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A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

Drama Crime

92% 8%

Joy is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces.

PG-13 Drama Biography 2 hrs, 4 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
42% 58%
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  • 4.2 / 5
59% 41%

Arlyne Brickman grows up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City where she’s drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters. Soon after, she begins dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them, before getting in on the action herself — eventually becoming a police informant and a major witness in the government's case against the Colombo crime family.

Drama Crime

83% 17%
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The North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s - George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

R Drama

  • 2.4 / 5
24% 76%

Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly is growing up in the Ozarks. On a cold winter day, she learns that her father has jumped bail. She has 30 days to find him. If she cannot, and her father fails to appear for his court date, her family will lose their home. Though just a teenager, Ree has huge responsibilities caring for her two younger brothers and her

R Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

  • 4 / 5
68% 32%
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A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

R Drama 2 hrs, 9 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
31% 69%
  • 3.3 / 5
84% 16%

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

R Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 0 mins

  • 2.5 / 5
51% 49%

A young woman loses both parents to cancer and becomes overwhelmed by grief and by the state of being "parentless." She falls into a depressive funk and drinks too much. The woman finds little reason to exist until she becomes a volunteer coordinator at a nonprofit organization that helps children and adults develop writing skills.

Drama

79% 21%

Set in California's Salinas Valley prior to World War I, the novel told of two families over the course of two generations, loosely alluding to the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel.

Drama Adaptation

96% 4%
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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, at the now-crumbling Edgewood Arsenal by the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, military doctors test the effects of nerve gas, LSD and other drugs on 5,000 U.S. soldiers to gauge the effects on their brain and behavior.

Drama

80% 20%

The true-life tale of Hollywood super agent Sue Mengers.

Drama Biography

50% 50%

Story revolves around a man with cerebral palsy who takes care of his dying father while working at truckstop, where he befriends a troubled young prostitute.

Drama

83% 17%

Story centers on Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his indispensable muse and fiercest competitor.

Drama Biography

86% 14%

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