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The Other Side of the Mountain
Based on the true story of Jill Kinmont. In 1955, eighteen-year-old Jill is a truly talented, gifted skier and a shoo-in for the 1956 Winter Olympics. But Jill comes close to losing everything when she takes a near fatal fall off a mountain during the last race of the season. Paralyzed from the shoulders down, Jill now has to climb another kind of mountain-working her way up from total helplessness to leading a fulfilling life. With the help of family, friends, and an extraordinary man, Jill begins the quest up that mountain.

- 1975
The Family Fang
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.

- Metascore67
- 2015
Christmas Land
Jules Cooper is a successful New York businesswoman who seemingly has everything: a rapidly growing career in marketing and a handsome boyfriend named Mitchell. Jules soon learns her beloved late Grandmother Glinda has left her 'Christmas Land', a magical Christmas-themed village and Christmas tree farm in the countryside. Much of Jules's favorite childhood memories revolve around Christmas Land and the holiday's her family spent there in her youth. Upon arriving in Christmas Land to claim the property, she meets handsome and charming Tucker Barnes, the lawyer handling the estate. Christmas Land has seen better days since Glinda's tragic passing and Jules is forced to make many complicated decisions. Should she sell Christmas Land to real estate tycoon Mason Richards and get back to her busy city life? Or should she stay and bring Christmas Land back to its former glory? With decisions to be made in both life and love, this Christmas for Jules is sure to be both interesting...and magical.

- 2015
Rise of the Legend
A martial artist with extraordinary power (Eddie Peng) returns to the town where his father was murdered to face off against a ruthless crime boss (Sammo Hung) and bring justice back to the people.

- Metascore62
- 2014
Revelation Road: The Black Rider
The rapture has come and gone! In this third installment of the Revelation Road saga, the beleaguered mayor sends Josh McManus on a vital mission to find the mysterious and elusive "Shepherd." With the aid of another survivor, can Josh find the man - and determine if he's a prophet or a pariah?

- 2014
Court
Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide.

- Metascore83
- 2014
Correspondence
From director Giuseppe Tornatore comes a story of forbidden love that finds an aging astrophysics professor (Jeremy Irons) in a six-year affair with Amy (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful PhD student. But after the professor abruptly ends their romantic trysts, Amy continues to receive his intimate gifts and messages, which leads her to question his disappearance...and come to terms with her own past.

- 2016
Serial Killer 1
An investigation by a young inspector who quickly becomes obsessed with stopping a monster.

- 2014
Naaraaz
Deva (Mithun) is a poor villager who lives with his father. All Deva wants is that his village gets clean water. Deva befriends a rich guy Ajay (Atul Agnihotri) who helps with Deva's plight. Dozens of villagers die when the village priest "Pandit" (Rana Jung Bahadur) poisons the water in the village on the order of Ajay's uncle Jagdambar (Bharat Kapoor). Jagdambar wants the villagers out so that he can sell the land to an American company for millions. In anger Deva kills the priest and Ajay's uncle along with a minister who was helping Ajay's uncle. Deva flees India and inadvertently gets on a ship to Malaysia. There he meet's Taoke (Gulshan Grover) when he save's his life from a hit man. Deva becomes a feared criminal, even becoming an enemy of Taoke after disagreeing with his line of work. He meets Sonia (Pooja Bhatt) and Zakir (Mushtaq Khan) and together they fight against Taoke's injustice. Deva and his friends are on the run with Malaysia's Police Commissioner Pritam Singh (Avtaar Gill) hot on their trail. Will Deva succeed in getting water to his village? Will Ajay find and save Deva in time? Will Deva and Sonia survive the hail of bullets both from the Police and Taoke?

- 1994
Yakshiyum Njanum
Unaware of her reality, Shyam falls in love with Aathira, a ghost who wants to avenge her and her lover's deaths by killing a minister. However, when Shyam discovers the truth, he decides to help her.

- 2010
Up for Love
A man finds the phone of a girl and decides to invite her for dinner. When the couple meet, she is astonished to find that he is very short. She works to overcome her own concerns with this and enjoy life instead.

- Metascore48
- 2016
AWOL
Days before her deployment to Afghanistan, Joey, 19, comes home to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas, with big dreams of running away to Canada.

- 2010
Thumper
Teens in a low income neighborhood are lured into working for a violent and dangerous drug dealer. When a new girl harboring a dark secret arrives in town, their relationship jeopardizes everything.

- 2017
A Prince for Christmas
Wanting to escape an arranged marriage, a European prince flees to the United States. There, he meets a struggling young waitress who may just be his one true love.

- 2015
My Town
Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao Yuan. His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but ends up failing. The three childhood friends struggle with each other and seek for a way out...

- 2018
Bad Sister
From the first time Zoe met her new teacher at St. Adeline's Catholic School she knew something wasn't right with Sister Sophia. Was it the red lipstick and refusal to recite the Morning Prayer? Or the way she eyed her brother Jason...like he was dessert? As Zoe's suspicions grow so does the creepy bond between the "good" sister and her brother--a bond bordering on seduction. But who will believe her? After all, Sister Sophia is a woman of the cloth. Or is she?

- 2015
One Man and His Cow
An Algerian farmer named Fatah goes on an adventure with his girlfriend, Jacqueline, traveling through France. It just so happens that Jacqueline is also his cow.

- 2016
Dark River
After receiving news of her father's death, Alice, a young travelling sheep-shearer, tentatively decides to return to the dilapidated family house of her childhood, in muddy North Yorkshire. Surprisingly, it's been already fifteen years since Alice left behind an ailing dad and her older brother, Joe, to wander about from farm to farm; however, this cold and heavy homecoming will be Alice's last chance to reclaim the land she believes was once promised to her. But, now, on one hand, there's Joe's resentment paired with a rancorous rivalry between siblings--while, on the other hand--fleeting mournful shadows of a troubled past permeate the walls of an imperfect prize. What will it take to keep the haunting memories at bay?

- Metascore69
- 2017
My Blind Brother
Bill (Nick Kroll) has always lived in the shadow of his brother Robbie (Adam Scott), a handsome athlete and local hero who happens to be blind. Their sibling rivalry reaches a fever pitch when both men fall for the same woman (Jenny Slate).

- Metascore60
- 2016
Seattle Road
Two young artists use love as a safety net against the fear and pain in their lives in order to propel them deeper into their art.

- 2016
Small Town Crime
An alcoholic ex-cop (John Hawkes) seeks justice for the murder of a teen prostitute in this gritty crime-noir. Also starring Octavia Spencer and Robert Forster.

- Metascore68
- 2017
Mobile Homes
A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

- Metascore49
- 2017
Ethel & Ernest
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

- Metascore72
- 2016
Salt and Fire
Following a mysterious hostage-taking, the leader of a small scientific delegation is deliberately stranded with two blind boys in an area of gigantic salt flats.

- Metascore44
- 2016