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A daring rebel, Alan Breck joins forces with David Balfour in this exciting quest on land and sea for a young man's rightful inheritance.

An aging actor finds himself falling for the beautiful, and much younger, wife of an attorney.

In the fall of 1979, one of history's most ingenious and courageous flights to freedom took place when two families fled from Communist East Germany to the West in their own handcrafted hot air balloon.

An absorbing and entertaining murder/mystery, based on the play ‘Sleep Long My Lovely’, where a woman is found murdered in a lonely beach house by local detectives Fellows (Jack Warner) and Wilks (Ronald Lewis).

Screenwriter Jake Armitage (Peter Finch) and his wife Jo (Anne Bancroft) live in London with six of Jo's eight children; the two eldest boys are at boarding school The children are spread over Jo's three marriages; only the youngest is Jake's biological child, but he treats them all as his own. Jo left her second husband Giles (Richard Johnson) after meeting Giles' friend Jake; the two were immediately attracted to each other. Their upper-middle-class life is very different from Giles and Jo's; who lived in a barn in the English countryside. But Jo is ruminating about her strained marriage to Jake, with issues on both sides. Jo suspects Jake of chronic infidelity, only confronting him with her suspicions whenever evidence presents itself. Jo's psychiatrist believes that she uses childbirth as a rationale for sex, which he believes she finds vulgar. The combination of these issues has placed Jo in a fragile metal state. Both state that they love each other, but neither seems to like the other much. As they prepare to move back to the English countryside, into a new house within sight of Jo's old barn, both Jo and Jake come to their own unspoken individual conclusions of whether their marriage can withstand these strains.

Piggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) who doesn't bother to hide his crimes, or the brutal philosophy which drives it. He tells his sons people are just piggy banks. You need money? Just break one open. Michael is sloppy and reckless he goes about his work with a demented glee, John perhaps even more horrifyingly, understands the misery he inflicts he simply doesn't care. It's just a job. Lock all your doors.

Suhel (John Abraham) and Jai (Arshad Warsi) - TV journalists from India in search of the ultimate news scoop, meeting the Taliban. Imran Khan Afridi (Salman Shahid) - a soldier of the hated and derided Taliban who needs to escape the wrath of the Afghans and run to his country, Pakistan. Khyber (Hanif Hum Ghum) - an Afghan who is as old as the war in his country. Jessica Beckham (Linda Arsenio) - an American photojournalist ready to risk her life to photograph the Taliban. Five people from different worlds, their paths are destined to cross in a ruthless country devastated by war - Afghanistan. This is a thrilling story spanning 48 hours of five individuals linked by hate and fear, but brought together by fate to finally recognize each other. Set in post 9/11 war-torn Afghanistan, KABUL EXPRESS is a kidnap drama that is alternately funny and horrifying. Narrated in a light hearted manner, this is the story of a unique reluctant bond that develops between people who are otherwise hostile towards each other but are compelled to understand one another in the time that they are forced to share together.

A teenager searches for meaningful connections with others while trying to build a steady relationship with her transsexual father and a stepdad who posts everything about their family online.

A young woman becomes homeless on the streets of New York City.

Dushyant and Jaya are childhood friends. In spite of his family's poverty, Dushyant has one great ambition in life: to become a successful singer. Jaya encourages him all she can and helps him to realize his dreams. But when Dushyant finally obtains the recognition he has craved for, his career becomes all-important to him. Will the relationship shatters under the strain of his newfound celebrity status?

A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the most embittered Scrooge into the Christmas spirit.

Anil is a performer dancing and singing on streets. He and his mother are accused of stealing a guitar by P.N Oberoi; shamed, they leave Bombay. years later in Goa, Anil is singing and dancing at small functions and dreaming of making it big and Sam Oberoi, P.N. Oberoi's spoiled-brat son, is a big name in the music world. Sam's manager, David Brown, quits because of Sam's arrogant behavior and threatens that he will make someone else a major star--a bigger star than Sam. Mr. Brown notices Anil and gives him a break when Sam's sister and her friends are ready to spoil the event. When Anil starts dancing, everyone but Rita follows him and the show is a hit. Mr Brown arranges a show for him in Bombay, the city where he and his mother had been insulted and forced to leave. Sam and P.N Oberoi send goons to stop Anil from reaching the show, but he manages to get there and put on another great performance that's another big hit. Soon Anil turns into "Jimmy," the next big sensation, which destroys Sam's career. Rita realizes her mistake and teams up with him, but her father and brother will do anything to end his career.

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supersedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

The great Henry Hathaway (23 Paces to Baker Street) directed this classic film noir set in New York City during World War II - The House On 92nd Street is a riveting spy thriller.

In the 19th century the Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, take refuge at Fort Bailey, home of the Northern Legion Trading Company. But the ground is cursed, and no one leaves for fear of the monstrous beasts lurking in the area. Now, ginger and Brigitte's vow to stay "together, forever" gets tested as one of the sisters slowly slips into a darkening fate.

New Yorkers Eddie Bartlett, George Hally, and slightly younger Lloyd Hart met and became friends, despite they being different personalities, when they fought together in the trenches in France during the Great War. Not knowing what would happen after the war, each believed he would return to the civilian life he left behind, Eddie as a mechanic in hopes of someday owning his own garage, George working in his father's bar again with the hope of someday owning his own, and Lloyd to become a lawyer in he having been a law student. Further, Eddie was hoping to hook up with Jean Sherman, the young woman from Mineola who had been writing to him while he was in France. Things didn't turn out quite the way each had expected, especially for Eddie and George, both in American society not knowing what to do with returning soldiers, and with the onset of Prohibition. And Jean ends up being not quite how she portrayed herself in being much younger than Eddie believed. Eddie is the one who is able to pivot the greatest in he, by chance, falling successfully into the bootlegging business, with the help of people like his pre-war roommate Danny Green, a cabbie, and speakeasy manager Panama Smith, who saw in Eddie a kindred spirit. Despite Eddie not seeing Danny as being fit for a criminal life, Eddie is able to parlay his cabbie job into a taxi business as a front for the bootlegging. He also ends up working with Lloyd, who manages much of Eddie's business and legal dealings, especially with regard to the taxi business, and with George, who he runs into in working the distribution for Eddie's competitor, Nick Brown, and who he convinces to go into business with him instead. The lives of the survivors in this competitive, cutthroat and potentially deadly business is shown over the 1920s, where Eddie, George, and Lloyd may see his own life different than the other two, and as Jean grows into a beautiful young woman, what Eddie had originally seen in the letters and photos she sent to him during the war.

Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancée to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.

California small town police chief investigates a suspicious death involving the victim's own dog that presumably killed its owner.

Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?

A richly detailed, delightfully chilling horror tale, centering around the romanticism's poetic elite.

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutinary War begins.

A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an upstairs neighbour until she has got her man.