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Dry

When a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can't mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario.

The Associate

The legal thriller follows Kyle McAvoy, a young law graduate from Yale who should have the world at his feet - but instead his life becomes a nightmare. Blackmailed into taking a job on Wall Street with the world’s most prestigious law firm, he becomes a pawn in a deadly game of corporate espionage.

Puzzler

Described as a female-driven, paranoid thriller in the vein of Three Days of the Condor.

The Killer

The story follows a top assassin who is suddenly plagued by his conscience and a highly competent cop hot on his tail.

Black Hole

A group of high school students' lives are altered drastically when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug."

Kolma

A young, very-much-in-love man and woman get into a freak car accident in which the man is killed. Though the woman moves on and marries another man with whom she has three children, her own death 50 years later only opens more doors. In the afterlife, she is given the choice of forgetting the memory of her life after the accident and becoming young again to be with her first love, or choosing to remain as she is and waiting for her second husband’s death.

The Devil in the White ...

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

The Shadows

With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.

Little Brother

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.

Magic 8 Ball

Revolves around a toy with twenty pre-set answers to whatever questions one can ask about their past, present and future fortunes.

Northeast Kingdom

After witnessing the murder of her father during a smuggler's drop, a young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible for his death.

Patrol

A US Marines patrol chases drug smugglers to a remote island but their mission takes an unexpectedly deadly twist.

Shrew's Nest

An agoraphobic woman raises her younger sister in an apartment locked away from the world. But one day, a reckless young neighbor falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest, and it doesn’t look like he's leaving.

Suspicion

A young woman who marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will kill her to get it.

The Cruelty

Centers on a young woman who travels to the dark underbelly of Europe to rescue her father.