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Apr. 21, 2024

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  • 3.8

81%

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Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

Completed R Drama Crime 1 hr, 53 mins

  • 3.9

82%

18%

A down-on-his-luck high school senior discovers that the roadside diner where he works nights is actually the hangout of a parallel universe of travelers.

Development Drama Adventure

94%

6%

A historical period drama set in India. No plot details have been announced.

Completed Action Adventure

  • 3.3

53%

47%
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A group of settlers from Independence, Missouri make the trek to Willamette Valley in Oregon while traveling along the Oregon Trail in 1848.

Development Adventure Western

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20%

Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney was an animator and businessman who spent a decade shrugging off failure in order to build the studio that would turn him into an icon. The indie period drama Walt Before Mickey chronicles nine years worth of these early struggles

Completed PG Drama Biography 2 hrs, 0 mins

  • 4.2

90%

10%
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In 1977, Calista starts working for Hollywood director Billy Wilder on a Greek island turned film set. As she learns about Wilder's past and Hollywood struggles, her own life changes.

Pre-Production Drama Period

Based on the true story of Caroline Mathilda, the English princess who married King Christian VII of Denmark in the early 1770s, A Royal Affair is a bold, sumptuous tale of illicit love and political passion on a sweeping, epic scale. Keen to be a dutiful wife and Queen, Caroline’s hopes are soon dashed when she discovers the King’s true madness. Turning away from the King she finds herself in the arms of the King’s physician – a radical libertarian – with whom she embarks upon a passionate affair that would bring the kingdom to the brink of revolution.

Completed R Drama Romance 2 hrs, 17 mins

  • 3.6

71%

29%

Set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, a brother and sister team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.

Development Adventure Fantasy

93%

7%

When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton) is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù). Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton (Freida Pinto) to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.

Completed PG Drama Romance 1 hr, 57 mins

  • 4

70%

30%

Nathan Hale was executed at the age of 21 in 1776 by the British after being discovered as a spy during the Revolutionary War.

Development Thriller Spy

64%

36%

Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It’s a story full of surprises—about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 48 mins

  • 3

36%

64%

At the center of the story is the Queen herself (Olivia Colman), whose relationship with her confidante, adviser and clandestine lover Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) is turned upside down by the arrival of the Duchess’s younger cousin Abigail (Emma Stone). Soon the balance of power shifts between the women as they jockey for influence with the Queen and the court.

Completed Drama Period

  • 2.7

57%

43%

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

Completed Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 59 mins

  • 2.3

84%

16%

"The Young Victoria" chronicles Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.

Completed PG Drama Period 1 hr, 44 mins

  • 4

77%

23%

Based on the true story of two African-American brothers kidnapped by a white man and displayed as circus freaks, while their mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.

Development Drama Period

89%

11%

London, 1905. Prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Written and directed by Gareth Evans (THE RAID), APOSTLE is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality behind it.

Completed Thriller Period

  • 2

65%

35%

The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.

Development Drama Historical

96%

4%

The film takes place across Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, and is set in the 1950s.

Completed R Romance Period

  • 3

66%

34%

Centers on two men, Mitsuyo Maeda and Rickson Gracie, and how they developed and spread a mixed martial art that became known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Development Drama Martial Arts

55%

45%

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