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In the Dark Half

2012

In the Dark Half

2012
5.2
A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Wedding in White

1972

Wedding in White

1972
6.5
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Robbers' Roost

1955

Robbers' Roost

1955
5.8
Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays. Both Hays' outlaws and a rival gang headed by Heesman, have been hired as ranch hands by "Bull" Herrick, a cripple who owns a large cattle ranch and wants to get his large herd to market. He theorizes that the two gangs will be kept busy watching each other and neither will rustle his cattle. Helen has little faith in her brother's contrived plan, and hates and distrusts both groups. She begins to soften toward Jim, but abruptly changes when she sees a reward poster which says he has killed two men.
My Brother's Keeper

1995

My Brother's Keeper

1995
1
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
The Cross and the Switchblade

1970

The Cross and the Switchblade

1970
5.8
David Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.
The Song of Scorpions

2019

The Song of Scorpions

2019
8
While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader listens to her sing and falls in love with her and they marry. But soon, Nooran discovers treachery and must avenge herself and rediscover her lost song.
Picnic

2000

Picnic

2000
3.7
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Strike One

2014

Strike One

2014
5.1
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
Firehouse

1973

Firehouse

1973
4.6
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.
Beneath a Sea of Lights

2020

Beneath a Sea of Lights

2020
5.9
A Somali billboard repairman working in Dubai decides he wants to experience some of the products advertised on his billboards. It’s an experience that begins innocently enough, but quickly spins out of control, especially when a con man enters the picture.
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire

2000

Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire

2000
4.2
The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
Man of Men

2019

Man of Men

2019
6.5
The friendship between a lawyer who will do anything to make money and a nursing home volunteer.
Love in a Day

2014

Love in a Day

2014
Three couples go on a one day retreat, working through issues that could bring them to hate, but instead, they see each other through new eyes with laughter, tears and love along the way.
Samantha Rose

2021

Samantha Rose

2021
8
Samantha Rose is a coming of age story shot on location in the Pacific Northwest. Centering non-binary actor, Sam Rose, the film is a tale of a young woman battling family codependence and aimlessness alike. Sam returns to her hometown in northern Oregon and is reunited with a childhood friend and his misfit commune of friends where they work the fall harvest on the surrounding vineyards. This ragtag family of runaways are fearless and free, leading Sam on a journey of discovery and healing. There are motorcycle rides and homemade wine, midnight swims and bonfires, horses, camping, and a love story that unfolds as Sam comes to see her life for what it really is: her own.
Full of Grace

2017

Full of Grace

2017
6.5
Follows Mary of Nazareth in her last earthly days as she helps the fractious early Church regain their original encounter with The Lord.
Disappear

2020

Disappear

2020
Disappear talks about the acceptance of death as a decisive step towards adulthood, and specifically about this “passage ritual” in the “Millennial” generation, since they have had to grow up seeing life through a screen.
The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002
5.4
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's death—with unnerving detail. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a nation to action. Also starring Law & Order's Sam Waterston.
The Troubles: A Dublin Story

2022

The Troubles: A Dublin Story

2022
5.5
Two young Dublin brothers must navigate loyalty, honour and the dangerous world of republicanism as they fuel the Northern war machine - by any means necessary.
Never Heard

2018

Never Heard

2018
7.6
After Aaron is charged with murder, he uses the power of prayer to help prove his innocence turning his life around and saving his son Jalen from the street life before it is too late.
Selling Innocence

2005

Selling Innocence

2005
5.3
Mia Sampson's dreams to be a model come true when she's asked to pose for photographs to be displayed on an Internet website for "members only." However, when the owner of the website uses her pictures for exploitation purposes, Mia's mother must fight to remove the photos off the web and restore her daughter's privacy.