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I Am Potential

2015

I Am Potential

2015
6.3
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Hounded on a Carnival Monday

2002

Hounded on a Carnival Monday

2002
4.2
In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for them to survive under the political oppression. Even Carnival, with all its colorfulness and celebration, cant disguise the mounting tension between the villagers and government making the girls coming of age all the more difficult when the two collide. This movie combines attractive visual scenes with a highly sensual atmosphere as Florencia fights and uses all her resources and beauty to survive and find revenge.
The Preppie Murder

1989

The Preppie Murder

1989
5.2
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
Legend of Carpathians

2018

Legend of Carpathians

2018
5.5
As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa's mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother's death. Oleksa gathered followers to begin a crusade against the lord, but destiny made other plans for him.
The Fatal Game

1996

The Fatal Game

1996
8.2
In 1994, New Zealand mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summitted Mt Everest with climbing partner and friend Mike Reinberger. However it was late in the day and after a freezing night on the summit, Whetu was faced with a terrible decision...to leave Reinberger or stay with him forever.
Axis

2017

Axis

2017
5.1
On the morning he is set to star in a career changing blockbuster film, an Irish actor trying to live down his rocky past confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his sobriety, his loved ones, and ultimately his life.
Mahjong and the West

2014

Mahjong and the West

2014
6.9
When a young woman returns to Wyoming to bury her mother, she reunites with her childhood friend, a hard-living rodeo princess, who forces her to confront a shared trauma from their past.
Mist

2017

Mist

2017
3.3
Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.
Land of the Heroes

2011

Land of the Heroes

2011
5.8
Iraq, 1988. A land devastated by war (Iraq-Iran conflict). Dilleer (10) and his sister Zienee want to watch cartoons on television, but that becomes more difficult than expected when bully Malo comes along.
The Big Dead Dog

1981

The Big Dead Dog

1981
7
In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
Juan Armenta, the repatriated

1976

Juan Armenta, the repatriated

1976
5.7
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
The Desperate Mission

1969

The Desperate Mission

1969
4
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
Heartlock

2018

Heartlock

2018
5.8
When a female guard becomes a prisoner of his mind, a male inmate struggles to keep the truth from escaping.
Detours

2016

Detours

2016
4.7
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
Adrenaline

2015

Adrenaline

2015
4.5
A drag racer becomes a paraplegic, but he undergoes a religious conversion.
The Farm

2015

The Farm

2015
5.5
A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories about the pursuit of happiness and it's unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico.
Ditch Party

2015

Ditch Party

2015
2.7
Five students trap themselves in the basement of their high school during an all-out assault on students and faculty, all at the hands of one disturbed student geared with guns and explosives.
Grace and Grit

2021

Grace and Grit

2021
4.7
The true love story of iconic philosopher Ken Wilber and his wife Treya in 1980s California as they fall madly in love and are faced with illness and challenges that threaten to tear them apart.
Acorralado

1984

Acorralado

1984
5.7
Revolutionary on the run from a government hit squad kidnaps a landowner's daughter for protection.
The Lost Tree

2015

The Lost Tree

2015
5
After a serious traumatic accident, a man leaves his old life behind and moves to an isolated cabin to start over. He soon learns of the surroundings of the area and its dangerous past.