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Carpinteros
Julián finds love and a purpose to living in the last place he imagined: Najayo prison in the Dominican Republic. Through sign languages from one prison to another he encounters Yanelly, separated from 150 meters and dozens of guards, he has to win her love while keeping it a secret.

- Metascore68
- 2017
Bad Blood
Lauren's life is on a positive trajectory, until she is falsely accused of murder. Discovering that an obsessive serial killer with her exact DNA match has been knowingly implicating her in all his crimes, she is forced to fight to prove her innocence and save her life.

- 2015
Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl!
Joca, a Brazilian boy of 13, and Basano La Tatuada a Paraguayan indigenous girl living on the border between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa. Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her love.

- Metascore44
- 2017
Bad Day for the Cut
In this witty and ultra-violent thriller, a mild-mannered farmer sets off on a bloody quest for vengeance after his elderly mother is murdered. As he tracks her killers through the criminal underworld of Belfast, he begins to realize that there was a darker side to his beloved mother – and to himself.

- 2017
Wicked Little Things
In 1913, in Carlton Mine, Addytown, Pennsylvania, the cruel owner of a mine uses poor children in the exploration and after an explosion, a group of children is buried alive. On the present days, Karen Tunny has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease when the family savings have been spent in the treatment. Without any money, she moves with her daughters Sarah and Emma to an old house in the mountains that belonged to her husband. Karen is advised by her neighbors to stay at home in the night, and Sarah hears that there are zombies in the area. When Emma becomes friend of Mary, he mother believes she is an imaginary friend. However, when Sarah's friends are attacked and eaten alive by zombie children and Emma vanishes, Karen and Sarah chase her nearby the mine.

- 2006
Picaresque
A biography of the Japanese writer Shuji Tsushima, who wrote under the pen name of Osamu Dazai.

- 2002
Tideland
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah dead in his chair, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens.

- Metascore26
- 2005
Tehran Taboo
Téhéran : une société schizophrène dans laquelle le sexe, la corruption et la prostitution coexistent avec les interdits religieux. Dans cette métropole grouillante, trois femmes de caractère et un jeune musicien tentent de s’émanciper en brisant les tabous.

- Metascore74
- 2017
Shandaar
Widower Rajjan lives a wealthy lifestyle in a mansion called 'Lakshmi Bhavan' all by himself after the tragic passing of his daughter. He runs a match factory called Kabutar (Dove) which does very well. It is then he meets with Pratima, her husband, Chander, and daughter, Rani, who reminds of his late daughter. He decides to indirectly assist Chander in his own business venture which ironically includes running a match factory called 'Eagle'. Chander does so well that Rajjan starts losing all his customers and soon must declare bankruptcy. 'Lakshmi Bhavan' is sold to none other than Chander himself for 25 Lakhs, and Rajjan moves to the outhouse. Soon Chander starts to liven things up including drinking alcohol and having lavish parties with dancing girls which does not auger very well with Rajjan - who had always treated this mansion as a holy place. Rajjan decides to ask Chander to stop not knowing that in so doing he will set off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.

- 1974
A Dash of Love
When an aspiring chef lands an assistant job at her idol's restaurant, she's convinced her big break is just around the corner. After a rocky start, she befriends the handsome executive chef and they begin bonding in the kitchen. But her joy is short lived when she discovers her female boss is stealing her recipes and fires them both to protect her secret. Together, they set out to create their own pop-up restaurant and discover the most important ingredient is love.

- 2017
Eagle vs Shark
In Wellington, wallflower Lily is inexplicably attracted to loser Jarrod. She's out of a job; he's nursing a decade-long grudge against someone who teased him in high school. When she accompanies him to his seacoast hometown where he intends to take on his nemesis, she meets his father, his daughter from a one-night stand, and other family members--plus the memory of his talented, dead brother. Jarrod treats Lily badly, invents a relationship with his dead brother's fiancée, and gears up for his fight. Will she finally have enough and go home?

- Metascore55
- 2007
The Limb Salesman
Set in Northern Canada in a dystopian future GABRIEL GOODE, a doctor specializing in limb regeneration, travels from the decrepit metropolis of 'City' to the barren regions of the north. His assignment: heal the invalid daughter of a wealthy, but morally corrupt, water exporter. He arrives at the family's mining compound with his own past haunting him. There, Gabriel risks everything in order to confront his darkness and find his heart.

- 2004
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
A statue in a town's square narrates to a journalist the story of 9th standard-failed, unemployed, trouble-maker and stutterer Premshankar Sharma. Premshankar cons Mr. Pinto into buying a dilapidated flat to pay for expenses of the Happy Club over which he presides, much to the disapproval of his restaurateur father Shivshankar, who wants him to wed Shakuntala Mishra. Premshankar's life undergoes many changes after he falls in love with Pinto's adopted daughter Jenny. He believes that she also loves him, and even helps her to elope after her parents force her to wed wealthy Tony. Premshankar ends up in despair when he finds out that Jenny's true love is Canada-based Rahul, the son of wealthy politician Pitambar Jalan.

- 2009
Sicko
A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.

- Metascore74
- 2007
Soundtrack
Arriving in Mumbai with just a backpack and a guitar, Raunak Kaul stays with his uncle who introduces him to Charlie, the owner of 'Tango Charlie' nightclub. This is where Raunak makes his start and achieves phenomenal success as a composer and DJ virtually overnight. He quickly regresses to a life of illicit drugs, smoking and alcohol. One day, he starts to go deaf. Unable to perform, he goes to see a doctor who tells him that he has lost his hearing in the right ear, while the left one is only partly functional. In order to avoid deafness, he must avoid loud music as well as try and keep off drugs, alcohol and smoking, and wear a hearing-aid. Unable to focus on his work, he alienates himself, gets into an argument, which results in an accident - taking away his hearing altogether. Depressed, refusing to communicate with anyone, he prepares a padded sound-proof room with hopes of recovering his hearing. Will be succeed in this venture, or have the abuse of drugs and alcohol made him delusional?

- 2011
The TV Set
A television network is making a pilot of Mike's quirky comedy based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the network suits ask for change after change, and as Mike struggles with compromise, there are strains on families, execs who show rushes to their children, leads who feel each other out, and assistants who put a smile on everything. Can an honest show get made in the world of reality TV chasing an audience of teen-aged boys?

- Metascore65
- 2006
Touch the Top of the World
The story of the first blind man ever to reach the top of Mount Everest.

- 2006
Out of the Blue
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13-14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside village. It came in the form of a lone gunman with a rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped in the village for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and underarmed local policeman risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. By dawn 13 people lay dead. This is a docudrama based on a true story.

- Metascore70
- 2006
The Nines
Three short films, each depicting the same actors in different and sometimes overlapping roles. Together the stories illustrate the relationship between character, that role, its creator, and the creation.

- Metascore52
- 2007
A Midsummer's Hawaiian Dream
Attorney Tanya McQueen has hired a team of anthropologists to find an ancient artifact which, if found, would halt development of Nick Button's shopping mall in the sacred Hemolele Forest on Kaua'i. The team is led by the experienced duo of Helen and Demetri, joined by grad students Zander and Hermione. The team is seen by Omaka, a native Hawaiian kahuna, and his mischievous aide, Puka. Sensing Helen's yearning for passion from Demetri, Puka doses the man with the nectar of a special flower from the forest -- but he has dosed Zander instead, triggering confusion and hilarity. When Puka tries to make amends by dosing Demetri too, and later Tanya as well, the results are surprising and wonderfully zany. Love wins the day.

- 2016
Past Sins
Donna Erickson is a workaholic, criminal lawyer with no time for anyone but herself. Confronting her ambitious lifestyle while following her instincts about a possible murder committed over thirty years ago. On the surface, Donna's client Janice Bradford, a respectable suburban housewife, but when her past is exposed -- it's revealed that she was a member of a non-violent protest group that apparently committed a deadly bombing of a Real Estate developer. But Janice claims it was an accident, the court will have to decide. Time has caught up with Janice Bradford, and her past quickly threatens to destroy her family's future. Donna is under the gun to prove her client innocent of all charges and reinstate her as the socially aware, responsible citizen she is. With the help of her ex-husband private eye Glen Garrison, they must turn back the clock to determine if her client is a murderer, or the sole survivor of a crime linked to a lethal conspiracy. PAST SINS is a pulse-pounding mystery with an explosive final act.

- 2006
Cemetery of Splendor
Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including colored light therapy, to ease the mens' troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt's cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches. There may be a connection between the soldiers' enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen's tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.

- Metascore88
- 2015
Pom Poko
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

- Metascore77
- 1994
Planetarium
In restless 1930s Paris, the American sisters and spiritual mediums, Laura and Kate Barlow, are an authentic psychic act touring pre-war Europe. Indeed, such is their reputation, that sceptical but curious spectators join them on stage, eager to experience a hypnotic séance with the dearly departed. As one thing leads to another, the French film producer, André Korben, dazzled by the sisters' extraordinary psychic ability during a performance, decides to enlist their help, in high hopes of capturing even the faintest suggestion of a real paranormal manifestation. Little by little, World War II creeps in, and Korben's prestige rests entirely on the success of this single effort. But, are the Barlow Sisters nothing but an elaborate hoax, or do they genuinely possess the dark gift?

- Metascore44
- 2016