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The Teacher
A killer (Anthony James) stalks a student (Jay North) and an older woman (Angel Tompkins) who are having an affair.

- 1974
Little New York
In Staten Island, New York, Parmie Tarzo is a powerful mobster boss. Family man Sully Halverson is a septic tank cleaner married to Mary Halverson and they are trying to have a baby. Deaf and dumb Jasper "Jas" Sabiano slices deli meat in a market and also works for Parmie Tarzo slicing the bodies of his victims. Jas likes Sully and expects to win the horse races. One day not-so-bright Sully decides to heist Parmie Tarzo's house, expecting to artificially inseminate Mary with better sperm than his in an expensive clinic. Meanwhile, Jas wins the horse race; there is also an attempt on Tarzo's life and he finds that his gangsters have planned it. The lives of the three residents are entwined with tragic consequences.

- 2009
Policewoman Centerfold
A recently divorced policewoman is fired from her job after she poses for a men's magazine centerfold. This movie is based on true events regarding an Ohio patrol officer who faced significant professional fallout after posing nude for Playboy.

- 1983
Going Places
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

- 1974
Bank Robber
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant bribes from the bank robber to shelter and hide him.

- 1993
Prison of Secrets
Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of this uncooperative attitude gets the maximum sentence, 10 years in a women's jail wing. Model husband Larry, who wasn't informed of her dumb schemes is left running her appeal, the household and spoiled daughter who now feels abandoned. Since most inmates are junkies or prostitutes, sergeant Ed Crang and fellow corrupt jailers can run a 'favors in kind exchange'. For rebels, it gets worse. Larry however has his own radio show, so it all hangs on gathering proof.

- 1997
Jackson's Run
Jackson Stone is a reckless and troubled teen who rejects faith and the church as he blames God for everything bad in his life. At home, his seemingly uncaring parents ignore him, at school he's an outcast, and his only friend, Gunner, continues to pull him deeper and deeper into the abyss of trouble on the streets. Jackson struggles to come to terms with his fear of death, and his own mortality as he fights a life threatening illness. After a brush with the law, Jackson is sentenced to community service and placed under the watchful eye of Russell Tecumseh, a tough, streetwise pastor who operates a local homeless shelter. While at the shelter, Jackson forges an unlikely friendship with Nathan, a destitute homeless veteran, and as their friendship flourishes, they each learn important lessons about life, trust, and something neither have truly experienced... Friendship. As Jackson progresses towards faith, he begins to transform from a street hoodlum to a responsible young man, but his fragile faith is rocked when Nathan reveals a shocking secret from his past. Jackson suddenly finds himself at a crossroads, and now must choose between what's easy and what's right as his own destiny hangs in the balance. Jackson's Run is a family friendly, faith-based, "Rites-of-Passage" story that explores life, death, suffering, and God's purpose in it.

- 2013
All We Had
Thirteen-year-old Ruthie Carmichael and her mother, Rita teeter on the edge of poverty, despite Rita working multiple jobs. When their landlord kicks them out, Rita uses her looks to instantly reel in a boyfriend, who takes them in. Before long, Ruthie convinces her mother to leave and they head East in search of a better life. When money runs out and their car breaks down, they find themselves stranded in a small town called Fat River where their luck finally takes a turn. Rita lands a steady job waitressing at the local diner. With enough money to pay their bills, they rent a house and Fat River becomes the first place they call home. Peter Pam, a transgender waitress, becomes Ruthie's closest friend. The townspeople become Ruthie and Rita's family. Into this quirky utopia comes smooth-talking mortgage broker Vick Ward, who entices Rita with a subprime loan. Almost as soon as Rita buys a house their fortunes change. Faced once again with the prospect of homelessness, Rita reverts to survival mode, and the price she pays to keep them out of poverty changes their lives forever.

- Metascore48
- 2016
Trucks
Based on the short story by Stephen King, this is CHRISTINE with a lot more horsepower. A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances. A remake of King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.

- 1997
An American Story
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.

- 1992
MegaFault
A seismologist and a miner must stop a massive earthquake that threatens to tear the world in half.

- 2009
Cause for Alarm!
Mr. Jones is a invalid husband who wrongly thinks his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

- 1951
The Big Picture
Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come to his sense before everything is lost?

- Metascore64
- 1989
Forbidden
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover; back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. The editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu.

- 1932
Dead Ringers
The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?

- Metascore86
- 1988
Wind Dancer
When a young girl is injured by a riding accident, she overcomes her injury with the help of her family and her beloved horse.

- 1993
The Brass Ring
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.

- 1983
Invisible Child
When Annie (Rita Wilson) and Tim Beeman (Victor Garber) hire Gillian (Tushka Bergen) as a nanny, she accepts the job with the understanding that her most important responsibility is the middle child, Maggie--an imaginary child Annie created. Maggie is loved and acknowledged by everyone in the family. Tim and his older daughter Doc (Mae Whitman), play into the charade for the sake of Annie's sanity. Unsteadily, Gillian begins to care for the imaginary Maggie, but she becomes concerned for the youngest Beeman, Sam (David Dorfman), who believes that he has a sister he cannot see. She also worries about the responsibility Doc has taken upon herself to maintain her mother's fantasy. Torn between her love for the family and her unease with the situation, Gillian secretly contacts the authorities. Soon after, Tim explains to Gillian why the family endures Annie's fantasy and why they care for Maggie. When Children Services comes to the Beeman home to question the family's situation, Gillian regrets her decision to contact the authorities.

- 1999
Passer By
A man who has left society behind is called back by the tragedy of his father's passing away. He returns home and finds unexpected romance.

- 2017
2021
John Cooper is a computer programming genius who starts working on a project to reverse engineer human intelligence using a map of the human genome. John becomes increasingly disillusioned and severely depressed as he begins to question any possible meaning of human thoughts and emotions that can be replicated on computer software. On the verge of a mental breakdown, he meets Emily-a shy, bohemian novelist that is unable to find emotional sustenance outside of the world of her own writing. This is the story of two lost souls searching for a shadow of love in an increasingly alienating modern world.

- 2013
Black Gold

- 1936
At First Sight
AT FIRST SIGHT is the story of a young woman architect who falls in love with a blind man. She encourages him to undergo a radical operation to restore his sight, but ultimately his truest vision comes from the love he finds in his heart.

- Metascore41
- 1999
'Tis the Season for Love
An aspiring but unsuccessful young actress living in New York reluctantly returns to her small town for the holidays and must decide: will she leave to chase stardom, or stay home where her heart is?

- 2015
The Admiral Was a Lady
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.

- 1950