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poster A Bucket of Blood
A Bucket of Blood
(3.4/5)
66mn - Comedy, Horror
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness r…
poster The Whole Wide World
The Whole Wide World
(3.5/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and they begin a unique relationship filled with conversatio…
poster The Trial
The Trial
(2.8/5)
100mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform …
poster Man of Gold
Man of Gold
(3.0/5)
81mn - Adventure
Faithful to his word, Michael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, becomes the guardian of Kondya, daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. Later, he weds the grateful young Turkish girl whom he saved f…
poster Dismissed
Dismissed
(2.9/5)
87mn - Thriller, Horror
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
poster The Devil Plays
The Devil Plays
(2.6/5)
63mn - Mystery, Romance
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
poster Study Hell
Study Hell
80mn - Horror
What starts as routine after-school detention becomes a nightmare when their supervising teacher, a troubled war veteran with PTSD, finally snaps under pressure. Drawing on his deadly military training, t…
poster Steel Toes
Steel Toes
(3.1/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Crime
Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny Dunkleman, a Jewish liberal humanist, and the court-appointed lawyer representing Mike Downey, a Neo-Na…
poster Death PhD
Death PhD
106mn - Horror
A group of ambitious Ph.D. students faces an impossible choice: endure their grueling 7-year degree program or graduate immediately by spending just one terrifying night in a notoriously haunted house. As…
poster Fun in a Bakery Shop
Fun in a Bakery Shop
2mn - Comedy
A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental us…
poster Hollow Triumph
Hollow Triumph
(3.4/5)
83mn - Thriller, Crime
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
poster Excuse My Dust
Excuse My Dust
48mn - Drama, Comedy, Action
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son and leaves him to…
poster Dough and Dynamite
Dough and Dynamite
(3.0/5)
28mn - Comedy
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
poster The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat
(2.7/5)
68mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice thei…
poster The Dinner
The Dinner
120mn - Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation re…
poster The Ripper
The Ripper
102mn - Horror
A mild-mannered college professor's life spirals into darkness when he unknowingly purchases Jack the Ripper's cursed antique ring. As the malevolent spirit of history's most infamous serial killer posses…
poster Tell Your Children
Tell Your Children
66mn - Drama, Thriller
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister…
poster Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(2.8/5)
96mn - History, Drama
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; hi…
poster Lamb
Lamb
(3.2/5)
93mn - Drama
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his…
poster Death in Small Doses
Death in Small Doses
(2.8/5)
88mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Espe…
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