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Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.

A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Walter is the chief of police in a small Ontario town that has its first murder victim, an attractive young woman who is found naked on the shores of the nearby lake. The woman isn't local and while the Ontario Provincial Police have taken the lead in the investigation, Walter assists where he can. The town is mostly a close-knit Mennonite community and Walter has recently returned to his church. He is also trying to deal with his own temper that led to a violent incident some months before. As the young woman is identified, it becomes apparent that Walter's former love interest may be lying.

Life can be tough for Santosh Duggal, who is constantly coping with the demands of his family versus his ever-decreasing salary. When the Duggal family decide to follow their dream and upgrade from a scooter to a car, they embark on a roller-coaster ride filled with chaos and laughter and ultimately, they learn to celebrate the true meaning of family.

On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.

In 1953, a flood adding to the aftermath of World War II swells the numbers of Dutch emigrants. On a KLM flight to New Zealand, part of a race from London, Frank de Rooy (Waldemar Torenstra), who lost his family and colonial estate in the Japanese occupation and Indonesian civil war of Independence, meets some virtual mail order brides. Ada van Holland (Karina Smulders) becomes his lover before confessing she's already married by proxy to gloomy Calvinist Derk Visser (Micha Hulshof). Jewish concentration-camp survivor Esther Cahn (Anna Drijver) dodges her engagement for a fashion career and discreetly has her son Bobby (Mykola Allen) adopted by infertile Marjorie Mullin (Elise Shaap), who did everything else right with husband Hans (Mattijn Hartemink). Over the years, some of their paths cross again, and all of the survivors meet at Frank's funeral.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, and his ruthless mother, Empress Dowager Longyu is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. Huang Xing has recently returned from Japan, where he has studied the art of modern warfare. When he finds his country falling apart, he feels he has no choice but to pick up the sword.

In the time of the crusades, a Saxon youth is forced to run away from England. He goes with his loyal retainer who brings along a British long bow. The two go all the way to China where they become involved in intrigues in the court of Kubla Kahn.

The multiple award winning film Naked As We Came, written and directed by Richard LeMay, is a richly detailed portrait of love, loss, and hope. A thoughtful depiction of one family's struggle to come to grips with their past before it is too late.

Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Gemma Arterton) meets lonely Noel (Daniel Mays), who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor "Ella" Webb (Saoirse Ronan) befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones) and tells him their lethal secret: They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequences.

Birdee Calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life.

Follows a young French girl (Leslie Caron, An American in Paris) through college, as her education sponsoredby a mysterious millionaire with long legs. This thrice Oscar® nominated cinemascope musical features sparkling musical numbers and dream sequences, and the incomparable Fred Astaire.

The workers on the railroad haven't been paid in several months. That's because Whitey and his gang - including fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid - keep holding up the train for its payroll. Grant McLaine, a former railroad employee who was fired in disgrace, is recruited to secretly take the payroll through. A young boy and a shoe box figure into the plot when Whitey's gang tries to hold up the train, and Grant and the Kid meet again to settle an old score.

Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.

Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come to his sense before everything is lost?

Andy's girlfriend Polly plans to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country-club Christmas party. He agrees (for a fee) to pretend to be the boyfriend of his buddy Beezy's girl Cynthia to discourage other suitors (Beezy is also leaving for the holidays), but Andy soon finds her too infatuated with him. Meanwhile, Andy's next-door neighbor Betsy begins to fall in love with Andy although she's younger than he is. Everything comes to a head at the country-club party.

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter Jessie has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to drive or hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to keep living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story of a parent's worst nightmare. How can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she can't feel her pain? How can she end her daughter's embrace of death before morning?

When Annie (Rita Wilson) and Tim Beeman (Victor Garber) hire Gillian (Tushka Bergen) as a nanny, she accepts the job with the understanding that her most important responsibility is the middle child, Maggie--an imaginary child Annie created. Maggie is loved and acknowledged by everyone in the family. Tim and his older daughter Doc (Mae Whitman), play into the charade for the sake of Annie's sanity. Unsteadily, Gillian begins to care for the imaginary Maggie, but she becomes concerned for the youngest Beeman, Sam (David Dorfman), who believes that he has a sister he cannot see. She also worries about the responsibility Doc has taken upon herself to maintain her mother's fantasy. Torn between her love for the family and her unease with the situation, Gillian secretly contacts the authorities. Soon after, Tim explains to Gillian why the family endures Annie's fantasy and why they care for Maggie. When Children Services comes to the Beeman home to question the family's situation, Gillian regrets her decision to contact the authorities.

In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or help build a new Sicily, but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri, swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous 40-minute ball in which Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.

A sky diver (Charlie Sheen) lands in the middle of a deadly spy caper with his student (Nastassja Kinski), who is not what she appears to be.

An aspiring but unsuccessful young actress living in New York reluctantly returns to her small town for the holidays and must decide: will she leave to chase stardom, or stay home where her heart is?

Larry Talbot returns to his ancestral home in Wales to console his estranged father after the death of his older brother. Attempting to reconcile with his father and win the heart of a local girl, Larry’s integration into his new community becomes strained when he falls victim to a vicious animal attack and starts to experience unusual symptoms that echo folk legends about werewolves.

Shirley's last film on her 20th Century Fox contract, when she was 12. Her parents (Oakie, Greenwood) decide to retire from showbiz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets them show their stuff. Clips from earlier films fill in Shirley's background.

A young man meets a deaf teacher and finds she is a great dancer. He encourages her to follow her dream of becoming a professional dancer.