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Rookie Los Angeles police officer Scott James loses his partner in a shooting and, in a form of therapy, is tasked with taking care of Maggie, a German Shepherd who lost her Marine handler in Afghanistan and who now suffers from PTSD. The relationship grows between the policeman and the dog as they help each other heal and chase his partner's killers.

A woman is given the ability to alter reality by writing something she wants to change in a notebook, eating a mushroom and falling asleep. Her actions slowly cause the fabric of time and space to unravel.

Four men in their early thirties live near one another in the same Wisconsin town where they grew up. Some in the quartet have left their birth state while others have not, and they are just now coming into their own as husbands and fathers with each hoping to finally find real purchase in the world. One of the friends records the album "Shotgun Lovesongs" in a former chicken coop.

Set in the future, a detective is assigned to Snapshot Duty, a recreation of a specific day and time. Law enforcement uses the day as a way to solve crimes. All is good until one day a police officer investigates the memory of a call that was never logged, and he makes a horrifying discovery.

Set in the near future, the U.S. exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and private enterprise and the mafia controls everything. A computer virus is manifested as a drug called Snow Crash that is transmitted visually from computer screens to unsuspecting users, frying their brains. Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker/samurai swordsman/pizza delivery driver, investigates and tries to stop the takeover of postmodern civilization.

Follows three teenagers brought together by a series of mishaps. Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, the unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.

Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

Corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fight side-by-side in the ultimate intergalactic war... the battle to save humankind.

Stratton, a Special Boat Service operative for MI6, and his American counterpart Marty, scope a laboratory complex in Iran in order to intercept deadly biochemical weapons. This most complex of missions goes spectacularly wrong however and in the mayhem Marty is mortally wounded. Stratton knows his trusted friend isn't going to make it. Back at base Stratton is summoned by the big boss at MI6. She has received intel that a former Soviet operative - Barovski - has gone rogue. Thought to be dead for the last 20 years, it is believed Barovski has plans to take revenge on his former paymasters by using stolen chemical weapons. From hereon in, Stratton and his team must draw on all their training and experience to race against time and stop the unimaginable happening.

Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future.

Follows an Alabama man named John who contacts podcast host Brian Reed to have him investigate a supposed murder by the son of a wealthy family in his hometown.

Based on the classic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha (known worldwide by his pen name Jin Yong), SAKRA stars Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the respected leader of a roving band of martial artists. After he is wrongfully accused of murder and subsequently exiled, Qiao Feng goes on the run in search of answers about his own mysterious origin story—and the unknown enemies working to destroy him from the shadows.

A young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light to save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her world.

A war correspondent and a librarian strive to solve the cold case murder of a blind student who disappeared years before.

The human race faces a catastrophic event which leaves them scrambling to survive. Nations band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. Five thousand years later, their progeny — seven distinct races now three billion strong — embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown: back to Earth.

Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.

The film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows two boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.