Movies in Development (Page #127)

In 1998, Travis Boyette abducts and rapes a teenage girl and buries her body. He watches unfazed as the police arrest and convict Donté Drumm, a black high school football player with no connection to the crime. In 2007, Travis Boyette decides to do what is right and confess, but despite his confession to the the execution proceeds on.

During WWII, Desmond Doss, an Army medic, is ostracized by his fellow soldiers because of his refusal to kill or even carry a gun. He proves his courage, saving 75 men at the Battle of Okinawa. He later becomes the first conscientious objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Set in Massachusetts during a record-breaking snowstorm, a house has all its additions and subtractions, and a tiny, secret room hidden beside the fireplace.

Nicolas Cristo, a man broken, betrayed and locked away for over a decade, fights to bring justice to a world even more cruel and corrupt than the one that was taken from him.

Centers on Chester, a cricket who lives in a NY subway station newsstand and his various friends.

A troubled priest confines himself to a remote cabin in the middle of the woods where he attempts to make a last stand against the demon that terrorized his family when he was a child.

The story is set along an isolated stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast during a devastating 1935 hurricane. The protagonist is a WWI veteran who's plagued by premonitions of death for his traveling companions.

Jackie Estacado, a Mafia hitman, discovers that he is the heir to the Darkness, an elemental mystical force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there.

Set in the aftermath of a comet shower that blinds most of the world's population, those with sight must battle alien plants, known as Triffids, bent on destroying mankind.

A group of mostly teenagers from around the world are involved in a multiplayer video game, each unaware of who they really are behind the cover of their consoles and avatars. They are forced to come together for a real adventure, becoming inadvertent heroes in the process.

A Columbia University professor specializes in demonic literature but himself is a profound skeptic of the occult. But when his 12-year-old daughter winds up in the grip of the actual underworld, he must use his expertise in the signs and symbols of Milton’s "Paradise Lost" as a guide to rescue her.

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

During WWII, Davie Berman, the only Jewish member of the Luciano mob, is requested by the U.S. military to help turn the tide of events against the Germans in Italy. He almost single-handedly drives the Germans out of the southern region of Italy.

In the early 20th century, Amy Archer-Gilligan runs a nursing home that plays host to a curiously high number of fatalities between 1907 and 1917. Most of the deaths are found to be caused by poisoning, and bulk arsenic buyer "Sister Amy" is eventually found guilty of murder.

Set in present day, a group of hardened Army prisoners are trained to conduct a suicide mission.

A man investigates his wife's mysterious death only to find out it goes much deeper than he imagined.

Following the disappearance of U.S. Army pilot Daniel Dawson's surveillance plane in the Vietnam jungles, his younger brother Don, left his job, his family and friends, emptied his bank account and traveled to Vietnam to find his brother.

A strategic series of Civil War battles take place in the Shenandoah Valley between Union General George Armstrong Custer and Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby, known as the Gray Ghost for his stealth and elusiveness. Mosby's cavalrymen, known as Mosby's Rangers, continually outsmart the much larger enemy forces in a sequence of raids, which enrages Custer and eventually creates a fierce cycle of revenge between the two men.