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Big Eyes
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. While struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children with big eyes, she meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes, but Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and reclaiming her name and her paintings.

- Metascore62
- 2014
Blackbird
A young singer struggles with his sexuality and the treatment of others while coming of age in a small Southern Baptist community.

- Metascore33
- 2014
Thiruttu Payale
Manickam, an unruly man, happens to capture on video an illicit affair between a rich married woman and her lover and starts blackmailing her. She, on the other hand, tries her best to outsmart him.

- 2006
Making the Rules
The life of Abby is centered around the fast-paced days of being a successful sous-chef and her marriage to Matt, a loving husband. A sudden accident in the kitchen forces her to leave the job she loves, and worse, to forgo a dream promotion. As the hottest summer in L.A. history reaches its peak, she faces an extreme challenge: doing nothing. The summer intensifies as she confronts a growing emotional gulf between herself and her husband, much unsolicited advice from her prying girlfriend and the temptation of an old flame..

- 2014
It's Complicated
At thirty, Ben is about to marry Juliet. His quiet life is turned upside down and safe when it falls on the person he most wanted to secretly date: Vanessa.

- 2014
Habanera
Rosa MarĂa, whose father lives in Cuba, was sent to a nun's school and is now ready to return home, even if she has to escape and hide in a ship, to find out that financial problems are the reason that prevented her father to have her back.

- 1961
Shootout at Wadala
Manohar Arjun Surve, better known as Manya Surve, is a bright college student in love with Vidya. He lives with his mother and stepbrother Bhargav Surve, a local goon. Manya is arrested by Inspector Ambolkar for being on the spot when his brother killed a goon; he's humiliated, taken from college, and put in jail where Bhargav gets killed by Potya while Manya is saved by Sheikh Munir. Manya and Sheikh Munir escape from jail and reach Bombay, where they meet Zubair, who asks them to join his gang, but his brother Dilawar disapproves of him. Manya then decides to form his own gang with Munir and Vira, later joined by Gyancho and Jamal. Manya and his gang members become top criminals on Inspector Afaque Baaghran's Wanted List. Inspector Baaghran must find a way to stop the menace.

- 2013
Bluebird
In the frozen woods of an isolated Maine logging town, one woman's tragic mistake shatters the balance of the community, resulting in profound and unexpected consequences. Weaving together several connected story lines, BLUEBIRD explores the profound and transcendent effects of a tragedy on an isolated American town.

- Metascore67
- 2013
E
E along with his friend Tony (Karunas) carries out small crimes to earn money. E brought up in tough conditions, grows up as a tough, fearless and emotionless guy. Meanwhile; Dr.Ramakrishnan (Ashish Vidyarthi) a quack comes to the slum and projects himself as a do-Good to people living there. Not knowing his ulterior motives, the slum dwellers keep unshakable faith on him. However, his hidden agenda is to make use of them as guinea pigs to test his new but potentially lethal medicines.E saves Dr.Ramakrishnan from Nellai Mani (Pasupathy), a terrorist, who is after the Doctor to kill him. Realizing E's boldness the Doctor enters into a pact with E to capture Mani in return for a huge sum. E captures Mani and when he takes him to handover him to the doctor. Mani tells about Ramakrishna's evil designs. The rest of the film is about how E foils the doctor's malicious actions and brings him to books.
- 2006
The Complex
More frightening than Ringu and Dark Water, The Complex marks director Hideo Nakata's return to the genre he turned into a world phenomena. With only a cleaning man and child on her side, Asuka looks to not become the next victim of the complex!

- 2013
Soft in the Head
"Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a 25-year-old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal and seduces the best friend's socially inept brother. Natalia ends up staying at a shelter run by genuinely good Maury, who takes an interest in making her life better -- but life is not that simple, and tragedy ensues. With a menagerie of New York characters, set against the backdrop of a homeless shelter, a religious household, and the cacophonous streets of New York, Soft in the Head is a look at how easy it is to lose one's head in the big city, particularly for those already lost."

- Metascore64
- 2013
Ephraim's Rescue
By listening to and following his heart, Ephraim Hanks finds his way in life and eventually provides relief and rescue to the suffering Martin Handcart Company. Based on a true story.

- 2013
A Five Star Life
Forty-something Irene had a dream job that made her life easy: she was indeed a luxury hotel inspector and her work got carried out in a wonderful ever-renewed setting, from Paris to Gstaad to Berlin to Morocco to China... But does a dream job necessarily mean a dream life? Irene tried not to ask herself the question too openly. Yes she was single but she had manged to remain on good terms with Andrea, her former life companion. For sure she was childless but she occasionally took care of her two little nieces. And it was such fun to play the mystery guest in those magnificent hotels... Things could have gone on that way hadn't one day Irene met Kate Sherman...

- Metascore51
- 2013
Eastern Bandits
Eastern Bandits is the heroic story of rebels with a fortune to gain, and everything to lose.

- 2012
Salvo
Salvo is a body guard and hit man for a mafioso. After foiling an attack on his employer, Salvo hunts down the man who organised it and encounters the man's blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence.

- Metascore59
- 2013
Motivational Growth
Ian Folivor, a depressed and reclusive 30-something, finds himself taking advice from a growth in his bathroom after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold, a smooth talking fungus who was born of the filth collecting in a corner of Ian's neglected bathroom, works to win Ian's trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. With The Mold's help, Ian attracts the attention of a neighbor he's been ogling through his peephole, Leah, and he manages to find a slice of happiness despite his unnatural circumstances. But Ian starts to receive strange messages from his old and broken down TV set that make him realize that The Mold may not be as helpful as it seems to be, and strange characters combined with stranger events cast Ian's life in the shadow of an epic battle between good and evil that Ian is only partially aware of.

- 2013
The Lovemaster
Primarily a concert film of stand-up comedian Craig Shoemaker, a.k.a. The Lovemaster, the film is interspersed with vignettes of the situations described in the monologue, and framed by Shoemaker's therapy sessions. Shoemaker's forte is impersonation of characters, both real and imaginary, from his life and television.

- 1997
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of local university employees arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on true facts that occurred in the town of Canoa in 1968.

- 1976
A Broken Code
Two brothers Carmelo and Gino (Girgenti and Webber) are raised by their mob boss grandfather Salvatore Gianni (Williams). Through a series of events Salvatore is killed and the boys then go on a journey to find the killers. No one is ruled out as a suspect, including one of the brothers. How will the truth unfold?

- 2012
The Abominable Crime
This is a story about a mother's love for her child and an activist's love for his country - and the stakes are life and death. Spanning five countries, THE ABOMINABLE CRIME explores the impacts of homophobia through the eyes of two gay Jamaicans who are forced to choose between their homeland and their lives. Simone, a young lesbian mother, survives being shot outside of her home by anti-gay gunmen. She must choose between living in hiding with her daughter in Jamaica or traveling alone to seek safety and asylum abroad. Maurice, Jamaica's leading gay-rights activist, is outed shortly after filing a lawsuit to overturn Jamaica's anti-sodomy law. He escapes to Canada, but decides to return to continue his activism...

- 2013
Charge Over You
After the death of her mother, Sarah Goodall struggles to make sense of her life, her purpose and her faith. Having spent most of her adolescent years positioning herself to find a cure for her mother's illness, she battles with feelings of guilt and failure that send her spiraling downward. Her intensifying relationship with a mysterious bad boy only seems to add to the confusion. Once an honor student, Sarah begins failing her classes, jeopardizing her scholarship and her future. When an American transfer student arrives on the scene, he takes a vested interest in Sarah, helping her find what she's counted as lost.

- 2010

- 2012
Lars and the Real Girl
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

- Metascore70
- 2007
Margot at the Wedding
A slice of family life: sisters, husbands, children, history, secrets, jealousies. Margot and her teen son, Claude, travel from Manhattan to her family's Long Island home, occupied by sister Pauline, Pauline's daughter, and Malcolm, the slacker Pauline will marry outdoors that week under a tree neighbors want removed. Backbiting marks family discussion, particularly between the sisters and in Margot's cutting remarks to Claude. Pauline tells Margot a secret that Margot promptly tells Claude. Margot dislikes Malcolm and undermines him. She also has marital problems and a lover nearby. People are cruel, inside and outside their families. Is there a refuge for Margot or for Pauline?

- Metascore66
- 2007