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If I Were You

2013

If I Were You

2013
6.6
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
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.
Clandestine Childhood

2012

Clandestine Childhood

2012
6.9
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
The Son of Monte Cristo

1940

The Son of Monte Cristo

1940
5.9
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
World War III

2023

World War III

2023
6.8
Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib’s scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Seeking Dolly Parton

2015

Seeking Dolly Parton

2015
4.7
When Charlie and her girlfriend Cerina decide to have a baby together, the idea of using Cerina's ex-boyfriend Josh as the live-in donor turns an easy on-paper idea into a much more challenging event.
The Mattachine Family

2023

The Mattachine Family

2023
4.6
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Paradise

1991

Paradise

1991
6.2
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
Love Marks the Spot

2023

Love Marks the Spot

2023
6.3
In order to save her home publishing company from being sold, ghostwriter Becca must go all the way to Arcania with famed action star Lee to secure movie rights to the popular “Lover’s Quest“ series written by acclaimed writing duo, Roger and Lilly Atwood. But their trip becomes an adventure when they find themselves on the trail of the legendary last Atwood novel and perhaps even the trail of…love.
Alois Nebel

2011

Alois Nebel

2011
7.3
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…
The Place of No Words

2019

The Place of No Words

2019
7
A young boy battles the complexities of a grown-up world with his father.
Match Made in Mistletoe

2021

Match Made in Mistletoe

2021
5.5
When talented interior designer Emily Barnes is hired by a foreign embassy in D.C. to decorate for their annual holiday charity ball, the newly appointed ambassador Magnus Andersson's "minimalist" approach creates a roadblock between them. As Emily's undeniable love for the holiday season begins to thaw his heart, an unexpected romance begins between the two.
The Tree That Saved Christmas

2014

The Tree That Saved Christmas

2014
6
Twenty years after saving a frail sapling from a cutting crew, Molly Logan learns that the bank is foreclosing on her parents' Christmas tree farm. Can the tree she spared rescue the holiday?
Apple Mortgage Cake

2014

Apple Mortgage Cake

2014
5.8
The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home – and how this idea completely changes her and her family.
Bitter Feast

2010

Bitter Feast

2010
5.2
A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.
The Good Sister

2014

The Good Sister

2014
5.3
The Good Sister follows a couple who is working to put their crumbling marriage back together, when the wife receives a letter informing her that she has a long-lost twin sister. First thinking that the new family member will bring the couple closer together, the husband then begins an affair with the sister and discovers that she is treacherous and dangerous.
Anniversary Nightmare

2019

Anniversary Nightmare

2019
4.4
Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. But with no witnesses, she's immediately labeled the prime suspect. Without any help from the system that failed her, Liz must solve the crime herself with the possibility that her husband may still be alive.
A Marriage of Convenience

1998

A Marriage of Convenience

1998
5.5
Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy's father who was unaware of his son's existence. Prompted by a wise judge, they decide to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to not upset the child, though they soon find that they may just be in love after all.
Mean Johnny Barrows

1975

Mean Johnny Barrows

1975
5.5
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Six Days of Sistine

2019

Six Days of Sistine

2019
5.4
Two souls lost in a world of modernisation find each other in a moment's need for clarity and appreciation.