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Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves a device that can reflect gravity. He expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. Presented with the opportunity to join the organization and improve his own technology in secret, Grady balks, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age? And when they do, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?

A teenage girl is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness after her mother is killed in a car crash. After a series of events and only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined.

An 18-year-old's best friend takes her own life. Looking for answers, the teen begins a brave and dangerous journey that takes her from her dead-end Washington town to Meg’s college dorm, to the clubs of Seattle, to the deserts of Nevada, and to the darkest parts of her own psyche. And as she looks for the whys and hows of her friend’s death, she is forced to face the meanings of love, friendship, guilt and forgiveness.

A romantic comedy featuring a lost engagement ring, a stolen cell phone, and two strangers who find each other…just as one of them is about to marry someone else.

Just days from getting released from Soledad State Prison, Nate McClusky runs afoul of the powerful leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, who runs its state-wide Meth network from his cell. Marked for death his release, Nate soon realizes that everyone he has ever loved is a target — including his daughter, who he hasn't seen for years. Soon the two of them find themselves on a non-stop struggle for survival, and along the way, discover the bonds that eluded them for so many years.

Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne). A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny (Stephan James). Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

Set in a world run by computer, Finn, a 17-year old, is a prisoner in Incarceron. He is determined to escape the prison fashioned centuries ago as a solution to the chaos created by man. Claudia, the warden's daughter, lives sequestered in a castle surrounded by servants. But she, too, longs for escape—from a father who frightens her and from betrothal to an insipid prince. Finn and Claudia each discover a crystal key and are amazed to find that they can communicate with each other. As their trust in one another builds, each pledges to help the other.

For Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg), skills he has never learned and memories of places he has never visited haunt his daily life. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real – but they are from multiple past lives. The Infinites bring Evan into their extraordinary world, where a gifted few are given the ability to be reborn with their memories and knowledge accumulated over centuries. With critical secrets buried in his past, Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock the answers in his memories in a race against time to save humanity from one of their own (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who seeks to destroy it.

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.

A strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants must help hold her family together after a tragic accident.

A woman in her twenties with vulnerability and no sexual guilt dates all the wrong men, and tries to survive a generation of guys who know more about love songs than love.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario.

A teenager in an eccentric family has his life upended by the return of his absentee father. While his mother heads to Vegas for her third honeymoon, dad offers his son the opportunity to collect the $70,000 bounty on his head.

Becky DeMuth, 19 and pregnant, travels across country with her older brother Cal. When they stop on a lonely stretch of highway, they hear a young boy's cries for help from a vast field of tall grass across the road. Becky and Cal wade into the grass to investigate and soon discover that once you enter the grass, it will not let you leave. Their only hope of escape rests in the hands of Becky’s boyfriend Travis who has come looking for them, desperate to find his pregnant girlfriend.

Set during World War III, a 14-year-old gamer enrolls in an elite military training academy. Before long he discovers that the military intends to turn him into a superhuman fighter by installing a computer in his brain.

A 16-year-old boy is literally invisible. He then meets and falls for his new neighbor, the one person who can actually see him. The two the set out to discover the truth behind his affliction, uncovering curses and spells along the way.