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The Cariboo Trail
Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada's British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.

- 1950
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Musketeers' most glorious - and dangerous - adventure begins with the rescue of a mysterious prisoner from a fortress island prison. But they soon realize that their mission may lead to the destruction of the very throne they serve.

- Metascore49
- 1998

- Metascore41
- 1976
Bandits
Busting out of prison, Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) are on the run and out of money. That changes when they devise a scheme to place bank managers under house arrest the night before they rob their banks. But success as the infamous "sleepover bandits" isn't the only change in store for them. As they cross state lines and federal laws, they meet Kate (Cate Blanchett) a sexy, eccentric housewife whose indecision as to which of the two bandits she wants could spoil their partnership for good.

- Metascore60
- 2001
UFO
Derek Echevaro (Alex Sharp) a brilliant college student, haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, believes that mysterious sightings reported at multiple airports across the United States are UFOs. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie (Ella Purnell), and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks (X-Files' Gillian Anderson), Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI special agent Franklin Ahls (David Strathairn) on his heels.

- 2018
Loving Leah
When his estranged brother dies suddenly, Jake Lever is confronted with an old Jewish custom. In days past, a man was expected to marry his deceased brother's childless widow, but it is now customary to perform a ceremony releasing the pair from the obligation. During the Halizah ceremony, Jake feels uncomfortable renouncing his brother's memory. Additionally, Leah wishes to escape the confines of her orthodox community and avoid her mother's matchmaking. On the spur of the moment, Leah and Jake decide to enter into a platonic marriage of convenience.

- 2009
Gnomeo & Juliet
Garden gnomes Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

- Metascore53
- 2011
Housewife, 49
In the late 1930s, Nella Last, a 49-year-old housewife living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass Observation Project, a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes, Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident, she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kind Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful war worker. The film also shows her relationship with her two sons, as well as the effect of the war on the community, and ends by explaining that Nella kept in touch with the Mass Observation project until her death in 1968.

- 2005
Swing Vote
Joseph Kirkland, new appointee to the US Supreme Court, suddenly finds himself the center of attention as his other eight justices have split their votes down the middle on a case involving a woman who is charged with murder after she had an abortion.

- 1999
Playing for Time
In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity.

- 1980
Guys and Dolls
A singing Marlon Brando stars opposite Frank Sinatra in this classic musical. When Sky Masterson is challenged to take a missionary to Havana, he finds himself falling in love. But will she return his love when she realizes the trip was a ploy?

- Metascore77
- 1955
The Beach House
When Cara finds her life spinning out of control, she returns to the scenic Lowcountry to visit her mother. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide "turtle lady," and renews old acquaintances long lost.

- 2018
Breathing Lessons
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.

- 1994
The Good Sister
The Good Sister follows a couple who is working to put their crumbling marriage back together, when the wife receives a letter informing her that she has a long-lost twin sister. First thinking that the new family member will bring the couple closer together, the husband then begins an affair with the sister and discovers that she is treacherous and dangerous.

- 2014
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Under the umbrella of the United Nations, a team of drug enforcement agents representing various countries is working together to tide the flow of illegal opium - used for making other illicit drugs such heroin - into the western world, all with the help of the Iranian government and military, Iran where much of the illegal poppy plants supplying the opium are grown. With the Iranians focusing on the supply, the western agents are focusing on the trafficking. Out of an unfortunate circumstance, agents brought onto the case are British ladies man Sam Lincoln and American Coley Jones, who are tasked with following one specific shipment to discover not only the probable route of transportation out of Iran specifically into western Europe, but more importantly who heads that trafficking operation. That unfortunate situation was the brutal murder of one of their colleagues, who they only know by name, but his murder which highlights the danger of the operation. With a unique way developed to identify opium within this one thousand kilogram shipment and as they work on the case which takes them from Tehran to various points in western Europe, a wrench is thrown into the situation with the introduction of a young woman purported to be the wife of the slain agent, which they are pretty sure is a lie.

- 1966
The Disappearance of Vonnie
When her sister supposedly walks away from her troubled marriage, a woman begins to suspect her brother-in-law of killing her. And although there is no body or murder weapon, the woman perseveres until she is finally able to arouse enough suspicion to bring the case to court. But this would be the only time in the history of Minnesota, and perhaps the country, that anyone would be convicted of murder without a body, making the film, which is based on an actual happening, all the more unpredictable in its outcome.

- 1994
The Canterville Ghost
When a teenage girl moves to England with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are hers, is ready to send her back. But then she actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (and the cute teenage Duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.

- 1996
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
The government hires a feminist at the local university to track down the Piranha Women living in the uncharted Avocado Jungle (westernmost outpost is San Bernardino) to convince them to move to a reservation condo in Malibu. She hires a guide at the edge of the jungle, a male chauvinist pig, and they have many arguments about men and women as they work their way in, and eventually confront the Piranha Women.

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- 1989
The Artist
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Academy Award Winner Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

- Metascore89
- 2011
Betrayed
Debra Winger and Tom Berenger star in a powerful and provocative tale of betrayal about an FBI agent who falls for a murder suspect with a shocking secret.

- 1988
Max
When Kyle Wincott is killed in the war, his war dog, Max, suffers from stress. Max is to be put down because he has trouble listening to anyone else, until he meets Justin, Kyle's brother. Justin adopts and saves Max. Then both of their lives will never be the same again.

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- 2015
American Heart
It took heart to grow up on the streets. It took guts to survive five years in prison. Now Jack Kelson is getting out and he has only three goals: get a room, get a job, and get to Alaska where the air is clean and a man can start fresh again. But Jack never stopped to consider that his 14-year-old son Nick has a dream too, the cream of being with the only family he knows, his dad.

- 1992
Save the Last Dance
Sara wants to be a dancer, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. She moves in with her father, who she has not seen for a long time. He lives on the other side of town, in a predominantly Black neighborhood. She gets transferred to a new school where she is one of the few White students there. She becomes friends with Chenille, and later, falls in love with Chenille's brother, Derek.

- Metascore53
- 2001
The Craft
Sarah has always been different. So as the new girl at St. Benedict's Academy, she immediately falls in with the high school outsiders. But these girls won't settle for being powerless misfits. They have discovered "THE CRAFT," and they are going to use it.

- Metascore55
- 1996