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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.

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.

After a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, a teenager finds himself wrongfully pursued by a corrupt Department of Homeland Security agent. Using technological tricks, he must elude capture while exposing the truth.

Teenagers in Havana deliberately inject themselves with HIV to escape the oppression of "Special Period" Cuba.

A World War II mission takes place to rescue Corporal Margaret Hastings, one of three U.S. military survivors of a plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific The ancient indigenous tribe members help those stranded on the ground in this Shangri-La.

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.

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.

Lanny moves his family to a commuter village close to London that is filled with mysterious English folklore characters and myths.

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

An LAPD cop who becomes a mole investigating a crime against the head of the Mexican mafia. He and his partner soon become involved in web of corruption and retribution involving gang bangers, dirty cops and the mexican mob.

The story of a teenager whose apparent death sets off a series of paranormal events. Frightened by what appears to be otherworldly activity, her family discovers secrets about their daughter as well as what lurks beneath Lake Mungo.

Follows a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. One day, the woman finds she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.

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.

Richard Branson goes from rags-to-riches as an entrepreneur with roots in the music business, as well as his love for death-defying stunts, including riding across the Atlantic Ocean in hot-air balloons.

An avid Jane Austen fan lives in present day New York with her boyfriend until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.

Set in a world in which some babies are born without souls, a young expectant mother is sent to an unusual wellness center in the desert, with the hopes that it will improve her chances of delivering a healthy baby.

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.