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The daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.

Based on the graphic novel by Will Eisner, the set of four stories show tenement life in 1930s New York.

Story follows the rise and emotional decline of a small-time hoodlum, who collects debts for the mob, but is also burdened by his family’s own financial problems.

Described as a Misery-esque setup that evolves into a Usual Suspects-type non-linear storyline.

A Texas border patrol officer gets caught up with a brutal drug cartel when he falls in love with a Mexican girl illegally on the run in the U.S.

During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.

On a camping holiday for a few weeks, a man sees no reason not to agree when the campground owner asks him to help out with a simple chore. Through error or bad luck, one task leads to another and the man is doing homework for the owner’s daughter, being kicked on and off the darts team at the local pub and performing a series of menial jobs on his way to inadvertently becoming a slave.

Tamer Elnoury, an undercover agent and active Muslim, joins the elite counter-terrorism unit after September 11th. He infiltrates and brings down a terror cell stateside, running up against the clock to foil them, with worn techniques which still entail listening, recording, and proving terrorist intent.

Starting in the 1960s, Angela Davis becomes a prominent activist and radical as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

After the suicide of her married lover, a woman flees New York City for the canyons above Los Angeles, where she plots the takedown of a woman from her haunted past.

Story centers on a con man who plans and executes a series of elaborate heists, all while leading a double life as an upstanding citizen.

Two friends become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.

Focuses on the formative years of Attila the Hun who later in life becomes the leader of the Hunnic Empire, which brazenly attacks Rome and lays waste to much of Europe. He dies under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night in 453 AD.

Explores the personal and professional struggles that made Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice. Silverstein’s resume includes best-selling books such as “The Giving Tree,” poetry collections “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic,” chart-topping songs such as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone”; and memorable illustrations.

Set in the mid 19th Century, a bitter, old miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present & Christmas Yet to Come and is transformed into a gentler, kindlier man.

A terminally ill Chinese mother kills her schizophrenic son whom she believed is at risk to become a mass shooter.

Follows a young female Syrian refugee’s arduous journey in search of a better life

Story centers on a small town sheriff who must try to keep his town from exploding into violence during World War II.

Centers on a young Ernest Hemingway in post-WWI Paris in the 1920s. The prose includes tart portrayals of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.