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After his mother (Juliette Lewis) goes to jail for shooting and killing his abusive father, Harley Altmyer (Alex Pettyfer) is left to care for his three younger sisters in a rural Pennsylvania town. The uneducated Harley works two dead-end jobs to preserve what’s left of his family, including the rebellious, sexual 16-year-old Amber (Nicola Peltz). Angered and traumatized by his painful past, Harley finally begins to feel hope when he connects with an older, married woman (Jennifer Morrison), and they embark on an affair. When shocking family secrets emerge, Harley’s life begins to spiral downward.

Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.

The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.

In an Italian seaside village in 1962, a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.

Set in a city where humans and Darklings are separated by a high wall, tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war. 16-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the emissary, meet and do the unthinkable -- they fall in love.

The story of a Washington D.C. publicist and blogger who jokingly suggest that senior citizens should voluntarily commit suicide to solve the social security crisis -- only to see a politician, with whom she becomes romantically involved, take up the cause.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is drawn back into his crime-ridden Boston neighborhood to investigate a series of murders that appear to be the work of his childhood friend who once saved the journalist from a life of crime.

A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

In this modern day reimagining of Anna Sewell’s timeless classic, we follow Black Beauty, a wild horse born free in the American West. Rounded up and taken away from her family, Beauty is brought to Birtwick Stables where she meets a spirited teenage girl, Jo Green. Beauty and Jo forge an unbreakable bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges, and adventures of her life.

Jane Charlotte is arrested for murder. She says she's a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil and that she's working with the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons — aka "Bad Monkeys." This confession lands her in the jail’s psychiatric wing, where she is probed by professionals.

Chloe Mills, an MBA student interning at a media conglomerate, begins a torrid love-hate relationship with her boss, Bennett Ryan, who has just returned from France to take a prominent role in the family company.

Tells the story of Jack Kerouac following his sudden literary success ("On the Road" was released in 1957) and his troubles with substance abuse.

An 11-year-old, whose strongest passion in life is being a bully, is hit by a bus one day and is reborn as a cockroach.

A boy named Finley helps out another boy -- who will will only answer to the name Boy 21 (the number of his basketball jersey).

The film centers on Barney Thomson (Carlyle), an awkward, shy Glasgow barber, living a life of desperate mediocrity. His mother (Thompson) offers little encouragement, as she is far too self-absorbed, chain smoking between absurd social outings in her animal print wardrobe. Little does Barney know how his stale and life is about to change when he accidentally enters the dark, grotesque and comically absurd life of a serial killer.

Set during WWII, 16-year-old Lina, her mother, and her younger brother are deported to a forced-labor camp in Siberia, where conditions are all too painfully similar to those of Nazi concentration camps. Lina's great hope is that somehow her father, who has already been arrested by the Soviet secret police, might find and rescue them. A gifted artist, she begins secretly creating pictures that can--she hopes--be surreptitiously sent to him in his own prison camp.

Tells the story of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, who goes to live in northern France to research a new book on the subject of precarious working conditions. Without revealing her true identity, she is hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences first-hand the financial instability and social invisibility of the ‘gig economy'. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity amongst this fraternity of working-class women. As she becomes more entwined in the community and strikes up a close friendship with a woman called Christèle, she begins to question the ethics of the deception in the name of her writing.

Robert Sand, an American soldier in Japan learns the ways of the most powerful martial arts, and becomes The Black Samurai, embarking on a mission to stop dangerous forces who threaten everything he holds dear.

A guerilla group enters a South American politician's villa via the airducts during a party while a famous soprano is singing, and take everyone hostage.