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Crime, Drama
Immigration enforcement agent Charlie Smith lives in California with his wife, Marcy, in a trailer. She persuades him to move to a duplex in El Paso, Texas, shared by her friend and border agent Cat. Marcy longs for a life of luxury and sees a chance to do so with this move.
Action, Drama, fantasy film, Historie
The film is set in a medieval realm ruled by a king and his queen, who have two daughters, the titular princess and her younger sister, Violet. With the queen's quiet approval, the princess was trained in the fighting arts by Linh, the niece of Khai, one of the king's advisors. As the queen did not bear any sons, the king intends to wed the princess to Julius, the ruthless son of a royal diplomat, who despises the king's peaceful reign because of his belief that a "strong" king should rule with an iron fist.
Drama, musical film, romance film, satanic film
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is going through hard times. His business is failing, and his wife Joan refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business. Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
On a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the "Sheila," the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene, the guests include: actress Alice Wood; her talent-manager husband Anthony Wood (né Blondin but he took her last name instead); talent agent Christine; screenwriter Tom Parkman and his wife Lee; and director Philip Dexter. All but Lee were together at Clinton's home one year before, on the night a hit-and-run accident resulted in the death of Clinton's wife, gossip columnist Sheila Greene. Greene, a parlor game enthusiast, informs everyone that the week's entertainment will consist of "The Sheila Greene Memorial Gossip Game".
Drama, romance film, Romantic drama, war film
On a rainy London night in 1946, Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of Maurice's former mistress, Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and works his way back into her life. As the story unfolds in 1946, we also see flashbacks of Bendrix with Sarah as they began their affair in 1939.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, Mysterie, Science fiction
On March 10, 1935, a revolutionary uprising drives terrified Westerners to the airport in the fictional city of Baskul, in Western China. The evacuation is organized by writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway, before he is to return to the United Kingdom and become Foreign Secretary. He flies out with the last four evacuees: paleontologist Alexander Lovett; notorious swindler Henry Barnard; bitter, terminally ill Gloria Stone; and Conway's younger brother George.
Action, Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, Police Film, thriller film
The film opens in Los Angeles, 1992. LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a convenience store in order to gain access to the office safe.
Drama
Drama, Historie
Mickey Rubin, a Coney Island lifeguard who aspires to be a playwright like Eugene O'Neill, narrates through the fourth wall. Carolina, the daughter of Humpty Rannell, arrives at the boardwalk looking for Ginny Rannell, her father's second wife who works as a waitress at the clam shack. She begs Ginny to let her live with them, but Ginny leaves it up to Humpty, who angrily kicked her out when she married her mobster boyfriend Frank and threw away her college education and chance for a better life.
Drama, romantic comedy
After a crazy night in Vegas, Abby and Travis wake up as accidental newlyweds. Travis receives a call from Benny, who previously tried to con Abby into settling her father's debts to him by playing poker. He warns them not to leave town to avoid settling their debt to him.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Danny brings his cancer-surviving son Remi a wiener dog. His wife Dina does not want to deal with caring for the dog, but Danny informs her Remi is mature and old enough to help the two with the responsibilities. Dina brings Wiener-Dog to the vet to get spayed, and on their way, Remi becomes upset.
Drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
A housewife and mother of two, Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones), discovers that her husband has been unfaithful. After a hasty divorce, she moves to New York City with her young son and daughter. There, they begin a new life.
Drama
The story is set during the 1930s Great Depression. Francis Phelan, a washed-up and retired baseball player, deserted his family in the 1910s after accidentally dropping his infant son, causing the child's death. It is implied that Francis was drunk at the time, but he claims he was just tired and fails to understand why no one believed him.
Biography, Drama
Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies. In 1935, Frances attracts controversy again when she wins (and accepts) an all-expenses-paid trip to the USSR to visit its Moscow Art Theatre. After her return, Frances is determined to become an actress.
Adventure, Destiny, Drama, romance film
thumb|left|Harry Street recalls his memories from what he thinks is his deathbed in Africa The film begins with the opening words of Hemingway's story: "Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude," though the film omits the second sentence of the original quote.
Comedy drama, romance film, Science fiction, teen film, Tragicomedy
Mark, a teenage boy, has been stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over again. After many iterations of the loop, Mark has perfected several routines and is able to aid other people by anticipating their movements. Developing a crush on a girl he gives directions to, Mark goes to the community pool to meet her again, saving her from being knocked into the pool by a beach ball.
Drama, historical film, Historie, thriller film
Hannah (Weaving) is a veteran of the British army who is working as an investigator for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). While drunkenly interrogating a member of the Young Ireland movement, Hannah loses his temper over the prisoner's refusal to identify his accomplices and strangles him. He is subsequently arrested and sentenced to hang.
Drama, romantic comedy
Bob and Elizabeth Rueland live and work in Chicago. Bob is an architect and Elizabeth is a zoologist at Lincoln Park Zoo. On the night of her fundraiser for a new primate house, Bob promises Elizabeth that he will finish the building.
Coming-of-age, Crime, Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, thriller film
Seventeen-year-old Colombian girl Maria Álvarez works in sweatshop-like conditions at a flower plantation. Her income helps support her family, including an unemployed sister who is a single mother, but after unjust treatment from her boss, she quits her job de-thorning roses, despite her family's vehement disapproval. Shortly thereafter, Maria discovers she is pregnant by her boyfriend, and he suggests marriage, but she declines because she does not feel he loves her.
Drama
The film focuses on Anne Sullivan's struggle to draw the young Helen Keller, a blind and prelingually deaf girl, out of her world of darkness and silence during the 1880s. Helen has been unable to communicate with her family except through physical temper tantrums since an illness took her eyesight and hearing from her at the age of 19 months old. She is allowed to eat other people's food with her hands, knock over or break items, and basically do whatever else she desires.
Drama
The story is centred on four main characters: Hortense, Queenie, Gilbert, and Bernard. It focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants during and after World War II. Trying to escape economic hardship on their own "small island," they have moved to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during the war.
Drama, Science fiction
When loving husband and father Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is presented with the option of sparing his family grief by having him replaced with a clone. Turner is torn about whether to discuss the option with his wife.
Crime, Dance Film, Drama, musical film, romance film, teen film
Moose and Camille go to NYC to attend NYU. He is majoring in electrical engineering after promising his father that he would not dance anymore. While touring the campus, Moose sees a pair of Limited Edition Gun Metal Nike Dunks worn by Luke Katcher, the leader of the House of Pirates dance crew.
Biography, Drama
In 2003, United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, is a victim of a terrorist suicide truck bombing and becomes trapped in the collapsed portion of the former hotel used as the UN's Iraq headquarters where he was working in Baghdad. Three months earlier, de Mello is unhappily married. He decides to leave his wife for is girlfriend and co-worker Carolina (Ana de Armas).