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Orphan Horse
A young runaway girl hides out in the barn of a retired horse trainer and forms a bond with his troubled filly.

- 2018
Around the Block
An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

- 2013
Cinemanovels
As a young woman prepares a memorial film retrospective for her late estranged father, his work begins to influence her life in strange and significant ways.

- Metascore59
- 2013
Song of My Mother
Nigar (Zübeyde Ronahi) is not accustomed to living in the big city of Istanbul and longs to return to her village in Southeastern Turkey from where she was supposedly forced to leave after the incidents of ethnic clashes in 90s. Her son Ali (Feyyaz Duman), on the other hand, has pretty much settled in the city and works ironically as a teacher of Turkish language as a Kurd. Will Nigar be able to convince Ali to take her back to their village?

- 2014
Shotgun Wedding
After Robert (Mike Damus), a marrying-up groom, 'accidentally' shoots his fiancé's Maid of Honor in the face during a drunken skeet-shooting session, his meddling mother (Bonita Friedericy) does whatever it takes to ensure the wedding takes place.

- 2013
Crescendo! The Power of Music
El Sistema, Venezuela's phenomenal youth orchestra program, now a global movement, brings social transformation to disadvantaged children. Our film is an in-depth, verite-based look at three kids as they participate in a pair of Sistema-inspired programs in the US. In Stanford Thompson's Play On, Philly! program, Raven is a violin natural whose rambunctious spirit gets her in trouble. We also meet quiet, quirky Zebadiah, whose viola brings him out of his loneliness. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Anne Fitzgibbon's Harmony Program nurtures troubled Mohammed, their trombone star, whose African-born father is far more concerned with his son's failing grades. Heartbreak and joy come in big doses as we watch our three young people discovering themselves through the mysterious power of music.

- 2014
Sequoia
A lively young woman with a life threatening illness visits Sequoia National Park with a plan to take matters into her own hands. Her plans become complicated by her colorful family and the unexpected possibility of romance with a musician.

- 2014
Fantail
Tania thinks she's Maori. She works the graveyard shift at a petrol station, saving money so she can take her brother Piwakawaka to Surfers Paradise to find their dad. When Pi goes away to pick kiwifruit, Tania is left by herself to plan for their trip. Stuck in a petrol station - getting security training and making sure her boss, Rog, doesn't lose his job - Tania can't rescue her brother from his new mates and from thinking he can fly. Dean, the regional manager, arrives to keep an eye on Rog but Dean has his eye on Tania, too. When Dean questions Tania's culture and who her family is, she starts to piece together the truth and realises she must save her brother and bring him home. Then one night a cheeky little bird ruins everything and Tania pays the ultimate price for being a hero.

- 2013
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
Building on the terror of "The Haunting in Connecticut", this tale traces a young family's nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick moves his wife Lisa and daughter Heidi to a historic house in Georgia, they quickly discover that they are not the house's only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa's free-spirited sister Joyce, they soon come face-to-face with a mystery born of a deranged desire ... a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

- Metascore26
- 2013
So Undercover
As part of a high-stakes mob investigation, the FBI assigns one of its agents to go undercover as a well-bred sorority member in this crime comedy. Miley Cyrus plays the agent, who soon finds out that her situation is far trickier than she thought.

- 2012
Death in Buenos Aires
Set in 1989, the film was shot entirely in Buenos Aires,The film is about the story of Chávez, a police inspector struggling to balance his duties with his unspoken sexual desire, and Gómez, a young and handsome rookie on the police force with enigmatic motivations.

- 2014
I'd Like to Be Alone Now
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace, but he must deal with his overbearing family, who insists on helping him.

- 2019
For Izzy
Dede, a photojournalist and recovering addict, moves in next door to Laura, a young woman with autism. As the pair form an unlikely friendship, Dede assembles a documentary, using animation and found footage to tell a story of getting sober, of family and friendship, and of love and forgiveness.

- 2018
An Audience of Chairs
AN AUDIENCE OF CHAIRS Maura Mackenzie (Carolina Bartczak) believes the world is hers to conquer. With her career as a concert pianist gaining momentum, it seems her beauty and talent will be strong enough to mask the demons that threaten to engulf her. But with an absent husband (Chris Jacot) and two young daughters at home, her precarious sanity begins to unravel until one summer day, burning with manic energy, she makes a terrible mistake - a mistake that will change her life forever. The consequences for Maura are catastrophic: her ambitious husband runs for his life, taking the children with him, leaving Maura to lapse into a full-scale breakdown. Life as she knew it is now over. With the help of her father, Ian (Peter MacNeill), Maura works to reclaim her life and waits for a miracle to bring her daughters home. But when the fates align, can the past be forgiven? Directed by award-winning filmmaker Deanne Foley (Relative Happiness), this universal story of the redemptive power of a mother's love is adapted from the popular, award-winning novel, "An Audience of Chairs" by Joan Clark.

- 2018
Caught
Beautiful high-school student Allie, a former track star waiting tables at her single mom Beth's restaurant, is having a thrilling secret affair with handsome, much-older Justin. However, Allie doesn't know that her new boyfriend is a cheating husband, married to Sabrina: a perfectionist suburban housewife willing to go to extremes to keep her marriage intact. When Sabrina finds out that Justin has been cheating on her, the betrayed wife decides to take matters into her own hands, bent on revenge. But there is no such thing as a foolproof plan. What happens if the already volatile situation spins out of control?

- 2015
Girls in Prison
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.

- 1994
After the Wedding
American Isabel (Michelle Williams) has been working in an orphanage in Calcutta for many years. One day she receives an offer of a potential donation worth millions, but only on condition that Isabel meets the donor in person. Reluctantly, Isabel flies home. She is reluctant to leave her project behind, especially Jai (Vir Pachisia), a boy she found on the street when he was one year old and to whom she has become a kind of surrogate mother. In New York, Isabelle meets up with Theresa (Julianne Moore), who immediately invites her to her daughter Grace's (Abby Quinn) wedding. Out of politeness, Isabelle goes, even though she actually wants to fly back to India as quickly as possible. But she is in for a big surprise at the party: Theresa's husband Oscar (Billy Crudup) is none other than her childhood sweetheart. And suddenly Isabel realizes who Grace is: Her own daughter. As teenagers, Isabel and Oscar had a child that they gave up for adoption. Oscar has taken Grace back without ever telling Isabel. Isabel is shocked, as is Grace when she learns the truth. But Theresa has more secrets to keep from her family.

- Metascore50
- 2019
Below Dreams
BELOW DREAMS is a poetic journey following the lives of three young adults as they navigate the streets of New Orleans in pursuit of employment, stardom and unconditional love. Working with an impressionistic shooting style, the film marks a return to pure cinema, unlocking the current narrative of American millennials by revealing an intoxicatingly visual account of today's ignored youth.

- Metascore57
- 2014
Honeymoon
Leslie and Treadaway star as young newlyweds who travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon where the promise of private romance awaits them. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

- Metascore65
- 2014
The War
Vietnam War vet Stephen Simmons must deal with a war of a different sort between his son and their friends, and a rival group of children. He also must deal with his own personal and employment problems that have resulted from his Vietnam experiences.

- 1994
The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

- 1923
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Young Calvin Fuller is pulled into King Arthur's court by Merlin. His mission: to save Camelot. To do this he must overcome the villain known as Lord Belascoe, train to become a knight, and rescue the Princess Katherine, who has fallen in love with him. Ultimately, He must help Arthur regain his confidence before he can go home.

- Metascore34
- 1995
The Big Cube
Renowned stage actress Adriana Roman, the muse of playwright Frederick Lansdale, is retiring to marry tycoon Charles Winthrop. The marriage does not sit well with Charles' daughter Lisa, who dislikes her new stepmother if only because she is "the other woman," competition for her father's affections. However, on her father's urging, Lisa tries to get to know Adriana and slowly warms to her. Meanwhile, Lisa attracts the attention of Johnny Allen, a womanizing, fortune-hunting medical student who uses the school lab to produce and sell acid among his hip, mod crowd. He romances naive Lisa, who falls under his spell. After an incident with Charles, Johnny senses an opportunity to abscond with at least some of the Winthrop fortune by using Lisa's mistrust of Adriana, and he manipulates Lisa into trying to make Adriana go crazy, mostly by lacing her sedatives with acid, and Adriana starts to believe that Lisa and Johnny are trying to kill her. In reality, only Johnny is trying to kill Adriana; Lisa is completely unaware. As Adriana tries to explain to others what she's going through, Frederick, who has always loved her himself, eventually believes that all is not that it appears. With new information at hand, Frederick, using the tools of his trade, tries to help Adriana through her troubled mental state.

- 1968
Nostalgia
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia's traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient town, he meets Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his family to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.

- Metascore74
- 1983