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Hungry Hearts
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.

- Metascore48
- 2014
A Summer in Genoa
How do children respond to tragedy? On an icy road near Chicago, Marianne dies in a crash, leaving Joe and their daughters, 16-year-old Kelly and 9-year-old Mary. That summer, a friend from Joe's graduate-student days 20 years before, arranges a teaching job for him in Genoa. When they arrive in June, Joe starts teaching and the girls have the summer before school starts: Kelly quickly falls in with youths her age; their club and beach life leads to sexual awakening. Mary, burdened by guilt for her mother's death, is solitary. The girls take piano lessons, Mary draws, and she also sees and talks to her mother. Joe asks them, "Are you OK?", but is that enough?

- 2008
Hangman's House
'Citizen' Hogan is a Irish Republican patriot with a price on his head, serving in Algiers, where he is highly respected by his Foreign Legionaire comrades. After receiving a telegram, he asks permission to go back to Ireland to settle a matter involving family honor by killing D'Arcy, a fortune-hunting opportunist who has turned British informer. Back in Ireland Lord Justice O'Brien, who has the unenviable reputation of being a hanging judge and is haunted with self-doubt, is terminally ill and close to death. He tries to ensure his daughter Connaught's future welfare by coercing her to renounce her love for the upstanding but poor Dermot McDermot and marry the despicably unscrupulous but affluent D'Arcy, the man Hogan has returned to murder.

- 1928
The Girl Without Hands
In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and the prince in his castle. A long journey towards the light...

- Metascore82
- 2016
Bey Yaar
In the desperation to earn quick money, two best friends put their moral values at stake and end up losing their pride and dignity. They then choose a wrong path to set things right and snatch back what was rightfully theirs.

- 2014
Cronicas
How far will a journalist go to get the story? Starring John Leguizamo as the man faced with this dilemma, Cronicas is a suspenseful thriller that questions who the true monster is: the criminal, the media, or our society?

- Metascore63
- 2004
American Muscle
John Falcon (Nick Principe) is a bad, bad man. But he didn't deserve to go to prison. Now, after 10 years of hard time, he's hell-bent on revenge. Screaming across the scarred landscape of the Yucca Valley, Falcon's got a list of scores to settle, and 24 hours to inflict brutal vengeance on everyone he holds responsible for putting him away. Including his own brother.

- 2014
Octane
High-octane romance set in the recognizable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as Boy Racer gangs uneasily coexist with the Indie scene.

- 2007
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
Littlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Petrie's uncle Pterano offers support only because he thinks the stone has secret powers and wants it for himself but conceals this from the rest. The young dinos must figure out the truth, before Pterano gets the power.

- 2000
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
Grandpa tells Littlefoot about their mythical hero called the Lone Dinosaur. Sarah gets two little lively cousins to take care of. Later, the kids accidentally chip the lucky Saurus Rock, and need to fix it before the bad luck hits.

- 1998
Moving Mountains
Dove Family Approved Seal/Faith Friendly Moving Mountains is the true story of one woman's heroic struggle to save her community. She must overcome the might of a billion dollar coal company, the massive governmental bureaucracy that is bent on protecting it and the many difficulties in her own life. When a coal mining operation causes the wells in her community to go dry Trish takes them on and this leads her into a struggle with the most powerful forces in her state. Trish Bragg starts out as a house wife with no money and little education but her big heart and dogged determination propel her into a battle against overwhelming odds. The results of this struggle lead to historic changes in the way coal mining is done and propels Trish into the forefront of the environmental struggles our country is still grappling with today. Based on the book Moving Mountains, this timely story will touch your heart and raise your spirits. It is a story of hope, faith and perseverance that will stay with you long after the movie is over.

- 2014
Nurse Betty
Kansas City waitress, Betty (Renée Zellweger), with dreams of becoming a nurse, becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to Los Angeles, California to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car in which she drove off. Charlie (Morgan Freeman), an aging hitman planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.

- Metascore69
- 2000
Sparkler
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is said to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she meets her old high school pal Dottie.

- 1997
Echoes
Struggling with horrifying, sleep-paralysis induced visions, a young writer retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated desert house. As the visions intensify, she finds herself on the verge of losing her mind...or uncovering a life-threatening secret.

- 2014
Calvin Marshall
Calvin Marshall's childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball is in serious jeopardy as he can't seem to make the Bayford Bisons Junior College team. A poignant comedy about Calvin's deferred dream and the people in his life who want him to succeed.

- 2009
Alchemy
Mal is a New York computer scientist about to lose his university job. He posits that a woman can fall in love with a responsive computer program as easily as with a real man. He finds a subject for the experiment, not telling her what's actually going on. She's Samantha, an actress, and a he finds a rival who calls himself Dr. Love. A women's magazine wants to report the story, but its editor changes the game, insisting that Mal dress up like "Jerry," the personality the computer creates, wear an earpiece, and spout the computer's words. Samantha plays along until her feelings for both "Jerry" and Dr. Love get serious. What's a scientist to do when his hypotheses goes awry?

- 2005
Boppin' at the Glue Factory
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.

- 2009
Dial a Prayer
Cora, a disenchanted and troubled young woman, begrudgingly answers phones at a Prayer Call Center under the watchful direction of its religious leader Bill. When her prayers start making a difference, one caller shows up convinced he's been saved by her voice. With the discovery of her newfound gift, Cora struggles to reconcile her troubled past, and grapples with the faith that others have started to show in her.

- 2015
Consinsual
Venture into this seemingly normal marriage where romance quickly turns into lust and morality crosses the line of corruption. Terrance Moore, a successful chef and faithful husband goes to the extreme to please his wife's sexual desires. But in this complex thriller, the question of whether no really means no leads to a dangerous sequence of events fueled by lies and betrayal.

- 2010
Le Havre
A dock worker in Le Havre hears a human sound inside one of the containers in port, that container which left Gabon three weeks ago and which was supposed to arrive in London five days after its departure from Gabon, which didn't happen. The Le Havre police and French border guards find a still alive group of undocumented African immigrants inside. On the sign from one of his elders, a young teen boy among the undocumented immigrants manages to escape, news of which hits the local media. The first friendly face that boy, Idrissa, encounters is that of former artist now aged shoeshine Marcel Marx. Marcel decides to help Idrissa by hiding him in his house, news which slowly trickles through his community of friends - most of whom he associates with at his local bar - and neighbors, most who assist Marcel in this task. Marcel goes to great lengths to find out Idrissa's story, which leads to Marcel's further task of trying to get Idrissa to London, his original end destination. The one neighbor who wants to turn Idrissa in and the authorities seem to be on to Marcel's activities, most specifically hard nosed police Inspector Monet, who may have his own private agenda. Through it all, Marcel has on his mind the health of his terminally ill and hospitalized wife Arletty, the terminal aspect being something of which he is unaware and which may in turn eventually kill him as Arletty is his life.

- Metascore82
- 2011
Qué pena tu vida
After being unemployed and all alone, Javier decides to try and win back Sophia, his ex-girlfriend, but discovers that she is already with another man and has no intentions to get back with him. To overcome the failure of love, Javier will be mired in endless adventures with different women and characters that cross on their way (family, friends and co-workers), where alcohol, sex and bad decisions are the common factors of this chaotic and decadent trip. During the whole journey and always beside was Angela, his best friend, probably the person he was always looking for.
- 2010
Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal
An unusual friendship between two escaped convicts is formed during a cat and mouse chase, which leads them to the beautiful islands of Lakshadweep.

- 2014
Golden Exits
The story of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young Australian girl (Browning), spending time abroad, upsets the balance on both sides. Written and directed by Alex Ross Perry ("Listen Up Philip", "Her Smell").

- Metascore72
- 2017
Maha Maha
Vijay, a windmill Engineer goes to Australia for work from India. He falls in love with Emily who he later finds is being searched by local police as a missing person. Vijay also becomes a suspect in a murder case. The movie ends with several twists and turns.

- 2015