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Follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life - a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns he is not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette), and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one.

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.

A war vet returns from battle to his hometown a paraplegic. Until one day he just literally stands up. No one knows how. The town thinks he's a Messiah and he soon has news media and the Vatican on his doorstep.

Story of the 1948 conflict in the Middle East immediately after the state of Israel was formed, which triggered a nine-month war waged by five Arab nations.

The story is set in 1920s Tampa, then the seat of cigar-making industry and featured an imported Cuban tradition of lectors reading to workers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Anna in the Tropics centers on a family of cigar rollers whose lives are changed by the power of literature.

Set in the distant future, a disgraced Conglomerate Enforcer gets a shot at redemption by leading a rag tag group of explorers on a first contact mission to a newly discovered planet. The mission turns out to be a deadly trap and the leader and crew are stranded with all their technology destroyed. Their only chance is to rely on their wits and earn the trust of the warring hostile inhabitants if they have any chance to return home to earth.

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.

After a 19-year-old huntress kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it.

Centers on a reluctant witch and a 1,500-year-old vampire. The witch -- a direct descendant of the first woman executed in the Salem Witch trials -- accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript and finds herself in a race to prevent an interspecies war.

Follows a young female Syrian refugee’s arduous journey in search of a better life

After four years of brutal trench fighting in WWI, Willie Dunne, once an eager soldier in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, is still a "long, long way" from home.

Story of how a Muslim, an Israeli Jew, and a Christian American came together to prevent a battle at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.

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.

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.

A tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates his chronic infidelity, pressure from her family and community, and the alternating joys and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s rosy illusions about her privileged world are slowly stripped away.

Italian police inspector Guido Brunetti investigates the beating of an American art historian living on the Venetian lagoon with her lesbian lover, the reigning diva of La Scala.

A teenage girl awakes from a coma and can't remember a thing. As her memory slowly comes back to her, things get strange.