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Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. Monica is throwing a big party and is desperately afraid no one will attend. Early on, the only arrival is her friend Hillary.
boxing film, Drama, Noir
Sportswriter Eddie Willis, broke after the newspaper he works for goes under, is hired as a PR man by boxing promoter Nick Benko. Nick has recruited Toro Moreno, a towering Argentine. Despite Toro's lack of fighting ability, Nick plans to use his size as a gimmick to draw fans to his fights.
Drama, Family Drama, romance film
left|thumb|200px|Fonda and Davis in a trailer for the film left|thumb|200px|Julie waiting to see Pres on his return from the North In 1852 New Orleans, spoiled, strong-willed belle Julie Marsden is engaged to banker Preston "Pres" Dillard. In retaliation for Pres refusing to leave an important business meeting to accompany her to the last fitting of her ball gown, Julie buys a brazen red satin dress. The Olympus Ball is the most important social event of the year, and unmarried women are expected to wear virginal white.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Danica (Tika Sumpter) is a successful worker at a marketing firm, and has been in a relationship with "Charlie" (Mehcad Brooks), a man she met online a year ago but has never seen in real life. When she is sent to go pick up her recently paroled sister Tanya (Tiffany Haddish) from prison, her mother Lola (Whoopi Goldberg) also tells Danica that Tanya must stay at her house. Tanya is amazed by Danica's apartment, and discovers that Danica's ex-fiancé Bailey (Adrian Conrad) left her for another woman.
Drama, hood film, Justice Drama, prison film
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Avery Montgomery (Jones) is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista Wells (Melissa De Sousa) and help raise their young son. Avery is an avid swimmer and develops to a championship level, and as a result of a particularly impressive win which catches the eye of a scout, he gets the opportunity for a possible scholarship at a college. Cashmere (Casseus), a crack dealer, happens to be one of Avery's best friends, despite the fact that their personalities and lifestyles are quite different, Avery being the one who stays out of trouble.
Comedy, Drama
The eccentric Magrath sisters—Lenny, Meg, and Rebecca "Babe"—reunite at their family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi on Lenny's birthday, after Babe shoots and seriously injures her abusive husband, Zackery Botrelle. The three sisters were raised by Old Granddaddy after their mother committed suicide by hanging herself and the family's cat. Lenny is a wallflower who bemoans her shriveled ovary and has lived largely a life of solitude in the familial home caring for Granddaddy, while Babe married and moved in with the wealthy Zackery.
romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Private eye Jack Singer swore to his mother on her deathbed that he would never marry. His girlfriend Betsy wants to get married and start a family, and he proposes a quick Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Bally's Casino Resort.
Drama, romance film
In 1920s England, Owen James, an aspiring author, is institutionalized at a medical facility claiming to cure homosexuality. Owen is assigned to Nurse Dorothy, who shares daily teatime sessions with him to prepare him for a heterosexual life. Though initially hesitant, the two bond over the death of Dorothy's brother at war.
Action, Crime, Drama
Thirty-five-year-old Jewish-American convict and junkie, Butch "Bullet" Stein, is released from prison on parole after serving an 8-year sentence for being an accomplice to a robbery, perpetrated by his friend, Irish-American gangster Paddy. Bullet and his friend Lester rob two teenagers for drugs. He also robs drug runner Flaco and stabs him in the eye, telling him to notify his boss Tank of his return.
Animation, Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, Science fiction, thriller film
Bill is a man whose daily routines, perceptions, and dreams are illustrated through multiple split-screen windows that are narrated by an uncredited Don Hertzfeldt. He often has meetings with his ex-girlfriend, but suffers from an unnamed illness which interferes with his seemingly mundane and uneventful life. One day, he visits his doctor, who informs him that his illness is getting worse; as the days pass, Bill's hallucinations and thoughts worsen until he has a hallucinogenic mental breakdown and passes out in an alley.
Drama
Shortly before his eighteenth birthday, Bennie Tetrocini, son of abusive, famous conductor Carlo Tetrocini, runs away from his prep school and gets a job as a cruise line waiter. His ship breaks down in Buenos Aires, the home of his half-brother Angelo, who left the family when Bennie was young to pursue his writing. Angelo's mother Angela died in a car accident, and Bennie's mother has been comatose for almost a decade.
Action, Western
thumb|alt=Black and white promotional image of Tommy Rettig and Robert Mitchum in the 1954 film River of No Return|left|Robert Mitchum with Tommy Rettig in a scene from the film Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder, who has recently been released from prison for killing a man while defending another. He arrives in a boomtown tent city to find his nine-year-old son Mark, who had been left with dance hall singer Kay after the man Matt hired to deliver him abandoned the boy. Matt promises Mark a life of hunting, fishing, and farming on their homestead.
Biography, Crime, Drama
Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market. Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane—a church-going, clean-cut family man—becomes a sex addict obsessed with women and with recording his encounters using video and photographic equipment, usually with Carpenter participating. As the years pass, the relationship between Crane and Carpenter unravels in a dangerous way.
children's film, Comedy
Two years after the events of the first film, Nick Persons has married Suzanne Kingston and moved her children, Kevin and Lindsey into his apartment, as well as purchasing a Cadillac Escalade after he accidentally burnt up his Lincoln Navigator. He has also sold his sports memorabilia store and adopted a Berger Picard named Coco. Kevin and Lindsey have both matured since the previous events.
Action, war film
Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton and his bombardier/navigator Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPherson are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin. They hit their target in North Vietnam, a 'suspected truck park', which turns out to be trees. As they return to their aircraft carrier, Morg is shot in the neck by an armed Vietnamese peasant on the ground.
Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, romance film
The story is of sixteen-year-old Max, who has a strange condition: a face so angelic it can be lethal. He is constantly alone until he meets Alex, a girl with her own bizarre ailment who aids him on his quest of self-destruction. Alex suffers from a rare heart disease that causes her heart to grow if she feels any emotion (happiness-anger-sorrow-jealousy), because it can't process them.
Drama
thumb|upright|left|Fragonard's The Souvenir In 1984, Julie, a film student, intends to make a film about a boy, his mother, and their life in the city of Sunderland. She lives in a Knightsbridge flat with another student and his girlfriend. She meets Anthony, a well-to-do man who works at the Foreign Office, who moves in with her after her flatmate moves out.
Animal horror, Drama, Horror
Social misfit Willard Stiles, who cares for his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion, is constantly humiliated and mercilessly taunted in front of his co-workers by his vicious and cruel boss, Frank Martin, who took over the Stiles family company after Willard's father Alfred died by suicide in 1995; Frank promised Stiles that Willard would have a job as long as she lived. After discovering and failing to exterminate a growing rat colony in the basement, Willard befriends and quickly becomes obsessed with a white rat he names Socrates, considering him his only real friend. At work, Martin locks…
Biography, Drama, Historie
In October 1973, Mossad receives intelligence implying that Egypt and Syria are preparing to commence a military campaign against Israel, which it promptly relays to the Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir. Golda is dismissive of the intelligence, noting her inability to initiate a counter-plan without the support of her defense minister, Moshe Dayan, who too, is equally sceptical. On 6 October, the day of Yom Kippur, Golda's inner circle informs her that Egypt has amassed a large force opposite the Suez Canal, concluding that hostilities would begin by sundown.
Drama
Note: The story is mostly fictional with few true historical events. While forced labor camps existed in communist Bulgaria during the Cold War, David's story is entirely fictional. In 1951, a 12 year old boy named David, who is most likely Jewish and the child of parents who were political prisoners, escapes from a forced labor camp in the communist People's Republic of Bulgaria where he lived for most of his time.
Crime, Drama, musical film, Mysterie, mystery film, romance film, Romantic drama
thumbnail|100px|left|The Moon tarot card Cremona, 1681 (Language: Italian) Nicolò Bussotti is a violin-maker whose wife, Anna Rudolfi, is pregnant. Anna asks her servant Cesca to foretell her unborn child's future. Cesca cannot determine the future of someone who was not born, but she does offer to read Anna's future using tarot cards.
Action, children's film, Comedy drama, Family Comedy, fantasy film, teen film
Wendy Wu is a rich and popular Chinese-American teenager whose life is turned upside down by a visit from Shen, a cousin young Buddhist monk. He claims that Wendy is the reincarnation of a mighty female warrior and the only one who can prevent an evil spirit from destroying the world. Shen begs Wendy to wear a powerful amulet, which will protect her from evil until he can fully train her in martial arts.
Comedy drama
In post-war Rome, in May 1946, Allied military troops roam the streets in Jeeps. The city is experiencing both poverty and unrest fueled by the institutional referendum and the election of the Constituent Assembly on June 2 and 3. Delia is the wife of Ivano and the mother of three children, including the teenage Marcella.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
The Parkers are a somewhat reclusive religious family living in the Catskill Mountains who are about to undergo a period of ritual fasting. After purchasing supplies at a local goods store, Mrs. Parker notices a poster regarding a missing teenage girl.