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Built around Philippe Petit's real-life "artistic crime of the century" -- when the Frenchman illegally walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers in August 1974 -- "Spin" follows an ensemble cast of characters struggling throughout New York. The characters include a young Irish monk living among prostitutes in the Bronx; a group of mothers mourning their sons, killed in Vietnam, in a Park Avenue apartment; and a 38-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.

After a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, a teenager finds himself wrongfully pursued by a corrupt Department of Homeland Security agent. Using technological tricks, he must elude capture while exposing the truth.

Set during a sixty second elevator ride, a young man struggles to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

The film focuses on extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s.

Robert Johnson's singing, guitar playing and songwriting skills during the 1930s later influences a generation of musicians including Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Robert Plant. Playing mostly street corners and juke joints during his career, Johnson’s recordings are limited yielding 29 distinct songs recorded by famed Country Music Hall of Fame producer Don Law. These songs, recorded at a low fidelity, are released as 10-inch, 78 rpm singles from 1937–1938. He lives a short life until the age of 27.

A veteran jazz pianist is mourning the death of his wife. His son returns home with his own wife, disrupting the couple's careers as musicians in Europe to deal with the brilliant Sonny as his behavior becomes manic and destructive. The trio tries to present the illusion of a functioning family, as the eccentricities inherent in being working musicians leads them tumbling toward a tragic but impactful conclusion.

An avid Jane Austen fan lives in present day New York with her boyfriend until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.

Focuses on the formative years of Elvis Presley up to his enlistment in the Army.

An English-language epic about the 900-day Nazi attack on the Russian city during WWII.

Lenny McLean goes from humble beginnings in Hoxton, East London to become a boxer, bouncer, bare-knuckle fighter, actor, accused murderer and family man. McLean dies in 1998 at the age of 49.

Mary is visited by the Angel Gabriel while off her head following a night out. Gabriel tells her that she has been chosen by God to give birth to the next Messiah.

A patrol officer on the border between California and Mexico accepts a bribe from a beautiful Mexican woman, putting his family in danger and landing him in the middle of a war between the Mexican crime families and the U.S. immigration police.

On an African beach, a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets a vacationing upper-middle-class British couple who've wandered into an area outside the safety of their resort.

Richard Branson goes from rags-to-riches as an entrepreneur with roots in the music business, as well as his love for death-defying stunts, including riding across the Atlantic Ocean in hot-air balloons.

A 19-year-old woman moves to Hollywood, quickly finds fame as a reality series star and then has to deal with the ramifications of living a fishbowl life.

The story of a teenager whose apparent death sets off a series of paranormal events. Frightened by what appears to be otherworldly activity, her family discovers secrets about their daughter as well as what lurks beneath Lake Mungo.

Texas senator Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helps stall an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state house.