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You Will Know What to Do with Me
In a hospital hallway, fine arts photographer Nicolas, epileptic since childhood, falls for the aloof Isabel, unaware she is visiting her suicidal mother. Their stories merge as they're suddenly engaged in a highly charged relationship but this doesn't come easy. Nicolás that lives an intense life because of his epilepsy although he lives a normal life he has to take care of himself. On the other hand, Isabel is a woman who, apparently, has her whole life figured out although her mother is not well and she has no choice but to try to save her. As the intense getting acquainted period wanes, they see it's worth attempting to transcend their respective flaws and demons. Isabel and Nicolás fall in love in spite of themselves yet commitment is not something that comes easy in this characters that are drifting away.

- 2015
The Traitor
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organisation. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

- Metascore64
- 2019
- 2013
Our Mothers
Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who went missing during the war. Against his mother's wishes, he flings himself body and soul into the case, looking for truth and resilience.

- Metascore59
- 2019
All Creatures Here Below
Gensan (David Dastmalchian) and Ruby (Karen Gillan) live on the fringes of society in Los Angeles, struggling to survive in the face of abject poverty. On a fateful night, they strike out to seize something that has always been denied them, which sets in motion a series of events with dire consequences. Their impulsively committed crime puts them on run from the police. They seek refuge in their hometown of Kansas City, a place filled with the dark secrets that have haunted them since they fled years ago.

- Metascore67
- 2018
40: The Temptation of Christ
40: The Temptation of Christ is detailed in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. According to these texts, after being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights in the Judaean Desert. During this time, Satan appeared to Jesus and tried to tempt him. After having refused each of Satan's temptations, Jesus returned to Galilee to begin his ministry.

- 2020
Murder RX
A single mom moves to the suburbs with her troubled teenage daughter to escape the city’s dangerous influences. When she discovers the town she moved to is the hub of an opioid ring, she becomes desperate to save herself and her daughter.

- 2020
The Great Alaskan Race
In 1925's historic great race of mercy, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.

- Metascore29
- 2019
The Last Beyond
Dreams and memory intertwine in the Depression as a man grieving his father's death leads an unlikely crew in search of freedom in the mountains of Montana.

- 2019
The Independent Game
This movie is based on a true story. Figg Panamera (JT the bigga figga) moves to Atlanta Ga to bring knowledge of being Independent to the hungry artist. Robbery, Murder and Gang pressure can't stop The Independent Game.

- 2014
Canary
Viktor Taus's debut came out of the filmmaker's own experience with drug addiction. The film convincingly retells the story of a Prague Film Academy student (whom Taus himself plays under his own name) who becomes heavily hooked and then attempts to make it back to normal life. Viktor's uncritical adulation of the cult of violent movies forms a significant subplot, though his admiration is gradually destroyed through conflict with the world of actual violence.

- 1999
After Party
Young, up-and-coming photographer, Lana, begrudgingly attends the party of a pretentious and cool gallery owner in the hopes of meeting a respected dealer who may hold the key to her success. She quickly finds that the attendees of the party are more style than substance, and her friend, the host, isn't at all what she seems.

- 2017
Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa
When Lisa (Jill Wagner) takes a last-minute Christmas trip to her hometown of Evergreen, she finds that the historic general store has been closed. Using her skills as a professional retail designer, Lisa decides to keep local tradition alive and help the good people of Evergreen bring the store back to life. As Lisa charms a local contractor named Kevin (Mark Deklin) into working with her, the pair find themselves facing one surprise after another as they restore the store to its former glory. When the staff at the Kringle Kitchen temporarily accept the store's beloved 'Mailbox to Santa' for safekeeping, the townspeople find and rally around a mysterious 25-year-old letter that never made it to the North Pole. As old traditions are made new again, Lisa finds herself falling for Kevin, the traditions, and the town of Evergreen.

- 2018
Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas
Cara faces a bittersweet Christmas since her mother's passing. Flying to Oklahoma she meets country singer Heath, who also faces a tough holiday after his father's death. He doesn't acknowledge his fame, so Cara feels duped when two attractive women rush him. As weather keeps thwarting them, Cara and Heath share their losses, and as they head toward their separate Christmases, they grow close. But when Cara sees a tabloid linking Heath with a model, and he unwittingly offends her dad by offering financial help, it might take a Christmas miracle for this couple to find harmony.

- 2018
A Gingerbread Romance
With Christmas just weeks away, the architecture firm Taylor works for enters her in a contest in which the teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses. After the contest, Taylor will likely be getting a promotion to a position in another city. The firm teams her up with Annabelle, a renowned French pastry chef with whom Taylor instantly locks horns. When Annabelle backs out, Taylor stumbles into a local bakery and meets Adam, a baker and single dad. In an act of desperation, Taylor convinces Adam to partner with her for the contest, arguing that winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed exposure. For years Taylor has been resistant to call anywhere 'home' for fear it will only be temporary. But the time she spends with Adam and his daughter in their cozy home, decorating for the holidays and exploring the town at Christmas, fills her with a longing for a place to call home.

- 2018
Chasing Shadows
Fed up with society's unbalanced behavior by the privileged, Evan sets out to convince his friends, Heath and Greg, to join him in becoming vigilantes and punishing criminals for their crimes, big or small. Even if it requires them to take the law into their own hands. With some resistance between the friends, Heath joins Evan in serving justice their way, completely ignoring Greg's fore warnings about the consequences of their actions. Their mission is closely tracked by Detective Romano, whose vested interest goes beyond protecting the city, but his own family.
- 2010
Confessions of a Producer
A producer afflicted with a debilitating curse can only be cured by the reporter who despises him.

- 2020
Taken Too Far
Lawyer Dean Grayson's spoiled-rotten, fame-obsessed wife Jeanette is dead-set to force their teen daughter, whom he would allow other choices, to succeed at the dance career she failed to cash in on. Ignoring pre-teen son Jason, Jeanette is ready to 'walk over corpses'. Blackmailing the ex-con driver Stevie Hernandez to be her henchman, she plans in detail to kidnap the daughter's actually devoted dance academy rival Melanie to secure a sole prime audition. But her mother Beth Hoyson gets wind of the scheme and fights back, as the police won't believe her, at least not in time, at their own risk.

- 2017
Enlighten
- 2012
Good Friday
Lucas Cole, prosecutor and single parent, faces a day of life-defining choices when he is enticed to dismiss a charge of hit and run while intoxicated, by the wife of a wealthy media mogul.

- 2020
Jack London's Love of Life
Jack, an Alaska gold rush era miner, is abandoned by his partner and left to make his way through the wilderness alone. Starving and injured, he struggles physically and spiritually to come to grips with what is of true value in his life. The gold, his love that waits for him or the food that can sustain him are all weighed against his ultimate survival. Shot in the wilds of Alaska, the film sets Jack against a landscape that has no mercy yet draws a distinct line to his Love of Life.
- 2012
Marrying Father Christmas
When Miranda Chester set off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined that her investigation would lead her to both the family she had always longed for and Ian McAndrick, the love of her life. After her romantic engagement last Christmas, Miranda prepares to marry Ian this Christmas surrounded by his family and her new family, the Whitcombs. While Miranda navigates this new relationship, her late father's widow, Margaret, forges a surprising romance with a friend from the past.

- 2018
One Last Night
On their first date, Alex and Zoe venture out to see a movie at a local theater. The film ends and the two become so engaged in a heated discussion that they do not notice the theater closing, leaving them locked inside. Their adventure starts out light and comical as they search for an escape and quickly find themselves falling for one another. Suddenly, a secret is revealed about Alex that abruptly changes Zoe's perception of the night. Perhaps, their escape room experience was not as accidental as she initially thought.

- 2018
On the Edge of Freedom
After a night of partying leads to his arrest, Kai Green is given a choice: jail time or rehab at a Texas ranch. Reluctantly, he chooses the ranch, a unique rehabilitation center.
- 2024