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An African Election
An African Election is a political documentary that exposes the never-before-seen, nitty-gritty of political electioneering in Africa. It captures the intrigues of political campaigns; the almost carnival like atmosphere that is laced with fear of the unknown and the danger that lurks behind-the-scenes.

- Metascore73
- 2011
Be Somebody
Pop superstar Jordan Jaye has a big dream - he just wants to live like a regular teenager. When he's chased down by some excited female fans, he finds a perfect hideout and a reluctant new friend from a small town, high-school art student, Emily Lowe. Despite being from different worlds, they soon discover they have way more in common than they ever imagined. Over the course of several days, the two embark on an unexpected journey of friendship, first love and self-discovery -- proving that maybe opposites really do attract.

- 2016
The Outside
The story of young aspiring professional surfer Ned Blakey. It chronicles the life of Ned as he lives out his dreams, unfortunately his life gets turned upside down and he eventually hits rock bottom. With nowhere to turn Ned finds himself back at where it all began.

- 2009
A Christmas Wedding Tail
It's love at first sight when Rusty the Labrador and Cheri the Poodle meet one day while jogging in the park. Even better- their owners fall in love too! But love is more complicated for the people, Susan and Jake, who marry and attempt to join together their large family of five children. With kids fighting and a household in complete chaos, it's up to the dogs to keep the family together.

- 2011
The Scent of Rain & Lightning
Based on the novel THE SCENT OF RAIN & LIGHTNING by Nancy Pickard. When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.

- 2017
Paris 36
Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary" period of the Popular Front (who introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there.

- Metascore40
- 2008
Pariah
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and within wears the line between her personas thin with explosive consequences.

- 2007
Nathalie
Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex through intimate relations with her father's business partner. The partner plans to use Dad's money for several business enterprises, but Nathalie discovers there may be a sleazy alternate scheme planned.
- 1981
Super Deluxe
One fine day when fate decides to f#%* the lives of certain characters, they experience the highest of highs and lowest of lows.

- 2019
Sexting in Suburbia
Suburban mum Rachel is devastated when her daughter Dina commits suicide. Forced to realize that she and Dina were not as close as she thought, Rachel sets out to retrace the last few days of her life and makes some painful discoveries. A nude photo intended only for her boyfriend had gone viral and the bullying was tearing her apart. Then in the midst of her investigation Rachel starts receiving anonymous threats herself.

- 2012
American Maniacs
A terrifying story of six members of an evangelical Christian group who have been abducted in rural Kansas.

- 2012
Trust
In Chicago, 14-year-old Annie lives with her family in the suburbs and she has been chatting in a teen chat room in Internet with 16-year-old Charlie. When they get close to each other, Charlie tells that he is actually 20 years old. They schedule to meet, but when Annie meets Charlie, she realizes that he is about 35 years old and is disappointed. However, she is seduced by Charlie and loses her virginity to her "boyfriend" in a motel. Her best friend Brittany tells the school counselor about Annie's relationship with an older man and Annie is sent to medical examination. FBI Agent Doug Tate, in charge of the investigation, visits Annie's parents, Will and Lynn. The family is torn apart; Lynn supports her daughter and Will becomes obsessed with finding the sexual predator.

- Metascore60
- 2010

- 2016
River Guard
Crime writer Sean Flynn returns home to Riverport, North Carolina from New York after a long absence when authorities reopen the old murder case that ended his father's political career. To uncover the truth about a suspicious death and further his own literary ambitions, Sean must confront the shared demons that have long distanced him from his father, Chuck Flynn, a former District Attorney turned defense lawyer who is now trying the case and pissing his life away in a local bar across from the courthouse. As the trial unfolds, nothing about the case is what it first seemed, and it is the secret behind it coupled with the same forces that have kept them apart that will ultimately test father and son together in the end.

- 2016
Saving Face
Oscar(R)-winning documentary short about women disfigured by acid attacks in Pakistan and a plastic surgeon dedicated to helping them.

- 2012
Fourplay
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.

- 2018
It's in the Blood
When a father and son become stranded in the wild, they must confront the horrors of their past to escape with their lives.

- 2012
Screwed
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.

- 2011
The Big Bad
Frankie Ducane is obsessed with seeking revenge against the deranged killer who destroyed her family. The search for the depraved man who tore Frankie’s life apart has left her exhausted, but she will not give up until he suffers for his actions. Her journey turns into a non-stop grotesque battle for vengeance, where only one person will survive.

- 2011
The Great Ziegfeld
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows--sections of which appear in the film. French revue star Anna Held becomes his first wife, but being married to the man who "glorified the American girl" is not so glorious. Late in life, now married to Billie Burke, he seems to be all washed up, but.

- Metascore69
- 1936
Nidra
Raju (Siddharath himself), who was in Germany to do some research, was not informed of his mother's demise, and has a nervous breakdown when he gets the news. He takes a couple of years to recover, and after that he marries his childhood sweetheart Ashwathy (Rima Kallingal), the family chauffeur's daughter. But his near and dear ones look at every action of his through the prism of his past illness, which frustrates him. His rather short temper doesn't help. To add to the oddities, he has converted his bedroom into a space research lab and dreams of building an organically self-sustainable world for himself and his wife in the middle of the family's rubber estate. But his elder brother Vishwan (Jishnu), has plans to build a resort catering to foreign clients. All this makes Raju very angry and violent, and people start to think that his illness has resurfaced.

- 2012
Unanswered Prayers
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course .

- 2010
Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, to see and hear the young BOB MARLEY before he was famous. The film shows us the WAILERS' first rehearsal, when the idea of a Jamaican supergroup like the BEATLES or the STONES was still just a dream. We sit in on the launch of their international career with "GET UP STAND UP", "I SHOT THE SHERIFF", and the "BURNIN'" and "CATCH A FIRE" albums that brought to the world REGGAE music and RASTA consciousness together as one, starting a revolution that would change rock music and contemporary culture.

- 2011
3 Bachelors
3 Bachelors is the story of two young bachelors and one young at heart bachelor. Amit and Jai land into trouble for teasing two girls on the very first day of their college because of which they lose their hostel room. The story that follows shows Jai and Amit doing all the crazy things to get an accommodation and their lovers.

- 2012