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A Most Violent Year is a thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city’s history. The film follows the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

A series of killings in the New York subway system are thought to be the work of a serial killer, but it later is revealed that the murders are the work of a vampire who has been living in the tunnels of the city from the days when it was still New Amsterdam.

When Lucy (Snow) steps off the subway, she walks into an utter bloodbath on the streets of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool. Faced with a flurry of whizzing bullets and total destruction around every corner, Lucy takes shelter in the basement of Stupe (Bautista), a burly war veteran who reluctantly helps her traverse the treacherous five-block stretch of Bushwick to reach her destination—assuming it’s still there.

A New York City bike messenger becomes a puppet in an assassin's deadly game, forced to deliver bombs to save his family's life. A female FBI agent with a vendetta against the villain must work outside the system to catch the messenger and solve the case before it takes on global implications.

Greed and ambition takes place in the exuberant months leading up to the Dow Jones all-time stock market high. In New York, a hedge fund manager has everything he wants – money, sex and power, but he wants more. In London, a young couple just wants to buy their first home, but it seems impossibly out of reach. And in Mumbai, a cop fights against corruption between property speculators and his colleagues.

A Brazilian shoeshine guy, working at a preeminent New York financial institution, is befriended by a reporter who exploits his relationship with the legal immigrant to uncover corporate crimes taking place at the Wall Street firm.

Victor, a right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice, a crime victim seeking retribution. Their intense chemistry leads them spiraling into payback delivered in violent catharsis.

Based on the series of novels by Jon Stock, Dead Spy Running follows Danny Marchant, a young DJ on the rise in the international world of electronic dance music. Danny is forced to go on the run with a beautiful secret agent assigned to watch him after he is framed for his MI6 agent father’s murder. As Danny tries to clear his name and avenge his father’s death, he gets deeper into the world of espionage while never forgetting his background and skills as a DJ. Danny must ultimately rise up and defeat a terrorist intent on destroying western civilization in an adventure that takes him through the world to London, Paris, Corsica, New York, and Mumbai.

A woman returns from combat and befriends a family in New York City. When a gang of thieves plot to take the family's valuables, she fights to defend the family.

Follows family man Max Bornstein who was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, Max's truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about Max's reality and the walls of it caving in around him. As Max battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

A man with extraordinary superpowers realizes he can be of better service to humanity by becoming a politician, and decides to become the mayor of New York.

Story is a contemporary retelling of Bram Stroker’s "Dracula," in which a New York-based producer travels to Romania for an interview with a notorious European arms dealer, who turns out to be a modern-day Dracula.

Fay Grim is a single Mom from Woodside, Queens, New York, manically preoccupied with raising her 14 year old son, Ned, so he won't grow up to be like his father. His father, Henry, is missing. Seven years earlier, he accidentally killed a vicious neighbor and fled-- never to be seen or heard from again.

Frank the Bastard centers around Clair Defina (Miner), a 33year-old New Yorker who returns to the childhood home she and her father fled after her mother’s tragic and mysterious death. Arriving in the seemingly quaint Maine town, Clair encounters an undercurrent of secrecy and hostility, most of it linked to the local bigwig Cyrus Gast (Sadler), whose latest land development scheme promises to revitalize the community but is not what it appears to be. Most of the town is intimidated by Cyrus, and when Clair starts delving into events, both present and past, she finds herself in jeopardy. As she comes face to face with a dark legacy that has been buried--literally and figuratively--for decades, she also has a series of strange encounters with the enigmatic Frank Byron, (Comeau) Cyrus' bastard son. In Frank, Clair ultimately finds her only ally in a battle to redeem the crimes of the past.

Set inside the highly secretive division of the New York Police Dept. that exclusively investigates hip-hop and rap-related crime.

Follows a NASA satellite that crash-lands in New York City, and it creates a “reverse-G vortex” where gravity is inverted.

Set in New York, the lives of a prodigal graffiti artist and an upper east side socialite collide.

An elite police unit made up almost entirely of native sons of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, fight to liberate the city from 6,000 ISIS militants who overran it in 2014.