Movies in Development (Page #132)

A washed-up cryptologist finds himself pulled into an international conspiracy that claims to have created a way to map out all human disasters and terrorism through our DNA.

A centuries-old tradition within Thailand's prison system allows inmates to compete in state-sanctioned tournaments to win early release. An American locked up overseas in a Thai prison and must learn Muay Thai in order to fight for his freedom.

A middle-class black family tries to resolve issues brewing over three generations.

Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

Inspired by true events, Charlie Logan was a street-raised kid from Hell’s Kitchen whose photographic memory and mathematical brilliance enabled him to become one of the most prolific sports odds breakers in history, and got him entangled with organized crime and crooked cops who will resort to any means necessary to keep Charlie working for them.

A middle school genius finds himself transported via his missing father's mysterious invention into the midst of an intergalactic conflict. Recruiting a small staff of his friends, the young ambassadors will have to navigate galactic politics, and each other, as they find a way to save their universe.

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow deals with drugs, depression, promiscuous sex, jail, and suicidal depression along with his success as a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and winning the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. His nickname comes from his affinity for razzing other players during poker games.

Chief Ron Roberts, a conman, claims he has Mohegan ancestry in order to open a casino.

A young assassin is caught up in a global clandestine war that's been raging for centuries. Everything changes when he falls in love with a woman who calls into question the world as he knows it. As he desperately fights to uncover the elusive truth behind the conflict, he begins to wonder which side he's really on — good or evil.

A family of djinn (a kind of genie) disguise themselves as humans but can still grant wishes.

An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family’s sign-making firm. He soon discovers that the complexities of such a venture far outstrip the expected differences in language, customs and manners—and call into question even the most basic assumptions of human conduct.

When an eccentric professor invents an automated flying car that takes his family to a foreign land only to have it stolen by their government, he must get it back and save the nation from its oppressive dictator.

Set in Chicago, the world only recently discovered that magic is real. Sloane Andrews, one of the "Famous Five," as a teen defeated a villain known as the Dark One more than a decade earlier. Now, in adulthood, Sloane grapples with PTSD, fractured relationships, rabid media scrutiny and, worst of all, the prospect that their mission might not be finished yet after all. On the tenth anniversary of the Dark One's defeat, something unthinkable happens: one of the Chosen Ones dies. When the others gather for the funeral, they discover the Dark One's ultimate goal was much bigger than they, the government, or even prophecy could have foretold—bigger than the world itself.

The true story of American businessman Chris Catrambone, founder of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station.

In the 1970s, John Rendall and Ace Bourke buy a lion cub at Harrod's department store, raise it and frolick with it, only to set it free and have it recognize them a year later.

The film follows a young girl, Dáyami, living in a Mexican border town who tries to send her Christmas list to Santa tied to a balloon. The balloon is found by Randy and Marcella Heiss, a couple in Arizona grieving the loss of their own child, who make it their mission to fulfill the girl’s touching Christmas wishes.

A cooking writer, whom the world believes is living on a cozy farm in Connecticut with her husband and baby, is actually a single woman living on her own in New York. The ruse is discovered when a holiday meal is planned at her fake farm.

Capone's rise from the slums of Brooklyn to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition.