrestrial creature that offers otherworldly, intense pleasure to those who interact with it. As the characters succumb to the allure of the creature, they find themselves caught in a cycle of addiction and destruction that forces them to confront their deepest repressed desires and the fragility of their personal lives.

- Metascore72
- 2016
I'm Not Here
Steve is haunted by his past as every object in his home, every sound he hears reminds him of a specific event in his life. Steve connects the events of his life to discover how he ended up alone and broken. As he relives each significant memory, he understands the generational issues that have held him captive like his father before him. Can he move past the pain and forgive his trespassers, and more importantly, forgive himself?

- Metascore45
- 2017
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.

- Metascore69
- 2019
It Comes at Night
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul.

- Metascore78
- 2017
American Fango
A coming-to-New York love story about an Italian actor who comes to New York City from Rome, and through a series of misadventures becomes romantically involved with several beautiful women. Sidetracked in Los Angeles, he is ultimately transformed by the power of true love ... and the realization that he is really a New Yorker at heart!

- 2017
The Christmas Cottage
Any couple who spends the night in the Christmas cottage shall have love everlasting - Lacey Quinn did not believe in happily ever after or the legend of the Christmas cottage. As maid of honor for her best friend Ava, her duties included decorating the cottage for the newlyweds. It was a simple enough task, but she hadn't counted on sexy Ean Callahan, the bride-to-be's brother, to be assisting her. Spending the evening ensconced in the overly romantic setting while a blizzard howls outside has Lacey wondering if fairy tales really do come true.

- 2017
All Saints
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.

- Metascore63
- 2017
Lost in London
Within the course of one night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in jail.

- 2017
Prescience
When Isaac Smith's attraction to his beautiful girlfriend Ashley begins to cool, this hard charging, red-blooded criminal attorney is forced to confront his sexuality when he finds himself attracted to his sister’s friend Mark.

- 2019
The Neighborhood Nightmare
When Lindsay Porter, responsible mother and head of the local neighborhood watch program, falls for Stephen, the handsome new bachelor on the block, she begins to fear she and her daughter's lives may be in grave danger.

- 2018
11:55
U.S. Marine Nelson Sanchez has run out of time. After being honorably discharged and returning to his economically depressed hometown, Nelson must face the consequences of the violent past he thought he had escaped. Trying desperately to survive the day, Nelson charts an unlikely path to redemption. In a place where the only options appear to be the street or the military, 11:55 captures a young man's escape from the cycles of violence that have defined him.

- 2016
I Am Gangster
David is an idealistic rookie officer able to maintain a decent urban lifestyle for himself and his family until his moral code is challenged. At the same time up-and-coming gang member Lito steps into dangerous territory when he defies matriarch Tia in seeking more power and wealth on his own. Rebellious teenager Rio is flirting with gang life until he has to deal with his own guilt over a tragic death.

- 2015
The Only Living Boy in New York
Adrift in New York City, a recent college graduate seeks the guidance of an eccentric neighbor as his life is upended by his father’s mistress in the sharp and witty coming-of-age story The Only Living Boy in New York.

- Metascore33
- 2017
Destination Wedding
Ellie Hamilton has been painstakingly planning her sister's destination wedding for the longest time. As guests arrive on a beach paradise, Ellie runs into her ex-boyfriend, Greg, who also happens to be the best man. When the bride and groom don't show up, Ellie and Greg must lie to the guests and assure everything is okay. With the wedding a couple days away, and Ellie unsure if her sister will show up, she and Greg must save the wedding while simultaneously falling for each other.

- 2017
Trouble
Middle-aged siblings feud over possession of their father's estate in this sibling rivalry dramatic comedy.

- Metascore60
- 2017
Thirsty
The post-queer, musical biopic Thirsty tells the story of girly-boy Scott Townsend, who turns to the world of drag as a safe respite from his bullied upbringing in the Cambridge, MA projects, becoming Thirsty Burlington, Provincetown's beloved Cher impersonator. Within a dynamic, non-linear structure, the film visits significant events in Scott/Thirsty's life, spanning the 1970s to the present, to illuminate the dangers and the joys of living life with a slippery gender. Culminating on an upbeat note, Thirsty's message champions acceptance, outside and in.

- 2016
The Last Rampage
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, AZ, in the summer of 1978.

- Metascore50
- 2017
Puzzle
The film centers on a fortysomething suburban mother whose world is consumed with caring for the men in her family. When she discovers she has a gift for assembling puzzles, her world begins to open and her entire family is forced to adjust and grow as well.

- Metascore66
- 2018
The Hollow
When a U.S. congressman's daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends to investigate, the team's brilliant but jaded lead agent battling demons both past and present, as his beautiful, tough-as-nails partner tries to hold him and the case together. They find a struggling and corrupt sheriff's department, a shadowy and much-feared figure, who seems to be pulling all of the town's strings from his mansion on the edge of town and a local victim with a strange connection to a number of the town's most prominent figures.

- 2016
No Pay, Nudity
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne) has lost his way. In this often humorous, yet warmly poignant story, love and friendship, jealousy and re-discovery, career, family, and friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy) intertwine as Lester navigates the perplexing realities facing so many of us as we pursue dreams and dignity. A film about hanging out, hanging in, and hanging on.

- 2016
The Love Witch
Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she at last meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved drives her to the brink of insanity and murder.

- Metascore82
- 2016
The Preacher's Son
Based on Carl Weber's New York Times Best Seller entitled 'The Preacher's Son', Bishop T.K. Wilson, his wife & two children are a respectable family in their community; Yet the Wilson kids are fighting temptations & their son Dante has thoughts other than taking over his fathers church and a new love thats going to test the strength of the Wilson family.

- 2017