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The Perfect Gift

2009

The Perfect Gift

2009
6.5
A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
Someone Is Watching

2000

Someone Is Watching

2000
3.7
Cory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an imaginary friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the imaginary friend becomes all too real.
Kid Millions

1934

Kid Millions

1934
6.5
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Shaolin Master and the Kid

1978

Shaolin Master and the Kid

1978
6
A government law officer is dispatched to bring his brother's killers to justice. On his bloody mission, untold assassins are thrown at him, but to no avail. One by one they are done away with in a most militant style.
La sorpresa

2008

La sorpresa

2008
3.7
A man returns from a trip looking forward to seeing his wife. He takes a cab home where he tells the driver about his loved one. At the same time the taxi driver tells him about the woman he is in love with, a girl who has a broken heart. Destiny will give these two men a Surprise when they realize that their pathways are somehow connected.
Ambulance Girl

2005

Ambulance Girl

2005
4.8
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Lies Between Friends

2010

Lies Between Friends

2010
4.7
Fourteen years after graduation, a group of college friends convenes one weekend for a bridal shower for one of their own. Joss and her freshman year roommate and best friend in college, Cait, have been estranged for years, ever since Joss learned that her fiancé had been visiting Cait on the night he died in a motorcycle accident. As part of a recovery program, Cait wants to make up with Joss, but she dies before she can explain. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or something more sinister?
Rag Tale

2005

Rag Tale

2005
3
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Higher Education

1988

Higher Education

1988
2.7
A naive young man from the countryside moves to the big city to study art. Soon he has some strange experiences: His roommate turns out to be the bodyguard-protected son of a mafia boss, his fellow student is desperate to initiate him into love, and his attractive art professor also seems to have it in for him.
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996
4.8
The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher.
Charge Over You

2010

Charge Over You

2010
5
When Sarah meets Mike everything she thought she knew about the world is turned upside down.
The Wedding Dress

2001

The Wedding Dress

2001
5.3
When Hannah Pinkham's fiancé writes he's finally shipping home, her mother makes a fairy tale wedding dress, but while she's fitting it the knock on the door is not him, but the dreaded officer-messenger. Years later she sends it to her nephew, photographer Travis Cleveland, but his model-bride Cass only pretends to like it to get rid of his loyal assistant. After he walks off with it, his car gets stolen with the dress in it... And it keeps passing on from person to person, but will anybody actually get married in it or does it just keep bringing bad luck to couples?
Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway

2008

Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway

2008
5.7
A man kidnaps two girls in Oregon triggering the Amber Alert system throughout many surrounding states.
Booster

2012

Booster

2012
4.7
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Caught between loyalty to his brother and his own will, Simon is forced to examine his life.
Three Businessmen

1998

Three Businessmen

1998
6.2
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
End of the Harvest

1998

End of the Harvest

1998
5.3
An atheist philosophy club at a college harasses a Christian, Scott, who claims to have inside knowledge of when the world will end. To vindicate himself and "defeat" the athiests, he prepares a presentation based on a bible study he finds in the library. Although initially confident, Scott begins to have doubts due to the theoretical nature of the study. Meanwhile, his buddy Matt (who is having prophetic dreams of his own) is frustrated because he feels Scott is uprepared for the presentation and that the responsibility will fall on him to bail his friend out.
Casablanca Express

1989

Casablanca Express

1989
3
It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
Brainwash

1983

Brainwash

1983
5.7
A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.
Off Season

2001

Off Season

2001
3.2
After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the old man is actually Santa Claus.
Titanic Town

1998

Titanic Town

1998
4.7
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.