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Pierrot le Fou
Ferdinand Griffon, married to a wealthy Italian wife, has recently been fired from the television station where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party at the home of her influential father, who wants to introduce him to a potential employer. Her brother brings babysitter Marianne Renoir to take care of their children. Feeling bored at the bourgeois party, Ferdinand borrows his brother-in-law's car to head home. He meets Marianne, who was his mistress five years ago and insists on calling him Pierrot, and offers to take her home. They spend the night together and he learns that she's involved in smuggling weapons. When terrorists chase her, they decide to leave Paris and his family behind and go on the run, on a crazy journey to nowhere.

- 1965
Bad Blood
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

- 1981
A Walton Easter
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorman in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place John-Boy lived as a child is Aurora, a TIME magazine photographer who is doing a story on John-Boy. Meanwhile, Elizabeth returns from her travels and announces to Drew, who is still working at the mill with Ben, that she is home to stay. She is very upset to find that Drew did not wait for her, and that he has a new girlfriend. Also, problems arise for John-Boy and Janet because the longer John-Boy stays on the mountain, the more he becomes convinced that he would like to settle down there, raise his family, and continue with his writing, whereas Janet wants to stay in New York.

- 1997
Agent Cody Banks
To his family and friends, Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a typical teen - he loves to skateboard, hates math homework, and feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody has a secret - he's actually part of a secret undercover teen CIA program and has 5 years of special training under his belt.

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- 2003
The Savage Innocents
An Inuit who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

- 1960
Kisaan
Widower farmer, Dayal Singh, based in Palheri in the District of Chandigarh, witnesses the exploitation of farmers at the hands of Zamindars. He decides to send his elder son, Aman, to the city to study and become a lawyer, while his second son, Jiggar, would live with him and assist him in farming. Years later, the district gets a visit from Sohan Seth, who wants to buy the farm and turn the area into a commercial zone. Aman returns home and is able to join hands with his father and brother in advising the locales against Sohan. Things get out of hand when Jiggar is arrested for Assault, and even though Aman defends him, is sentenced to five years in prison. After his discharge, Jiggar returns home to find his father bed-ridden, half of his body paralyzed, a number of farmers have committed suicide, while Aman, who has married his sweetheart-fellow lawyer, Priya, lives in the city, works for Sohan, and has been putting pressure on Dayal as well as other farmers to sell their respective farmlands.

- 2009
The Cheetah Girls
A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan high school for the performing arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show auditions, they meet a big-time producer named Jackal Johnson, who tries to make the group into superstars, but the girls run into many problems. Galleria becomes a full-time snob and forgets her friends, Dorinda has to choose between her friends or the dance club and other things that could break the Cheetah Girls apart permanently.

- 2003
Woman of Desire
A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.

- 1994
A Lesson in Love
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.

- 1954
Charda Suraj
Suraj (Shawinder Mahal) is the moral backbone of his community. He meets and falls in love with Kiran (Shivani), a reporter sent to Punjab to write about its' agricultural development. He does not know that she is a CID Inspector, investigating the murder of her brother Ram, and that his mother has a secret history with the murderers.
- 1996
Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It)
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.

- 2008
Sea Fog
Kang is the Captain of a fishing boat in danger of being sold by its owner. He decides to buy the ship himself to save his job and his crew. But profits from fishing are insufficient, and the money quickly runs out . In desperation, he agrees to transport illegal immigrants from China. Unfortunately, during a stormy night, everything changes and the voyage soon turns into a nightmare.

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- 2014
The Tattooed Hitman
Through a simple act of revenge, Tokyo's deadliest assassin sets off the biggest gang war in crime history. And there is nowhere to hide when the most vicious criminals imaginable try to hunt him down, determined to annihilate the definitive master of death

- 1974
Blue Car
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her English teacher, Mr. Auster. But what started out as a mentoring relationship begins to get a bit more complex.

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- 2002
Happy Together
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

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- 1997
The Good Fight
Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to other women. Now, Grace has a case she cannot win alone and, although she hates to admit it, she needs Henry's help.

- 1992
The Big Brass Ring
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become Governor of the state of Missouri. During his stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past roaring back to haunt him. Will the truth ruin his chances to be elected, or will he land the "Big Brass Ring"?

- 1999
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
What starts out as teen rebellion for two minor hoods quickly turns deadly as the pair rob and kill their way to mythical status.

- 1993
Airspeed
When the spoiled 13 years old Nicole is expelled from school for the third time, her super rich daddy has her brought home in his private 727. However in a storm the airplane gets damaged and the pilots and personnel are are knocked out by loss of oxygen. So it's up to Nicole to fight for their lives. Her only help is a young air traffic controller who talks to her by radio.

- 1999
The Mighty
The story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty.

- 1998
It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway
Patrick Spencer is a legend in the self-help world, teaching a level of considered selfishness that would make Ayn Rand jealous. "Why are we sitting in cubicles, flushing the hours of our lives down some corporate toilet, and not even reaping the rewards! Instead our toil goes to wives and husbands and daughters and charities and relatives who are down on their luck, and other such parasites who would drag you down and keep you from your truest self. They will pull you under. It is you or them." Brian Calhoun is a giant, towering over 7 feet tall. He's also a homeless heroin addict, living in his Dad's old Cadillac, who's been recruited by his dealer to be his thug - paid in free heroin. "I mean, that is like a lot of heroin, a week's supply! Maybe I could get ahead on my bottle collecting...to an addict like me, that's like a dream." Diana Spencer is the disaffected daughter of a famous and emotionally detached father in a support group for her sex addiction. "My sex life was getting kind of dicey. Like if that's what you mean by being a harmful addiction, I guess you could argue a point. I was getting into some stuff with some questionable dudes." It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway is a tale of Brian, who is coerced by his drug dealer boss, against his nature, to help kidnap Diana and hold her for ransom. It's a tale of Patrick, who sees his daughter's kidnapping as a test of his famous philosophy of selfishness and, despite the threats against his daughter's life, decides not to pay the ransom, . And it's a tale of Diana who, devastated by her father's abandonment, puts a brutal revenge plan against her father into action. Based on the award-winning play by Chris Craddock, It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway is a dramatically introspective tug on your soul, set to have you question your ethics or bend your moral code in this examination of humanity, asking the question: Does anyone really care about anyone?

- 2017
Bounty Hunters
Jersey is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival in order to capture a fugitive. But the hunters soon discover that the crook is also wanted by the mob. Ready to battle anyone in their way, these hard-hitting Bounty Hunters won't quit until they've brought in their man -- and the mob.

- 1996
Lilies
Lilies is an emotionally intense, suspense-laden tale of love, betrayal and revenge in which one man's past comes back to haunt him.

- 1996
The Student
After Veniamin's mother receives a call from school reporting her son's refusal to participate in mixed swimming lessons, she first suspects her teenager of being shy and derides his claim that it is "against his religion." As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when arguments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama - based on a play by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg - serves as a frightening cautionary tale.

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- 2016