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Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.

- 1983
Anna Lucasta
In this all-black remake of the 1949 film with Paulette Goddard, a promiscuous woman leaves home when her boyfriend learns her true morality. Based on the play by Philip Yordan.

- 1958
Colin Hearts Kay
Brooklyn based cartoonist Colin Jenson has just broken up with his longtime girlfriend, Kay Ho. Colin takes us on a hilarious journey through his memories to uncover what went wrong over their three-year relationship and who was to blame. Ultimately it's up to Colin to erase the mistakes of his past and draw upon lessons learned to win back the heart of his true love.

- 2010
Ambush Bay
In 1944, a nine-man Marine patrol secretly lands on a Japanese-held island in order to contact a spy who has important information about General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Philippines.

- 1966
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
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
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
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
The Loving Story
A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era. Long Way Home: The Loving Story is a story of love and the struggle for dignity set against a backdrop of historic anti-miscegenation sentiments in the U.S. The Lovings, an interracial couple, fell in love and married at a critical time in American history, and, because of a confluence of social and political turmoil our reluctant heroes bring about change where previously no one else could. They are paired with two young and ambitious lawyers who are driven to pave the way for Civil Rights and social justice through an historic Supreme Court ruling, changing the country's story forever.

- 2011
The Last Man on Earth
When a plague devastated life on Earth, the population died or became a sort of zombie living in the dark. Dr. Robert Morgan is the unique healthy survivor on the planet, having a routine life for his own survival: he kills the night creatures along the day and maintains the safety of his house, to be protected along the night. He misses his beloved wife and daughter, consumed by the outbreak, and he fights against his loneliness to maintain mentally sane. When Dr. Morgan finds the contaminated Ruth Collins, he uses his blood to heal her and he becomes the last hope on Earth to help the other contaminated survivors. But the order of this new society is scary.

- 1964
Disaster on the Coastliner
The wife of the Vice President of the United States and hundreds of others are placed in jeopardy when a deranged engineer, driven by revenge, sets two trains hurtling toward each other on the same track.

- 1979
The Miracle of Marcelino
Marcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which actually takes the bread and eats it. Getting a wish granted for his donation Marcelino wishes to see his mother.

- 1955
The Players
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.

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- 2012
The Moon in the Gutter
In Marseille, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his lover Bella whom he neglects, an alcoholic brother who lurks about, and his father who's stayed drunk since the daughter's death, ignoring work and his own companion. At a seedy bar, Gerard meets a wealthy, nihilistic hedonist and his beautiful sister. Gerard flips for her and thinks she's his ticket out of the slum. Bella warns him otherwise and also, in jealousy, sets two thugs on him. Then Gerard thinks he's found his sister's rapist. These emotional crises force Gerard to choose what's most important.

- 1983
Lung Fung Restaurant
Dragon, an ex-triad member, gets out jail and decides to go straight. However, his old friend Rubbish Pool and old boss Kent usually settles disputes with other gang leaders there, so Dragon has a hard time getting pass his old ways.

- 1990
Knife Fight
If a political candidate is personally flawed, but stands to make a positive difference in millions of lives, would you help him win? That question looms over the life of "true believer" Paul Turner (Rob Lowe), a savvy strategist sharply maneuvering politicians out of scandal and into public office. Aided by a bright young assistant (Jamie Chung) and a seedy operative (Richard Schiff), Turner spins every news cycle and a shrewd reporter (Julie Bowen) on behalf of his clients: a philandering Kentucky governor (Eric McCormick), a blackmailed California senator (David Harbour), and an idealistic doctor turned gubernatorial candidate (Carrie-Anne Moss). When the ugly side of Turner's work starts to haunt him, he learns that even in the bloodiest of battles, sometimes you have to fight clean.

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- 2012
Little Cigars
On the lam from her sadistic gangster boyfriend and his two henchmen, a gun moll becomes involved with a team of midgets who are, in reality, crooks.

- 1973
State Department: File 649
U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.

- 1949
The Sun Sets at Dawn
A young man awaits execution on death row for the murder of a political boss. Although he continues to protest his innocence, only his sweetheart, the prison priest, and the warden and his wife believe him. Reporters discuss the case and similar ones, and one of them relates a story that may save the man's life.

- 1950
Slow Dancing in the Big City
Lou Friedlander is a popular columnist for the New York Daily News, writing about the people of bustling New York City. He falls in love with his neighbor Sarah Gantz, a young ballerina. The problem is that Sarah had been diagnosed as suffering from a debilitating condition, and that her career (and possibly her life) is about to reach a premature end.

- 1978
Survival Game
Mike Norris, son of Chuck Norris, uses his karate moves and cowboy boots to rescue his girlfriend's father who has been kidnapped.

- 1987
Top Banana
Phil Silvers stars as "the funniest man on television," a top comedian who meddles once too often and gets outsmarted by himself in this hilarious adaptation of the smash Broadway production.

- 1954
In the Name of God
17-year-old Mason Jones feels unwanted and unloved after years of being bounced from foster home to foster home. Then he moves in with the Lewis family, who is determined to keep him. There is some tension from their biological son who doubts his parents' reasons for welcoming him into their home. Mason attends a court-mandated support group where he learns humility, respect, and fresh starts.

- 2013
Doll Face
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she's considered unrefined. Her boss/manager, Mike, decides that she can acquire some polish and also get plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography; he hires a ghost writer to do all the work but doesn't consider that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

- 1945