To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t realize that her best friend Rae is falling seriously ill with an uncommon and potentially deadly disease — meningitis B – prompting her to turn the pageant platform into a tool for awareness.
Struggling rapper Cmills is desperate to help his mother overcome addiction while facing life's challenges. When she's diagnosed with cancer, he must decide: give up his music to support her or pursue his dreams to honor her legacy through his songs.
Newly pregnant, Cheyenne flees in the night from her abuser. Back in her hometown she faces her embittered mother and vagabond sister. There, she navigates a complex family dynamic while rekindling her forgotten dreams - looking for the strength to break her trauma bond and perhaps raise her baby on her own.
When Erik is early to pick up his step-son from kindergarten, the child wants to stay behind with his friends. But Erik has a different plan, he is the second most important person in his stepsons life, but he wants to be number one. What happens when a grown man’s self worth rests on the shoulders of a five year old boy?
Since childhood, Amélia has been tormented by nightmares involving the tragic death of her mother, Maria. In the early hours of her 23rd birthday, she decides to revisit old footage and memories left by Maria and ends up getting lost on the threshold between reality and dream.
A young ranch hand hunts justice for his sister through the vast landscape of South Dakota. As he wrestles with what he is about to do, Cody crosses paths with a local county sheriff coming to terms with what she has already done.
Thirty-five-year-old Kateryna works in a catering shop for offices, but she doesn't like her job. She has a rude, violent temper. The protagonist has not been able to get pregnant by her husband for ten years. Kateryna wants to undergo IVF for the third time and has almost saved up the necessary amount of money for this procedure. But at this time, Katya's former lover, the priest, returns to the village and has his own secrets.
Unable to bear the financial pressure of raising a child, an Iranian couple decided to give up having children and instead use love and desire to give birth to an imaginary daughter. In this imaginary family, they are free from the constraints of reality and fully experience the joy and troubles of being parents. However, as time goes by, this carefully constructed dream of having a child begins to gradually devour the wife's sanity, pushing her to the brink of mental breakdown.
Kelsey honors her late mother by training for a marathon and sharing her journey online. Her posts attract Billy (Keenan Tracey), a grocery worker caring for his disabled mother, Debbie. Obsessed, Billy kidnaps Kelsey and hides her in their attic, controlling her for years. When Debbie discovers the truth, she and Kelsey must fight for survival.
Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant, while her husband, Special Forces ranger Hugo Loss, stands by her side.
Lin and his best friend sneak into his mom’s Chinese restaurant to pirate DVDs—until his high school crush walks in, forcing him to choose between friend, family, and love.
A desperate immigrant is sent to Vancouver to recover a stolen watch. Meanwhile, two low-level gangsters search for the same watch to avoid being executed by their boss. Both groups fight for the same object that has the power to save their lives.
A young couple struggling with an autism diagnosis faces an uncooperative school district, unproven treatments and their own emotional disconnection as they try to do what’s best for their son.
A businessman's empire crumbles after a shady deal. Desperate, he and his wife's best friend (his lover) plot to kill his author wife. She must choose: finish her story or survive it.
This is the TRUE STORY of how Heather Robinson grew up in a loving family in Illinois and, by the time she was a teen, had long known that she had been adopted as an infant. But in 2000, the then-15-year-old’s world was shattered when she learned that the man she knew as her uncle, John Robinson, was actually a serial killer accused of murdering multiple women in the Kansas City area, including her biological mother. Following her uncle’s arrest, Heather learns the shocking truth about her birth mother’s disappearance.