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The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.
- 3.1 / 5
In 1993, West Memphis, Arkansas was rocked by the brutal murders of three 8-year old boys playing in the woods. The police quickly accused three teenage boys, claiming they killed the children as part of a satanic ritual. Professional investigator, Ron Lax, volunteered to represent the accused and was shocked to find that the case was based entirely on circumstantial evidence, prejudiced assumptions of the teenagers' love of goth culture and heavy metal music. He watched in horror as his clients were put on death row as he discovered something far more scary...the truth.
- 3.6 / 5
A breast-cancer patient believes her illness has a genetic component. Researchers work to determine the role DNA plays in the deadly disease. Doctors dismiss her beliefs, but she is ahead of her time: The group's research eventually leads to the discovery of BRCA1, which is associated with breast and ovarian cancer.
Drama 1 hr, 31 mins
- 4 / 5
A young comic leaves Cleveland for Hollywood in order to pursue his dream of stardom and becomes entangled in the city's seductive lifestyle.
Set during the troubled times of the late 60’s and early 70’s, Joan Rosen Klein, against all odds, triumphs against her mobbed-up and politically connected foes to avenge her lost loved ones. In the process, she alters the course of history as well as the lives of the three men (a goon, an ex-cop & a private eye) who follow her.
Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells enters a bank and tells the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb goes off as Wells exits the bank, which is surrounded by cops, and it kills him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discover that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot is Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years.
The story is based on the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), who was executed Oct. 9, 2002, after murdering at least six Florida men while working as a prostitute. In her 1992 trial, Wuornos pleaded innocent, saying she acted in self-defense to prevent being raped, a statement she later recanted. The film centers on Wuornos' life before the murders and her romantic relationship with Selby (Christina Ricci), a woman she dated while still turning tricks and killing men.
A scientist infiltrates an underground movement of "scanners," whose telepathic abilities make them lethal weapons.