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Mother of Tears
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes, and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women from all over the world gather in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have her own supernatural abilities, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.

- Metascore52
- 2007
Noise
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime.

- 2007
The Sport Parade
Dartmouth football stars Sandy Brown and Johnny Baker follow different paths after college: Baker becomes a sports reporter while pal Brown chases the money of the pro game, but ends up as a wrestler with big debts. Irene Stewart is the woman that comes between them, and a bored radio announcer adds the few light moments as he follows their careers.

- 1932
The Preppie Connection
Based on a true story of a prep school student who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984. THE PREPPIE CONNECTION chronicles the exploits of a group of private school students who ran a drug distribution operation in the early 1980s. The story centers on Toby, the lower-class scholarship student, who uses his street cred and access to drugs to make friends with the popular kids, eventually allowing him to cultivate a drug trafficking network. Toby gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of Colombian drug cartels.

- Metascore34
- 2015
The Phantom Thief
When some valuable gems are heisted, Chester Morris, as reformed thief Boston Blackie, is hot on the trail. He follows the clues to a medium with shady methods and wraps up the case. Also features Jeff Donnell as Anne Duncan and Richard Lane as Inspector Farraday.

- 1946
One Night of Love
Grace Moore is a struggling opera singer who goes to Europe after losing a radio talent contest. Singing teacher Carminati is impressed after hearing her sing in a cafe. He takes her on as a student and develops her voice, while she falls in love with him.

- 1934
The Cake Eaters
In a small town in the countryside, Georgia Kaminski is a fifteen year-old girl with Friedreich's ataxia, a genetic disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in clumsy movements, speech problems heading to heart disease. While in a flea market selling goods with her grandmother Marg, Georgia meets the shy twenty-years old Beagle Kimbrough, who works in the cafeteria of her school and is the son of the local butcher Easy. Beagle spent the last years taking care of his ill mother while Easy and Marg have secretly been lovers for many years. Georgia feels that she will have few years of life and decides to lose her virginity with the sensitive Beagle. Meanwhile, Easy's older son Guy returns from New York for the funeral of his mother and seeks out the hairdresser Stephanie, who was his fiancée that he left behind when he moved to New York chasing the dream of becoming a successful musician. During the reunion, the lives of members of both families experience new discoveries and feelings.

- Metascore60
- 2007
Monchora
It's a romantic drama with colourful characters and hint of mystery typical of Saradindu Bandyopadhyay. The film revolves around the story of a thief played by Abir Chatterjee.

- 2016
Violence
Undercover magazine reporter Ann Mason is able to infiltrate a neo-fascist organization that recruits disgruntled war veterans with a paranoiac populist message that views both labor and management as enemies. She becomes secretary to the organization's leader, True Dawson, a smooth-talking con artist who uses the members' dues and the organization's manpower for his own nefarious ends. Fred Stalk, one of Dawson's enforcers, suspects her motives, but lack of evidence and his attraction to her keeps him from acting against her. While en route to break her exposé, Ann's taxi is pursued by government agent Steve Fuller, and the resultant crash leaves her with a concussion and loss of memory. Fuller uses the opportunity to convince her he's her fiancé, and gains access to the racketeers.

- 1947
Frozen River
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila - and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game.

- Metascore82
- 2008
The Proud Rebel
With his home burned to the ground, his wife killed, and his 10-year-old son David rendered mute after witnessing the traumatizing incident, former Confederate soldier John Chandler arrives in a small, post-Civil War Illinois community. Eager to move on with his life, and desperate to find an effective treatment for the boy, John instead finds himself drawn into a fight with the two sons of ruthless, unscrupulous sheep farmer Harry Burleigh, facing a severe $30 fine or 30 days of incarceration. A strong, kind, compassionate rancher Linnett Moore decides to intervene for David's sake, providing food and shelter, and before long John finds himself involved in a long-standing feud. Faced with a cruel dilemma, he must choose between running away or putting down roots. Can a proud Rebel find peace and love in Yankee territory?

- 1958
Happy-Go-Lucky
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

- Metascore84
- 2008
Cesar Chavez
Chronicling the birth of a modern American movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. Chavez inspired millions of Americans from all walks of life who never worked on a farm to fight for social justice. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the world.

- Metascore51
- 2014

- 2014
Neverwas
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.

- 2005
The Great Waltz
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus), hear his music, they expose Johani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer (Hugh Herbert). As such, Johani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Johani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber (Luise Rainer) and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried (Lionel Atwill).

- 1938
After the Rehearsal
At the stage of his play, aging playwright Henrik is visited by Anna, the young lead, after everybody's gone home. As they interact, Henrik reminisces about and compares Anna to her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.

- 1984
Heart Beat
Is a dramatization of the interrelationships between Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Carolyn Robinson (who would become Carolyn Cassady), seminal figures in the beat generation of the 1950s and '60s. Already friends, somewhat straight-laced struggling writer Jack and freedom loving Neal, that freedom including in love, would meet debutante Carolyn, an art student, after arriving in San Francisco from New York, San Francisco where both Jack and Neal had hoped to fulfill their respective goals, namely a conducive place to write and a free life, respectively. Both men fell in love with Carolyn and she with them in return, but she ended up choosing Neal, despite he already having a girlfriend, teenage Stevie, an Iowan runaway, and she having a longtime potential fiancé, Dick, an old friend of Neal's. It wasn't until Carolyn became pregnant with his child that Neal placed any effort on conforming to traditional family life including marriage. That effort to conform fell flat for Neal despite loving Carolyn in his own way. So when Jack reentered their life still being in love with Carolyn, the three decided that being a throuple would meet their respective practical and emotional needs. Their relationship as a threesome would fundamentally change with the publication and success of Jack's novel, On the Road, and Neal's subsequent notoriety as being the inspiration for the novel's lead character, Dean Moriarty.

- 1980
The Baby Maker
Emmy-winner and Oscar-nominee Barbara Hershey (Portrait of a Lady, Hannah and Her Sisters) plays a free spirit who agrees to bear a child for a childless couple in this early look at the phenomenon of surrogate motherhood. Co-starring Scott Glenn (The Silence of the Lambs, The Right Stuff), this is the first feature by director James Bridges (Urban Cowboy, The China Syndrome).

- 1970
The Hired Heart
A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and her attendance at the fair with a suitable escort. She decides to call his bluff by hiring a male escort to attend the fair as her lover. However, things don't go quite according to plan as he smells a rat and investigates the new boyfriend and even worse the escort starts to fall in love with her! Things come to a head at the Bison Hall dance, the highlight of the fair, when the girlfriend of the escort arrives in town and the escort forces her into making a choice between him and her dead husband Michael!

- 1997
The Sea Gull
Aging actress Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings along Boris Trigorin, a successful novelist. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Trigorin. As he lightly consumes and rejects her, so the actress consumed and rejected her son all his life. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

- 1968
I, the Jury
The tough guy hero of the 40s and the excitement of the 80s come together in this dazzling remake of the classic Mickey Spillane (The Girl Hunters) thriller, I, THE JURY.

- 1982
In Old Arizona
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.

- 1928
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
In a village of fishermen in Japan, Takata misses his son Kenichi, to whom he has been estranged for many years. When his daughter-in-law Rie tells him that Kenichi is sick in the hospital, she suggests Takata to come to Tokyo to visit his son in the hospital where he would have the chance to retie the relationship. However, Kenichi refuses to receive his father in his room, and Rie gives a videotape to Takata to know about the work of his son. Once at home, Takata sees a documentary in the remote village Lijiang, in the province of Younnan, about the passion of Kenichi, the Chinese opera, where the lead singer Li Jiamin promises to sing an important folk opera on the next year. When Rie calls Takata to tell that her husband has a terminal liver cancer, Takata decides to travel to Lijiang to shoot Li Jiamin singing the opera to give to Kenichi.

- Metascore73
- 2005