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Christmas Angel
Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her neighbor Nick offers her a job as his assistant in the best work: helping others. There's one catch that Ashley must honor though: she can't tell anyone that her new boss is a sort of Secret Santa, helping others anonymously. Through her new job, Ashley meets Will, a writer for a business magazine who uncovers what Ashley is doing--and, more importantly, Nick's involvement. As Ashley and Nick help people in need, Ashley tries to protect Nick's secret, and her own heart, while Will must weigh the consequences of what he does.

- 2009
Punch
17-year-old Wan-deuk comes from a poor family and his grades in school are equally poor. He is a rebellious and troubled student, but he never loses in fights. Wan-deuk then meets teacher Dong-joo. At first, Dong-joo and Wan-deuk are like enemies, but Wan-deuk grows to like him. Meanwhile, Dong-joo cares for and seems to understand Wan-deuk. Wan-deuk takes up kick-boxing and through the sport grows as a person and also develops a dream.

- 2011
I Am I
I AM I is the story of a young woman, Rachael, who meets the father she never knew, Gene, at her mother's funeral. She discovers that her father is completely delusional and believes her to be her dead mother. After Rachael visits Gene in an assisted living home, she learns that he suffers from a disease called Korsakov's Syndrome, a form of retrograde amnesia and that her mother had placed him in this facility for treatment a year earlier. He does not remember anything past the age of thirty-three, and believes that he is still a young man. Unable to convince him of who she really is, Rachael decides to go along with her father's delusions by pretending to be her mother and discovers that under this guise, she and Gene can have "normal" conversations. Before long, Rachael is visiting Gene everyday, finding new ways to bring elements from his past into their present relationship. What began as a search for understanding has become romantic and joyful, but it can't go on forever. As Rachael pieces together the past and plays out memories for Gene, her need to be seen by her father, for who she truly is, grows strong.

- Metascore44
- 2013
The Final Song
"Final Song" is a romantic comedy about a woman struggling to make it in the recording industry. Her life is complicated by her brother, a wacky garbage man who acts as her manager. He constantly sets her up with one humiliating gig after another, each one pushing her closer and closer to throwing in the towel for good. Only after a chance run in with love, do all her dreams finally come true.

- 2014
I'll Follow You Down
After the disappearance of an accomplished physicist (Rufus Sewell), his son Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) struggle to cope. Years later, now a young scientist himself, Erol discovers a formula that could kill him, throw him into the unknown...or bring his family back together.

- 2013
Mrs McCutcheon
Having always felt he was born in the wrong body, 10-year-old Tom chooses the name Mrs McCutcheon rather than the name he was given at birth; he also prefers the flow of a dress rather than the cut of a pant. Now at his third school Tom is having trouble settling in and finding acceptance from his newfound peers - except for Trevor, a tough little charmer who also suffers prejudice due to his Aboriginal heritage. With the school dance only days away Tom is thrust on a journey of self-discovery and sacrifices to find his place in the world. Be prepared for a courageous ending that might just revolutionize the school dances forever.

- 2017
Caution to the Wind
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. When a trio of young misfits takes a classic car called The Yellow Submarine to Las Vegas along old California Route 66, anything can happen and does. Starry-eyed unknown actress Veronica Page (Tabitha Brown) has begged a ride to Vegas together with an old boyfriend with hotheaded Norwegian Eric (Joel Hebner), to audition for a huge role in an upcoming, big-budget movie production. A series of events--and bizarre hitchhikers-- sends the trio deep into the desert before becoming sidetracked to a sensual afternoon aboard a houseboat on the Colorado river.

- 2010
The Immigrant
In 1921, in search of a new start and the American Dream, Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, she quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. One day, Ewa encounters Bruno's cousin, debonair magician Orlando. He sweeps Ewa off her feet and quickly becomes her only chance to escape the nightmare in which she exists.

- Metascore77
- 2013
Bemisal
When twin brothers Sudhir and Adhir get orphaned by their father's death, Magistrate Chaturvedi adopts them and brings them up like his own. Though Adhir goes insane after his father's death, Sudhir picks up the opportunity, studies hard and becomes a doctor like Magistrate Chaturvedi's son Prashant. When Prashant gets caught performing an illegal operation, Sudhir takes up the blame to repay the debt of the Chaturvedi family on him and his brother. Watch to know if there's light at the end of the tunnel for the honest and sacrificing Sudhir.

- 1982
Holy Ghost People
HOLY GHOST PEOPLE is a Southern Gothic thriller about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister's fate.

- 2013
Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar
Hollinsworth Productions is excited to announce "Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar", the exciting second chapter in the story of Dr. Mabuse. Two years have passed since Dr. Mabuse took control of the city, now christened 'Etiopomar'. The city's inhabitants either fled, or stayed to live under the rule of his doctrine. When his doctrine goes missing, the already suspicious Mabuse begins to attack anyone whom he feels may be working against him. To further complicate his plans, a group of civilians have started to take matters into their own hands, working to try to take their city back from Dr. Mabuse.

- 2014
Milo
Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands of an ageing criminal couple, with whom he enjoys pure freedom from constraint - until he learns the shocking truth about his skin condition. Filled with doubt about his father's love for him, Milo must try to come to terms with who he really is.

- 2012
The Sunset Six
When the rock'n'roll dream ends, the hard part is waking up. Riff was the legendary guitarist in one of the biggest rock bands in Australian history. But the 80s are gone and without music, Riff's life has spiralled out of control. With his new band The Sunset Six, he's got one last chance at making it; one last chance of landing the record deal that will get him back in the game. One problem... the band is falling apart. And it's all his fault. As time ticks down to their imminent gig, can Riff get the band back on the rails in time? The Sunset Six is a feel-good comedy about a band's rocky road to musical heaven.

- 2013
Out of Time
A brutal child abuse turned homicide case puts Forensic Investigator Jade MacNeil in the center of The God's Eye Project, a technology that taps into the very fabric of time and forces we don't understand in order to uncover the facts. But what Jade MacNeil discovers is a shocking truth about herself that threatens to shatter everything she thought she knew.

- 2011
The German Doctor
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice. Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo's (XXY) fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," a German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent "hiding", along with many other Nazi's, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals.

- Metascore62
- 2013
The Circle
Zurich, 1956. The young teacher Ernst Ostertag falls head over heels in love with the transvestite star Robi Rapp and finds himself torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. Ernst becomes a member of the gay organization DER KREIS and lives through the high point and the eventual decline of the organization, which in the whole of Europe is seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation.

- Metascore67
- 2014
Two Men in Town
Forest Whitaker plays a parolee who finds Allah inside and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good start with a job, a bank account, and a good woman. Of course his old partner in crime tries hard to get him to come back to his old ways, but the real problem is the sheriff in town who won't let him forget his dark past.

- Metascore56
- 2014
Edge of Isolation
Stranded deep in the woods, a young married couple is taken in by an isolationist family, one that lives off the blood and plunder from lost hikers, and they want the couple to stay for the rest of their lives.

- 2018
Divorce Invitation
Mike Christian is a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad prenuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage

- 2012
Life
This movie chronicles the story behind the 1955 LIFE Magazine photo thread by Dennis Stock of then-rising star, James Dean, and gives us an inside look at some of Hollywood's most iconic images and into the life of a gifted, but troubled man.

- Metascore59
- 2015
Beauty and the Least: The Misadventures of Ben Banks
Likable looser Ben Banks is a serial underachiever and stoner in his 12th year of community college. But when he musters up the courage to ask out Amy, a beautiful barista at the local java shop, she surprisingly accepts.

- 2012
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
The affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.

- Metascore69
- 2018
Jesus: The Desire of Ages
"Jesus - The Desire of Ages" is a soft glove in a hard hand as far as Christian movies go. It packs a punch of theological and emotional power gloved in all the soft, warm fuzzies that make family viewing so enjoyable. The movie opens with a glimpse of the nativity scene portrayed in a very touching and human way and then quickly jumps into the drama of the closing hours of the life of Christ. Within the framework of the walk to Calvary and the crucifixion are interwoven numerous flashback sequences portraying the transformation of some ten individuals whose lives were transformed by the power and love of Christ. Jesus - The Desire of Ages tells this "Old, Old Story" is in an amazingly fresh and living way through the eyes of the people who knew and loved the man of Calvary. The inspiring and triumphant music score combines with a visual artistry that truly grips the viewers heart as no other "Jesus" movie ever has. Personal and powerful, moving and heart-wrenchingly beautiful - this film will leave you feeling like you've had an intimate encounter with someone you thought you always knew, but really didn't. Jesus - The Desire of Ages is a must see for every family member, every church and every human being no matter what their religion or creed.

- 2014
Born Guilty
Convinced that his over bearing, lonely mother in New York is the source of all the stress in his life, young LA advertising exec Marty bribes his broke, nomad college friend Rawl, to go to New York and befriend her. Trouble ensues when Rawl ends up falling in love with her.

- 2017