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Jake's Corner

2008

Jake's Corner

2008
4.6
The fictional story of an ex-football star, Johnny Dunn, who moves far from the spotlight after a family tragedy to a small, desert town he owns called Jake's Corner. This dramatic comedy is a cross between Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and "Northern Exposure" (1990). Set in the real town of Jake's Corner, Arizona, it is a rest stop for travelers making their way through the Arizona desert, but for the people who live there, it's a rest stop for life. Johnny and the eclectic ensemble that live and work in the town occupy trailers behind the Corner Store and Jake's Corner Bar. Through the years, this cast of misfits has become closer than most families - they are kin. The dynamic of the town is changed forever when Johnny's young nephew comes to live with him.
Homebody

2022

Homebody

2022
2.7
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
House of Sand and Fog

2003

House of Sand and Fog

2003
7.1
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
BLOOD TYPE

2018

BLOOD TYPE

2018
9.2
During a frantic police car chase, a fleeing Thief crashes into several twisted characters sending them to an Emergency Room where they emotionally clash and trash, unaware their lives are about to change forever!
The Art of Self-Defense

2019

The Art of Self-Defense

2019
6.6
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
Moments in Spacetime

2020

Moments in Spacetime

2020
6
Macie (Patty Srisuwan), a Thai immigrant adopted into a North American family, must look after her dementia suffering grandfather (John Rhys-Davies). When she discovers that her birth mother may not have died in a tsunami fifteen years earlier, Macie teams up with grandfather to discover the truth about her past in order to decide which family means the most to her.
Criminal Audition

2019

Criminal Audition

2019
5.8
An ex-lawyer and his team run an underworld service, they seek the most desperate and greedy to become fake criminals to take the fall for the rich and powerful's crimes in a process known as `Criminal Audition'.
Stuff

2015

Stuff

2015
5.7
Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
The Secret Handshake

2015

The Secret Handshake

2015
4.8
Men and boys learn together what it takes to be a man.
The Mummy Lives

1993

The Mummy Lives

1993
3.9
An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2009

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2009
6.2
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation

2023

Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation

2023
6.6
Gwen Shamblin, a charismatic with a curated image, became known with her Christian diet program "Weigh Down Workshop", and was accused of exploitation and emotional, psychological, and physical abuse by the church's alleged cult practices.
Breaking News in Yuba County

2021

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021
5.9
An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.
Forgetting the Girl

2012

Forgetting the Girl

2012
5.6
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes overwhelmingly turbulent, forcing him to take desperate measures.
The Grocer's Son

2007

The Grocer's Son

2007
6.5
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.
Girl Taken

2025

Girl Taken

2025
10
After she blames her mother for a break-up, a teen girl runs away and hitches a ride with a family friend, only to be abducted by him. Now she must fight to survive as her mother fights to find her.
El bumbún

2014

El bumbún

2014
In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.
Her Little Secret

2017

Her Little Secret

2017
6
When Lerrez finally manages to turn her life around, her dark past finds its way back in. How far will she go to keep Her Little Secret?
Genova

2009

Genova

2009
5.6
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
8 Stories

2015

8 Stories

2015
5
Living in a crowded New York City apartment does not mean getting close to the neighbors. During the hectic Christmas season, the residents go about their lives while an old widower sits alone in his living room reading a card that says his son won't be coming home for Christmas. Meanwhile a dancer packs up her ballet shoes to give up on her dream in the big city. A financial consultant can't commit. An artist tries to confront his fear about talking to the girl upstairs. A washed up journalist can't find the right story. And three students more concerned with popularity than making friends all walk into an elevator. 8 strangers stuck in an elevator 8 stories high. 8 strangers are about to find out what being a true neighbor means.