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The Saracens invade Spain again, but they seem content to compose music and watch the dancers.

Cindy, daughter of Queen Cinderella, grew up as a typical teen never believing in fairy godmothers. That is, until the night she wished to attend the village jamboree in order to meet the cutest boy in the village. From then on she was landed with Fred, her very own Fairy Godbrother there at her every beck and call. With Fred's help against jealous cousins, stuck-up princes, and discovering the whole story behind her parents'romance, Cindy will search for her own happily ever after.

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Ashton, an overworked junior editor, develops romantic feelings for the author of the novel that she's editing, as her job is threatened by jealous co-workers.

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father.

Emak who wanted a new digital TV because her analog TV service had been cut off, but was not financially able to afford it until her granddaughter Rahma invited her to do Live Streaming on "TokTok".

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabriela and Johnny, a punk singer, his plans will change.

A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his problems: buying foreclosed properties from banks at a fraction of their value, refitting them for a minimum cost, and then selling them for a large profit. He hires a local chauffeur for 24 hours to drive him around the mountainous area but, as night sets in and the weather worsens, the car is trapped on an icy road and the men face an uncertain fate.

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.

In this version of Oscar Wilde's tale, Dorian Gray is an actress who, desperate to become a worldwide star, makes a deal that switches her soul to her image on film, then proceeds to sleep and connive her way to the top, knowing that her screen test, and not she, will show the ravishes of time and of her immoral transgressions.

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

A poor taxi driver offered a chance for a better financial future must weigh up the cost of walking away from what he most values. // In a world first omnibus collaboration between emerging Asian movie powerhouses, China, Korea and Australia, comes the classic adaptation of Loa She’s The Rickshaw Boy. Set in three locations, across three countries each thirty minute chapter tells the story of one man’s struggle for survival amidst the age of disruptive technology and explores the intimate relationship that has come to exist between man and machine and the evolution of that relationship.

While writing an adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis", by English playwright Sarah Kane. Luisa (Ingrid Trigueiro) travels to a desert beach with her family. Immersed in the text, Luisa finds the work's impulses increasingly immersed into her own reality, driving her to the threshold of adaptation and delirium. Between theater, sketch, archival images, and complex memories and family relationships, Arthur Lins uses different staging references to compose a small tropical tale about complex creation process.

Sophia struggles with overthinking her life as a poor, nihilistic drifter. Exiled to a life of solitude, she has the chance to change it all upon meeting Liza one night... Did she let her in or was she destined to burn it all? The aftermath of their breakup is explored through three different angles.

A bare body guy buries his secrets in the earth right beside a river. An aspiring writer watches it from the bush. Begins a complex game with the secrets where the Earth stands witness.

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Set in Los Angeles, To Live Forever is a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of Sybil the prophetess who sleeps with Apollo in exchange for eternal life. Sybil fails to heed the warnings of her sister Cassandra and the goddess Aphrodite who both do their best to protect her from Apollo’s charms – and her own folly. Eventually she realizes living forever isn’t all she had hoped it would

A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.