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Nowhere Safe
After two girls cruelly impersonate her online in a "reverse cyber-bullying" plot, Ashley's reputation is ruined and she and her mother flee a growing threat to their lives. Starting over at a new school, romantic interests, and the poignant lessons from an eccentric history teacher draw them out of seclusion until they realize that confronting a hurtful past is essential to ensuring a brighter future.

- 2014
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.

- 1966
Aadmi
Vijay Srivastav lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay along with dad, Mohanlal, mom, Sharda, and a younger brother, Raju. His father and brother manage a restaurant named 'Sahiba', while Vijay works as a Supervisor at the Ordnance Factory that manufacturers RDX for the Government of India and also moonlights as a self-defense instructor. He meets with wealthy Rekha, the only daughter of Advocate Saxena, and both fall in love with each other. Their respective parents meet and arrange their marriage. Before even the engagement could take place, Vijay is arrested by the Police and charged with killing his parents and brother, tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to five years in jail. On his first day behind bars, he is approached by Inspector Yeshwant Deshmukh, who asks him to cooperate and abduct Deepak, the son of an underworld don, and if he does so, he will only aid the Police but his crime will be pardoned and he will be released. Vijay agrees to do so, escapes from jail, successfully abducts Deepak, and returns to jail - and finds out that the person he abducted was not the son of a don, but the future son-in-law of Inspector General of Police Pratap Singh - who is more than likely to ensure that Vijay never gets out of jail - ever!

- 1993
Captain China
Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty after his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead), and two aides testify falsely against him in a hearing concerning the loss of his ship. Seeking to clear his name, he books passage on a ship commanded by Brendensen.He and Brendensen both fall for a passenger, Kim Mitchell. Later, a raging storm at sea has the cowardly Brendensen turning the command of the ship over to Chinnough. This serves to help Chinnough clear his name.

- 1950
Good News
Golden Globe-winner June Allyson ("The Three Musketeers") and Peter Lawford ("Ocean's Eleven") star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor. Joan McCracken ("That's Dancing!") co-stars in this amusing and clever comedy. Great songs and dance scenes. Directed by Oscar-nominee Charles Walters ("High Society").

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- 1947
The Green Promise
Widowed Old Man Matthews, who has lived his entire life as a farmer, has moved his family of himself and his four adolescent to young-adult offspring--Deborah, Phineas, Abigail, and Susan--to a just-purchased farm in Millwood, following the ecological demise of their last farm on which he was able to collect insurance. He has a "my way or the highway" mentality about most things in life, most specifically about running a farm, believing that his experience trumps everything else. However, he likes to portray himself as fair and democratic, and all important family matters are decided by family vote. He has these votes as he and the other family members know that Abby and Phin will always vote with him, Abby to retain his favor and Phin out of fear regardless of his true thoughts as their father always convinces out of coercion. Such ideas against his include Debbie believing the farm too expensive for its many deficiencies, and Susie wanting a few dollars to purchase two lambs to raise as something all her own, although her father characterizes this want as selfish in light of his want to buy a tractor rather than renting one. David Barkley, the local agricultural county agent, tries to advise Matthews about certain aspects of the farm, from dealing with the different climate compared to their former farm site, to topographical and geological issues, but all that advice falling on Matthews' deaf ears. David also becomes Susie's ally as he is a supporter of and advisor for the local 4H Club; the lamb project would be a perfect fit if Susie would become a member, which she desperately wants. David and Debbie, who have an unspoken attraction to each other, do whatever they can to make a go of the farm despite Matthews' actions, and before those actions irreparably damage the land--and/or worse, kill someone.

- 1949
Is My Face Red?
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a showgirl. When Bill sees Tony stab Angelo Spinelli to death in a speak easy, he puts it front page of the Gazette. But on the night that he goes out with heiress Mildred, he slips the diamond that came from Peggy's finger on Mildred's finger and announces his engagement - while tattling about her friends in his column. This gets him in dutch with Mildred and Peggy. At the same time, the cops cannot find Tony, but Tony is looking for Poster to thank him for the publicity.

- 1932
Hangmen Also Die!
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

- 1943
Red Hook Summer
A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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- 2012
Compliance
At a fast food restaurant, the manager, Sandra, is having a bad day. Suddenly, she gets a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who has a complaint that one of her young female employees has stolen from a customer. At the orders of this authoritative sounding stranger, Sandra takes the apparent accused, Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up. Once there, the phone scammer manipulates the gullible personnel into participating in Becky's sexual humiliation that grows more twisted with every new sucker on the phone. Only when one final person has the conscience to revolt do they realize the crime they were tricked into, which the real police are hard pressed to solve.

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- 2012
The Killing Floor
Based on actual characters and events, the screenplay by Leslie Lee, from a story by producer Elsa Rassbach, follows the journey of Frank Custer (Damien Leake), a young black sharecropper from Mississippi who, in the aftermath of World War I, travels to Chicago for a job on the "killing floor" of a meatpacking plant and the promise of greater racial equity in the industrial North. There, he must navigate the seething ethnic and class conflicts-stoked by management and culminating in the Chicago race riot of 1919-as he attempts to unite his fellow workers in a fight for fair treatment.

- 1984
The Psychic
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband’s home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may share the victim’s fate…

- 1977
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Ring in the season with Winnie The Pooh in a holiday adventure.

- 2002
- 1975
The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate's more genteel methods. The second problem is McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson. Together, they take on the violent Nick and try to foil the syndicate's plans to elect Welch, the crooked prosecutor running for a crooked judgeship.

- 1951
Vamps
In Manhattan, the vampires Goody and Stacy share an apartment and work and study in the night-shift. Goody was turned in vampire in 1840 by the evil Cisserus, who turned Stacy in the 90s, and they became best friends but Goody never told her real age to her friend. They only drink mice blood and refuse to drink human blood, and they go together to the Vampire Anonymous. Stacy falls in love with her classmate Joey, and soon she learns that he is the son of the vampire slayer Dr. Van Helsing. Meanwhile, Goody meets her former passion, Danny, in the hospital where his wife is terminal. When Stacy gets pregnant, Goody knows that the only way that the child can survive is killing Cisserus, since they would revert to their human ages. But nobody knows where her lair is.

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- 2012
Life Gamble
A mix of scrupulous and unsavory martial artists are after a stolen precious jade figurine.

- 1978
Morgan
Newly paraplegic Morgan just wants his life to be like it was before the accident. A chance encounter with Dean on a basketball court makes him more determined that being in a wheelchair will not change him.

- 2012
The Silk Express
A trainload of silk puts Neil Hamilton on the fast track to murder in this full-throttle thrill ride costarring Sheila Terry and Guy Kibbee. As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton (Arthur Hohl) corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore (Hamilton) imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.

- 1933
Friends
A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.

- 1971
Alone
Conjoined at birth, Anjana and Sanjana were twin sisters who lived by one promise made to each other - 'We will always be together. We will never separate'. Mysterious circumstances lead to the death of one while the other survived. Years later, the ghost of the dead comes back to haunt the surviving sister. Why was the promise broken?

- 2015
The Journey of Natty Gann
Natty Gann is a 12-year-old Depression-era girl whose single father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile, Natty has a series of adventures and misadventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.

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- 1985
Rubberneck
Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an acute infatuation. When Danielle takes interest in a new scientist at the laboratory, Paul's suppressed resentments and perverse delusions finally become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a tortured past and fugitive present.

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- 2012
Violin
Angel who lives with her two aunts is very fond of music. When Aby enters their house as a tenant, he and Angel bond over music and although initially hesitant, Angel gives in to Aby's love.

- 2011