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Action, Drama, Western
Ten years after the Civil War, the governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to recommission a company of Texas Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. In a border town, Lincoln Rogers Dunnison arrives by carriage to meet his family. Just as they are reunited, John King Fisher and his gang arrive and kill several townspeople, including Lincoln's father, mother and brother, then steal cattle which are to be auctioned.
Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film
Fénix is a child magician in a Mexican circus, Circo del Gringo, run by his father Orgo, a knife-thrower, and his mother Concha, an aerialist. The circus includes a tattooed lady who performs with Orgo, her adopted daughter Alma (a deaf-mute mime and tightrope walker whom Fénix is infatuated with), Fénix's dwarf friend Aladin, a troupe of clowns and an elephant. Concha also leads a Folk Catholic cult whose patron saint is a girl who was raped and had her arms cut off.
Action, historical drama, war film
In 1983, Hector Negron, an aged, African-American World War II veteran, works as a post office clerk in New York City. After recognizing a customer, Negron shoots and kills the man with a German Luger pistol. Several hours later, rookie reporter Tim Boyle and Detective Tony Ricci are at the crime scene seeking information.
Drama, Political Thriller, romance film, Secret Agent, spy film
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott-Blair, head of a British publishing firm, arrives in Moscow on business in autumn 1987, at the height of perestroika. At a writers' retreat near Peredelkino, he speaks of an end to tensions with the West, heard by the mysterious Dante, who demands that Barley promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises. A few months later, unable to locate Barley at a trade show, a young Soviet named Katya Orlova asks publisher Nicky Landau to give Barley a manuscript.
Drama, epic film, Western
thumb|thumbtime=20|Cimarron (1931)|left The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 prompts thousands to travel to the Oklahoma Territory to grab free government land; Yancey Cravat and his young bride, Sabra, cross the border from Kansas to join the throngs. In the ensuing race, Yancey is outwitted by a young prostitute, Dixie Lee, who takes the prime piece of real estate, the Bear Creek claim, that Yancey had targeted for himself. His plans for establishing a ranch thwarted, Yancey moves into the town of Osage, a boomtown, where he confronts and kills Lon Yountis, an outlaw who had killed the prior publisher of the local newspaper.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, fantasy film
Alice unwillingly prepares a performance of the song "Cherry Ripe" for her parents' garden party; facing stage fright of performing a song she dislikes to an audience of strangers, she hides in the woods. There, she sees the White Rabbit and follows him to a rabbit hole, which leads her to Wonderland. Alice attempts to enter a small door leading to a beautiful garden, but accidentally grows to giant size and floods the room with tears before shrinking to the size of a mouse.
Adventure, Drama
In 1885, in the mountainous wilds of British Columbia, Canada, a male grizzly bear cub and his mother are searching for honey when the mother is crushed to death by a rockslide. Forced to fend for himself, the cub struggles to find food and shelter. Elsewhere in the mountains, a male Kodiak bear roams searching for food or a mate but is unknowingly pursued by two trophy hunters Tom and Bill.
Biography, Drama, fiction film
The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedy's father John Vernou Bouvier III and was nicknamed "Big Edie" while her daughter was called "Little Edie". The Beale women were members of New York City's high society but in their later years they withdrew from city life, living at their Long Island summer home/estate Grey Gardens.
Biography, Drama
The film revolves around country music singer Hank Williams' rise to fame and sudden death at the age of 29. It also explains his rocky marriage to and eventual divorce from Audrey Sheppard mostly due to his alcoholism and infidelity.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Sommelier and wine shop owner Steven Spurrier, a British expatriate living in Paris, is concerned with how to save his business in his daily conversation with Maurice, a wine lover from Milwaukee who is Spurrier's regular (sometimes only) customer. He devises a plan to conduct a blind taste test intended to introduce Parisians to the high-quality wines from around the world. Spurrier travels to the not-yet-famous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to founding vintner Jim Barrett of Chateau Montelena.
Biography, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
The film opens in medias res immediately after Valerie Solanas' attempted assassination of Andy Warhol at the Factory in New York City in 1968, followed by her being taken into custody for the attack. The film then uses flashbacks to when Valerie was living in New York as a sex worker, then to her difficult childhood, then to her success in studying psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. At college, Valerie discovers that she is a lesbian, begins writing, and develops a radical feminist worldview.
Crime, Drama, Political Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
Okwe, a doctor in his home country (not initially named) who was forced to flee after being falsely accused of murdering his wife, lives in the United Kingdom as an undocumented immigrant. He drives a cab in London during the day and works at the front desk of a hotel at night, which is staffed by other immigrants, both documented and undocumented. He is pressed to treat other poor immigrants, including fellow cab drivers with venereal diseases, with scarce supplies provided by his friend Guo Yi, an employee at a hospital mortuary.
Coming Out, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy
(Throughout the film, scenes of Oliver Fields' memories of his deceased parents are intercut, as flashbacks, into the narrative of his developing relationship with Anna Wallace.) In Los Angeles in 2003, a few months after the death of his father, Hal, from lung cancer, 38-year-old graphic designer Oliver often thinks about his relationship with Hal near the end of his life. Hal had come out to Oliver six months after Georgia, Hal's wife of 44 years and Oliver's mother, died of cancer, and explored life as an openly gay man from the age of 75 until he died four years later. He got active in the local gay community, found love with a…
Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
Arthur Brennan, an adjunct physics professor, travels to Aokigahara ("The Suicide Forest") with a sealed package. Once there, he attempts to end his life via drug overdose but encounters a Japanese man named Takumi Nakamura. Takumi entered the forest two days prior and slit his wrists because he was demoted at work, but soon realized he would miss his wife and daughter.
Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction, Superhero
In an alternate universe, the Justice LeagueBatman (Kirk Langstrom), Wonder Woman (Bekka), and Superman (Hernan Guerra, son of General Zod) is an autonomous brutal force that maintains order on Earth and has mixed public reception. Scientists Victor Fries, Ray Palmer, and Silas Stone, along with his young son Victor, are killed by methods similar to the Justice League. President Amanda Waller asks they cooperate with the government's investigation.
animated film, Drama, family film
Middle schooler Greg Heffley finds himself continually at odds with his father, Frank's, outsized expectations. Believing his son is too "wimpy," Frank threatens to send Greg to Spag Union Military Academy, forcing Greg to desperately attempt to prove he can "toughen up" and handle responsibility.
Biography, Drama, romance film
In 1818 Hampstead, the fashionable Fanny Brawne is introduced to poet John Keats through the Dilke family. The Dilkes occupy one half of a double house, with Charles Brown occupying the other half. Brown is Keats' friend, housemate, and associate in writing.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, science fiction comedy, teen film
After the death of his mother, 13-year-old Ben Cooper takes it upon himself to take care of his widowed father Nick and younger sister Angie in Monroe County, New York. Ben enters a contest to win a smart house. The family wins and moves into the house (run by a virtual assistant named PAT, short for "Personal Applied Technology") and is introduced to its creator, Sara Barnes.
Biography, Drama, political film, Political Drama
After finishing second to Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries, former Senator Gary Hart is now the widely accepted front-runner in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Leading up to the formal launch of his campaign in April 1987, some of Hart's campaign staff are concerned that he won't open up about himself (letting the public "get to know him"), instead focusing on ideas and policy. Meanwhile, at The Washington Post, editors and journalists discuss whether the paper should report on Hart's marital problems and rumoured promiscuity.
Drama, Noir
Reporter Jack Burden is sent on assignment to write about Willie Stark, running for county treasurer in an unnamed Southern state. Stark campaigns against the corruption of local politicians. Burden meets Stark and his family and writes an inspiring story on Stark's honesty and courage.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, crime thriller film, Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film
Pete Garrison is a Secret Service agent and one of the personal bodyguards for the First Lady of the United States Sarah Ballentine, with whom he is having an affair. He is one of the oldest and most experienced agents, having been involved in saving Ronald Reagan's life. Garrison's close friend and fellow agent Charlie Merriweather is murdered.
Crime, crime drama film, docudrama, Drama, Forensic, Noir, thriller film, trial film
Alfred Hitchcock (or a double; he is in silhouette) appears on screen to tell the audience that the film's "every word is true". Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero, a down-on-his-luck musician at New York City's Stork Club, needs $300 for dental work for his wife Rose. When he visits the office of a life insurance company to borrow money against Rose's policy, he is mistaken by the staff for a man who had held them up twice.
Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Psychological horror
When Edna, an elderly widow who is suffering from dementia, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to look for her. They discover the house locked from the inside, and a strange black mould-like substance on an upstairs wall. Much of the furniture is adorned with reminders for Edna written on post-it notes.
Drama, historical film, historical drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
In 1880, in the fictional central European country of Gorslava, prominent London physician Sir Robert Cargrave visits the mysterious Baron Sardonicus at the urgent request of Robert's former love, Maude, now the baron's wife. Sir Robert becomes apprehensive when his local inquiries about Sardonicus are met with fear. When Sir Robert arrives at Castle Sardonicus, he sees Sardonicus' servant Krull torturing the baron's maid Anna with leeches.