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Candleshoe
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!

- Metascore68
- 1977
Courage
Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.

- 2011
Mo' Better Blues
Bleek Gilliam is a talented and self-centred jazz trumpeteer, whose single-minded concentration on his music leaves many, especially the women in his life, scrambling for his attention. Bleek forms his own band The Bleek Gilliam Quartet, and a rivalry emerges with bandmate Shadow that threatens to tear apart the quartet.

- Metascore61
- 1990
The Strawberry Statement
Twenty-year-old Simon is a student at a university located in San Francisco, he being on the university's rowing team his way of fitting in. More on a lark in truly being non-political, he attends a student sit-in at the office of the university's President, a protest against what they see as the university's inherently anti-black and pro-war actions. He decides to continue his association with the protesters more as a way to meet girls, or more specifically get to know Linda, one of the protesters with whom he is partnered in certain tasks. As the protests continue, Simon has to decide where his allegiances lie in the seemingly incompatible worlds of the rowing team and the protests, and if his view of the protests change to true commitment like Linda, who may only want to be with whom she sees as someone like herself, or if his commitment is solely to Linda and not to the cause of the protest.

- 1970
Alias the Doctor
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the rap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does a brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.

- 1932
Finding Forever in Love
Preach is a weed-addicted playboy who spends his days getting high and kicking it with his weed supplier. As he struggles to get past the dreams of a murdered girlfriend, a shady best friend, and a sex-crazed boss his therapist challenges him to go one week without sex or weed.

- 2014
Anthony Zimmer
Interpol and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer (Attal), a criminal genius responsible for money laundering in France. Zimmer has had extensive plastic surgery, and the only way to trace him is through his girlfriend Chiara (Marceau). When Francois, an ordinary man, speaks to Chiara on the train, he is mistaken for Zimmer, and thus becomes a target for the mob.

- 2005
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!
Idiocy strikes when a woman and her daughter get separated from their family during the holidays.

- 2011
Birdy
Philly boys Al and Birdy became friends in high school despite the extreme difference in their personalities, Al being the popular and athletic extrovert, Birdy the antisocial "weird" introvert. Al gave Birdy his nickname because of his fascination - obsession really - with birds, especially with flight. Al and Birdy have just completed their service of duty in the Vietnam War and have returned to the States. Al sustained some serious physical injuries, which required major reconstructive surgery to his face. Birdy, however, returned from Vietnam seemingly emotionally scarred. He was missing in action for one month. He has not spoken since he was found. Despite his own medical issues, Al travels to the institution where Birdy is being kept to see if he can assist in getting Birdy out of his near comatose state. Having always had issues with authority, Al is less than forthright with the doctors about Birdy's mental state prior to the war. As Al tries whatever he can to help Birdy using tools from their shared history prior to the war, he deals with his own post-war mental state.

- Metascore71
- 1984
The Farewell Party
THE FAREWELL PARTY is a unique, compassionate and unlikely funny story of a group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma.

- Metascore71
- 2014
The Beat
A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.

- 1988
The Days of Abandonment
Olga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

- 2005
Thirudan Police
Viswa (Dinesh) is a good for nothing guy who lives in a police colony and is son of an honest constable (Rajesh). It follows the conflict between a disciplinarian father and his wayward son. One day the constable dies in line of duty and the son gets his father's job. The rest of the story is how Viswa becomes from a reluctant cop to a disciplined guy, who takes revenge against those who murdered his father.

- 2014
John Henry
John Henry, a freed slave, happens across a railroad building project. An entire crew of freed slaves has been promised land if they can finish by deadline, but they're exhausted and unable to continue. John, though, has the strength of ten men, and revitalizes all of them. But despair sets in again when the railroad sends a steam hammer to replace the crew and burns the contract. John proposes a challenge: man against machine. After a heroic effort, including a tunnel through solid rock by swinging two hammers at once, John wins, but he also collapses in his wife Polly's arms. She's recounting this whole story to their young son, to explain why his father was so great.

- 2000
100 Yen Love
32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko's recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her young son. One day, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko charges out of the house for good. With few employment options to support herself, Ichiko works the night shift at a 100 yen shop (dollar store). On her way home each day she passes a boxing gym where she watches Yuji Kano (Hirofumi Arai) silently practice, developing a crush on him. The pair starts seeing each other and things change for Ichiko... At last, the bell rings and longtime loser Ichiko's rematch with life begins!

- 2014
Meddling Mom
Carmen Vega is guilty of being a meddling mom. Her crimes include slipping into daughter Yolanda's home to leave behind "how-to" books on starting a family and manipulating daughter Ally into a doomed relationship with her best friend Marisol's son Pablo.

- 2012
The Two of Us
Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Germans), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter and a anti-Semite, but he does not know about Claude's religion. The film is the story of their growing mutual affection.

- 1967
Shaft in Africa
John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in Africa. His job is to help break a racket that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.

- 1973
Nearlyweds
Three friends have their dream weddings--only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.

- 2013
Times Square
Allan Moyle's cult feature of 1980 is a paean to teenage rebellion, telling the story of two girls who meet in a New York psychiatric unit and, bonding through a shared sense of alienation, go on the run together in spectacular fashion!

- 1980
The All-American Boy
Episodic story in six acts ("The Manly Art in Six Rounds") about young boxer Vic Bealer in search for some direction in his life.

- 1973
Tonight's the Night
It's the end of a long day and everyone is headed to Henry's, an upscale LA nightclub. Sportscaster Hayden prides himself on being a ladies man and doesn't want to get tied down. He comes to the club looking for "the one" and thinks high powered executive Pamela fits the bill. Airline pilot Sam is still getting past a terrible divorce. He comes to the club with his friend Charlie trying to go after younger women and ends up in a fight with his daughter Jamie, who he runs into unexpectedly at the club. Corporate drone and student Kenny is all work and no play. He lives with housemates Tom and Ronnie. They invite him to come to the club, and he reluctantly goes along as their designated driver. Peter is married and has come Henry's to cheat. When he loses his wedding ring, a chance meeting with Kenny makes him realize the things that matter. All of this plays out with manager and club namesake Henry (who is also Hayden's brother) hosting the night along with house band Billy Vera and the Beaters providing the soundtrack of the night.

- 1987
Angel
After serving time in jail for running over a man, an ex-convict is then arrested for sexually molesting the man's physically-challenged daughter.

- 2011
Les deux mondes
- 1930