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Surrender, Dorothy
After Sara Swerdlow's death in a nighttime car accident, her excessively self-righteous mother Natalie shamelessly invites herself to move into her room at the remote summer house where her friends are on holiday. Gay playwright Adam fails to evict her because of happily married Peter's cavalier hospitality. Soon everyone suffers facing Sara's, and their own past and present, as Nathalie only thought she really knew her 'all-confiding' daughter.

- 2005
The Russian Specialist
Spetnaz (Special Ops) veteran Nick Cherenko leaves Russia after his son and wife are killed in a gunfight by drug lord Aleksandr 'Sasha' Popov's mob men. He's threatened with exposure as illegal car mechanic in L.A. by a fellow ex-pat tycoon who offers him $500,000 to liberate her kidnapped daughter. He only takes the job when told the capturers are Sasha's goons again. The mission's long path to find the girl and escape over the Finnish border, where his team is to be paid, is littered with blood and corpses.

- 2005
The Killer
A Hong Kong hit man accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help regain her sight but he first needs to complete one more hit. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape; someone wants him dead. Meanwhile, a resourceful and unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail.

- Metascore82
- 1989
10th & Wolf
February, 1991. Tommy, a Desert Storm marine dismayed that the US isn't taking out Saddam, breaks some rules and faces hard labor. An FBI agent offers him an out: go home to his gritty, dockside home in Pennsylvania and help get the goods on an Italian heroin dealer; in return, no prison time and no arrest of Tommy's brother Vincent and cousin Joey. Loyalty to family conflicts with loyalty to the code of the street. Can Tommy sort it out, protect his brother and cousin, and stay true? Do young men die - in the sands of the Middle East and on the mean streets of the US - for no reason?

- Metascore36
- 2006
The Best Intentions
With a screenplay by Academy Award Winner Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander), Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) masterfully directs this heartwarming love story following the lives of Bergman's parents.

- Metascore77
- 1992
Played
After taking the fall for a heist gone wrong, thief-for-hire Ray Burns is back on the streets. Looking to settle the score, he must get back in the game one last time to take down his enemies. In this gritty look at London's criminal underground, Ray learns thehard way not to get PLAYED.

- 2006
Silk
A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.

- Metascore39
- 2007
Slipstream
An actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless. He is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. It's a surreal and dreamlike tale of one man's journey.

- Metascore47
- 2007
The Congress
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

- Metascore63
- 2013
Molly's Theory of Relativity
'Molly's Theory of Relativity' depicts a day in the life of a beautiful twenty eight year old astronomer poised to make the first reckless decision of her life. Her story takes place on Halloween. Aiding her on her day of reckoning are her husband, her father-in-law, three deceased relatives, a precocious, trick-or-treating nine year old girl, her grandfather from Minot, North Dakota, and an eight year old neighbor who may or may not be imaginary. 'Molly's Theory of Relativity' is about the economy, how we value and measure the pride we take in what we choose to do for a living, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the notion that death is merely a relative thing.

- Metascore40
- 2013
Blessid
Sarah Duncliffe is pregnant and suicidal. She is married to a man she does not love, stalked by an abusive ex boyfriend, and haunted by a dead girl who stares at her with a bloated bluish face and sad, questioning eyes. After a mishap, Sarah is instructed by her doctor to stay in bed. Begrudgingly she does. That is, until a strange older man moves in next door. A man with black teeth and an odd habit of sneaking into Sarah's yard to steal weeds. Emboldened by curiosity, Sarah sneaks into her neighbor's yard - only to be locked inside a greenhouse. After she breaks a glass pane to escape, she cuts herself and faints. Sarah wakes and learns the neighbor had treated her wound with a strange herbal ointment and brought her to the hospital. Eventually Sarah gets up the nerve to introduce herself to her next door neighbor. They form a fast friendship and, when Sarah sneaks a look into his picture scrapbook, she discovers an amazing secret. He's the same age in nearly every picture - pictures that span decades! Sarah discovers than her next door neighbor is over two thousand years old - a drifter with amazing stories and life experiences. But what is the secret behind his longevity and why did he enter her life when she is at her lowest point? When Sarah's husband goes away on an unexpected business trip, her ex boyfriend shows up at her door. Even though Sarah and her ex are now married to other people, in a moment of weakness they had a one-night stand several months ago. Doubting that Sarah would want to sleep with her loser husband, the ex suggests that he is the father of Sarah's baby. When Sarah coldly rejects him, her ex becomes enraged. Later that night, when Sarah's ex spies her sneaking over to her neighbor's house, his anger and jealously is uncontrollable. Events escalate to a violent confrontation that mortally injures Sarah's ancient next-door neighbor and puts Sarah and her unborn child in peril. Sarah Duncliffe - once a young woman who welcomed death - must now choose to fight to survive. BLESSID is a dark preternatural tale about two strangers who come together to find the beauty and purpose of life, and that forgiveness begins within oneself.

- 2015
The Bone Collector
Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.

- Metascore45
- 1999
The Look of Love
The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.

- Metascore57
- 2013
Newlyweeds
A Brooklyn repo-man and his globetrotting girlfriend forge an unlikely romance. But what should be a match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry in this dark comedy that is part ballad of chemical dependency, part coming-of-age romance, part hallucinatory adventure.

- Metascore62
- 2013
Arctic
A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out alive.

- Metascore71
- 2018
The Great Gatsby
The 20's never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), then lost her to a rich boy. But now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy... and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back.

- Metascore43
- 1974
The Sea of Trees
Arthur Brennan treks into Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to commit suicide. On his journey to the suicide forest, he encounters Takumi Nakamura, a Japanese man who has lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and reconnects him to his love for his wife.

- Metascore23
- 2015
Pulling Strings
After his daughter’s Visa request to visit her grandparents in America is rejected, a single father (Jaime Camil) and his loyal best friend do everything it takes to win over the Embassy worker who turned her down.

- Metascore57
- 2013
Fan
FAN is the story of Gaurav (Shah Rukh Khan) a young man, 20 something, whose world revolves around the mega movie star Aryan Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) or God as he refers to him. When things don't go according to plan, Gaurav's love and passion for his God turns into a dangerous obsession that crosses the fine line.

- 2016
Unleashed
Emma, a brilliant but awkward app designer, moves to San Francisco after a massive betrayal by her boyfriend with only her beloved pets, an adorable cat and an energetic mutt, in tow. One night, drawn by the light of a Supermoon, Emma’s pets escape into the night and are transformed into full-grown men, forcing Emma to reconsider her outlook on dating and hilariously work out her trust issues.

- 2016
The Photograph
When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton (Rae) hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block (Stanfield).

- Metascore62
- 2020
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. is a dramatic thriller set in the underbelly of the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action. Colin Farrell costars as the monied, cutthroat lawyer who recruits Roman to his firm.

- Metascore58
- 2017
You Were Never Really Here
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

- Metascore84
- 2017
Drumline: A New Beat
Danielle (Dani) Bolton, an upper class Brooklyn girl, defies her parents in order to attend a college in Georgia so she can join - and revitalize - their once-prominent drumline.

- 2014