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That Old Feeling
Lilly and Dan are a couple who have been divorced for years. When their daughter Molly is going to get married, she invites them to the wedding. At the reception, Lilly and Dan bicker loudly, so Molly asks them to leave. It's while they are alone that their banter turns into passion and they get it on. Later, when Molly should be having her wedding night, she discovers her parents together and freaks out. The next day, they run off and their partners are wondering where they are. Molly decides to try to find them and she enlists a paparazzo who's been following her mother to assist in her search.

- 1997
The Talisman
Jagged lightning of a gathering thunderstorm. Buzzards circle over smoldering debris of a wagon train massacre. Two people are left alive. One, a Cheyenne warrior, fallen unconscious under his dying pony. The Indian drags himself free. Reviving from her faint into a living nightmare is The Woman. He starts to knife her. Then, a huge bird hovers above. To him, a great sign, the spirit of the storm come to spare her life. The morning light assuages her fears. He has not hurt her. A fire kept her warm and he has made a clumsy attempt to feed her. He can't comprehend her words. She draws stick figures in the dirt to express her need to reach a settlement of her own kind. Thus begins an arduous trek across brutal terrain. Fighting off and killing a Crow war party, the Indian gains a horse and a rifle. Enduring winter's freeze and a bear attack, they survive. Their bond of respect and trust becomes love. Before it can be consummated, five white mountain men, led by Buford, appear, offering the Woman safe conduct. They let the Indian go. In a poignant parting, he gives her his amulet, a talisman, to protect her. But, that night, fired by liquor and lust, the trappers gamble for first to have her. When the elder Isaac tries to stop them, he is shot dead. The four take their turns ravaging the Woman. Concerned for her, the Indian rides back the next day to find the Woman left staked out, limbs apart, shocked out of her senses. Leaving the catatonic girl in the care of two old Shoshone squaws, the Indian tracks the men, one by one. His savage brand of vengeance: insidious devices of torture and slow death.

- 1966
A Man Called Peter
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

- 1955
Born to Kill
In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies then decides not to become involved. The two meet next day on the train to San Francisco unaware of this link between them. They are attracted to each other, and the relationship survives his marriage to her half-sister for money and status. It even survives the woman discovering that he was the murderer, though she may not realize how easily someone who has killed this way before can do so again.

- 1947
Moonlight Murder
Opera star tenor Gino D'Acosta (Leo Carrillo), due to perform in the open air of the Hollywood Bowl, is warned by a swami (Pedro de Cordoba) that he will die if he sings. He also receives a wax figurine stuck through with a stick pin with note reading "Simg tonight and you die." That warning comes to pass. He dies on stage and his death proves to be murder. Police detective Steve Farrell (Chester Morris) works backstage to sort out the clues pointing to the identity of the killer. Suspects include a prima donna Louisa (KATHERINE ALEXANDER), her conductor husband Godfrey Chiltern (H.B. WARNER), an insane composer Bejac (J. CARROLL NAISH), an ambitious singer Diana (BENITA HUME) and a dancer and her husband partner.

- 1936
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Battle-of-the-sexes comedy about a free-wheeling bachelor who decides to save his friend's marriage by proving that all mistresses are incapable of fidelity. The plot gets complicated when the bachelor offers to set up the wrong girl in a lavish love-nest and she accepts, believing that it's a marriage proposal.

- 1968
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant! The male renegade makes his own rules...and then breaks them.

- 2015
Honeyglue
After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a rebellious gender-defying artist, who takes her on the adventure of a lifetime.

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- 2015
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

- 1942
Broadway Serenade
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant spots Mary and is taken with her beauty and golden voice. He asks her to audition for Mr. Collier and have Jimmy accompany her. After hearing Mary, Collier wants Mary to be in his show. Jimmy encourages a reluctant Mary to go on the road without him. Soon, Mary's talent is noticed and her role in the show increases, while Harriet Ingalls, the show's original star, is pushed out. She quits, promising to seek revenge. After 5 weeks on the road, Mary returns home. She is now a big star, while Jimmy's career has gone nowhere, and he feels threatened by Mary's success. Jimmy, while waiting for Mary to dress, starts to read a Broadway magazine. Seeing pictures of Mary with Larry, he pours himself a drink and another till he's drunk. Larry stops by, and Ingalls suddenly appears and accuses Mary and Larry of having an affair. Jimmy leaves believing Ingalls' lies. Mary follows Jimmy trying to reason with him - a heated argument occurs. Mary leaves Jimmy and files for divorce. Two years pass and Jimmy, now successful, goes to see Mary - wanting her back - but discovers that Mary and Larry are leaving for London that night to get married.

- 1939
Such Good Friends
Manhattanite housewife Julie Messinger remains committed to her husband when he falls into a coma after his complications during a minor operation. But her sheltered life is turned on its head when she learns that he has been having a lengthy affair with a family friend, and several other women.

- 1971
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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- 1998
Number One
Ron "Cat" Catlan, 40-year-old star quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, experiences a professional crisis after suffering a knee injury in a final preseason game. In spite of Coach Jim Southerd's assurance that he has three good seasons left, Catlan realizes his days are numbered, particularly since rookie Kelly Williams is improving with every practice session. Catlan receives attractive business offers from both Richie Fowler and Harvey Hess, but he sees the business world as dull compared to pro football. He also fears starting a new career at his age. Further complicating Catlan's crisis is the collapse of his marriage. His wife, Julie, neglected by her husband, has immersed herself in fashion designing and has become something of a celebrity. Though she understands her husband's predicament, she can neither console nor counsel him since they are barely able to communicate. Depressed, Catlan enters into an affair with Ann Marley, a socialite in the sporting goods business, but she is also unable to help resolve his conflict. After being shaken further by stormy scenes with Julie and Richie, and an encounter with an impoverished former football pro, Catlan prepares for the season opener by using novocaine and a steel brace to fortify his injured knee. At first the fans boo the veteran quarterback, but they cheer him when he engineers a spectacular touchdown drive. Following a fumble, Catlan takes over again; but as he prepares to pass, he is crushed by several defensive linemen. He lies motionless in the center of the playing field, while the crowd sits in stunned silence.

- 1969
Cry, the Beloved Country
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

- 1951
Men of Respect
A hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.

- 1990
The Trail of '98
Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

- 1928
The Gamblers
A team of card sharks set out to fleece a wealthy aristocrat of his savings.

- 1970
No Man of Her Own
An unwed mother (Barbara Stanwyck) assumes a dead bride's identity and moves in with her rich in-laws.

- 1950
Rope
Granger and Dall are two friends who strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills and then proceed to invite his family and mutual friends for dinner – with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table. Their former teacher suspects wrongdoing. Before the night is over, he finds out how brutally his students have twisted his own academic theories.

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- 1948
En el séptimo día
A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

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- 2017
Withdrawn
Living in a basement he can’t afford, Aaron spends his days doing drum solos and trying to talk his way out of paying for utilities. When he finds a lost credit card, he devises a plan to defraud its owner. Intimate and oblique, Withdrawn is a comedy about wasted time.

- 2017
Just Another Day
Follows a day in the life of two hip-hop artists living at either end of the rap game of the South. A Miami successful rapper, A-Maze (Wood Harris), is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young Eastie (Jamie Hector) is a rapper from Orlando struggling in a harsh world that is threatening to destroy him.

- 2009
The Spiderwebhouse
12-year-old Jonas takes on the responsibility for his two younger siblings when their mother abandons them. Alone and isolated inside the house, they start to drift away into their own fantastic world that soon becomes more like a haunted castle.

- 2015
The Fortress
During the Qing Invasion of Korea, the king and the court take refuge in a mountain fortress, where they find themselves stranded in the cold and surrounded by the enemy. The king’s dilemma deepens as his people in the fortress start dying from cold and hunger.

- 2017