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Set in the magical Orisha kingdom, a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king.

A human girl finds herself in the midst of a conflict between warring factions when she falls for a vampire prince, Jaxon Vega. He's a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there is something about him that calls to her, something broken in him that somehow fits with what is broken in her — which could spell death for both of them. The young girl learns that Jaxon has walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake him, a sleeping monster, and she could very well be the bait.

The story centers on Norman Ollestad's love/hate relationship with his charismatic father, who thrust him into extreme sports pursuits at age 3, and pressed him to excel in the world of surfing and competitive skiing which immersed them in the Southern California surf culture of the 1970s. Ollestad became his father's greatest creation, a fearless surfer and ski champion, and that fearlessness prompted him to not give up even after he saw his idol killed in the crash that left him alone in a blizzard in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Set in 1984 New York, a sixth-grader befriends artist Andy Warhol at the same time that he learns his parents are discussing divorce. With the artist's guidance, as well as the help of his older sister and best friend, the boy hatches a plan to throw his parents an anniversary party in hopes of keeping them together.

Based on the book of the same title, the movie explores one man's work, on behalf of the U.S. government and corporations, to persuade third-world countries to accept massive development loans that they could not be repay.

An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family’s sign-making firm. He soon discovers that the complexities of such a venture far outstrip the expected differences in language, customs and manners—and call into question even the most basic assumptions of human conduct.

Spanning their early childhood through the marriage of their universally beloved stepsister and beyond, Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine struggle to uphold their family's legacy.

Jack Wade, once a rising star cop who fell from grace in a scandal, now makes his living as an arson investigator. His cardinal rule is ‘don’t get involved’, but when Jack sees the charred corpse of a young woman that has been written off as an accident, he becomes obsessed with hunting down the killer.

Five teens from around the world -- North America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and South America -- are given powers by Gaia, the earth spirit, in order to protect the planet from the devastation of polluters. When their powers are not enough, the teens combine to summon a superhero named Captain Planet.

A middle-class black family tries to resolve issues brewing over three generations.

Set in 1980s Florida, an overzealous police detective gets involved with a crime family that is heavily connected to the local political scene.

A fantastical circus, with mythic creatures, fantasy aerialists and heroic guerrilla fighters, navigates the dark realm ruled by despotic tyrants who've taken control of Earth and have designated the circus as the only permissible form of entertainment.

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

Zoe Quinn, creator of such hip interactive games as Depression Quest, is targeted by a digital mob bent on upending her life when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend goes viral. It sparks the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy and takes a surprising turn when instead of running, she decides to fight back.

A father tries to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college. Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.