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The tale of 19-year-old Brad Land who is left physically injured and psychologically traumatized after a horrifying assault. He and his brother pledge a fraternity at Clemson University where disastrous events occur that force Brad to come to grips with his problems.

Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 36 mins

  • 3

76%

24%
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An Afghan journalist is exiled from his war-torn country to a small bohemian community in Northern California. When he attempts to turn his menial job on the local police blotter into "Afghan-style" coverage of local crime, he gets drawn into the backwoods of this small town — a shadow Northern California where sex is casual, true friendship is hard to come by and an unfamiliar form of violence lurks all around.

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 42 mins

  • 1.5

55%

45%

More adventures from the small-time magician magically transported to the land of Oz.

Drama Sequel

96%

4%

Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, a young and headstrong carpenter, who lost his father years before to a human evil, is forced to make difficult moral choices to face up to that evil.

Drama Coming-of-Age

81%

19%
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Texas Ranger Samantha Payne (Luciana Duvall) reopens a 15-year-old Missing Persons case, uncovering clues linking a local boy’s death to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs (Robert Duvall).

The Texas Ranger will stop at nothing to discover the truth even if it means risking her own life. With the unexpected return of his estranged son Ben (James Franco), Briggs must find a way to either silence the law for good, or come to terms with the relationship between Ben and the boy that he tried to silence all those years ago.

Drama

  • 3.2

65%

35%

Follows a film fanatic, Vikar, who moves to Hollywood and eventually becomes a designer and film editor during the 1970's.

Drama Adaptation

  • 2.3

72%

28%
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When a lonely suburban man turned gay porn producer discovers a hot, lucrative new star, he finds himself the target of rival pornographers who will stop at nothing to steal his money maker. Based on the novel "Cobra Killer".

Drama Crime 1 hr, 31 mins

  • 3.7

89%

11%

Charismatic playboy and visionary Jay Sebring becomes a jet-setting hairstylist to the stars in the 1960s. The self-created men’s grooming pioneer climbs the social ladder in Hollywood. He also has a romantic relationship with beautiful young actress Sharon Tate.

Drama Biography

100%

0%

Based on James Franco’s “Palo Alto Stories” and “A California Childhood”, Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn’t know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world. Memoria raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget, and the ones we use as fuel to create our future.

Drama 1 hr, 10 mins

  • 3

65%

35%

The drama tells the story of William Vincent (Franco), and recounts his eccentric and curious journey that brought him back to New York City after four years in exile to rescue the woman he loves from a crime syndicate.

Drama Crime

20%

80%

After enduring years of taunts and struggle, a gay activist becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor.

Drama

45%

55%

The film tells the story of a crook and a woman on the run from the law and hitmen.

Drama

99%

1%

The project centers on the dark mystery surrounding a young woman's death, which is gradually revealed when the lives of seemingly uninvolved people intersect.

Drama Thriller

  • 3.1

33%

67%

Set in Florida, a stripper brings her three-year-old daughter to work one night since her usual babysitter is in the hospital. That night the stripper has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash.

Drama

19%

81%

Set in Jefferson, Mississippi in the early in the 20th Century, the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats, struggle to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the thirty years, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town, and many of them die tragically.

Drama

Explores the personal and professional struggles that made Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice. Silverstein’s resume includes best-selling books such as “The Giving Tree,” poetry collections “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic,” chart-topping songs such as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone”; and memorable illustrations.

Drama Biography

100%

0%

MALADIES charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star (James Franco) in 1960’s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with his eccentric sister (Fallon Goodson) at the seaside home of their best friend (Catherine Keener). But as he disappears further into his own mind, reality begins to slip through his grasp.

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

  • 1.5

23%

77%

In a dystopian future, urban dwellers are forcefully divided by curfew into two separate classes: the respectable Daytimers and the oppressed Nighttimers. Buster Rant Casey, a murderous demolition driver, takes part in the Party Crashing derby in a world where people intentionally crash into each other violently to feel, and create a vivid reality of the experience.

Drama

93%

7%

In the 1950's, actor Sal Mineo rises to fame in such films as Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus, has conflicts with his sexuality, friendships with James Dean and Natalie Wood, and is eventually murdered at the age of 37 by a pizza delivery man.

Drama Biography 1 hr, 43 mins

  • 5

78%

22%

A writer obsesses over a high-profile murder case, begins an affair with a reporter and clashes with his father over their dysfunctional past.

Drama

  • 3

68%

33%

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