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As an introverted college student catches the eye of a new friend in Italy, his estranged buddy visits and brings a surprise with him.

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.

On the outside, Stu and Chris appear to be the perfect couple. It isn't until the eve of their wedding that past indiscretions are revealed causing unforgivable actions that both will forever regret.

A Syrian refugee can only stay in Britain if she becomes a surrogate mother for a desperate couple, but their illicit pact has dark consequences.

A retired contract scout for the union, compelled to move on from his tragic past, embarks on a deadly mission with gunfight battles, double crosses, and an unexpected showdown to learn what happened to his true love and her little girl.

Promise is a comedy showing the Promise and Power of God Manifesting when one gangster attempts to shoot down his ex-gang banging homie, who turns his life around by receiving the instructions from the Lord and becomes a family man and good husband to his wife instead of continuing to sell drugs and gangbang endangering his family.

This is a very personal story about how much everything is connected. About the relationship of children and parents, ecology education and responsibility for both relations with people and with nature.

What may seem like a normal night for friends Chris, Teo and Julian, quickly turns sour and becomes a pivotal point in their lives when Chris tells Teo his darkest secret.

In a remote Chinese village, a young boy forms a bond with a pig.

A college senior, Jesse, attempts to rescue his girlfriend Selene from the vicious cult that ambushed them along a lonely mountain road.

An experimental dance film exploring the intersection of prescription opioid abuse and grief.

Karla and Olivia go on a series of dates, exploring their connection through laughter and shared moments of joy. However, when Olivia expresses her desire to make their relationship official, Karla hesitates, unsure if she's ready for the commitment.

An old woman, overseeing her granddaughter making some damper, is asked how she came to be betrothed or “promised” at a young age.

A man throws one final birthday celebration for his dying lover.

Shopping, laundry, adult conversations: 10-year-old Promise doesn't often get the chance to be a child. He lives with his mother, siblings and many other refugees in a hotel in Cologne. With a camera, the boy wanders through the corridors and rooms and takes a picture of this bizarre new world.

Promise, a single mother facing deportation and John, an ex-con with a business idea, find their marriage of convenience becoming something more.

Major Connell, a WWII Allied fighter pilot, is flying 10,000 feet over the South Pacific when the unthinkable happens - Enemy artillery rattles his plane forcing the F4F Wildcat to crash land into Japanese occupied territory. Fighting for his life, Connell is forced to confront his humanity, forging an unlikely friendship with a young Japanese soldier to uphold a promise he made to the love of his life.

As I started making collages in a digital form, it felt like the next step was to add time, movement, and music, and the collages started to dance,” wrote Miwa Matreyek. “I also consider my performances to be collage, as my shadow silhouette becomes integrated into the layers of animations, creating a new whole with new meanings that does not exist until the elements are presented together.”

As Tessa faces the destruction of her unhappy marriage to Jonathan, she battles to reconcile the commitment she made to him with the childhood promise of happiness she made to herself.

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A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.

Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

The teacher of a primary school in a mountainous village, arrives in Athens to force a rich businessman to keep his promise and to build a new school in the village.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by corrupt Dr. Gresham and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has become the dormitory town for the workers of a Nuclear Power Plant. With the liberal promise of prosperity and socioeconomic wellfare, many workers left their homes to move to the small city and started working at the new Nuclear Power Plant. The collective unrest and the silence, cut off by the great gusts of wind, articulate the landscape of the village that is now under the aid of the Nuclear Power Plant.

After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.

Rosalie rides the MRT everyday and she becomes infatuated with the handsome man on the billboard. She talks to his picture intently every day until to her surprise the image comes to life. At the same time she meets MRT driver Eric who she finds agreeable. Will she go for her dream or wake up to reality?

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.

This is the story of a popular singer-actress (Aunor) who went into seclusion after the traumatic experience of watching her pregnant sister die in the wake of a stampede of her fans. Nearly twenty years later, she took in a young girl who wanted to be a star and tried to mold her into a copy of what she was before. With her she also picked up the pieces of the life she placed on hold and now was wishing to resume not as the star she was but as an involved caring and loving person.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Several people experience a miracle of love under the spell of a solar eclipse. Se-jin is obsessively in love with a very bizarre young woman named Ju-won. So-hyun confesses her feeling for Ji-wu by clinging to him and asking him how to become a strong drinker. Jeong-seok is a single father working as a copywriter, loved by Su-jeong, whose advances he rejects every time. Jin-man is a free-hug activist who returns to korea to meet his old flame.

When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Four young women blackmail and scam numerous government officials.

An enterprising young woman begins driving a Keke Napep to make ends meet when her father dies. When her brother falls seriously ill and she is unable to pay his hospital bills, help comes in the most surprising form.

This film is about a young woman named Kasie. Sometimes, the disappearance of the only glimmer of hope could spell the end of a dream for some people...

Tiquan, a 13-year-old Antiguan, recounts bits of his daily life in his small village and community.

A young man after studying in the city decides to return to his village to educate his people about the dangers of their activities and practices on the environment. Unfortunately his knowledge becomes a threat to some corrupt elders who benefit from these activities and they vow to get him out of their way.

Life is a tread pod in the eyes of infinity, making lemonade out of the lemons thrown on us by life is the best gleam. Love on the other hand is undiluted when imagining and sweet when given and received. Dikachi a young lady who was so afraid of falling in love met an adventure, and she couldn't believe what was calling in her heart, but when Love flashed its light, it became invincible.

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A meeting with the family lawyer causes chaos for the Thompson family, with betrayal, infidelity and lies leading to bloody consequences.

Members of a community fortify themselves in worshiping deity and it happens that a man with family of five were suppose to be the next in line to be in charge of the deity but refuses and he has to face the consequence.

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.

Six friends embark on a journey to investigate the mysteries of the Ozalia Forest in Nigeria.

Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.

A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.

In 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home by whom most believe to be O.J Simpson. But what role did Glen Rogers, also known as the Casanova Killer play in their death?

A young man sits at a local restaurant with his friend: but he isn't paying attention to her as she speaks. This film visualizes his chaotic state of mind and how he uses mindfulness practice to tune back into the conversation. Mindfulness is being able to sit with and observe your thoughts. Being mindful improves focus and mental health. FLES is SELF spelt backwards.

A spirited coming-of-age drama, set in rural Lagos, follows a resourceful young girl whose life is transformed when she harnesses tech and AI innovations to overcome poverty’s relentless setbacks. Blending heartfelt storytelling with high-tension wonder, the film shows how creativity and hope can turn poverty into a thing of the past.

A man's voyeuristic tendencies take a deadly turn when his harmless peeping tom activities turn into a murder investigation.

After going renegade on a Foray, Kathleen an English woman goes down south to Ngara Town. Seeking redemption, Kathleen saves Ngara Town and becomes her new hero. But when Diwani (point man of the Foray) comes to Ngara to retrieve from Kathleen what belongs to the Foray, Kathleen must go against the odds to save Ngara from Diwani and a Foray striking for the very soul of Ngara Town.

This is a story Ukpabi and his mischievous son, both wolves in sheep clothing whom hiding under the mask of Christianity, embark on the mission of seizing peoples lands, on the authority of God's promise to Abraham in the bible. Ukpabi turns Peter into a goat lover and Samson into a faeces eater because they dared to question him. Unknown to Ukpabi, he was to meet his waterloo through the same people he wronged.

Charles and Whitney are a close-knit heterosexual couple until a friend, Alex, comes to visit. Whitney lets him move in with them because she thinks he will be a good influence on her husband, who has a tendency to cheat. But Alex wants only one thing: to abuse Charles. He drugs him to rape him. After that, Charles reveals himself as a homosexual, until a pastor explains to the couple that he was under the spell of a spell cast by Alex.

A detective takes on the case of finding a valuable Lego in order to save her practice from closing.

Sam, a lonely warehouse worker, escapes his monotonous routine through music and fleeting sunrises. A chance encounter with Stella, a spirited waitress, challenges him to rediscover his passion and take charge of his life.

A dramatic retelling of the decades-long Aguleri/Umuleri conflict in Nigeria.

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows

A sexually frustrated half-Asian woman and an Asian woman suffering from existential dread, almost develop a romantic relationship at first encounter on a winter road trip.