May 2015 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 16, 2023

Best Movies Released May 2015

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Drama

32%

  • 3.4
Maggie Movie Poster
Drama

47%

  • 3.4
Tomorrowland Movie Poster
Adventure

57%

  • 3.7
Hot Pursuit Movie Poster
Action

53%

  • 3.9
Aloha Movie Poster
Comedy

37%

  • 4.1
Skin Trade Movie Poster
Action

67%

  • 3.1
Bravetown Movie Poster
Drama

95%

  • 3
Saint Laurent Movie Poster
Biography

28%

  • 1
The D Train Movie Poster
Comedy

66%

  • 2.9
Noble Movie Poster
Biography

37%

  • 3.5
Pitch Perfect 2 Movie Poster
Comedy

73%

  • 3.8
Preggoland Movie Poster
Comedy

43%

  • 2.6
Results Movie Poster
Comedy

53%

  • 4.5
Sunshine Superman Movie Poster
Documentary

45%

  • 3.8

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With several Avengers spin-off sequels already in the works at Disney and with The Avengers movie selling out in cinemas around the world, it seems like it's only a matter of time before The Avengers return to theaters.

Scarlett Johansson, Paul Bettany, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Joss Whedon, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 3D Comic Book

78%

  • 4.2
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Set in southwest England, a woman has three suitors: a shepherd, a handsome soldier and a farm owner.

Tom Sturridge, Thomas Vinterberg, Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, David Nicholls, Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen

PG-13 Drama Romance Adaptation

29%

  • 4
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New York

Jason (Alain Chabat), a quiet cameraman, dreams of directing his first horror movie. Bob Marshal (Jonathan Lambert), a wealthy producer, accepts to finance his movie on one condition: Jason has 48 hours to find the perfect scream in the history of film. During his search, Jason gradually gets lost in a nightmare.

Quentin Dupieux, Alain Chabat, Elodie Bouchez, Jonathan Lambert

NR Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

56%

  • 1
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A strong-willed mother follows her 20-year-old son to L.A. after he quits college to become a surfer. Each ends up finding their own version of love in unlikely places.

Helen Hunt, Brenton Thwaites, Luke Wilson, David Zayas

Comedy Romance

100%

  • 4.3
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Follows a woman with multiple personality disorder who, after winning the lottery, takes over a cable access show to tell the story of her life.

Joan Cusack, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, James Marsden, Adam McKay, Wes Bentley, Shira Piven, Jessica Elbaum

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

78%

  • 2.8
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Michael (Peter Ferdinando) is a ruthless undercover cop targeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with taking on – but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive.

Peter Ferdinando, Gerard Johnson, Stephen Graham

Thriller Crime 1 hr, 52 mins

36%

  • 3.3
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A cop and a prisoner go on the run in Texas, with crooked cops in hot pursuit.

Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Anne Fletcher, Dana Fox, Bruna Papandrea, David Feeney, John Quaintance, John Carroll Lynch

PG-13 Action Comedy Cop

53%

  • 3.9
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Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie. It will take six months for her to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.

Abigail Breslin, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, John Scott 3, Laura Cayouette, Henry Hobson, Timur Bekmambetov, Trevor Kaufman, Matthew Baer

PG-13 Drama Thriller Horror Zombies 1 hr, 35 mins

47%

  • 3.4
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The story focuses on human trafficking.

Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Peter Weller, Ekachai Uekrongtham, Craig Baumgarten, Avi Lerner, Michael Jai White

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 36 mins

67%

  • 3.1
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Follows Alex, an Army veteran and counselor in a small town who takes a casual approach when treating Josh (Lucas Till). Alex slowly earns his patient’s trust and respect, but their camaraderie is challenged when Josh makes a shocking discovery.

Lucas Till, Maria Bello, Daniel Duran, Oscar Torres, Tom Everett Scott, Josh Duhamel

Drama

95%

  • 3
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As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

Amira Casar, Bertrand Bonello, Gaspard Ulliel, Jeremie Renier, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Aymeline Valade, Micha Lescot

R Drama Biography 2 hrs, 30 mins

28%

  • 1
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All his life, Dan Landsman (Jack Black) has never been the cool guy. That’s about to change – if he can convince Oliver Lawless (Marsden), the most popular guy from his high school who’s now the face of a national Banana Boat ad campaign, to show up with him to their class reunion. A man on a mission, Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and entire life.

Jack Black, Jeffrey Tambor, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Mike White, Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul, Denise Williamson

R Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

66%

  • 2.9
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They broke everything but her spirit. They took everything but her dream. Noble is the incredible true story of a fearless Irish heroine driven by her daring vision who escapes the slums of Ireland and risks everything on the streets of Vietnam.

Stephen Bradley, Deirdre O'Kane, Brendan Coyle, Mark Huberman, Ruth Negga, Liam Cunningham, Sarah Greene

PG-13 Drama Biography 1 hr, 41 mins

37%

  • 3.5
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When Ruth ruins a baby shower with her drunken, juvenile antics, her old high school cronies, who are all mothers now, promptly de-friend her. But when she is later mistakenly thought to be "with child," she is inexplicably welcomed back into the group. Ruth plans on coming clean, but when her dad has a heart attack and tells her that the only thing keeping him alive is the promise of grandkids, Ruth decides to continue to fake the pregnancy. Things get even more complicated when Ruth falls in love with her new boss, who seems to wants nothing more than to raise her unborn child as his own. Can she get out of this without losing her job, friends, respect of her family, and the new love of her life?

Jacob Tierney, Sonja Bennett, James Caan, Danny Trejo, Paul Campbell

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins

43%

  • 2.6
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Josh Harvest, a hardened New York City teen from a broken home - and quietly one of the country's top dance club DJs and remixers - is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father, who lives in a small town in North Dakota. He is slow to warm to his new environment, a town best-known for sending its young off to war, many of whom never return. But when Josh is asked to help out the last-place dance team as they vie for the state competition title, his rough exterior begins to soften. As his relationships emerge with both the team's captain, Mary, and his therapist, each of whom have lost someone special to war, it forces all three to begin to face and heal their pasts.

Lucas Till, Maria Bello, Laura Dern, Daniel Duran, Josh Duhamel, Tom Everett Scott, Jae Head, Katrina Norman

R Drama Music

78%

  • 3.9
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A long-married NY couple find themselves swept into an emotional and comical real estate bidding war when they put their beloved downtown apartment on the market — and must come to terms with the possibility of moving from the home where they have spent most of their adult lives.

Morgan Freeman, Alysia Reiner, Richard Loncraine, Charlie Peters, Diane Keaton, Carrie Preston, Cynthia Nixon, Sterling Jerins

Comedy

47%

  • 3.2
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Los Angeles

The doc follows the band from its inception in 1980s London, using footage from the members’ personal archives, before catching up with the five members through recent interviews, tracking the band’s enduring influence on music and fashion and their dramatic rise and fall amidst a headline grabbing breakup.

George Hencken

NR Documentary Music 1 hr, 50 mins

57%

  • 3.2
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Jonathan, a young man with severe social problems, is sent to a nursing home to live with his estranged grandfather, a hardened, bitter old man. There, he also meets his grandfather's friend Nick. Both are former members of a militant Zionist group who robbed banks. They team up with Jonathan's uncle, a frustrated actor, on a journey to rob the bank that has ignored their existence.

Lati Grobman, Barry Schwartz, Reshef Levi, Christa Campbell, Sasson Gabai, Moni Moshonov, Patrick Stewart

Comedy Crime 1 hr, 47 mins

70%

  • 2.3
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A behind-the-scenes look into the world-famous boy band plus a very special performance from the Dominion Theatre in London. The event will give fans a retrospective look into the lives and careers of band members Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell, as well as a never-before-seen acoustic set from London that spotlights the depth of the band’s talent.

Documentary Music

73%

  • 3
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A reboot of the post-apocalyptic gunslinger of the Australian wastelands.

Nicholas Hoult, Mel Gibson, Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Tom Hardy, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Byron Kennedy

R Action Adventure Reboot

65%

  • 4.3
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The mystery follows two young girls sentenced to prison after the death of a baby they found in the woods. Diane Lane’s in line to play the detective trying to unravel the mystery.

Dakota Fanning, Danielle Macdonald, Elizabeth Banks, Common, Nicole Holofcener, Frances McDormand, Anthony Bregman, Diane Lane

R Drama Mystery

79%

  • 4.1
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A sequel to 2012's Pitch Perfect.

Hailee Steinfeld, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins, Rebel Wilson, Max Handelman, Paul Brooks, Kay Cannon, Anna Kendrick

PG-13 Comedy Sequel Musical Teen Music

73%

  • 3.8
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No plot details have been announced. However, it is said to center on a discovered home video that details alien sightings.

Steven Schneider, Oren Peli, Jason Blum, Roy Abramsohn, Sandra Staggs, Jelena Nik

R Thriller Suspense Horror Sci-Fi

68%

  • 3.6
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Tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) and his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: the French Connection. In his crosshairs is charismatic and wealthy kingpin, Gatean "Tany" Zampa (Gilles Lellouche), who runs the largest underground heroin trade into the States. Though the fearless and tenacious Michel, aided by a task force of elite cops, will stop at nothing--including boldly orchestrated drug raids, devastating arrests, and exacting interrogations--to ensure the crime ring's demise, Zampa's "La French" always seems one step ahead. As La French mounts its retaliation, Michel will be forced to make the most difficult decision of his life: to continue waging his war, or ensure his family's safety, before it's too late.

Cedric Jimenez, Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche

Thriller Crime

39%

  • 2.2
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Los Angeles

Jason (Alain Chabat), a quiet cameraman, dreams of directing his first horror movie. Bob Marshal (Jonathan Lambert), a wealthy producer, accepts to finance his movie on one condition: Jason has 48 hours to find the perfect scream in the history of film. During his search, Jason gradually gets lost in a nightmare.

Quentin Dupieux, Alain Chabat, Elodie Bouchez, Jonathan Lambert

NR Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

56%

  • 1
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Film student Alex Kralie abandons his feature project after encountering a faceless villain, The Operator, while shooting.

Alexandra Holden, Chris Marquette, James Moran, Kirill Baru, Ian Shorr, Doug Jones, Jake McDorman, Alexandra Breckenridge

R Horror 1 hr, 32 mins

79%

  • 3.5
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Blythe Danner stars as a widow who’s settled into her life and her age, until a series of events propel her into a renewed engagement with the people and the world around her.

Brett Haley, Marc Basch, Blythe Danner, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

59%

  • 3.5
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At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Michael Fassbender), a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, John Maclean, Michael Fassbender, Caren Pistorious

R 1 hr, 24 mins

54%

  • 2.3
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PG-13

86%

  • 3.6
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When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a dangerous, politically connected mob boss (Vinnie Jones) running a human trafficking operation, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him.

Keoni Waxman, Vinnie Jones, Steven Seagal, Byron Mann

R Action 1 hr, 36 mins

73%

  • 3.4
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Explores the possibilities of time travel through a machine that is capable of taking pictures 24 hours into the future. When three friends discover this mysterious machine in their neighbor’s apartment, they encounter a number of pressing questions, not least of which is the whereabouts of their neighbor. Realizing the potential impact of the machine, Finn (Matt O’Leary), Jasper (George Finn), and Callie (Danielle Panabaker) attempt to cash in on their discovery. But, when a dangerous criminal learns their secret, the friends must set aside their differences and confront the paradox of a future that was once predetermined and entirely uncertain.

Danielle Panabaker, Bradley King, BP Cooper, George Finn, Matt O’Leary

Thriller Sci-Fi

68%

  • 4
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In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves—and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones)—begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their fight against insurgents.

Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Peter Coyote, Andrew Niccol, Jake Abel, Alma Sisneros, Bruce Greenwood

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 43 mins

49%

  • 3.6
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Disney is keeping the story of this mystery project secret.

George Clooney, Kathryn Hahn, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Brad Bird, Damon Lindelof, Thomas Robinson, Britt Robertson

PG Adventure Sci-Fi Family

57%

  • 3.7
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A young family is visited by spirits in their home. At first the spirits appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then things turn nasty as the family is terrorized and the spirits "kidnap" their youngest daughter.

Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Nicholas Braun, Gil Kenan, Sam Raimi, Nathan Kahane, Roy Lee, Stiles White

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Horror Remake Supernatural 3D

59%

  • 3.6
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Set in Minnesota and northern Canada over two time periods, Cry/Fly tells the story of a mother (Jennifer Connelly) whose six-year-old daughter is terminally ill. A dramatic event separates the mother from her sick daughter and falcon-keeper son, and 20 years later, the son is persuaded by a journalist to embark on a search for his now-famous mother.

Melanie Laurent, Cillian Murphy, Claudia Llosa, Jennifer Connelly

R Drama

32%

  • 3.4
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A documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, "the father of BASE jumping," whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular — and dangerous — feats of foot-launched human flight.

Marah Strauch

PG Documentary

45%

  • 3.8
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Follows a group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma.

Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

53%

  • 1.8
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In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves—and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones)—begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their fight against insurgents.

Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Peter Coyote, Andrew Niccol, Jake Abel, Alma Sisneros, Bruce Greenwood

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 43 mins

49%

  • 3.6
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The story centers on a couple with the perfect destination wedding. The problem is that all of their friends from college are coming and when this crew gets together, the only thing that is promised is that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. What is the worst that can happen with 12 friends, too much tequila, and everything caught on tape? It's a wedding video everyone will want to forget, if only they can find it.

Christian Cooke, Nick Weiss, Brad Weston, Nick P. Ross, J.R. Ramirez

R Comedy 1 hr, 21 mins

72%

  • 3.6
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The concluding film of the trilogy in which a crazed surgeon stitches people together.

Tom Six, Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey

Sequel Horror

53%

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No plot details have been announced.

Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Emma Stone, Scott Rudin, Jay Baruchel, Bradley Cooper, Danny R. McBride, Bill Murray

PG-13 Comedy Romance

37%

  • 4.1
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The mother of all earthquakes hits from California to Nevada first along the fault line and then beyond, leaving plenty of destruction behind. A man is forced to go on the road to reconcile with his children and his estranged wife. He travels from Los Angeles to San Francisco using unconventional transportation.

Alexandra Daddario, Jeremy Passmore, Dwayne Johnson, Carey Hayes, Ioan Gruffudd, Art Parkinson, Carla Gugino, Kylie Minogue

PG-13 Action Disaster 3D

75%

  • 4
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Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny (Kevin Corrigan) would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny's well-funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professionally and personally.

Guy Pearce, Brooklyn Decker, Andrew Bujalski, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Michael Hall

Comedy 1 hr, 45 mins

53%

  • 4.5
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Megan, a teenage assassin, is hunted by a former associate after she fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school.

Hailee Steinfeld, Kyle Newman, Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie King, Steve-O, Dan Fogler, Thomas Mann

R Comedy 1 hr, 36 mins

21%

  • 3.8
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Blythe Danner stars as a widow who’s settled into her life and her age, until a series of events propel her into a renewed engagement with the people and the world around her.

Brett Haley, Marc Basch, Blythe Danner, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

59%

  • 3.5
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New York / Los Angeles

Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng) move to the very same Norman village where the novel was written. Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn't take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the literary and real life woman, as he insinuates himself into her life. She soon finds herself at a crossroads that seems to be fulfilling Joubert's worst fears that her destiny is mirroring that of Flaubert’s doomed heroine.

Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng

R Drama Comedy Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

68%

  • 3
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While taking care of his sick father, a distraught young man is taken in by a club promoter who shows him the ropes of the New York City night club scene. But after a falling out with the promoter, the young man must figure out how to take on opening the biggest underground New York City night club on his own while also outsmarting his former mentor.

Fabrizio Conte, Danny Abeckaser, Jerry Ferrara, Jessica Szohr, Robert Davi

Thriller 1 hr, 30 mins

61%

  • 3
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Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose, sets her passion ablaze. So when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin.

Caleb Landry Jones, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Arielle Holmes

R Drama 1 hr, 34 mins

35%

  • 5
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