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Stop-Loss

A soldier returns home to Texas from Iraq but is then recalled with the "stop-loss" procedure, the controversial statute now used by the U.S. Defense Dept. to extend soldiers' combat time. The soldier refuses to return to battle.

Summer Lovin'

Based on the song “Summer Nights” and focuses on the summer romantic fling between high schoolers Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.

The Chancellor Manuscript

Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.

The Corporation

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

The False Prince

Set in a distant land after the king, queen and crown prince are murdered, a nobleman devises a plan to find someone to impersonate the king’s long-lost son and act as a puppet. An orphan finds himself chosen with three other boys in the running. But this is no mere competition -- with court intrigue and political conspiracies make it a contest to the death.

Completed

December 10, 2010 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles VOD / Digital

The Sandcastle Empire

Set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation, a radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the government and takes control.

The Stars My Destination

A man is shipwrecked in space for years when one day a rescue crew passes him by. Angered, he channels his energies into seeking revenge and begins scheming.

The Throwaways

Kids are collared by drug enforcement agents for relatively minor or even borderline serious infractions like being caught with small amounts of drugs. They trade cooperation for prosecution. The agents take the untrained kids and wire them up and put them into incredibly dangerous sting operations to catch big fish. Law enforcement seems indifferent about their kid snitches, and kept using the kids over and over again under the threat they would otherwise be sent to prison. When the dealers learn the kids are working for agents they are tortured, beaten. After the fact, the cops circle the wagons and sometimes paint the murder victims as incorrigible druggies as their outraged families sue.

Warrior King

Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, an Army commander in Baghdad resigns following a scandal in which men under his command caused the drowning of an Iraqi civilian.

We All Looked Up

Set two months before a meteor is set to pass through Earth’s orbit with a 66.6 percent chance of striking and ending all life on the planet, four high school seniors – the athlete, the school slut, the slacker, and the overachiever – find their lives intersecting on the eve of the cataclysmic event.

10 Cloverfield Lane

Waking up from a car accident, a young woman finds herself in the basement of a man who says he's saved her life from a chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable.

Borne

A young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company — a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.

Cloverfield

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
Location: US - California

Extremely Loud and Incr...

Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.
Location: US - New York

Completed

December 25, 2011 Limited Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Forgotten

A 16-year-old girl's memory is erased at 4:33 every night and the following morning, all she can remember are events from her future. After meeting a new boy at school, she becomes frustrated that she can't find him in her memory of things to come.

Gangster Princess Of Be...

Lisette Lee portrays herself as an heiress to the Samsung fortune, as well as an actress, singer and model. She fakes all of this and beneath the bling are secrets, lies & private jets filled with weed. She is a drug mule and after she is caught trafficking 500 pounds of pot into Ohio, she draws a six-year sentence.