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  • Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

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    When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice “safe space,” she must choose between protecting her community or the integrity of her voice in the wake of a betrayal.

  • 29 Palms

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    When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O’Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress (Rachael Leigh Cook), among others. As the bag’s journey continues, more characters, including the…

  • Buffalo Soldiers

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    A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

  • Death to Smoochy

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    Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children’s TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame – scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive – Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the…

  • Memories of Murder

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    During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation’s first series of rape-and-murder cases.

  • The Bricklayers

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    When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the…

  • American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

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    In Alex Jones’ 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the staged 2004 United States presidential election.

  • The Blood of Wolves

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    Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.

  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon

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    It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the…

  • Torque

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    Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and…

  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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    A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

  • The Longest Yard

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    Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution’s football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough,…

  • Sivappathigaram

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    A man is working on a project with a smart professor whose daughter starts to like the man. During the legislature elections some mysterious killings take place. It’s up to the guy to trace the killer.

  • Jesse Stone: Night Passage

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    A prequel to “Stone Cold”, the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston’s North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from…

  • The Good German

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    An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.

  • All the King’s Men

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    The story of an idealist’s rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

  • The Lives of Others

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    In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

  • Animal Farm

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    A group of animals rebel against their human owners and take over the farm. Their uprising over, they are presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a cunning pig named Napoleon. It’s a situation that forces them to find the courage to stand up to Napoleon.

  • The Surgeon of Lazarus

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    The Surgeon of Lazarus tells the symbolic story of a fisherman from a fishing village who becomes corrupt due to power and money, leading his village to misery, death and destruction. A mythical work about resurrection, loneliness and death.

  • The Rebel Empress

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    Empress Wang Yunci who was murdered in the fire and reborn inside Jiang Jinli’s body as the Princess Consort Duan because of an ancient jade. Her birthday just became her death day, and her brother-in-law also became her husband.

  • Gone Baby Gone

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    When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl’s aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two…