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Greetings from Tim Buckley
Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's eminent 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert in St. Ann's Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he learns to embrace all of his feelings toward the father who abandoned him - longing, anger, forgiveness, and love. Culminating a cathartic performance of his father's most famous songs, Jeff's debut stuns the audience and launches his career as one of the greatest young musicians of his time.

- Metascore57
- 2012
Faasle
Vikram (Sunil Dutt) is a wealthy man and has brought up his motherless daughter Chandni (Farah) and son Sanjay (Farooq Shaikh) sacrificing his own personal happiness. When Vijay (Rohan Kapoor) comes into Chandni's life - her father's disapproval and her impending arranged marriage threatens the love between Chandni and Vijay. FAASLE is a story of everyone doing what they believe to be right.

- 1985
Daisy
Daisy depicts the last days of a thirteen-year-old girl Daisy (Hattie Gotobed), who suffers from severe Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) and by chance meets Stinky aka Peter (Max Brown), a British Iraq war veteran who suffers from drug addiction. Like Peter Pan, Stinky is stuck in Neverland and like Wendy; Daisy inspires him to change his ways. She helps him learn to appreciate life, find home, but most importantly find love, something that she will never experience.
- 2016
Paper Dream
A determined woman goes to great lengths to achieve her childhood dream of becoming a mother. When life leaves her out of options, where will she turn?

- 2012

- 2012
When Day Breaks
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.

- 2012
Museum Hours
In the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna, Johann is a security guard who finds a special quiet magic there. One day, a Canadian woman arrives to visit to the city, and the two strike up a friendship through their appreciation of art. That relationship helps put all the other goings-on at the museum and in the city in perspective, as Johann observes and participates in them in a world where art can say so much more than a casual visitor might know.

- Metascore84
- 2012
Foreign Land
After a tragic turn of events, strangers Alex and Flora are both deported from the U.S. to Mexico. They find out quickly that they are out of their depth once on dangerous, Mexican soil. For both of them home has never seemed so far away.

- 2016
9 Full Moons
Frankie is an emotional train wreck, careening around the East Los Angeles music scene drinking and getting lost with strangers. Lev is a taciturn and tormented soul. He drives a limo and aspires to work in the music business. Meeting in an after hour seedy night club, they embark on a roller-coaster relationship exploring what love is like for two quiet people who may be damaged beyond repair.

- 2013
The Horde
1357. Half of the Eastern world is controlled by the savage Golden Horde. While the West waits in fear, a bloody battle erupts inside the Khan dynasty, threatening the existence of the most powerful empire on earth.

- 2012
Enemy
Adam Bell is a Toronto area History college professor. He is a rather somber man, largely because he is stuck in a routine, which includes a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mary. While watching a rental movie, he spots an actor in a bit part that looks like him. He becomes obsessed with finding out about this double of his. He learns that the actor's stage name is Daniel Saint Claire, whose legal name is Anthony Claire. Claire is a Toronto based actor with only a few on-screen credits, and is married to a woman named Helen who is currently several months pregnant. Adam then becomes obsessed with meeting Claire, who he learns upon first sighting that they look exactly the same, from the facial hair to a scar each has, but Claire who outwardly is more "put together" than Adam. Their lives become intertwined as Claire himself ends up becoming obsessed with Adam, but in a slightly different way.

- Metascore61
- 2013
Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
Li "Little Flying Dagger" Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He has decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiaosheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts world. Li Xunhuan battles them as he searches for his estranged friend A'fei, who is now married and living in seclusion. Li asks A'fei to join forces and fight against a new threat that wants to rule the world: the Money Clan.

- 1981
12 Dog Days Till Christmas
A troubled teenager is assigned to an animal-rescue shelter over the Christmas season as part of his community service.

- 2014
Expecting
After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan, on one condition: Andie must move in with them for the duration of the pregnancy. But can the women's friendship survive until birth? Jessie McCormack's debut is a refreshingly candid comedy about planning ahead for life's unexpected detours.

- Metascore27
- 2013
Rednecks + Culchies
In this sometimes disturbing documentary, the drugs and alcohol problems of the American working class are studied from the perspective of an Irish redneck.

- 2016
Bessie
The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

- 2015
Meet Cute
A charming encounter in a gynecologist's office between two people that just might lead to romance.
- 2020
Ek Thi Daayan
Bobo is a popular and talented illusionist, but he is haunted by his past. When disturbing hallucinations cause him to become distracted during his stage show, he seeks the help of a psychiatrist. Through hypnosis, he is able to recall suppressed memories of his childhood. In his youth, Bobo suspected the nanny who cared for him and his younger sister to be a Daayan -a demon who practices witchcraft and devil-worship. Now as an adult, Bobo is paranoid that the reincarnated witch is returning for him...

- 2013
She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone
Amanda has a problem, if she is alone, she can't sleep. Her days pass in a calm, orderly fashion; she fills her nights with lovers that help her pass the hours. Her world is upset overnight when she has to take care of her old and alcoholic grandmother Dolores, a retired actress who now lives on memories of her past glory.

- 2012
Two Women
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

- Metascore54
- 2014
Veeram
Vinayagam (Ajith) is a tough guy and a vegetable wholesale dealer in a village. He is chronic bachelor living with his four younger brothers who dote on him. One day a girl Kopuram Devi (Tamannaah) an architect student comes to the village. Vinayagam slowly gets attracted to her urged by his brothers, who have their love interests. But when she comes to know about Vinayagam's violent face, she distances herself.

- 2014
Dancing in Jaffa
The film follows, Pierre Dulaine, an internationally renowned ballroom dancer as he returns to his birthplace, Jaffa, to fulfill his lifelong dream of teaching Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli children to dance together. The film explores the stories of four children forced to confront issues of identity, segregation and racism, as they dance with their enemies.

- Metascore74
- 2013
Run & Jump
Vanetia Casey (Maxine Peake), the spirited and impossibly optimistic center of the Casey family, is working hard to get life back to normal after her 38-year-old husband Conor (Edward MacLiam) suffers a rare stroke that changes his personality. Tweedy American doctor Ted Fielding (Will Forte) arrives in Ireland to stay with them for two months and his research grant provides the Caseys with vital financial aid. Vanetia's a dynamo, but with two young kids and two grown men in the house, she's feeling bombarded and initially treats Ted and his study of Conor with resistance. Only when she observes Ted's calming influence on the family does she begin to value his friendship; in return, Ted enjoys their heady, happy-go-lucky world. But Ted's continued presence in the house sets the family on course for an emotional collision. Directed by Academy Award®-nominee Steph Green and featuring Saturday Night Live star Will Forte in an impressive dramatic debut, this life-affirming film embraces the healing power of love and family in all of its idiosyncratic forms. Run and Jump is an unexpected, unconventional romance, intimate family portrait, and emotional journey of recovery.

- Metascore71
- 2013
Girls vs Gangsters
A wild bachelorette weekend in a foreign city spins hilariously out of control in this over-the-top sequel to the box-office smash GIRLS. After a drinking contest with questionable local spirits, three friends wake naked on a beach to discover two are handcuffed to a locked suitcase, one has a strange new tattoo, and none has a clue what happened the night before. When they find themselves pursued by local gangsters, their only shot at making it home--and to the altar--is to piece together the previous night's events while on the run.

- 2018