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Regression

1 hr 46 mins

In Minnesota in the 1990s, a man is arrested and accused of having abused his daughter. Although he doesn't remember anything from the event, he pleads guilty. With the help of a psychologist, he'll relive those moments. Meanwhile, the local media hints the possibility that everything could have been a satanic cult's doing.

Regression

An Almost Perfect Affair

1 hr 33 mins

A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.

An Almost Perfect Affair
  • 1979

Call Me

1 hr 36 mins

In New York, under the mistaken impression that she is talking to her normally staid boyfriend, a woman journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, but then ends up witnessing a brutal bloody murder with the perpetrator being an NYPD cop.

Call Me
  • 1988

Lafayette Escadrille

1 hr 33 mins

Thad Walker (Tab Hunter) is a young man from a good Boston family, but he's spoiled, rebellious, and always at odds with his strict father. When Thad gets into trouble with the law one time too many, his father strikes him. Thad leaves his home and joins up with other American volunteers heading for the front lines of World War I. Since the U.S. is not at war yet, Thad joins the French Legion. The American volunteers in the French Legion are trained as fighter pilots for the Lafayette Escadrille. During his training, Thad proves he's a skilled flyer, but his temperament prevents him from taking orders and being obedient. When he strikes a French drill officer, Thad faces the prospect of a court-martial and a minimum sentence of ten years in prison. Discouraged, he deserts and runs away to Paris, where he first fell in love with a pretty French girl named Renée Beaulieu (Etchika Choureau). They live together in her small hotel room and eventually get unofficially married. But the French Police are looking for deserters and Thad feels like a prisoner inside the hotel, afraid to go out in public where he could be seen by policemen. Meantime, his American pals from Lafayette Escadrille finish their pilot training and get their wings. Thad tries to get a job in Paris, working as a bodyguard and driver for the girls of a local Madam. When America finally enters the war, many American officers arrive in Paris. This is how Thad meets a U.S. General (Paul Fix) in a Paris cab. He decides to plead with the American General to allow Thad to serve in the newly formed United States Army Air Service, despite the fact that Thad is technically a deserter from the French Legion. Moved by Thad's plea, the General pulls strings to have Thad recruited into the Air Service. Thad finishes his fighter pilot training, gets his wings, and is sent to fierce frontline combat against German fighters. In Paris, his French wife wonders if she'll ever see him alive again.

Lafayette Escadrille
  • 1958

Smokin' Aces

1 hr 49 mins

Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy "Aces" Israel isn't playing nice. Turns out, he's telling mob secrets to the FBI. After a $1 million contract is put out on him, Aces tries to pull his greatest disappearing act before a rogues' gallery of ex-cons, hit men and smokin' hot assassins tries to rub him out in this edgy action comedy that takes no prisoners.

Smokin' Aces

Dear White People

1 hr 48 mins

A social satire that follows the stories of four Black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive blackface party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in acutely-not-post-racial America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path in the world.

Dear White People

The Little Foxes

1 hr 56 mins

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddens née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddens is estranged from her husband, who suffers from a terminal illness and is convalescing in Baltimore. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two older brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter need to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be--her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

The Little Foxes
  • 1941

I Am David

1 hr 30 mins

I AM DAVID is adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel NORTH TO FREEDOM. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. It is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love.

I Am David

Intolerance

3 hrs 30 mins

Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras: In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city's downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the lives of a young woman and her beloved.

Intolerance

Stay

1 hr 39 mins

Story charts the course of a relationship between a young woman (Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black) and a disgraced middle-aged professor (Aidan Quinn). The couple's relationship is upended by an unexpected pregnancy, which forces both characters to confront

Stay

Nightwatch

1 hr 41 mins

A law student, Martin, gets a part-time job doing the night shift at the morgue. The isolation and macabre nature of the facility initially spook him and he thinks maybe this isn't for him. Meanwhile, a serial killer is murdering women, an event that will become relevant to Martin when the victims end up in his morgue.

Nightwatch

Clara's Heart

1 hr 48 mins

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter's death. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who is hired to be a housekeeper. Clara and David develop a close bond that opens David's eyes and heart to new experiences--and eventually leads to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.

Clara's Heart

A Perfect Murder

1 hr 47 mins

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain.

A Perfect Murder

The Last Romantic Lover

1 hr 44 mins

She is the editor of a womens’ magazine and has decided to run a contest to find the most attractive man living within the magazine’s reading area. He is a circus lion-tamer, temporarily at leisure because of the death of his lion. He has been urged to enter the contest by the circus’ manager.

The Last Romantic Lover
  • 1978

The Wolf Man

1 hr 10 mins

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.

The Wolf Man

Young People

1 hr 19 mins

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.

Young People
  • 1940

Tuck Everlasting

1 hr 30 mins

Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself. But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She longs for freedom, for adventure. She escapes one morning to explore the woods surrounding her family's home, and encounters the Tucks, a close-knit family with a mysterious past that begs the question: If you could live forever, would you? And just when Winnie believes she has answered that question for herself, a mysterious man looking to profit from the source of the Tuck's immortality that will have her question her life, her desires, and what is the right thing to do. And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life.

Tuck Everlasting

The Clovehitch Killer

1 hr 49 mins

A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy's world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. Tyler Burnside is a Boy Scout, a volunteer at his local church, and the dutiful son of an upstanding, community leader dad. Only one thing troubles the quiet Kentucky town he lives in: the unsolved murders in which ten women were brutally tortured and killed by a psychopath known as Clovehitch, which rocked the community more than a decade ago. When Tyler discovers a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession, he begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be Clovehitch, and that his deadly rampage may not be over. With unrelenting tension, director Duncan Skiles crafts a picture-perfect vision of the all-American family and then piece by piece rips it to shreds.

The Clovehitch Killer

The Hard Word

1 hr 42 mins

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

The Hard Word

The Clearing

1 hr 35 mins

Wayne and Eileen Hayes (Robert Redford, Helen Mirren) appear to be living the American dream until Wayne is kidnapped in broad daylight from their peaceful Pittsburgh estate. Suddenly, the man who at one point prided himself on being a cunning negotiator finds his fate resting in the hands of a kidnapper (Willem Dafoe) who has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The Clearing

A Christmas in Royal Fashion

1 hr 30 mins

A handsome prince hopes to convince an American fashion company to bring more business to his kingdom. He hosts a Christmas fashion show, where he meets an intriguing young assistant.

A Christmas in Royal Fashion
  • 2018

Dear Frankie

1 hr 45 mins

After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.

Dear Frankie

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

1 hr 59 mins

A thrilling, horror film based on a true story about a single lawyer (Laura Linney), who takes on the church and the state, when she fights for the life of a priest (Tom Wilkinson), who has performeda deadly exorcism on a young woman. Linney must battle the cocky state lawyer (Campbell Scott) as well as her own demons, as she realizes that her career so far has not led her to fulfillment.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

1 hr 37 mins

The dysfunctional twenty-three-year-old Sarah takes her six-year-old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and low lifestyle and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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