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Follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien (known as E.T.) and the 10-year-old boy he befriends. Join Elliot (Henry Thomas), Gertie (Drew Barrymore) and Michael (Robert MacNaughton) as they come together to help E.T. find his way back home.

PG Adventure Sci-Fi 1 hr, 55 mins

  • 3.9 / 5

67%

33%

Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC's 'The Killing') falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle, he's lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he's unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW's journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death.

R Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 5 mins

  • 3.4 / 5

53%

47%
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When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment after a night of partying, he's pleasantly surprised to discover it belongs to a beautiful one-night-stand he can't remember--Julia. What's already an awkward situation is made even more so when they discover a giant flying saucer hovering above the city, which is now deserted. Now Julio must contend with a jealous ex-boyfriend, an eccentric neighbor--and very possibly the end of the world!

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 3.8 / 5

31%

69%

An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War — the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.

R Drama War 2 hrs, 23 mins

  • 4.5 / 5

90%

10%
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Spanning over two decades, For the Love of Money follows the true account of a Jewish immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream. The story begins in Tel Aviv in 1973, where young Izek is raised in a seedy, gangster filled illegal casino that operates behind his family’s bar. The casino is a haven for unsavory characters who seek to corrupt him to their way of life. When violence and crime finds its way to him and his family, Izek (played by Yuda Levi) and his family relocate to Los Angeles. Hoping to start anew, he pursues his ambitions. Success seems to find him at every turn and after falling in love with the beautiful Aline (Delphine Chanéac), Lady luck seems to be on his side. However, it isn’t long before the world of crime that Izek tried to escape so long ago continues to doggedly follow his every step. Threatened by a temperamental gangster (James Caan), his criminal cousin (Oded Fehr), and even a Colombian drug lord (Steven Bauer), Izek finds that starting with a clean slate is all but impossible. As those close to him fall victim to the promises of quick money by the way of the gun, violence surrounds Izek until he has no choice but to confront it.

R Drama Crime

  • 4.1 / 5

54%

46%

The story is about a 13-year-old who runs away to Las Vegas after being abandoned by her parents in Nebraska. Along the way, the girl learns some truths about American society and the peril of her own sexual curiosity.

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 35 mins

  • 4.4 / 5

75%

25%
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Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the War. The trips are called "Honor Flights" and for the veterans, who are in their late 80s and early 90s, it's often the first time they've been thanked and the last trip of their lives.

The 24-hour journey is full of surprises that deep ly move all who are involved. It’s uncommon for World War II veterans to talk about the War, but the Honor Flight experience brings their stories out. Many veterans say, with the exception of their wedding day and the birth of their children, the trip is the best day of their life.

PG War Documentary

60%

40%

Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple’s specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough – the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place.

PG-13 Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 1 min

  • 3.5 / 5

78%

22%

The film traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster’s origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects such as the largest building in the world Beijing Airport, the Reichstag, the Hearst Building in New York and works such as the tallest bridge ever in Millau France.

Biography Documentary

  • 2.1 / 5

30%

70%

In Spain, a mother tries to protect her son from a faceless stranger, while in Britain, a young girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes a real danger to her and her family.

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

  • 3.1 / 5

82%

18%

In 1945, on a secret base built in the Antarctic, Nazis launched spaceships to establish the military base Schwarze Sonne on the dark side of the Moon. They built a powerful invasion fleet in order to take over the Earth once the time was right. Now it’s 2018, the Nazi invasion is on its way and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom.

Action Comedy

  • 3.8 / 5

86%

14%

After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 33 mins

  • 3.2 / 5

27%

73%

Late Bloomers begins when Mary (Isabella Rossellini) and Adam (William Hurt), a high-functioning couple, realize that they have entered the senior category. Adam's reaction to this "discovery" is as frantic as his denial, and he desperately looks for a fountain of youth. Mary, on the other hand, decides to deal with the situation by doing what she does best: taking care of everyone.

Drama

  • 1.5 / 5

0%

100%

A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

76%

24%

Set in the near future, the movie stars Guy Pearce as a government agent who sets off to save the president's daughter, played by Maggie Grace, from rioting convicts in an outer-space maximum-security prison.

PG-13 Action Thriller 1 hr, 35 mins

  • 3.9 / 5

87%

13%

A working class boy moves to the financial capital of Brazil and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.

Drama 2 hrs, 10 mins

  • 3.6 / 5

50%

50%

An aspiring beauty queen finds her dream corrupted when she unwillingly gets involved with a criminal group at war in Mexico.

Drama Action

  • 3.8 / 5

67%

33%

Patton Oswalt stars as Scoutmaster Randy Stevens, whose dwindling, apathetic troop ditches a scout meeting in favor of a TV-themed slumber party hosted by Randy’s brother Kirk (Johnny Knoxville), his polar opposite and arch nemesis. When Randy rounds up the boys in the middle of the night, stealing them for an highly unauthorized/unorganized trip to the woods, all hell breaks loose as Kirk pursues with a pair of gun-toting employees (Rob Riggle and Patrice O’Neal). Drinking, nudity, mishandled fireworks and tremendously inappropriate behavior around minors ensues, in the grand tradition of comedy classics like The Bad News Bears and Meatballs.

R Comedy

  • 1.8 / 5

53%

47%

The story centers on the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals.

Drama 2 hrs, 13 mins

  • 3 / 5

55%

45%

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