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Rock the Casbah
The patriarch in a family of four daughters dies suddenly, prompting a reunion of all of the women, some of whom haven't seen each other for a long time. In the midst of their mourning for him, secrets are revealed and traditions are upheld.

- 2013
Billboard
Times are tough, listener-ship is down and Casey needs to come up with a plan to save his radio station, WTYT 960, and fast! Casey's grand plan is to host a billboard sitting contest, where four lucky contestants have the opportunity to win "nine-sixty thousand dollars and a mobile home". All they have to do is be the last person to survive, living on a billboard.

- Metascore24
- 2019
Sadistic Intentions
A psychotic musician lures a fellow band-mate and an unsuspecting woman to a remote mansion for a night of romantic deceit and grinding metal mayhem.

- 2018
Sunny
New high-school transfer student Na-Mi comes from a small town in Jeolla Province to her new school in the capital city of Seoul. When she is nervous, her small town dialect comes out & she starts to shake. On her first day at her new school she is bullied by others. Coming to her help is a group of girls. The girls are Choon-Hwa - known for her strong sense of loyalty & excellent fighting skills, heavyset Jang-Mi - who badly wishes to have plastic surgery to get double eye-lids, Jin-Hee - excellent when it comes to spewing profanity, Geum-Ok - interested in literature, Bok-Hee - dreams of one day becoming Ms. Korea and Su-Ji - always arrogant. Na-Mi quickly becomes part of their group. When the group confronts rival girls known as Sonyeo Sidae ("Girls Generation"), Na-Mi spews curse words she picked up from her grandmother. Because of Na-Mi the girls are able to avoid a crisis. These seven girls then form their own group named "Sunny". They also vow to stay together forever. The girls then prepare for a performance at an upcoming school festival, but on the day of their performance a terrible event occurs leading the girls to eventually going their own separate ways. Twenty five years later, Na-Mi is married to a successful businessman and has a beautiful daughter. Her life seems perfect from afar, but there's something lacking in her life. One day, Na-Mi bumps into high school friend Choon-Hwa in the hospital. They are ecstatic to see each other, but Na-Mi receives a phone call and has to leave. On her way out she ask Choon-Hwa if there is anything she can do for her. Choon-Hwa at first says no, but after a moment of reflection she makes a simple request to Na-Mi. Choon-Hwa asks Na-Mi to find the other members of "Sunny," so she can see them one more time.

- 2011
Stray Bullets
In 16-year-old Jack Fessenden's directorial debut, teens Connor and Ash head to Ash’s father’s trailer for the weekend. When three crooks on the run from a hitman stash their car nearby, they seek refuge inside the trailer holding the teens hostage. Connor and Ash must now help the criminals before the hitman kills everyone in his wake.

- Metascore55
- 2016
The Birdwatcher
Social worker Saffron Wilson has custody of her and her ex-husband Wynn Wilson's two children, mid-teen Lucy who is at a stage where she wants nothing to do with family and everything to do with friends, and adolescent Jonah who is at the stage of wanting to tag along with "the older kids", which includes his mother, while still doing his kids stuff. Pinning everything on chemotherapy to rid her of her cancer, Saffron learns at the conclusion of the treatment that the cancer has metastasized. Once over the grief for herself, Saffron worries about what will happen to the kids, there nobody obvious, including not Wynn, who can be suitable or willing guardians after she is gone. Grasping at straws, Saffron thinks about her birth mother whose name, Jane Levesque, is all she knows about her. Upon discovering that Jane had in her files with the adoption agency a no contact clause, Saffron, furthering discovering that she is now married Jane Eastman - more commonly referred to as Birdy being an ornithologist - and is currently camping with her husband Finch Eastman to do some birding and for solitude to complete her latest book, decides to go camping with Lucy and Jonah within spitting distance to find out clandestinely all she can about her birth mother, this task despite none of them ever having gone camping. Once set up next to the Eastmans, Saffron has to decide what to do in light of what is best for the kids which includes the fact that she can see that Birdy doesn't have a motherly bone in her body. The specific action that Saffron takes is influenced by the unexpected arrival of Matt, Birdy's editor whose surprise visit is multi-purpose.

- 2015
Pressed
Two joyriders Jesse and Sam discover something hidden in the back seat of the car that could change their lives forever. Brian, unknown to Jesse and Sam, is desperately trying to seek a "quick fix" business deal that will put him back on top financially after being let go from his executive position at one of the top investment firms. Brian decides to go "all in", investing the rest of his savings into a short-term drug deal. After Jesse and Sam intercept the illicit drug money, they soon learn that they've stolen from the wrong people. A twisted tale of greed, deceit, murder and wealth, PRESSED is an action-drama feature where three relationships collide. It changes lives, some of them for good.

- 2011
At Middleton
Two parents fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour.

- Metascore60
- 2013
Dead Weight
Charlie Russell passes through the wilderness in the wake of an apocalyptic viral outbreak to reunite with his girlfriend, Samantha. As Charlie's journey brings him closer to his destination of Wausau, WI, he must face physical exhaustion, malicious survivors, and perhaps most menacing, his own emotional burdens. With his newfound traveling companions Charlie must attempt to break his obsessions with the past. He must learn to let it go.

- 2012
Honey
In her debut as a director, actress Valeria Golino (Rain Man) has made a powerful drama about an unusual job. Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate.

- Metascore75
- 2013
The Orchard
Always interested in movies, Max Roth, as a young man, aspired to be a screenwriter, but ended up in the outwardly more cutthroat world of talent agent in Los Angeles. His glitzy city life takes a slight detour when he learns that recently deceased May Sprague, who is more commonly referred to as May Sugar - his maternal aunt who he barely remembers - has left him her small peach orchard in Peachland in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Even his mother, who did not keep in close contact with her sister, doesn't know why, Peachland where Max has not been since he was a child. Max, who will rely on technology to continue to work, plans to head to the Peachland to prepare the property for sale before he returns to real life as he knows it. Not caring what happens to it, he will take the highest offer which generally means developing the property for a higher use than agriculture. He will find some snags along the way, the biggest being a young woman named Olivia Cunningham - Olive in more familiar circumstances - who was a friend of May's and who, as a free spirit, will use unconventional means to protest any sort of move away from the property being used for anything but agriculture. Beyond some underlying issues affecting Olive's unconventional behavior, Max may find that spending time away from Los Angeles and with someone like Olive may give him a different perspective of life, especially as he can feel his work world crumbling down 1,400 miles away.

- 2016
I Don't Luv U
'I Don't Luv U' focuses on the youth of today - the fun loving and frivolous lot, who are extremely casual in their relationships and do not want to delve into the intricacies of true love, commitments and fidelity. It is a blend of light-hearted witty moments as well as harsh unforeseen realities of life.Yuvaan, a young handsome boy and Aayra a beautiful NRI girl are just like any other teenagers of this generation, who want to experience their life by getting together in a relationship. They are willing to go through the most beautiful and much needed feeling called 'THE FEELING OF LOVE'. Without realizing what they are doing in the heat of adolescence and the curiosity of discovering each other closely. They end up in an uncontrollable and devastating ugly situation which shatters their life completely. Will Yuvaan fight back with circumstances to get his love and life back on track? I Don't Luv U also lays emphasis on the potential role of media in a common man's life. It elucidates that if misuse of media can jeopardize a commoner's life, at the same time, if used judiciously, it can act as a savior.

- 2013
Dark Horse
An odd romance blooms between a chronic underachiever (Jordan Gelber) and a depressed woman (Selma Blair) who has still not recovered from a previous failed relationship.

- Metascore66
- 2011
In My Steps
Marta is a former professional diver. An injury forces her to renounce her career and return to her family home in Matera, a Medieval town surrounded by wild nature. There, she must face the death of her artist father. In the village also lives another artist, Sebastian, and his Japanese model who loves to portray in extreme poses that inevitably attract Marta's attention. She remains so impressed by these works that she opens the doors of her home to the model and begins a symbiotic and sometimes disturbing relationship with her.

- 2017
Lucky
A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.

- 2011
Rangeela
Mili is a middle-class Indian, who like many would like to be rich and famous one day. She wants to be an Indian actress. She is friendly with a poor man named Munna, whom she knows from her childhood. One day while she is singing and dancing on the beach, she is approached by rich, famous movie actor Raj, who wants her to act in his next movie. Raj has actually fallen in love with Mili and wants to marry her. Mili finds her dreams coming true when she gets very famous. Will Mili marry Raj and live a life full of wealth and fame forever?

- 1995
Tracker
Set in 1903, TRACKER is a tense chase story in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier.

- 2010
Coexist
When her husband unexpectedly commits suicide, Emma's world is tragically sent into a downward spiral which forces her to re-evaluate herself as an individual.
The Petal Pushers
Reminiscent of "Arsenic and Old Lace" this kooky dark comedy has two sisters in the flower business facing off a suspicious step-father as a smitten detective discovers love doesn't mix with his duties as an officer of the law.

- 2019
My Daughter's Ransom
A kidnapper plays a twisted psychological mind game with a frantic mother who witnessed him abducting her young daughter.

- 2019
The Ghost Beyond
A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home where he intends to write his next bestseller, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the tortured family must fight to escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.

- 2018
The Last Death
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be exposed to in this psychological revenge thriller.

- 2011
Revelation Trail
In late nineteenth century America, a frontier holy mans life is destroyed as a gruesome power consumes the land. Standing between ruin and salvation, the man, known only as The Preacher, must find his purpose in the fight against the mysterious undead. Joined by the town Marshal, a man with his own set of demons, he faces the risen dead and the evils of the living on a journey to nowhere.

- 2013
The Man Whose Mind Exploded
Drako Oho Zaraharzar can remember modeling for Salvador Dali and hanging out with The Stones. But he can't remember yesterday. This "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema" gained 4 star reviews from The Times, The Guardian and The Independent in the UK. Filmed over four years, The Man Whose Mind Exploded attempts to understand and accept the world view of someone with serious brain damage, and it resonates for anyone who's tried to care for someone who may not be great at caring for themselves. Following a severe head injury, Drako Zaraharzar suffers from terrible memory loss, he can access memories from before his accident, but can't imprint new ones. As he puts it, "the recording machine in my head doesn't work". Consequently, and as an antidote to depression he chose to live "completely in the now" according to the bizarre mottoes delivered to him whilst in a coma. Toby Amies starts off making a film exploring Drako's lurid and exotic back story including work with Dali, Warhol's Factory, Les Folies Bergère, and Derek Jarman. But frighteningly soon a line is crossed, and the documentary maker becomes carer. Drako's way of life and the extraordinary collage of notes to self and erotic art he lives in [the source of the film's title] threatens his health. What follows is unique, eccentric, funny and moving documentary about the relationship between two men, one who's trying to make a film about the other, who's existing in what appears to be a separate reality. Think: Grey Gardens meets The Odd Couple.

- 2012