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Follows a journalist who, in his life-long quest for a Pulitzer Prize, fabricates the truth to create a compelling murder story.

This documentary captures what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000 when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventuallly agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens watching the event take place. Then, a police officer decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged at police brutality. The film intertwines the story of the standoff with biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, including his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s, and the trauma of seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.

The project centers on law enforcement turning to a jailed mobster to help prevent a possible terrorist attack.

A tale of sin involving good people who, out of desperation, resort to doing bad things that inevitably leave them with life-changing consequences.

A Manhattan emergency room doctor whose life becomes complicated when a mobster recognizes the doctor from his former life as a hitman who went into the witness protection program.

Set at a high-society Halloween party in 1934, the film centers on Honey (Alice Eve), the gathering's hostess whose husband was murdered the previous year. She re-creates the scenario in an attempt to solve the crime.

During the 1980s in Los Angeles, a group of wealth graduates of the Harvard School for boys establish an investment club. When the funds run out, the members resort to kidnapping and murder.

Three men (Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall) in a small Western town travel to New York City to exact revenge on a Wall Street swindler who has stolen money from them.

Hired by a spurned lover to expose the suave Frenchman who has run off with his client’s girlfriend, private eye Lew Archer follows a trail that leads to a deep conspiracy as the mysterious paramour is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a ton of gambling debts.

A cop tasked with transporting a mysterious and dangerous criminal across town finds the job much more difficult when a city-wide blackout plunges them into darkness and chaos.

Set in early 1940s Nazi Germany in the heart of the Third Reich, a relentless detective must confront his own murderous regime in order to catch a serial killer. With Berlin firmly in the grip of panic as British bombers raid the city by night, the government implements a blackout at night with the only light coming from the phosphorous paint on every street corner, bus and commuter train.

An L.A. homicide detective goes up against a vigilante who's knocking off the top 10 fugitives on the FBI's most wanted list. The public loves the crime spree, but the cops are concerned that the killer and his co-conspirators pose a larger threat than the fugitives they are killing.

An undercover agent discovers the crime-ridden, seedy underbelly of Brooklyn in "Blood on a Happy Face". When the woman he loves double-crosses him as part of an elaborate scheme to steal a large sum of money, he's left wondering whom he can trust.

Set during the troubled times of the late 60’s and early 70’s, Joan Rosen Klein, against all odds, triumphs against her mobbed-up and politically connected foes to avenge her lost loved ones. In the process, she alters the course of history as well as the lives of the three men (a goon, an ex-cop & a private eye) who follow her.

Utah and Opal are junkies living on the streets of rural Ohio until a seemingly chance encounter with the enigmatic Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams) brings them to Los Angeles for treatment. While Utah finds sobriety with the help of the treatment center shrink (Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo), he soon learns that rehab is not about helping people—it’s merely a cover scheme for a multibillion dollar fraud operation, enlisting addicts to recruit other addicts. Seduced by the money, but troubled by the hypocrisy, Utah must decide between what will make him rich, and what will save Opal.

After witnessing his uncle murder another man, a sous-chef on London’s East End becomes entangled in his family’s seedy underground mob activities.

Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are expected to return as mismatched colleagues, a veteran cop and his partner, an Orc, respectively.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is drawn back into his crime-ridden Boston neighborhood to investigate a series of murders that appear to be the work of his childhood friend who once saved the journalist from a life of crime.