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Young Adult

A writer of teen literature returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.

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December 9, 2011 Limited Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Drive

A nameless Hollywood stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in his car.
Location: US - California

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September 16, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD VOD / Digital

The Girl with the Drago...

A journalist-investigator and a precocious computer hacker become embroiled in life-threatening mysteries as they attempt to expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.
Locations: Sweden; US - California

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December 20, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Bride Flight

Three young women – Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver), and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) – emigrate from post-WWII Holland to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. They are all awaited by their fiancés, who have already settled in Christchurch. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the 'Bride Flight' – the three become fast friends and meet a dashing young man, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), who will come to play a large role in each of their lives.

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June 10, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Blackthorn

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.

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October 7, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Cost of a Soul

A gritty tale of two wounded veterans who return home to the ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.

The Company Men

The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

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January 21, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD Oscar Run

Answers to Nothing

Lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see.

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December 2, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Immortals

The ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that will destroy humanity. A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus (Henry Cavill) must lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.
Location: CA - Quebec

Completed

November 11, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

W.E.

The year is 1998, and Manhattan is abuzz with anticipation about the upcoming auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But the auction is far more than a diversion for Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a transplanted Southerner trapped in an unhappy and abusive marriage. Transfixed by the exquisite artifacts of the Windsors' lives, Wally becomes obsessed with the love story of Wallis Simspon (Andrea Riseborough), the chic, charismatic American who captured the heart of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy). As she learns more about the sacrifices Wallis made in choosing to be with Edward, Wally finds the courage to follow her own heart and create her own happiness.

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December 9, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD Oscar Run

1911

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

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October 7, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

In Darkness

In Nazi-occupied Poland, a sewer worker and petty thief begin sheltering Jews in underground tunnels for profit.

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December 9, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles Oscar Run

Margaret

A 17-year-old New York City high-school student feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.

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September 30, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Rampart

The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.
Location: US - California

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November 23, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Submarine

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

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June 3, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

The Rum Diary

Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.
Location: US - Puerto Rico

Completed

October 28, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Biutiful

The story is about a troubled man who is confronted by a former friend, now a police officer.

Completed

January 28, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Circumstance

A wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen's growing sexual rebellion.

Completed

August 26, 2011 Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles