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A Tale Of Love And Darkness
Recounts the time Amos Oz spent with his mother, Fania (Natalie Portman), who struggles with raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, Fania battles her inner demons and longs for a better world for her son.
Natalie Portman, David Mandil, Shira Haas, Ram Bergman, Amir Tessler, Gilad Kahana
Almost Christmas
An estranged family faces their first Christmas together since the death of the family matriarch.
Gabrielle Union, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise, Jessie Usher, Nicole Ari Parker, David E. Talbert, Will Packer, Omar Epps
Loving
Follows an interracial married couple jailed for their union in 1958 Virginia. The pair fought back against the laws that made their marriage punishable, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case that eventually reversed all restrictions on marriage based on race.
Jeff Nichols, Colin Firth, Michael Shannon, Sarah Green, Joel Edgerton, Nick Kroll, Ged Doherty, Marc Turtletaub
Spirit Of The Game
It’s 1956 and twenty-year-old Delyle Condie is on top of the world. MVP of his college basketball team (University of Utah) and engaged to Emily, his high school sweetheart, life is looking pretty good. That is, until the second round of the NCAA tournament. Midway through the most important game of his life, Emily unexpectedly breaks off her engagement to Delyle. Heartbroken, Delyle makes the spontaneous decision to quit basketball and embark on a mission for his church. His destination: Melbourne, Australia. A city gripped with Olympic fever, Delyle’s first encounters with the Aussies are not encouraging. He struggles to maintain his spirits when faced with the indifference of the locals, but when an opportunity arises to help train Australia’s first Olympic basketball team, Delyle sees his chance to connect with them. His passion leads to the formation of the Mormon Yankees basketball team, and in the run up to the Games, fierce competition with the French leads to a bloody rematch, through which Delyle and his Yankees are able to prove their faith – and their mettle – to the world.
Wade Briggs, J.D. Scott, Kevin Sorbo, Aaron Jakubenko
American Pastoral
Seymour "Swede" Levov, an all-American guy with a wonderful family and great life, has things go sour when his perfect daughter becomes a revolutionary terrorist bent on destroying everything he has valued in the life he has built for his family.
Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Connelly, Uzo Aduba, Ewan McGregor, David Strathairn, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, John Romano
Desierto
Illegal immigrants crossing the border into the United States run for their lives from a drunk American citizen who has taken border patrol into his own hands. While they fight for their own lives, two immigrants learn to fight for each other and become close in the process.
Alfonso Cuarón, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gael García Bernal, Jonas Cuaron, Alondra Hidalgo
The Take
Michael Mason (Richard Madden) is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar (Idris Elba), the field agent on the case, soon realizes that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy. Going against commands, Briar recruits Michael to use his expert pickpocketing skills to help quickly track down the source of the corruption. As a 24-hour thrill ride ensues, the unlikely duo discover they are both targets and must rely upon each other in order to take down a common enemy.
Kelly Reilly, Richard Madden, Idris Elba, Andrew Baldwin, Jose Garcia, James Watkins, Charlotte Le Bon
Burn Country
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.
Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Melissa Leo, Ian Olds, Paul Felten, Dominic Rains, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Oliver Wheatley
Life on the Line
Focuses on Beau (John Travolta), his beloved niece Bailey (Kate Bosworth) and the hardworking men who risk their lives to work "on the line" and keep the electric grid running. These unsung heroes brave raging storms and dangerously dizzying heights in their dedication to keeping the populace safe. Toiling hundreds of feet in the air on wires carrying as much as 500,000 volts of electricity, tragedy is often inches away. Haunted by the electrocution death of his brother, Beau is devoted to Bailey and determined to see her go off to college and away from the life of linemen. Bailey has other plans, which include the strapping second-generation lineman Duncan (Devon Sawa), whom Beau despises. A deadly tempest is brewing and headed straight to their Texas town. Beau, Duncan and a legion of linemen are thrust into the eye of the storm and must face down impending disaster to keep their community connected.
Sharon Stone, Ryan Robbins, Gil Bellows, Peter I. Horton, Kate Bosworth, David Hackl, Primo Brown, Marvin Peart
Blackway
A desperate young woman (Stiles) enlists the help of a hardened ex-logger (Hopkins)– the only man in town brave enough to help her take a stand against her sociopathic stalker (Liotta), an ex-cop turned violent crime lord.
Anthony Hopkins, Hal Holbrook, Ray Liotta, Daniel Alfredson, Julia Stiles, Alexander Ludwig
Total Frat Movie
A group of alums approach six former pledges try to resurrect a fraternity after a heinous act results in its suspension. It is up to the pledges to throw the greatest rush week ever and restore the frat house to its former glory.
Warren P. Sonoda, Tom Green, Bob Sanitsky, Brian Ross, Brad Luff, Stephen Fromkin, Sacha Pavlovic, Justin Deeley
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
A relationship forms between an accident-prone 9-year-old problem child who lies in a deep coma and the doctor who cares for him.
Aaron Paul, Jamie Dornan, Barbara Hershey, Alexandre Aja, Anthony Minghella, Sarah Gadon, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt
Nerdland
An adult animated comedy follows two unknown showbiz buddies John (Paul Rudd) and Elliot (Patton Oswalt) who are determined to go from Hollywood nobodies to viral somebodies.
Patton Oswalt, Brendon Small, Chris Prynoski, Andrew Kevin Walker, Kate Micucci, John Ennis
The Eagle Huntress
The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries.
Otto Bell
Girl Asleep
In this portrayal of Australian adolescence, Greta Driscoll's bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta's flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place -- a strange world that’s a little frightening and a lot weird, but only there can she find herself.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Rosemary Myers, Matthew Whittet, Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren
The Alchemist Cookbook
Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.
Joel Potrykus, Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom
The Bronx Bull
A combination prequel and sequel that explores "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.
Natasha Henstridge, William Forsythe, Robert Davi, Ray Wise, Cloris Leachman, Mike Starr, Bruce Davison, Martin Guigui
Come What May
May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots. Max, a German boy, travels with them. His father, Hans, opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in Arras for having lied about his nationality. Hans is eventually set free and sets off to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back home.
Olivier Gourmet, Christian Carion, Alice Isaaz, August Diehl, Mathilde Seigner
Don't Look Down
Don’t Look Down reveals the story behind Richard Branson’s daring adventures trying to break world records for flying in a hot air balloon. The film tells a story of courage, determination, despair and ultimate triumph.
Daniel Gordon, Richard Branson, Eve Branson, Mike Kendrick, Per Lindstrand
I am Not Your Negro
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing an unavoidable endeavor he was about to embark on: the writing of his last book, Remember This House. The book was to be an account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his friends — Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X. Their murders permanently traumatized an entire generation. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript. In this documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
Samuel L. Jackson, Raoul Peck
Rules Don't Apply
Few plot details other than it involves an old Howard Hughes and an affair with a younger woman.
Alec Baldwin, Lily Collins, Christopher Woodrow, Matthew Broderick, Brett Ratner, Chace Crawford, Ed Harris, Martin Sheen
Arrival
Described as a mind-bending sci-fi thriller with a powerful emotional twist. After aliens land around the globe, a linguist is recruited by the U.S. government in a race to decipher their intentions on Earth.
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Denis Villeneuve, Shawn Levy, Eric Heisserer, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O'Brien
The Edge of Seventeen
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, James L. Brooks, Kelly Fremon, Julie Ansell, Kyra Sedgwick, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Set in Dallas in 2005, infantryman Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old Texas native, deals with the final few hours before he and his brothers-in-arms return to war in Iraq.
Marc Platt, Vin Diesel, Kristen Stewart, Joe Alwyn, Beau Knapp, Rhodri Thomas, Chris Tucker, Deirdre Lovejoy
Bleed For This
Bleed For This deals with boxer Vinny Pazienza’s miraculous recovery from a car crash that left him with a broken back. He was told he might never walk again, let alone fight, but no one could stop the Pazmanian Devil, a world champ in two weight classes.
Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Cohen, Ben Younger, Martin Scorsese, Katey Sagal, Amanda Clayton, Emma Koskoff
London Town
When fifteen-year-old Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) hears the music of The Clash for the first time, it’s a revelation, opening up a new world of social consciousness and anti-establishment defiance beyond anything he’s known in his dead-end London suburb. Drawn into the heart of the city’s burgeoning punk scene, he forges two relationships that will change his life, falling in love with rebellious cool girl Vivian (Nell Williams) and finding an unexpected connection with none other than The Clash’s electrifying frontman, Joe Strummer (Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
Daniel Huttlestone, Derrick Borte, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Dougray Scott, Natasha McElhone, Tom Hughes
King Cobra
Focuses on a murder that rocked the adult entertainment industry in the early 2000s.
James Franco, Christian Slater, Alicia Silverstone, Keegan Allen, Garret Clayton, Justin Kelly, Molly Ringwald
Priceless
Desperately in need of money in hopes of regaining custody of his daughter, James (Joel Smallbone) embarks on a cross-country delivery for cash—no questions asked. But when he discovers what he is delivering is actually who, the questions in his mind begin haunting him mercilessly. James becomes an unlikely hero and must fight to save the innocence and lives of the two young women. One of which he finds himself falling in love with.
Ben Smallbone, Chris Dowling, Joel Smallbone, Bianca Santos, Tyler Poelle, Jim Parrack, David Koechner
Bodyguards: Secret Lives From Th...
Bodyguards & Protection Agents are the individuals on the front lines for the rich, famous, and powerful. These individuals deal with violence, stalkers, isolation, and potential loss of life every single day.
Jaren Hayman
The Crash
Set in the future when the US economy is on the brink of yet another massive financial crisis, The Crash tells the story of Guy Clifton, a federally-indicted stock trader, who is secretly enlisted by the federal government to help thwart a cyber-attack aimed at the US stock markets – an attack that could permanently cripple the economy.
Our ‘richer than God’ protagonist is charged with assembling a team capable of running the government’s top secret ‘shadow stock exchange’ in an attempt to keep the markets from mass panic in the event the cyber-hijack is successful. Having only ever been fueled by his love of money, Guy fully intends to use his insider knowledge of this world catastrophe for personal gain until he unearths the organization behind the attack and discovers its motives. For the first time in his life, Guy is challenged to make decisions not only for himself, but also for the good of his country – decisions that are rooted in morality rather than dollar signs.
Atit Shah, Aaron Becker, Peter Shuldiner, Isaac LaMell, Aram Rappaport, Hilary Shor
The Bad Kids
At a remote Mojave Desert high school extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age drama watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so-called “bad kids.”
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
National Bird
Follows three Air Force whistle-blowers who have been distressed over their participation in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries.
Sonia Kennebeck
Hacksaw Ridge
The true WWII tale of the epic battle to take the infamous Japanese stronghold, Hacksaw Ridge. The unlikely hero who turned the tide of the violent and bloody battle was a soldier who refused to bear arms, American Army Medic Desmond T Doss (Andrew Garfield), whose heroism turned him from a pariah to a hero in the eyes of his fellow soldiers, and led him to become the first Conscientious Objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Mel Gibson, Sam Worthington, Teresa Palmer, Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, Christopher Woodrow
Nocturnal Animals
The plot is described as a "story inside a story," with the first part following a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second part of the story follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.
George Clooney, Amy Adams, Isla Fisher, Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Grant Heslov, Michael Shannon, Aaron Johnson
Bad Santa 2
No plot details have been announced about the sequel to the 2003 Christmas-themed heist movie.
Steve Pink, John Phillips, Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Christina Hendricks, Ryan Hansen, Kathy Bates, Mark Waters
Sophie and the Rising Sun
Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages in Europe a wounded Asian stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden courtship. As their secret relationship evolves the war escalates tragically. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a surge of misguided patriotism, bigotry and violence sweeps through the town, threatening Mr. Ohta’s life. A trio of women, each with her own secrets - Sophie, along with the town matriarch and her housekeeper - rejects law and propriety, risking their lives with their actions.
Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Maggie Greenwald, Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Lorraine Toussaint
Beauty and the Beast
1810. After the wreck of his ships, a financially-ruined merchant (André Dussollier) exiles himself in the countryside with his six children. Among them is Belle (Léa Seydoux), his youngest daughter, a joyful girl full of grace. One day, during an arduous journey, the merchant stumbles across the magical domain of the Beast (Vincent Cassel), who sentences him to death for stealing a rose. Feeling responsible for the terrible fate which has befallen her family, Belle decides to sacrifice herself and take her father's place. At the Beast's castle, it is not death that awaits Belle, but a strange life in which fantastical moments mingle with gaiety and melancholy. Every night, at dinner, Belle and the Beast sit down together. They learn about each other, taming one another like two strangers who are total opposites. When she has to repulse his amorous advances, Belle tries to pierce the mysteries of the Beast and his domain. And when night falls, the Beast's past is revealed to her bit by bit in her dreams. It is a tragic story, which tells her that this solitary and fearsome being was once a majestic prince. Armed with her courage, ignoring every danger, and opening her heart, Belle manages to release the Beast from his curse. And in doing so, she discovers true love.
Audrey Lamy, Léa Seydoux, Louka Meliava, Vincent Cassel, André Dussollier, Eduardo Noriega, Myriam Charleins, Sara Giraudeau
Seasons
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground, the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. Winter had gone on for 80,000 years when, in a relatively short period of time the ice retreated, the landscape metamorphosed, the cycle of seasons was established and the beasts occupied their new kingdom. It was only later than man arrived to share this habitat, first tentatively as migratory hunter/gatherers, then making inroads in the forest as settled agriculturalists, and later more dramatically via industry and warfare.
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Stephane Durand
Manchester by the Sea
A Boston-living ne’er-do-well plumber is forced to return home to the titular town after he learns his brother passed away. There, he finds himself thrust into the care of the man's 16-year old son but finds himself crumbling due to a secret tragedy in his past.
Michelle Williams, Casey Affleck, Gigi Pritzker, Kyle Chandler, Kara Hayward, Kenneth Lonergan, Gretchen Mol, Tate Donovan
Doctor Strange
A subtly maimed surgeon finds a new life when a wizard trains him to become the new Sorcerer Supreme of Earth.
Scott Derrickson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Kevin Feige, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Louis D'Esposito
Rules Don't Apply
Few plot details other than it involves an old Howard Hughes and an affair with a younger woman.
Alec Baldwin, Lily Collins, Christopher Woodrow, Matthew Broderick, Brett Ratner, Chace Crawford, Ed Harris, Martin Sheen
Wheeler
The story of an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas, who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. By embodying the title character under prosthetic make up, actor Stephen Dorff successfully infiltrates Music City and takes his character on an authentic singer / songwriter journey. With the help of key allies on the ground, “Wheeler” converses with real people in real locations, with every musical number performed live. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.
Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Ross, Stephen Dorff, Audrey Spillman, Bobby Toberlin, Bart Herbison, Jim Ed Norton, Travis Meadows
All We Had
A mother and her 13-year-old daughter, living on the edge of poverty, find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America.
Judy Greer, Katie Holmes, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh, Stefania Owen, Mark Consuelos
Contract to Kill
Steven Seagal stars as Harmon, a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team—seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp—he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time—and his luck—run out.
Jemma Dallender, Steven Seagal, Keoni Waxman, Russell Wong
Officer Downe
The story of a savage LA policeman who is repeatedly resurrected and returned to active duty via dark science technology. When a rookie officer named Gable is recruited as backup, he discovers there's much more to the titular super-cop than a mindless law enforcement drone warring against a twisted rouges gallery of over-the-top super-villains.
Kim Coates, Tyler Ross, Michael Shawn Crahan, Joe Casey, Lauren Luna Vélez
London Road
Tells the moving story of a community coming together during the darkest of experiences. It documents the true events that occurred in 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. When a local resident was charged, and then convicted, of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicenter of this tragedy.
Tom Hardy, Rufus Norris, Olivia Colman, Clare Burt, Rosalie Craig, Alecky Blythe, Anita Dobson, James Doherty
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