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Make-Out with Violence
A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the un-dead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.

- 2008
Nesio
Is a light amusing story about Nesio, a small time drug dealer who has never managed to get away from his mother or his childhood traumas, and carries on his back the stigma of a born loser. This he struggles to overcome, but finds it impossible. By intent or otherwise, Nesio becomes involved in a homicide and impossible love with a masked women. All of this framed by downtown Mexico City.

- 2008
Sunny Daze
A life-altering friendship is formed between a man and 11 year old child after the passing of the boy's father.

- 2019
Inside
Alex has a disturbing hobby of following strangers...until one night he gets caught. Instead of calling the police, the couple--fascinated by Alex's resemblance to their dead son--asks him to stay, and Alex finds himself trapped in a horrifying existence of desperation, despair, and insanity.

- 2006
Only Humans
Through her attempt to ignite a romance with a much older man, Sarah, a fiercely independent teenager, learns to appreciate not only her youth but also her overbearing mother.

- 2019
Deadcon
Directed by Caryn Waecther, DEADCON tackles isolation in the age of social media and follows real-life YouTubers Lauren Elizabeth and Claudia Sulewski as they face vengeful ghosts even more horrifying than their devoted fans.

- 2019
Soho Conspiracy
The plans to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant.

- 1950
These Three
This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, who are both in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal that disrupts all their lives.

- 1936
Mannequin
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money into remarriage with Eddie. His plan goes awry at several points.

- 1937
Somebody Killed Her Husband
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

- 1978
Lost in Yonkers
In 1942 in the Bronx, Evelyn Kurnitz has just passed away following a lengthy illness. Her husband, Eddie Kurnitz, needs to take a job as a traveling salesman to pay off the medical bills incurred, and decides to ask his stern and straight talking mother, from whom he is estranged, if his two young sons can live with her and their Aunt Bella in Yonkers. She reluctantly agrees after a threat by Bella. Despite their Grandma owning and operating a candy store, Jay and Arty don't like their new living situation as they're afraid of their Grandma, and find it difficult to relate to their crazy Aunt Bella, whose slow mental state is manifested by perpetual excitability and a short attention span, which outwardly comes across as a childlike demeanor. Into their collective lives returns one of Eddie and Bella's other siblings, Louie Kurnitz, a henchman for some gangsters. He is hiding out from Hollywood Harry, who wants what Louie stole and is hiding in his small black bag. Jay and Arty's mission becomes how to make money fast so that they can help their father and move back in together, that money which may entail stealing the $15,000 their Grandma has hidden somewhere. Bella's mission is to find a way to tell the family that she wants to get married to Johnny, her equally slow movie theater usher boyfriend, the two who could also use $5,000 of her mother's money to open their dream restaurant. And Louie's mission is to survive the next couple of days.

- 1993
The Redhead from Wyoming
In Wyoming Territory, a range war is brewing between entrenched cattle barons and new settlers. Cattle king Reece Duncan is opposed by ambitious gambler Jim Averell, who imports his old flame, shapely saloon queen Kate Maxwell, and sets her up as an alternative cattle buyer. As matters build toward violence, Kate finds she's being taken advantage of. But her only potential ally in staving off carnage is seemingly mild-mannered sheriff Stan Blaine...who distrusts her.

- 1953
Cool as Ice
The old teen rebel saga is updated for the rap crowd, unfortunately rapper Vanilla Ice is the teen. Ice shows up on a neon-yellow motorcycle which gets everyone's attention, including the female honor student who has never had a rebellious bone in her body.

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- 1991
Rude Boy
Part fiction, part rockumentary, Rude Boy tells the story of a roadie working for the only band that matters: The Clash. Recorded during the band’s early rise in 1978-1979, Rude Boy features the most frenetic live footage of The Clash ever recorded.

- 1980
Plymouth Adventure
The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those who made the 96-day storm-filled crossing. Along the way the Captain has an ill-starred romance with the wife of a religious fanatic that ends in a sudden, dramatic way off the coast of Cape Cod.

- 1952
Wilder Napalm
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.

- 1993
Beatbox
A talented musician, about to trade his dreams for a safe career in his girlfriend's family business, finds his voice, but loses the girl, when a mysterious record label owner introduces him to a group of Brooklyn beat boxers.

- 2015
The Church Mouse
When banker Jonathan Steele fires a flirtatious secretary, efficient unemployed Betty Miller gets a tip to get the job. In becoming indispensable she also falls in love with him, even if he doesn't notice that she is no more a church mouse.

- 1934
The Experience
Scarlet forms an instant bond with a girl named Dylan at a wilderness camp for troubled youth. However, the new friendship is soon devastated by betrayal and an unexpected twist of events.

- 2019
Motichoor Chaknachoor
A hilarious story of a 36-year-old jobless man Pushpender, trying to find a wife and Anita who's also looking for a husband. But there's a catch - Anita wants to settle abroad after marriage.

- 2019
Reunion in France
Early in WWII, Parisienne socialite Michele de la Becque, self-admittedly spoiled and selfish, sees the war merely as a nuisance on her life, such as the House of Montanot, the couturier where she has her clothes made, unable to obtain the fabrics she wants in a timely fashion, but arguably more importantly that her fiancé, industrialist Robert Cortot, is too busy assisting the French war effort to be by her side. But as the war progresses, the Nazis invade Holland, Belgium and France, and as such the war has a more profound direct effect on her life, Michele views the war differently, she taking a more political viewpoint in abhorring the French who assist the Nazis solely for their own benefit regardless of the harm to France. So she is shocked to learn that Robert has become a Nazi collaborator seemingly to protect his own social and financial standing. Increasingly trying to distance herself from Robert, Michele firstly has to find a way to survive either without her former wealth or without Robert's support. Her life takes a drastic change when she meets downed RAF bomber pilot, American Pat Talbot, who is hiding from the Nazis as he tries to make his way back to England. Michele secretly assisting Pat, as he starts to fall for her, is at a risk to her life, something she has never faced before but is willing to risk in her newfound love of France as that symbol of resistance against the Nazi oppression.

- 1942
Du Barry Was a Lady
Hat-check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly; she is in love with a poor dancer, but she really wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts although she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

- 1943
Dead End
A gang of desperate boys, a tough, hot-tempered killer, a hardfisted but tenderhearted young man, and a sensitive girl encounter wealth, violence and tender love in New York City's Lower East Side. One of Hollywood's finest with a cast to match.

- 1937
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery?

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- 1970