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Shank
Set in a dystopic future London in 2015, where society has fallen apart, gangs have taken over and the economy is in complete anarchy. The story follows Junior and his older brother, Rager, who are in charge of a local gang, "The Paper Chaserz". They try to stay out of trouble and refuse to kill as part of their 'moral code', which is especially enforced by the strong but defensive Rager. Rager leads his gang, "The Paper Chaserz" and they plan to steal goods out of a local van. The robbery is successful, but a rival gang called The Soldiers, who are notorious and bloodthirsty in trying to take-over all other postcodes in the London area, attempt a theft. The "Paper Chaserz" escape, except for Junior who is stranded and cornered by The Soldiers. Rager reappears and saves his brother by beating all the rival gang members, telling Junior to leave. As Junior flees, Rager is attacked by the crews leader Tugz, who stabs Rager in the back multiple times. Junior now teams up with the rest of his gang to get revenge on The Soldiers. The gang meets a trio of girls named Ree Ree, Tash, and Little Lexy, who agree to help them as they also have a reason to get revenge against Tugz.

- 2010
Skyjacked
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

- 1972
Bananas!*
Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.

- 2009
Wild Things: Foursome
A murdered hotel millionaire's son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.

- 2010
Misbehaviour
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

- Metascore62
- 2020
Pasolini
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

- Metascore71
- 2014
When the Game Stands Tall
Inspired by a true story, WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.

- Metascore41
- 2014
Ride
When her son (Brenton Thwaites) drops out of school in New York, a mother (Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt) drops everything to follow him to California. There, with help from her limo driver (David Zayas) and an expert surfer (Luke Wilson), she finds a fresh start of her own in this hilarious and touching film about a mother and her son, and so much more.

- Metascore48
- 2014
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
T.S. Spivet lives in an isolated ranch in Montana with his parents, his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. He travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive the highly prestigious Baird Award from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington.

- Metascore53
- 2013
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

- Metascore86
- 2012
Christmas Under Wraps
With a residency at a top hospital and a boyfriend she adores, Lauren appears to have her entire life figured out. But when she loses both her job and her beau on the same day, Lauren reluctantly accepts a position in Alaska.

- 2014
Cardinals
When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbor in an apparent drunk-driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on until the deceased's son shows up at her door and it becomes clear that the past is not easily forgotten.

- 2017
A Field in England
Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

- Metascore73
- 2013
Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
It's the story of a young couple struggling with challenges of life. Both are aggressive and follow their own thoughts which affect their relationship. Their reunion becomes complicated gradually.

- 2016
All Quiet on the Western Front
The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals.

- Metascore91
- 1930
Thérèse
The year is 1926. In the Landes region, free-spirited Thérèse Larroque, the daughter of a wealthy pinery owner and radical-socialist politician, marries Bernard Desqueyroux, another pinery owner. Although she does it half-heartedly, she thinks that marriage may help her to "sort out all the ideas in her mind". But her disappointment is great. Her wedding night is all but fascinating and when she becomes pregnant she realizes the baby matters more to Bernard than herself. While Thérèse stifles in her husband's beautiful residence among stiff in-laws who do not think high of her, ideas keep on roaming her mind.

- Metascore49
- 2012
Clemency
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard). As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

- Metascore77
- 2019
Not for Human Consumption
Michael Rispoli (PAIN & GAIN) and Nick Thurston (DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES) lead this narcotics thriller that follows a young man's descent into selling synthetic marijuana.

- 2013
Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

- Metascore94
- 2014
Fallen
Denzel Washington and John Goodman are a pair of Chicago detectives who apprehend a serial killer. However, after the killer is convicted and executed, a new series of murders done in the late killer's peculiar style begin to turn up, potentially implicating one of the detectives.

- Metascore52
- 1998
The Go-Between
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last, and the summer Leo (Dominic Guard) turns thirteen. He's the guest of Marcus (Richard Gibson), a wealthy classmate, at a grand house in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian (Dame Julie Christie), Marcus' twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh (Edward Fox), a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit, takes him on walks, and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor, Ted Burgess (Sir Alan Bates), a bit of a rake. Leo is soon dissembling, realizes he's betraying Hugh, but continues as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naïve questions about the attractions of men and women.

- 1971
Monochrome
A disillusioned woman becomes a serial killer and only a brilliant detective using his unusual neurological condition can stop her.

- 2016
Sea of Love
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case.

- Metascore66
- 1989
One Last Game
Gellert is addicted. Sitting at the poker table, he must face his past. All he wanted was to pay back his debt. He really needs this last chance. He didn't want all this to happen. He just wanted one last game. One Last Game is a symbolic tale. Like All That Jazz, the movie follows Elizabeth Kuebler Ross's five stages of grief.

- 2011