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Joseph and Mary
JOSEPH AND MARY is a story of inspiration and hope, of mercy versus revenge, in the years before Jesus became the Man that ultimately changed the course of humanity forever.

- 2016
Maybe Someday
'MAYBE SOMEDAY' is the story of a hopeless slacker, Hal Donnelly, whose future seems a little bleak. His love life is non-existent, he's an unemployed alcoholic, and everyone around him is happy and knows where their life is headed. Hal finds some hope and direction after meeting Abigail, a teenage girl claiming she's his daughter from the future who's come back to prevent him from 'becoming the horrible person he's destined to be.' 'MAYBE SOMEDAY' is a comedy about the importance of living in the present and how sometimes it's ok not to have all the answers in life.

- 2015
Permitidos
A man and woman who have been together for 8 years choose their "allowed" celebrity hook-ups, not realizing how soon they would actually be meeting them in real life, and their couplehood is shaken up.

- 2016
Zoology
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day... she grows a tail. Embarrassed at first, Natasha decides to go further with the transformation and use it as an opportunity to redefine herself as a person and as a woman. With the new "accessory" she gets access to the life that she has never experienced before - she starts a relationship with a man, who finds her attractive, she goes out and allows herself to be foolish for the first time in her life. But her second puberty eventually comes to an end and Natasha has to make a choice between reality and illusion.

- 2016
Tower. A Bright Day.
Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.

- 2017
Adam Joan
The story revolves around the life of a planter, Adam Joan Pothan from the village Mundakkayam. One day, he unexpectedly meets a girl named Emy and they go to Scotland together. The new people he meets on his journey changes his life.

- 2017
Florence + the Machine: The Odyssey
"The Odyssey" reaches for inspiration from great literary journeys such as Dante's "Inferno" and the eponymous work by Homer to portray the many phases of love, break-up, and suffering. Featuring songs from Florence + the Machine's latest album "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful," "The Odyssey" is a collection of the band's previously released music videos and introduces the one for "Third Eye."

- 2016
The Journey Is the Destination
Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, which had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop culture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held his art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfulness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young could have this kind of artistic depth and insight.

- 2016
Paterno
Paterno centers on Penn State’s Joe Paterno (played by Al Pacino) in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Paterno’s legacy is challenged and he is forced to face questions of institutional failure in regard to the victims

- 2018
Jack Goes Home
Jack Thurlowe's world is turned upside down when his beloved father is killed in a brutal car accident. When he returns to his childhood home Jack discovers nothing is what it seems. With devastating and terrifying results.

- Metascore38
- 2016
Museo
Gabriel Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris play a pair of under-achievers who pull off a Christmas Eve museum heist that removes ancient Mexican artifacts that are so unmistakable, they prove impossible to fence. The film is based on a true story, that happened in 1985. Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros).

- Metascore86
- 2018
Lacuna
Shen Wei and Tong Xin wake up one morning in a bed, with no idea what happened or even who the person in bed with them is. The two split with few words, but each is missing something. What is actually happening last night?

- 2012
Oxenfree
Three foster brothers reunite at their old lake cabin following the death of their father, where the now-estranged adults relive a shared childhood by uncovering the ruins of their make-believe kingdom, "Oxenfree"...and face down the monster living within.

- 2016
6 Cup Chai
Some children in India are forced to work rather than study to help support their families. This story is about a boy who lives and works as a tea boy in Mumbai's poorest of slums, Dharavi. He has a simple wish, to go to school like the other children.
- 2014
A Heavenly Christmas
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she's assigned a hard luck case. As she's forced to help solve his problems, she'll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.

- 2016
Every Christmas Has a Story
Kate Harper, a television personality, is sent to a small town in North Dakota to discover her Christmas spirit after accidentally being caught on live TV saying she dislikes Christmas. Along the way, she reconciles with her father and her college boyfriend while finding her Christmas spirit.

- 2016
Back Roads
Centers on a young man living in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters after the shooting death of his abusive father and the arrest of his mother for that murder. Family secrets and unspoken truths threaten to consume him.

- Metascore42
- 2018
Andover
A genetics professor (Jonathan Silverman, Weekend at Bernie’s) clones his dead wife (Jennifer Finnigan, The Bold and the Beautiful) but the woman he creates is different than the woman he loved, so he tries over and over in a desperate attempt to get her back, exactly as she was.

- 2017
Sparrows Dance
When stage fright gets the best of her, a former actress stops leaving her apartment, crippled by fear of the outside world. Living off delivery food and residuals from her acting career, she spends her days watching bad TV and spying on the city from her window. But when her toilet overflows and a kind, compassionate plumber shows up, she reluctantly allows him into her refuge.

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- 2012
Bright Days Ahead
The retired dentist Caroline attends a class for computer users. Although she is married, she falls in love with her significantly younger lecturer. It turns out he used to visit her surgery because primarily in order to enjoy her view. Her husband finds out about her affair with this admirer.

- Metascore57
- 2013
Blood of Redemption
A business man by day and criminal mastermind by night, Quinn Forte (Billy Zane) had it all: money, power, respect…until someone from his inner circle murdered his father and stole it all away. Now, years later, Quinn is out of jail and, with the help of his former henchman, Axel (Dolph Lundgren), back to bring down everyone who betrayed him.

- 2013
Fanny
Fanny discovers she is pregnant after Marius sails away on a five-year voyage, With help from her mother and Marius' father, she marries a rich old man to avoid the shame of raising a fatherless child.

- Metascore47
- 2013
The Good Witch's Destiny
Cassandra Nightingale prepares to celebrate her birthday, hoping to bring as many of her friends and family together as possible. While investigating her family history, she discovers a story of a curse connected to the mysterious disappearance of her great aunt.

- 2013
Anna: Scream Queen Killer
Anna is a desperate young actress who gets invited to an audition, playing out various scenarios. The problem is, the director is a perverted psychopath with only one thing on his mind. As Anna progresses through a bizarre series of roles she realizes something is horribly wrong.

- 2013