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Freight Train: Slayer of Innocence
This documentary details the investigations into the disappearances and murders of several young boys throughout the Midwest in the 1970s with interviews of the Lead investigator Pekin, Illinois Police Detective Jim Conover, Normal, Illinois Police Detective Dan Sadler and Sangamon County Sheriff's Detective Terry Castleman. These detectives, investigated, tracked a suspect for several hundred miles and with a team of police officers from several agencies, conducted a nine day, twenty-four hour surveillance of that suspect, William 'Freight Train' Guatney, before finally arresting him. With his arrest, the kidnappings and murders of young boys stopped.

- 2017
Mary Shelley
The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein. Elle Fanning stars.

- Metascore49
- 2017
Love in the Forecast
After swearing off dating for a full year, Leah quickly learns her new commitment has made her a magnet for men

- 2020
Not a Still Life
Not a Still Life is a portrait of Steve Stone, an older gay, Jewish man who shares the naked truth of the struggles, joys and sorrows of his unconventional life. Steve opens his heart as he tells of childhood ridicule in the 50's, coming out and living openly gay during the decades of the 60s to the 80s- a period rife with homophobia- finding true love, dealing with tragedy and loss, loneliness and aging. His gradual evolution includes embracing sobriety, connecting with a long lost relative and discovering his spirituality only to find that he is in danger of losing his home and business. His entertaining reflections stimulate argument and offer us a refreshing appreciation of life, love and living.

- 2013
Soorma
Soorma is an inspiring true story of the triumph of the human spirit, about a player, who made headlines for his miraculous comeback after an unfortunate, freak accident through sheer determination, hard work and unrelenting passion for the sport.

- 2018
Home by Spring
When an ambitious event-planner gets an opportunity she can't refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the perfect spring retreat, but will she discover home is where her heart is?

- 2018
Wildling
Anna spends her entire childhood under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as Daddy. He keeps her locked in an attic making her fear the Wildling, a child-eating monster that roams the outside. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper who helps her start a new life as a normal teenager. But as Anna's body begins to blossom, her childhood nightmares return with a vengeance, leading to the conclusion of a terrifying secret.

- Metascore58
- 2018
Drawn This Way
Drawn this Way (wt) is a one hour television documentary which dives into the pages of gay comic book characters and their creators. In the studio, in the comic book shops, at the fan-crazed conventions, and at home with the artists - we'll find out what it means to be a Doorq, how to come out of the closet as an HGN (hot gay nerd) and where our drawn adventures will take us next. When did all this g(art) start? Is it a sexual turn-on? How did the artists get their start? What do their families and friends think? Is it pornography? Why the obsession with these fantastical stories and characters? Are they taken seriously in the mainstream comic world?

- 2019
Blackwood Evil
On December 31, 1999, four people entered a house located in the Blacklands of Texas to investigate supposed supernatural activity. They were never seen alive again. Two months later a video tape labeled with only the title "Blackwood Evil" was delivered to WBWE television in Sunrise, Texas. It chronicles the last hours in the lives of the four investigators as unseen demons take them one by one.

- 2000
A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex
A lonely man with an intention of documenting every important detail is planning to kill his ex-girlfriend within 72 hours only to realize things are not as easy as he previously imagined.

- 2016
Saint Frances
Thirty-four-year-old aimless server Bridget hasn't yet achieved her goal of becoming a respected writer. When casual relations with a younger 'nice guy' leads to an unexpected confrontation with potential motherhood, she manifests a job nannying a pint-sized spirit guide disguised as an obstinate six-year-old.

- Metascore83
- 2019
Olympic Dreams
In the Olympic Athlete Village, a young cross-country skier bonds with a volunteer doctor after her competition ends. Starring Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas. Filmed on location in the actual Olympic Village at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with three people comprising the entire cast and crew: Jeremy Teicher, Nick Kroll, and Alexi Pappas. Real Olympic athletes, including Jamie Anderson and Gus Kenworthy, also make their way into the film as additional characters.

- Metascore55
- 2019
Christmas Cupcakes
Two sisters enter a TV baking contest in a last-ditch effort to save the family bakery.

- 2018
Three Doors from Paradise
After being forced out of his group home, a developmentally disabled man struggles to find and protect a new life on his own.

- 2018
Winter Meeting
Spinster poetess Susan Grieve lives in a Manhattan apartment. One night, naval hero Slick Novak comes in with her for a nightcap. The next morning, they visit her Connecticut farm where he tells her he always wanted to be a priest. Who will ultimately win Novak's love: Susan or God?

- 1948
The Love of Sunya
In ancient Egypt, an evil priest drove a pure maiden to suicide. In today's reincarnation, to free himself the priest must find and help the maiden...now a young American singing student, Sunya Ashling, who is torn between pursuing a career in European opera, going to South America with fiancée Paul, or saving her father from financial ruin by marrying wealthy Robert Goring. The ancient priest, reincarnated as a gypsy vagabond, grants her visions of her future life if she should follow each of the three roads. Does each have a fatal drawback?

- 1927
Martin Luther
This biographical account of Martin Luther's actions that eventually created the Lutheran and Protestant denominations was filmed in conjunction with the Lutheran Church. Niall MacGinnis portrays the friar whose nailing of the ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg created such a stir that it shook the foundations of the medieval Church. This movie shows the struggle between Luther and Rome, and how the medieval Church did not fully explain things he questioned, which led to him to be labelled a heretic.

- 1953
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang.

- 1937
Buffalo '66
An ex-con hatches a preposterous scheme to try to impress his uncaring parents by kidnapping a young woman with the intention of bringing her home to visit his parents to be his loving wife.

- Metascore69
- 1998
The Christmas Ornament
Newly widowed Kathy plans to skip out on decking the halls and trimming the tree this Christmas, trying to avoid anything that will bring back memories of her late husband. The only Christmas tradition she will observe is baking cookies for her friends, a passion since she was a child. When Kathy meets handsome Christmas tree shop owner Tim, their undeniable chemistry - along with an ornament Tim gives her that symbolizes hope-helps Kathy open up to the joys of the season again. With the support of her best friend Jenna, and the budding relationship with Tim, Kathy begins to embrace the hopeful message of the ornament. Although Kathy wants to take a chance on Tim, she struggles to find the balance between preserving the memory of her husband and moving on with her own future. Is the Christmas ornament a sign that she can have a hopeful future?

- 2013
Man from Del Rio
An uneducated Mexican gunfighter becomes sheriff and forces the local bad men to leave town.

- 1956
Dillinger
The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgivably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.

- 1945
Revenge of the Zombies
Scott Warrington and his hired detective Larry Adams arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death of Scott's sister Lila. Von Altermann, a Nazi who has been creating zombies for the armies of the Third Reich, has turned the deceased Lila into one of the undead as well, but is surprised when she shows signs of free will and challenges Max for control over his zombie thralls.

- 1943