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Mr. Jones
A young couple moves to the woods and soon finds their nightmares and reality colliding.

- Metascore38
- 2013
All Is Bright
Two French Canadian ne'er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees. Easygoing charmer Rene (Paul Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Paul Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole. Still, this odd couple must make an honest go of it in this buddy comedy.

- Metascore54
- 2013
Venus in Fur
After a long and fruitless day of auditions for the lead role in his new play--an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella, Venus in Fur--exhausted and frustrated director Thomas Novacheck is about to call it quits for the day. And then, soaked to the bone, Vanda walks into the dark and eerily vacant Parisian theatre, ready to try her luck and Thomas' patience. However, as the assertive and seemingly unfit for the part young actress takes the stage, a grand miracle occurs, transforming mysterious Vanda into the novel's central female character, Wanda von Dunajew. Now, there is no turning back. And between reality and fiction, the boundaries separating apathy from obsession and master from servant become increasingly difficult to distinguish.

- Metascore69
- 2013
Bastards
In Paris, when the husband of Sandra, Jacques, commits suicide, she calls her brother Marco Silvestri, who is the captain of an oil tanker, to return to Paris to help her. Jacques was Marco's best friend and was running the woman's shoe factory that belonged to the father of Marco and Sandra. Marco, who had given-up of his inheritance, learns that the factory is bankrupted, and Sandra has no money to pay the debts. He also discovers that his niece Justine has drinking and drug problems and her Dr. Béthanie believes she needs to be operated to repair her vagina, damaged by sex abuse and torture. Sandra tells Marco that the financer Edouard Laporte is the responsible for Jacques' suicide and prostitution of Justine, and Marco rents an apartment and moves to Laporte's building. He befriends Laporte's wife, Raphaëlle, after repairing her son Joseph's bicycle and soon he has a love affair with Raphaëlle. He also sells his car, his life insurance policy and his watch to help Sandra to pay her debts, and Sandra gives a pistol to him. Now Marco decides to find what happened to Justine while he falls in love with Raphaëlle, with tragic consequences.

- Metascore69
- 2013
Operation Conspiracy
Kyra is a fashion reporter. While she is staying in a London hotel, a model is murdered. There she also bumps into a former love, Felix, once an Intelligence Officer now reduced to being a mere waiter. As she sets off to solve the murder to help reinstate Felix, she becomes drawn into a web of murder and deceit that goes all the way back to the time she first knew him.

- 1956
Brilliant Mistakes
Marcus Wright (Daniel Dambroff) is in love with Gabby (Elise McNamara). A devastating accident nearly kills her and renders her in a vegetative state. She can no longer walk or talk. Marcus is determined to make good on his promise to marry her, but he is not only challenged by this unfortunate event but made to jump many unexpected hurdles, including fending off Gabby's mother Sandra (Aria Mckenna), who clings to Marcus and takes her relationship with him beyond both of their boundaries. Marcus then meets Elliot Thurston (Christopher Clawson), a published author who wrote the novel "Brilliant Mistakes," a story about the author's personal regret. Marcus is a big fan of Elliot's positive energy and subsequently his writing, and a bond of common loss, dreams and goals ties them together. While Elliot brings color and life to Marcus' seemingly uncertain future, something is wrong and Marcus'trust in others is yet again weakened. Brilliant Mistakes' hopeful and inspirational ending will undoubtedly leave audiences feeling like their hearts can't quite fit in their chests.
- 2012
Janeane from Des Moines
In the run-up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses, a local conservative housewife seeks answers from the Republican presidential candidates.

- 2012
The Land of Hope
An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.

- 2012
Deep Dark Canyon
After a hunting accident leaves a town's beloved mayor dead, two teenage brothers break out of jail and go on the run. Handcuffed together with the whole town chasing down the fugitives, they must outrun police and survive the elements to escape with their lives. Action-packed with an explosive climax, Deep Dark Canyon will have you looking over your shoulder at every twist and turn!

- 2013
Not Today
Roaming from California to India, NOT TODAY weaves a moving, inspiring story of a young man’s journey from spoiled Orange County adult-adolescent to a true believer in the fight against human slavery, risking his life to help the helpless.

- 2013
Graduate First
In a town in northern France, teenagers sitting for the baccalaureate await the fateful date with anxiety tempered with indifference. The past year has been the scene of their conflicts with adults and teachers alike who consider the exam as the highway to employment. The disillusioned teenagers see it more as the dead-end street to unemployment.

- 1978
Between Us
The film is about two couples who meet as old friends and discover their lives are tainted by money, success, sex and children.

- 2012
Where the Trail Ends
Where the Trail Ends is a film following the worlds top freeride mountain bikers as they search for unridden terrain around the globe, ultimately shaping the future of big mountain freeriding.

- 2012
Australia
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

- Metascore53
- 2008
To the Wonder
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

- Metascore58
- 2012
The Flowers of War
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor.

- Metascore46
- 2011
Safety Not Guaranteed
Darius is a young intern at a Seattle-based magazine and jumps at the chance to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to travel back in time with. Along with Jeff, the staff writer, and Arnau, a fellow intern, the three go on a road trip to a coastal town. While Jeff just wants to chase after his high school crush and Arnau wants some kind of life experience, Darius spends her time with Kenneth, a man who believes that he has built a time machine. The closer they become and the more they understand about each other, the less clear it becomes if Kenneth is just crazy or if he actually is going to successfully travel back in time.

- Metascore72
- 2012
Jogo de Xadrez
Mina, Beth and Martona are locked in Talavera Bruce Penintentiary, in Rio de Janeiro. Mina is the brain of the group, Beth is the impulsive one, and Martona is pure muscle. Mina controls the jail by selling drugs and goods, smuggled in by her sister, Jullienne. Mina is doing time for social security fraud, involving Senator Franco. The Senator thinks that she could snitch him to the authorities. So, he decided to bribe the warden to put an end to her life. But she is strong and smart, and the attempts against her are in vain. Now, it started a game of challenges and fight over power inside the pen, which the strongest and smarter will succeed.

- 2014
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
Panimalai is an imaginary hill station, where there is a news anchor (Balaji Mohan), whose only aim is get TRP's for his channel. Meanwhile a salesman Aravind (Dulquer Salmaan), an orphan and happy-go-lucky good talker meets Dr. Anjana (Nazriya), a confused, soft spoken girl who is unable to express her feelings properly and has a dominating fiancée who is a control freak. There are also other characters like Health Minister Sundaralingam (Pandiarajan), Superstar Boomesh (John Vijay), Kudikara Sangam Thalaivar Ravi (Robo Shankar), a feudal landlord (Vinu Chakravarthi) and Anjana's step mother (Madhoo). One day, people in the scenic hill station get affected by 'dumb flu' and lose their voice. Finally, state government issues an order banning people from talking to avoid spreading of this contagious disease.

- 2014
Lovely Rita
Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school, where she's disdained by classmates, and at home, where her staunchly religious mother and temperamental father bemoan her inability to fit in with their comfortable bourgeois life. When Rita sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.

- Metascore76
- 2001
Across the Sierras
Bill saves his friend Larry from hanging and then tries to get him to join him in becoming a rancher. But Larry joins up with outlaw Carew and when Bill goes after him he accidentally shoots and kills Larry. Planning to marry Ann, Bill now hangs up his guns. But when Carew comes looking for him he straps on Larry's gun and heads out to meet him.

- 1941
Ink & Steel
In this upstate New York drama, when a turf war engulfs the city, aging mob enforcer Michael retrieves the Don's troubled son from his college partying. After they survive an attempted hit on the road home, Michael seeks refuge at a rural farm, imposing on a single mother and her teenage son living there. As violence escalates in the city, Michael is ordered to wait it out, keeping the boss' son safe while coexisting as unwelcome house guests. But, when dark pasts threaten to collide, Michael, a man more comfortable solving problems with force, must find a way to keep the peace, and decide if he should break the Don's son free of the cycle of violence which has haunted the family for generations.

- 2014
The Red House
Shelby Gordon (Kate French) inherits a house from grandfather(Walter Olszewski) in remote woods of Copperhead County, she and friends Carissa (Yvette Yates), Lindsey (Cristen Coppen), Chelsea (Kat Sheridan),Travis (Lawrence Adimora) check it out. The road is closed and must hike in. Shelby discovers that her father had a brother Joshua (John Otrin) who was institutionalized when he was young. When her friends start to disappear, Shelby suspects that Joshua is still alive and hiding in the Red House. Also being threatened by a couple of local pot growers, Pink (Gregory Avellone) and his son Will (Ed Ackerman). Is Joshua torturing and killing her friends or is someone else? With the help of Cole Callahan (Brendan Wayne, ) the handsome deputy sheriff, she unravels the mystery.

- 2014
40,000 Horsemen
Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, which is serving in Palestine. The three eventually take part in the attack during the Battle of Beersheba, which was the last cavalry charge in modern warfare.

- 1940