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Aru Shah, a twelve-year old girl of Indian descent, lives in an annex of the Museum of Ancient Indian Arts and Culture and is known to lie to her classmates at a rich Atlanta private day school to get them to view her traditional wardrobe as something exotic and not freaky.

In an Italian seaside village in 1962, a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.

15-year-old Caden Bosch who is afflicted with schizophrenia imagines himself on a pirate ship voyaging through the Pacific Ocean.

Based on the classic 1950's children's book by Kay Thompson, Eloise jets off to Paris for Fashion Week and, along with one of Europe's top designers, finds herself chasing after a stolen dress.

Follows Little Pete (Will Yun Lee) — the infamous, charismatic, ferocious leader of Chinatown at the turn of the 20th century in the midst of a politically explosive San Francisco.

A hovercar racer tasked with escorting an informant to safety as the two come under fire from corrupt government operatives.

Set in a world where society is divided by the color of blood, a 17 year old girl must assume the role of a long-lost princess to save her family, while secretly aiding a revolution; her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and her against her own heart.

At the end of WWII, three refugees from East Prussia believe their way to safety is on the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. Just when freedom seems in their grasp, tragedy strikes: the sinking of that ship ias one of the worst maritime disasters that ever occurred.

Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

After believing his wife has been murdered years before and in fact after being named as a suspect in the case,a doctor begins getting mysterious messages suggesting she may still be alive.

Molly the maid gets involved in the murderous underbelly of her gilded workplace.

Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor, is stuck in a rut, out of luck and about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar white businessman with a European accent offers to rent his basement for the summer. This lucrative proposition leads Charles down a terrifying path that takes him to the heart of race, history and the root of all evil.

Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.

A hitman is asked to kill by his boss the man’s wife. Trouble is, the hitman falls in love with her and things get messy from there.

On the eve of her wedding, Rachel Chu has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. But when a chance accident reveals his identity, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich … they're China rich.

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Over the course of one night in a closed department store, a teddy bear goes on an adventure to find his lost button so that he can find the home and the friend that he has always wanted.

The younger brother of a high-level DEA official and former undercover agent is murdered in broad daylight in El Paso, Texas. After discovering the hit was ordered by the drug kingpin across the river in Juarez, Mexico, possibly as retribution for the agent’s past actions, the DEA official heads across the border for revenge — not only against the killers but the DEA as well.

In a world similar to Earth, there are twelve bloodlines, or races. Each bloodline has a champion between the ages of 13 and 17 who is trained as a warrior and is always ready to do battle. When they turn 18, the teen warrior behind them gets promoted. This has been the case for hundreds of years, but no one remembers why — they’re always ready for some sort of battle to take place, but it never does. But the tradition continues. And then one day they’re called to fight, and all the bloodlines but the winners will be exterminated. They’re fighting to be the last race.