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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 four children who dream of escaping from the tedium of a summer holiday. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they arrive, they discover they may not be alone and a desperate yet whimsical battle for ownership of the island ensues, where both skill and luck play a hand. Simultaneously, the dangers of an adult world, on the brink of war, encroach on their paradise and intertwine with their lives, in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies hot on the tail of the enigmatic Jim Turner. The children must ban together from both groups, learn skills of survival, responsibility, and the all-important value of friendship to save a family member.

Skeptical about long-term relationships, a woman approaches dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: she spends her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'll put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate. When she meets a guy who doesn't fall for the emotionally cavalier facade she’d constructed (a guy who wants marriage and monogamy), she knows it is time to reevaluate. Her approach ultimately helps her overcome her phobia of commitment.

Deceit is involved in a marriage as two couples and a child head for vacation in the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Italy.

A wise-cracking skeleton detective and his young female accomplice try to stop the return of the evil Faceless Ones.

Frank (John Pollono), Swaino (Jon Bernthal) and Packie (Shea Whigham) are lifelong friends who share a love of the Red Sox, rowdy bars and Frank’s teenaged daughter Crystal (Ciara Bravo). But when Frank invites his pals to a whiskey-fueled evening and asks them to do a favor on behalf of the brash young woman they all adore, events spin wildly out of control. Based on Pollono’s award-winning play, Small Engine Repair is a pitch-black comedic drama with a wicked twist, and a powerful exploration of brotherhood, class struggle and toxic masculinity.

Follows the story of a U.S. Ranger haunted by painful memories of a family tragedy, who becomes stranded with his platoon in a remote chalet in the woods. As they fight for survival and against their own inner demons, they are torn apart by a discovery they make — a box filled with $5 million in cash and a dark, disturbing secret.

Set in the near-future and questions the meaning of freedom and self-determination in a world without either.

The story followed a Republican candidate for president, a man backed by a female newspaper magnate who intends to deadlock the Republican convention and put forward her candidate as a compromise.

Set in New York when Gotham was emerging from the trauma of World War II, an 18-year-old girl breaks free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.

Chronicles the creation of a real-life 1946 radio drama in which Superman took on a thinly-veiled version of the actual Klan.

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.

Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

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

While on a personal/spiritual mission, an Apache ex-Army Ranger investigates the disappearance of young women and ultimately uncovers a conspiracy involving local gangs, human slavers, oil companies and corrupt government officials.

Set in a world where gravity suddenly becomes a fraction of what it is now, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. A woman born just after G-Day has become accustomed to it, but has come across a dangerous plan to bring gravity back.

Centers on a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital who’s ordered not touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby dies in her care, she’s then taken to court by the couple.

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!