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Bridal Wave
Nurse Georgie Dwyer is all set to marry her practically perfect fiancé, Dr. Phillip Hamilton. That is, until a nagging mom and underwhelmed future mother-in-law drive her to a chance encounter with a handsome stranger that leaves her questioning what her heart truly feels.

- 2015
Canadian Pacific
Newly restored in HD! Western legend Randolph Scott (Western Union, The Caribou Trail) is Tom Andrews, a man desperately trying save the railroad with the help of demolitions expert, Dynamite Dawson (J. Carrol Naish, Sahara).

- 1949
Takers
Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Paul Walker and Hayden Christiansen star in this action-packed thriller full of twists and turns.

- Metascore45
- 2010
The Cat Returns
Haru, a schoolgirl bored by her ordinary routine, saves the life of an unusual cat, and suddenly her world is transformed beyond anything she ever imagined. The Cat King rewards her good deed with a flurry of presents, including a very shocking proposal of marriage to his son!

- Metascore70
- 2002
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off-screen. This is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, C.I.A. assassin by night. At the height of his television career, Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) was recruited by the C.I.A. and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris claimed.

- Metascore67
- 2002
Fritz the Cat
X-rated feature length cartoon. Fritz is a college-age cat who dabbles in drugs, radical politics, and hedonism. Film traces Fritz's sexual and political exploits from an East Village pot party to an orthodox synagogue to a Harlem bar brawl and riot to an odyssey across America.

- Metascore54
- 1972
About Cherry
Angelina is an 18-year-old girl not far from graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Bobby suggests that she take naked pictures of herself and sell them. She is initially hesitant, but eventually does the photo shoot and uses the money to run away to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew. At a strip club party in the city, she meets a wealthy lawyer named Francis, who offers to introduce her to a glamorous world of expensive dresses and lavish parties. Angelina also meets Margaret who is a lesbian and a former porn star turned adult film director. She offers Angelina, now using the porn name Cherry, direction in her entry into the San Francisco porn industry. She makes several soft pornography films before deciding to do a hardcore film. After she shoots the film, an angry Francis chastises her before getting them in a car accident. she returns home to find Andrew watching one of her films. After an argument, she decides to leave and meets Margaret at a bar. They make out and go to Margaret's apartment to have sex. She moves in with Margaret some time afterwards and becomes her lover, and takes on a new job as a porn director.

- Metascore33
- 2012
Redwoods
An unfulfilled gay man in a stagnant relationship finds his life changed forever when he meets a struggling writer visiting the Redwoods Country.

- 2009
A Little Inside
A professional baseball player tries to single-handedly raise his young daughter while pursuing his own dreams.

- 1999
Early Spring
In his first film after the commercial and critical success of Tokyo Story, Ozu examines life in postwar Japan through the eyes of a young salaryman, dissatisfied with career and marriage, who begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.

- Metascore84
- 1956
Young Billy Young
After his son is murdered, an aging deputy (Robert Mitchum) puts on his badge and is joined by a young ex-gunfighter (Robert Walker, Jr.) to pursue the killer. Fate will lead to a deadly confrontation with another young gunfighter (David Carradine.)

- 1969
Going the Distance
Erin has just six more weeks as an intern at the New York Sentinel before she returns to San Francisco. That's fine with Garrett since he just got out of a relationship. But their relationship blossoms and it quickly becomes something that they can't just drop in six weeks. They admit to wanting to be boyfriend/girlfriend just on opposite coasts. The distance wears on them, as with their nay-saying friends and sister, and soon they are forced to either break up or come up with a solution that has them living in the same city.

- Metascore51
- 2010
All of My Heart: The Wedding
Jenny and Brian are planning their incredibly romantic wedding. Emily's Country Inn is filled to capacity with happy guests. Then a distant relative of Emily's arrives and she stakes a claim to the house. The pressure is on as Jenny and Brian try to raise enough money to hang onto their home. They go for broke expanding her company, Jenny's Home Baked. Brian even considers a return to Wall Street. All of the wonderful friends they made in Bucks County are worried about their favorite couple, trying to figure out how to help. Jenny and Brian's enduring love will once again be tested as the wedding day approaches and they struggle to keep the house that brought them together.

- 2018
Akira
In the future, Shotaro Kaneda and his motorcycle gang tear through Neo Tokyo, a city divided by growing tensions. But when caught in an accident, Kaneda’s friend Tetsuo Shima discovers a secret government project and receives psychic abilities beyond his control.

- Metascore68
- 1988
Primal Fear
When a young man, Aaron, is charged with the horrific murder of Archbishop Rushman, hot-shot Chicago lawyer Martin Vail takes on his defense at no charge. Aaron was a homeless street kid before he was taken in by the Archbishop. He's shy and speaks with a stammer. Vail is convinced that Aaron is innocent but after discovering a video that shows Aaron may have had good reason to want the Archbishop dead, he begins to question that conclusion.

- Metascore47
- 1996
Cop
Story of a dedicated cop, his troubled marriage, and the difficulties he encounters while on a murder case.

- 1988
A Hole in the Head
The story of the problems of a footloose widower and his 12-year-old son, a near-bankrupt Miami Beach hotel, a bongo-playing showgirl and a matchmaking sister-in-law.

- 1959
Once Upon a Prince
Susanna (Megan Park) gladly accepts help one day from handsome stranger Nate (Jonathan Keltz) at her parents' garden store in small-town Georgia. Sparks between them fly, but when a photo of them gets leaked to the press, Susanna is in for the shock of her life, when Nate is called back home by his mother...for his coronation as King Nathaniel of Cambria.

- 2018
What's Cooking?
In Los Angeles, the loosely intertwined stories of four different extended families from four different ethno-cultural backgrounds - the Hispanic Avilas, the Vietnamese Nguyens, the Jewish Seeligs and the black Williamses - gathering for their respective Thanksgiving dinners are presented. Their stories are remarkably similar, but each with their own ethno-cultural spin: turkey with a twist being prepared primarily by the head female of the household, largely ethnic sides accompanying the turkey, football on television, and family dysfunction in many different forms pervading the atmosphere of the gathering, the elephant or elephants in the room which most in the know don't want to be discussed on what is supposed to be this day of thanks. A single event at one of the dinners has a profound effect on all four gatherings.

- Metascore57
- 2000
Electra Glide in Blue
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

- 1973
Inherit the Wind
A biblical orator (Kirk Douglas) opposes a liberal lawyer (Jason Robards) defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.

- 1988
Green Zone
Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne, who lets slip to Miller that Poundstone told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi, code-named Magellan, who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. So begins a hunt for the truth. Who's playing whom?

- Metascore63
- 2010
Searching
After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.

- Metascore71
- 2018
My Christmas Love
As a hopeless romantic, Cynthia is crushed when her boyfriend breaks up with her right before the holidays. With love no longer an option for her, she coaxes her friend Liam to go home with her for her sister's Christmas wedding. When she starts receiving all of the gifts from "The 12 Days of Christmas" at her door, she thinks one of her exes might be trying to get back together with her. Now, Cynthia is determined to discover who is behind this epic romantic gesture, a gesture so elaborate that it must mean true love. The search proves to be more arduous than she first expected, and when all hope seems lost, she discovers that true love might have been standing in front of her the whole time.

- 2016