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Counting by 7s

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

Children of Blood and Bone

Set in the magical Orisha kingdom, a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) set out on an adventure that will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat as our heroes take a bite out of the Big Apple. Based on the beloved Scholastic book character, Clifford will teach the world how to love big!
Location: US - New York

Completed

November 10, 2021 Nationwide Paramount+

Catherine Called Birdy

The year? 1290. In the Medieval English village of Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest child of Lord Rollo and the Lady Aislinn. Her playground is Stonebridge Manor, a house that, like the family, has seen better days. Financially destitute and utterly greedy, Rollo sees his daughter as his path out of financial ruin by marrying her off to a wealthy man for money and land. But Birdy, like all the great teen heroines, is spirited, clever, and adventurous and ready to put off any suitor that comes calling in increasingly ingenious ways. Her imagination, defiance, and deep belief in her own right to independence put her on a collision course with her parents. When the vilest suitor of all arrives, they are presented with the ultimate test of love for their daughter.

Completed

October 7, 2022 Limited Prime Video

Chaos Walking

In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the Noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened – and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets.

Cherry

Follows the wild journey of a disenfranchised young man from Ohio who meets the love of his life, only to risk losing her through a series of bad decisions and challenging life circumstances. Inspired by the best-selling novel of the same name, CHERRY features Tom Holland in the title role, as an unhinged character who drifts from dropping out of college to serving in Iraq as an army medic and is only anchored by his one true love Emily (Ciara Bravo). When Cherry returns home a war hero, he battles the demons of undiagnosed PTSD and spirals into drug addiction, surrounding himself with a menagerie of depraved misfits. Draining his finances, Cherry turns to bank robbing to fund his addiction, shattering his relationship with Emily along the way.

Completed

March 12, 2021 Apple TV+ Limited

Call Me by Your Name

It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows wit h natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Completed

January 19, 2018 Expansion Limited

Captive

The true story of Ashley Smith (Mara), a single mother and recovering drug addict who was taken hostage in her own apartment by fugitive, murderer and accused rapist Brian Nichols (Oyelowo). With her back against the wall, Smith turned to the personal spiritual journey of Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life in an attempt to survive and help Brian find a better way out.

City on Fire

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Condorito: La Película

The famous comic strip character and his pals are animated in CGI for the first time, including the love of his life Yayita (Jessica Cediel), his romantic rival Pepe Cortisona (Cristian de la Fuente), as well as his nephew Chicky. Condorito (Omar Chaparro) is ready to propose to Yayita and tie the feather- er, knot, but when his disapproving mother in law Tremebunda (Coco Legrand) is abducted by an alien king, Condorito and his nephew must embark an out of this world adventure to save “La Suegra”- as well as planet Earth!

Challenger Deep

15-year-old Caden Bosch who is afflicted with schizophrenia imagines himself on a pirate ship voyaging through the Pacific Ocean.

Can You Keep a Secret?

Based on Sophie Kinsella's novel of the same name, the story is about a junior marketing executive (Alexandra Daddario) who spills her guts to a handsome airplane passenger during a turbulent business flight. Later she learns that the person she was telling all of her deepest secrets to is the man running her company.

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Each member of the ensemble appears in multiple roles as the stories move through time.
Locations: Germany; Spain; UK - Unknown

Completed

October 26, 2012 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Clown in a Cornfield

In a fading Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real as teenagers start to go missing one by one, before meeting spectacularly sticky ends.

Cassandra at the Wedding

Story centers on 26-year-old Cassandra, whose life is turned upside down when she finds out her identical twin, Jude, is about to drop out of college and marry a man she's known only three months.

Crazy U

A father tries to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college. Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.

Crooked House

Set in 1950s London, Private Investigator Charles Hayward is persuaded by his former lover Sophia Leonides to investigate the poisoning of her wealthy grandfather. Arriving at the opulent country estate, Charles is thrown into the middle of a ruthless family all of which hated the patriarch, including his adult children, grandchildren and his brazen sister-in-law. With time against him, Charles must solve the case before the murderer strikes again.

Crying in H Mart

A half-Korean daughter returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. They learn to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.

Carrie

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Completed

October 18, 2013 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD