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The film is set in 1984 and tells the story of an unemployed ice cream driver from Ohio who becomes a contestant on the game show "Press Your Luck." He has discovered a flaw in the game that allows him to win an extraordinary amount of money, leading to a remarkable winning streak and raising suspicions among the show's executives.

R Drama True Story 1 hr, 30 mins

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Was it just a children’s game or something more serious? Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve) is called into her son’s school when something happens between Armand and his friend Jon. But the incident triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into a captivating battle – where madness, desire, and obsession arise.

R Drama 1 hr, 53 mins

  • 3 / 5
22% 78%
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A 15-year old, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) has no doubt: a girl must date boys. Her life is turned upside down when she meets Emma (Léa Seydoux), a blue haired young woman, who allows her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and an adult.

NC-17 Drama Provocative 2 hrs, 59 mins

  • 4 / 5
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While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston), a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. There are a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault. Along the way, hidden connections between a seemingly disparate group of people—including a self-destructive student (Kristen Stewart), a hard-drinking suburban housewife (Gretchen Mol), and a desperate junkie (K. Todd Freeman).

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria is known for her beauty and fashion trends. But in 1877, she celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image. With a future of only ceremonial duties in front of her, she rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.

NR Drama

  • 5 / 5
73% 27%

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Drama Biography 2 hrs, 7 mins

  • 2.3 / 5
69% 31%
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A troubled 18-year-old moves to San Francisco, where she enters the porn industry and becomes involved with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.

Drama 1 hr, 42 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
83% 17%

He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. But before all that, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber) was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match. I

R Drama Sports 1 hr, 41 mins

  • 4 / 5
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Emilia (Natalie Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss — and married — when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).

R Drama 1 hr, 59 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
76% 24%

Samuel L. Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right.

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 33 mins

  • 2.2 / 5
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Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The device that one invented and the other sold was the BlackBerry, an addictive mobile phone that changed the way the world worked, played and communicated. But just as BlackBerry was rising to new peaks, it also started losing its way through the fog of Smartphone wars, management indecision and outside distractions, eventually leading to the breakdown of one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and business worlds.

R Drama Biography

  • 4.7 / 5
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Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta star in a visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls the viewer into an astonishing trip through life, death, and the universally wonderful and horrible moments between.

NR Drama Foreign 2 hrs, 43 mins

  • 2 / 5
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This musical set at a summer camp for young singers, dancers, actors and musicians tells the story of Bert Hanley, a former Broadway songwriter who has to work at the camp because his career has burnt out after a series of flops. Inspired by the kids at the camp, however, Bert sees his chance to find success again by recruiting them to put together a new production. The long summer days at Camp Ovation are ripe with life lessons, fast friendships, jealousies and antics, along with the shocking discovery that there is an honest-to-goodness straight boy in the bunch.

PG-13 Drama

  • 2 / 5
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At a remote cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival when a pack of wolves attack a man, his female best friend, and her fiance.

R Drama Action

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Henry and Dianne are on the verge of settling down but are tempted to stray. After a wild single night on the town, the couple discovers they are capable of surprising things.

NR Drama Comedy 1 hr, 36 mins

  • 2.4 / 5
72% 28%

Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border, 13-year-old Soran orders other children around as he installs an antennae for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a landmine and who can now seemingly predict the future.

Drama 1 hr, 36 mins

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Doug (Cris Lankenau) has just moved back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, to move in with his sister (Trieste KellyDunn), hoping for another chance at jumpstarting their grown up lives. When Doug’s ex-girlfriend comes to town unexpectedly, only to disappear shortly after, Doug, Gail, and their new friend Carlos (Raul Castillo) appoint themselves as detectives in what they see as a real life Sherlock Holmes situation.

Drama 1 hr, 36 mins

  • 4.2 / 5
38% 63%

The story of Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, and Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly instantly upon meeting. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for freedom, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves.

R Drama Adaptation

  • 2.5 / 5
52% 48%

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.

PG-13 Drama Holiday

62% 38%

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