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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006
6.2
A single mother’s American Idol audition helps her rise above a history of poverty, sexual abuse, and illiteracy to achieve national prominence.
Yesterday Last Year

2017

Yesterday Last Year

2017
5
A love triangle caught in the circle of time....
Saving Grace B. Jones

2009

Saving Grace B. Jones

2009
5.8
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.
Talk to the Dead

2013

Talk to the Dead

2013
5.4
Having lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother. Yuri's mother meets a new man, but they are deeply in debt and forced to leave their home. Yuri is then forced to take a job as a call girl to support her brother. One day Yuri's brother becomes ill but since Yuri has to work, she unwillingly leaves him at home. When she returns, she finds him dead in the bathtub. Her heart is scarred with regret and she suffers with a pain that will never go away. After some time has passed, Mayu, a colleague of Yuri's, tells her about a mysterious mobile app that is rumored to enable its user to talk to the dead. Yet, it comes with a warning: Never reply if the dead soul says, "I want to see you." Because she blames herself for her brother's death and will do anything to tell him how sorry she is, Yuri downloads the app and reaches out to her dead brother. Meanwhile, the app's users begin to die.
Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

2020

Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

2020
4.3
The movie centers on drummer Artimus Pyle's experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day their rented plane crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October 20th, 1977 and took the lives of singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister backup singer Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and the two pilots. This movie focuses on the hours leading up to the event, the day of, and the aftermath.
Answers to Nothing

2011

Answers to Nothing

2011
3.8
Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don't always see.
Magic Journey to Africa

2010

Magic Journey to Africa

2010
4.5
Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries
Battered

1978

Battered

1978
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
This Matter of Marriage

1998

This Matter of Marriage

1998
4.1
Successful Hallie has it all - power, wealth, status - but she has no man in her life. Together with her friend Donnelee she goes out into the night to search for the right one. New lovers come and go without Hallie understand that true love is closer than she thinks - just across the street
The Inside

2012

The Inside

2012
3.5
A group of girls are terrorized by violent vagrants before succumbing to a horrific supernatural evil.
Cruiser

2015

Cruiser

2015
It’s just another night at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of Athens. Vlassis starts his night shift. Stephanos, a middle-aged truck driver, ends up at the gas station on the same night. The two of them confide their thoughts and dreams in one another, trapped in the Athens night.
Assumed Killer

2013

Assumed Killer

2013
2.9
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
The Middle Distance

2015

The Middle Distance

2015
6.3
Womanizing workaholic Neil returns to Michigan to reunite with his brother after their father dies. As they try to sell the family home, their interactions are as chilly as the frost-covered February landscape. But Neil’s facade thaws under the glow of his brother’s charismatic fiancée. Chicago writer-director Patrick Underwood crafts a big-hearted romantic melodrama about rebuilding.
Indian Road Trip

2019

Indian Road Trip

2019
When two unruly Native con-artists are forced to drive a cranky elder across the reserve so she can make peace with her long estranged and dying sister, it quickly becomes clear that a supernatural force is trying to halt the journey.
Crucible of Terror

1972

Crucible of Terror

1972
4.9
An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
The Revival

2017

The Revival

2017
5.2
A secret love affair between a southern Baptist preacher and a young drifter challenges the equilibrium of a growing church.
Beth + Jeremy and Steve

2025

Beth + Jeremy and Steve

2025
An atmospheric, dreamy, low-key funny and somewhat acerbic tale about three people who are in different states of yearning at two different milestones, teens and 30’s. Jeremy was recently rejected by his high school sweetheart. Beth and Steve are at a crossroad in their marriage. Beth and Jeremy have an accidental meeting in a record store and their mutual interests forge a connection that surprises themselves and challenges Steve.
Prosper

2022

Prosper

2022
Captain Billy Flynn anticipates the revival of his crew. Split up years previous, he hopes to continue singing his shanties and living life to the fullest with the people closest to him. His crew. The Pirates of St Piran.
Bloodlust!

1961

Bloodlust!

1961
4.3
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
The Rebels

2020

The Rebels

2020
3.7
Four rebellious teenagers in 1st century Roman-occupied Wales must flee their village and live in the wild after they accidentally kill a Roman soldier and cause an uprising. They must learn to live together or risk facing the wrath of Rome.