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Middle of Nowhere
Summer in a small southern town: Grace wants to go to college, but her feckless mom has poisoned that well (no student loans because mom has welshed on credit cards in Grace's name). Dorian wants to escape from his snobbish adoptive parents. They team up to sell marijuana - she hopes for enough to go to college. Both investigate family secrets, and things get complicated when Dorian falls for her, Grace falls for someone else, and Grace's 15-year-old sister behaves badly. Can Dorian find independence and Grace get to college? And what constitutes a family, anyway?

- 2008
Transit
After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.

- 2005
Sea Devils
A smuggler (Rock Hudson) ferries a fake countess (Yvonne De Carlo) to France, unaware she's spying on Napoleon for the British.

- 1953
Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill
While traveling in a van with their teacher for a contest, a group of college friends are abducted by the criminal Earl, who forces them to go to the ghost town of Sunset Valley to meet his friend that was transporting drugs and money of their own. Once in the town, they realize that the dwellers are zombies and their leader is Bloody Bill, a Confederate soldier seeking revenge the execution of his sister that was hanged by the locals and the population was cursed by Bloody Bill.

- 2004
Star Struck
Runner and Robyn were summer-camp sweethearts. She became a Hollywood star and he stayed on the farm. Finally, Runner takes Grandma's advice and goes to Los Angeles to win back his lost love. He gets a job as her gofer but she doesn't recognize him. Everyone thinks his down-to-earth 'nice' is an act, while he keeps hoping Robyn will remember.

- 1994
Club Life
From the Executive Producers of “Spring Breakers”. Forced by bills for his ailing father, Johnny makes a name for himself in the Nightclub scene. Jumping into the greed and ambition of the club world, he plans the party to end all parties.

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- 2015
King Solomon's Mines
Experience wild stunts, romance and heart-pounding excitement with Richard Chamberlain as a soldier of fortune who unwittingly gets tied into a young woman's (Sharon Stone) search for her missing father.

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- 1985
Kebab Connection
In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo's aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she's pregnant, Ibo's uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?

- 2004
Salmonberries
A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it, which is the name of the town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other try to find closure to the events in their past.

- 1991
Caught
Tim Devon was born out of wedlock and his mother never told his father about him. Overwhelmed, Tim leaves Los Angeles in search of his father--armed with only a name and the city of Amsterdam as clues. When funds run out, Tim begins the downward spiral into a life of crime and drug use until he is encountered by one caring person.

- 1987
White Frog
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Quentin Lee's gripping mystery of loss and redemption at the intersections of queerness, neurodiversity, and Asian-American identity.

- 2012
18 Fatal Strikes
After an Abbot Monk is injured and taken into the home of two young men, they find themselves targets of the Ching Army and its evil leader Wong Wu Ti. Wong is set out to destroy the underground rebels but once they hurt the sexy Mrs. Sheng the two friends (played by Tung Wei and Shih Tien)seek revenge after learning kung-fu from their new guest the infamous monk, Wen Hung.

- 1980
The Ambassador to Bern
On August 16, 1958 two Hungarian immigrants break into the Hungarian embassy in Bern and take the ambassador hostage. As the Swiss police surrounds the building and a group of Hungarian immigrants shows up on the street to demonstrate, a tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out behind the closed doors of the embassy. Based on a true story.
- 2014
Meddling Mom
Carmen Vega is guilty of being a meddling mom. Her crimes include slipping into daughter Yolanda's home to leave behind "how-to" books on starting a family and manipulating daughter Ally into a doomed relationship with her best friend Marisol's son Pablo.

- 2012
When a Man Rides Alone
The Llano Kid is robbing stages but only taking money from Montana Slade's Cottonwood Mine. He then gives the money to those cheated by Slade. The Sheriff is after him and eventually obtains a picture and displays wanted posters and is soon after him.

- 1933
An Officer and a Murderer
Royal Canadian Air Force colonel Russell Williams' career reaches a pinnacle when he's appointed commander of his base shortly before a royal visit is announced. Yet he refuses to move to the base, remaining in his quiet nearby hometown. People rarely even close their doors there, even with the recent wave of intrusions, mostly to steal female underwear. As it escalates to violence and a kidnapping, Toronto sends crack detective Nick Gallagher, who teams up with the ambitious local case officer Jennifer Dobson. Although the base's cooperation proves crucial and several victims and witnesses are members of the Air Force, the colonel ultimately becomes the prime suspect, yet too well-respected to be formally charged without an elaborate ploy devised by Gallagher.

- 2012
Summer School Teachers
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.

- 1975
Singles
Na-Nan has known best pals Dong-Mi and Jung-Joon since childhood, and now the trio shares the ups and downs of their turbulent single lives together. But everything gets turned on end when Dong-Mi and Jung-Joon end up in bed. Should the longtime friends make it official or call it a mistake? Na Nan has a job offer and a marriage proposal from the charming Soo-Heon to consider, and her twenties are fast coming to end. What's a generation of soon-to-getting-older youth to do?

- 2003
Special Effects
A down-and-out director films himself killing a young actress, hoping such an act will resurrect his career. The actress's husband turns up and matters complicate.

- 1984
Girl Gang
Joe leads a criminal gang of young people--teens and young adults, mostly females. A drug dealer and pusher, he gets them hooked on drugs using marijuana as a gateway to harder drugs such as heroin. Needing their fixes and unable to pay for the drugs otherwise, the young people willingly commit crimes for him, such as robbery, grand theft auto, and prostitution to pay for the drugs, which ends up being a vicious circle from which they cannot escape--even if they so wished. While Joe has told them no violence in committing their crimes, their judgment may be impaired in their primary focus of the money and the associated drugs.

- 1954
Nearlyweds
Three friends have their dream weddings--only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.

- 2013
Terminal Island
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of convicts is controlled by the tyrannical Bobby, who rules with an iron hand, and the women are used as sex slaves. A.J. and a group of more free-minded murderers have escaped and gone into hiding. When A.J. and his men liberate the women from Bobby's custody, tensions mount to an all-out confrontation for control of the island.

- 1973
Feliz Christmas, Merry Navidad
After her husband's murder, a woman takes her son to her hometown in Mexico. Will he discover the true meaning of Christmas?
- 1999
Bone
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.

- 1972