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The Cold Equations

1996

The Cold Equations

1996
4
Lieutenant John Barton is sent on a special mission to deliver a special vaccine to a distant mining colony. He is infuriated to find Lee, a stowaway aboard his spacecraft. Barton has only enough fuel to carry himself and his precious cargo, and Lee's added weight insures that they will crash if she stays on board. They have gone too far to turn back, and Barton's superiors make it clear: the mission takes precedence and Lee has to be dumped into space. But she won't go quietly.
Childstar

2004

Childstar

2004
5.1
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Fixing Frank

2002

Fixing Frank

2002
4.6
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds reprehensible. Frank quickly comes clean with Apsey but continues to meet with him under the pretense of interviewing him, but finds himself questioning himself, Jonathan and their six-year relationship.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

2005

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

2005
8.1
The first performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in London. Performed at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975.
A Village Affair

1995

A Village Affair

1995
4.8
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Rain

2008

Rain

2008
7
Rain is a spirited 14-year old who, after the death of her grandmother, seeks out her estranged mother in the big city of Nassau. Her dreams of a loving reconciliation are quickly shattered when she meets Glory, a scarred, proud, guarded woman bearing no resemblance to the mother she had hoped for.
Down and Derby

2005

Down and Derby

2005
5.4
A local Pinewood Derby competition transforms an average group of dads into overzealous rivals desperate to build the winning car. As egos swell, the kids are lucky if they get to pick the paint color. While the dads are busy with outlandish gimmicks and sabotage, the underestimated scouts pull together and discover the true meaning of sportsmanship.
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy

2006

Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy

2006
5
A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.
The Inside Man

1984

The Inside Man

1984
3.5
In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
Target Earth

1998

Target Earth

1998
4.2
Unlikely heroes must overcome incredible dangers to save mankind from the threat of an alien invasion.
Angels Hard as They Come

1971

Angels Hard as They Come

1971
4.4
A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another and chaos ensues.
Carter's Army

1975

Carter's Army

1975
4
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.
Daniel's Daughter

2008

Daniel's Daughter

2008
5.3
When a woman learns that her father has passed away, she must confront the past (and the town) she left behind.
Death Ride

2006

Death Ride

2006
2.9
An American photographer has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.
Badland

2007

Badland

2007
6
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
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.
Clockmaker

1998

Clockmaker

1998
3.8
Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future
Frankenstein and Me

1996

Frankenstein and Me

1996
5.2
Earl Williams is a dreamer teenager obsessed with monsters, who fantasizes his life as if he were living in the world of the monsters of Universal Studios. Although being an excellent student, his intolerant and nasty school teacher Mrs. Perdue does not like him and punishes him for any minor fault. His supportive father Les Williams is also a dreamer, who has never been successful in life. When his father dies, his mother becomes lost with two boys, and tries to change the behavior of Earl. One day, the boy finds the "true Frankenstein" lost by a Carnival, and decides to bring the monster back to life.
Tinsel Town

2025

Tinsel Town

2025
7.1
A washed-up Hollywood action hero is tricked into starring in a small English town’s chaotic Christmas pantomime, where a straight-talking dance instructor and his estranged daughter just might help him rediscover the magic of the season.
Last ExMas

2024

Last ExMas

2024
6.7
Maggie and Julianne are ex-girlfriends who unexpectedly rekindle the spark during a hometown visit for the holidays. Are they meant to be? They'll have to navigate their feelings, the gossiping town, and ghosts of exes past to find out.