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A backwoods neo-noir thriller starts with a bang: a single shot, aimed at a lone deer, that hits and kills a young woman. Delivering an intense marquee performance, Sam Rockwell plays the hunter John Moon, who watches the young woman die before discovering a box of money near her body. In a desperate panic, he takes the cash — hiring a low-rent lawyer (William H. Macy) to fight his wife's (Kelly Reilly, FLIGHT) divorce suit — and attempts to cover up the killing. But when he discovers that the money belonged to a group of hardened criminals, the hunter becomes the hunted in this tense cat-and-mouse struggle in the backwoods of West Virginia.

Recounts the time Amos Oz spent with his mother, Fania (Natalie Portman), who struggles with raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, Fania battles her inner demons and longs for a better world for her son.

Years after the discovery of a genetic cure for death, one man starts to question everything, leading him on a mind-bending journey that will bring him face-to-face with his past and his own mortality.

A modern 12-year-old boy realizes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ who has returned to Earth in the present day in a final effort to save mankind.

A woman discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years when she stumbles upon a box in the garage.

When 8-year-old Merry's older sister exhibits signs of an indeterminate and terrifying affliction, the Barrett family slowly tears itself apart. Now, 20 years later, Merry is confronted with her family's traumatic past when Rachel, a journalist with a similarly haunted past, delves into the case, causing Merry to relive and reconsider the devastating memories of her childhood.

Centers on a young Ernest Hemingway in post-WWI Paris in the 1920s. The prose includes tart portrayals of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.

Patrice Émery Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader, becomes the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helps win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba's government is deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.

Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

Described as a mind-bending love story that crosses parallel worlds in the vein of Ghost, Inception and The Matrix.

Story of a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world. She often helps those around her, resulting in strong bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and must confront her own challenges.

A quiet woman marries a charismatic scion of a political family and ultimately becomes a presidential First Lady.

The story centers on a brother and sister who move into their late great-grandfather's home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world.

A counter-espionage officer defies orders and embarks on a compromising mission to clear the name of a French-Jewish officer who was unfairly accused of spying for Germany and imprisoned on Devil’s Island in the late 1890s.

The daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the remnants of humanity are hunkered down in an outpost protected by a wall of light named Arclight. They hide from creatures known as the Fade. A lone teenage girl with no memory of who she is or how she survived in what is called the Dark enters the enclave. She ultimately holds the key to its survival.

The story follows characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.