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High school student Laurel's beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes to her epistolary confidants about navigating new and complicated friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time. Ultimately, the letters reveal the painful truth about her past.

A 19-year-old woman moves to Hollywood, quickly finds fame as a reality series star and then has to deal with the ramifications of living a fishbowl life.

Linda Tripp, a White House aide, secretly records 22-year old White House intern Monica Lewinsky's revelations of sexual liasons with President Bill Clinton in the White House. Tripp leaks the tape to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who is investigating Whitewater.

Eighteen-year-old Ever Wong is sent from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer. Ever is joined by 30 other students for the summer program — all of whom are a diverse array of Asian Americans. But what she thinks is a Summer program turns out to be a teen free-for-all that is dubbed "Loveboat". Instead of calligraphy, the teens are into clubbing and instead of touring sacred shrines, they opt for drinking snake blood.

A narrative that connects Leonardo da Vinci's art to his science and voracious curiosity and imagination.

On an African beach, a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets a vacationing upper-middle-class British couple who've wandered into an area outside the safety of their resort.

Set in the 17th century, Ogami Itto, a disgraced samurai, travels around Japan with his three-year-old son Daigoro as an assassin for hire as he tries to clear his family's name. Ultimately, Itto seeks revenge on the Yagyu clan, who falsely accused him of murdering his wife.

Focuses on the formative years of Elvis Presley up to his enlistment in the Army.

Lenny McLean goes from humble beginnings in Hoxton, East London to become a boxer, bouncer, bare-knuckle fighter, actor, accused murderer and family man. McLean dies in 1998 at the age of 49.

Built around Philippe Petit's real-life "artistic crime of the century" -- when the Frenchman illegally walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers in August 1974 -- "Spin" follows an ensemble cast of characters struggling throughout New York. The characters include a young Irish monk living among prostitutes in the Bronx; a group of mothers mourning their sons, killed in Vietnam, in a Park Avenue apartment; and a 38-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.

A man is hired by the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers and goes through the training program to eventually rise up to being a successful bond trader.

During the week leading up to the 1967 NFL championship game, Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lmbardi prepares his team to play against the Dallas Cowboys. The game becomes known as the "Ice Bowl" due to the extreme weather.

Set during a sixty second elevator ride, a young man struggles to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

The film focuses on extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s.

A Ping-Pong match between players Zhuang Zedong of China and Glenn Cowan of the U.S. in Japan leads to a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and China. It results in a historic 1972 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Chinese leader Mao Zedong that changes world history.

Follows the true-life 761st Tank Battalion, an African-American armored unit which saw combat as part of the U.S. Army during WWII under General George S. Patton.

Follows a woman's transformation in her priorities as she evolved from a social-media-centric and impulsive personality to a first-time mother.

Amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, T Kira Madden, a queer, biracial teenager, faces cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lives a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface is a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronts her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she finds lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls.