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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The residents of 1946 Texarkana, Texas should be celebrating the return of their boys from WWII, but a mysterious hooded killer is stalking victims by night, murdering them in horrendous ways, and completely befuddling the local police force.

- Metascore52
- 1976
Diplomatic Immunity
Marine Sgt. Cole Hickel tracks down his daughter's brutal murderer who has managed to escape justice by using diplomatic immunity.

- 1991
Innocence
The film "Innocence" is based on the novella "Mine-Haha oder Über die körperliche Erziehung der jungen Mädchen" by Frank Wedekind. This novella deals with the themes of innocence, education and the transition from childhood to adulthood. It is set in a mysterious boarding school where young girls are taught dance and physical education in isolation from the outside world.

- Metascore78
- 2004
Black Shampoo
A promiscuous heterosexual black hairstylist and businessman has sex with his white female customers, but when he begins a relationship with his black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.

- 1976
Child in the Night
After a young boy witnesses the brutal murder of his father, he suffers from trauma and can't remember the details. A detective and a child psychologist work together to emotionally heal him.

- 1990
An Autumn Afternoon
In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.

- Metascore91
- 1962
A Dog of Flanders
The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered after his loving grandfather dies.

- 1960
The Gift of Love
This is the story of two people from totally different backgrounds and social status. The boy is a Swiss immigrant working to help his impoverished family, and the girl comes from an affluent family and is already engaged to someone she doesn't love--she doesn't really know him yet, it's an arranged marriage. She also doesn't tell her new interest who she really is.

- 1978
Christmas at Holly Lodge
Sophie runs Holly Lodge, a beautiful inn surrounded by snowy mountains, evergreen trees galore, and scenic views. There's a steady stream of regular patrons who visit the lodge every Christmas, but Sophie's behind on her mortgage payments, and a development company has taken an interest in the land. They send Evan to study the property, but before he makes his true intentions known to Sophie, the two start falling for each other.

- 2017
Opening Night
A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.

- Metascore69
- 1977
Still Walking
Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother's homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

- Metascore89
- 2008
Stage to Mesa City
Lash and Fuzzy sent to help John Watson with his stage line arrive to find him murdered. Recognizing the outlaws they trail them to their leader Baxter. But before Baxter can tell who the big boss is he is shot. After getting the stage through to assure the mail contract, Lash now realizes who the boss is.

- 1948
You Can't Escape Lithuania
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined

- 2016
Sincerely, Yours, Truly
Josh is surprised to receive a letter from curious Hayley Hammond, who stumbled upon an engagement ring and a stack of love letters she replies to, as they relate to the frustrated relationship that put him off dating. Still he too responds anonymously, and they grow toward each other and away from other attachments.

- 2020
Christmas at the Royal Hotel
In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldier's Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong.

- 2018
Terraces
A soap opera-esque melodrama about the lives and loves of a group of tenants in an upper class high rise complex.

- 1977
Texas Terror
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's daughter, who has come from back east, and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.

- 1935
La belle noiseuse
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', which he gave up a long time ago. And he wants Marianne as a model. The ensuing creative process will change the characters' lives. It will become a struggle for truth and meaning, and the question about the limits of art will arise.

- 1991
A Summer's Tale
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

- Metascore91
- 1996
Fashion Model
When a fashion model is killed, a stock boy suspected of the murder and another model set out to solve the crime.

- 1945
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Various Londeners meet people in Hampstead Heath park. Financial adviser Billy (Ewan McGregor), a successful casual sex seeker, discusses the pros, cons, and how of his child-wish. Cheeky Noel's (Tom Hardy's) innocent pick-up lines lead only to cruelty from girls, once even abandoned jeans on ankles. Gerry's (Hugh Bonneville's) promising blind date picnic ends as abruptly when his business partner turns up, who just agreed to a Barbados holiday with his steady girl. Eddie (Benjamin Whitrow) discovers through a date mix-up that Iris (Dame Eileen Atkins), his ripe age, who come to the same park weekly too, but a day earlier, was his prospective mate until they each met their now late partners several decades ago. Pete (Adrian Lester) comes to settle the end of a marriage that shouldn't have happened except for his daughter.

- 2006
Music Within
After losing his hearing as a soldier during the Vietnam War, Richard Pimentel returns to America, where he falls in with an unlikely circle of friends and finds a new calling as a spokesman for the disabled in this inspirational true story.

- Metascore53
- 2007
California Dreamin'
In 1999, during the Kosovo War,a train carrying NATO equipment, escorted by American Marines with Captain Doug Jones in command, is held back in Capalnita, a Romanian godforsaken village, by Doiaru, the station master, who blocks the train over a paperwork technicality. For five days the villagers try to take advantage of the Americans' unexpected presence. The mayor, for instance, organizes a celebration in their honor. On the other hand, sergeant David McLaren, Jones's second in command, falls in love with Monica, the crafty's station master's daughter, who dreams of a better world... And what about the Marines' initial mission?

- 2007
Courage of the North
One of three films made in the six-announced "Morton of the Mounted' series: Sergeant Bruce Morton (John Preston (I)'), in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is informed by White Feather ('Chief Whire Feather'), an Indian fur-trapper, that for many months, most of the local fur trappers have been systematically robbed, but refuses to name the robbers, fearing for his life. Morton, his horse Dynamite (Dynamite the Horse), his dog Captain (Captain King of Dogs), and a RCMP corporal, Jimmy Downs (Jimmy Aubrey), set out to apprehend the culprits. After rescuing Yvonne Travis (June Love) from the treacherous waters of Horse Shoe Rapids, Morton learns that her father is a fur trader indebted to Monty Mordant (Tom London), who runs the trading post, and Mordant is using her father's debt to force Yvonne to marry him. Morton decides that Mordant could bear watching, but Mordant has already decided that Morton is bad news for his operation, and he sends his henchman out to get rid of Morton and Downs.

- 1935