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Based on the true story of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes in the nation's history, "Zodiac" is a thriller from David Fincher, director of "Seven" and "Fight Club". As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

R Drama Thriller

  • 3.9

46%

54%
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Follows the story of Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 43 mins

  • 3.9

70%

30%

From Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, "Shutter Island" is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

R Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 18 mins

  • 4.1

87%

13%
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Struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan encounters a homeless man who calls himself "Champ" only to determine that he is the one-time boxing champion Battling Bob Satterfield. What begins as a story about resurrecting a once-great man becomes Erik's title shot. In his journey to uncover the truth, Erik has to reexamine his own life and his relationship with his young son.

PG-13 Drama Sports 1 hr, 51 mins

  • 3.5

50%

50%

"All the King's Men" is a story of human nature, power, corruption, idealism, romance and betrayal. A uniquely American story, it is steeped in the atmosphere of the South during the 1940s and 50s, but its message is still timely and relevant today. "All the King's Men" uses politics as a framework to delve into the more profound dilemmas of human existence—sin, guilt and redemption. In its exploration of the corrupting aspects of power, the story focuses on a once just man who has lost his moral center and will use any means possible to achieve his goals.

PG-13 Drama Remake

  • 2.8

67%

33%
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In 1805, John Colter, a guide with Lewis and Clark's Corps. of Discovery expedition, leaves the expedition to make his fortune trapping beavers, but he and other trappers are ambushed by the Blackfeet Indian tribe.

Drama Action

99%

1%

An undercover NYC cop infiltrates the Lucchesi crime family in order to solve the murder of a city firefighter, and discovers that the tipster was the son of a high-ranking police official.

Drama Crime

87%

13%

Set in the summer of 1928, 12-year-old boy Douglas Spaulding experiences small-town life.

Drama

78%

22%

A teen becomes mayor of a small city in America. He must run the municipal services and deal with unions while simultaneously balancing such high- school concerns as keeping a girlfriend and prepping for the prom.

Drama Comedy

The project explores the life of the author of such beloved children's books as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and her struggle for independence in Victorian England.

PG Drama

  • 3

50%

50%

Modern version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" centering on London's organized crime underworld.

Drama Crime

36%

64%

The story centers on the Chilean dissident movement in the wake of General Augusto Pinochet's seizure of power in 1973.

Drama Biography

100%

0%

A 23-year-old recent graduate decides, at his mother’s insistence, to tutor his ex-girlfriend’s younger sister for the SATs. When they begin a romantic relationship, his ex-girlfriend moves back home for the summer and begins to fall back in love with our anti-hero as well.

Drama Thriller

84%

16%

In “Hoag,” the title character is struck one evening with the realization that he has no memory of what he does during the day. Distraught over his predicament, and particularly concerned that he might be engaged in some nefarious activities, he contacts a husband and wife detective agency and asks them to surreptitiously follow him. The truth takes a dark and ultimately earth-shattering turn as their investigation leads to a series of frightening revelations, beginning with a group of shadowy figures who gravely warn of dire consequences unless the pair immediately cease their inquiry into the nature of Hoag’s identity.

Drama Thriller

43%

57%

Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a 40 year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.

Drama Detective

75%

25%

A special ops soldier runs covert missions into Baghdad before the U.S. invasion. The unit is comprised of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon who are conducting secret surveillance during the Saddam Hussein regime.

Drama Action

100%

0%

"Pathfinder" tells the story of a young Viking boy left behind by his people in North America (which the Vikings had visited hundreds of years before Columbus). A stranger in a strange land, the boy is raised by a tribe of American Indians – the very people the Vikings had sworn to destroy. When Vikings again storm the eastern shores, waging a barbaric campaign, they slaughter the tribe that adopted the young man. Now age 25, he wages a violent personal war to stop the Viking's trail of death and destruction.

R Drama Action

  • 2.8

75%

25%

A veteran NFL quarterback winds up on a semi-pro team in Italy after blowing his last chance to lead a team to the Super Bowl.

Drama Adaptation

97%

3%

An American returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

R Drama Thriller

  • 2.4

81%

19%

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