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Built around Philippe Petit's real-life "artistic crime of the century" -- when the Frenchman illegally walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers in August 1974 -- "Spin" follows an ensemble cast of characters struggling throughout New York. The characters include a young Irish monk living among prostitutes in the Bronx; a group of mothers mourning their sons, killed in Vietnam, in a Park Avenue apartment; and a 38-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.

Eighteen-year-old Ever Wong is sent from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer. Ever is joined by 30 other students for the summer program — all of whom are a diverse array of Asian Americans. But what she thinks is a Summer program turns out to be a teen free-for-all that is dubbed "Loveboat". Instead of calligraphy, the teens are into clubbing and instead of touring sacred shrines, they opt for drinking snake blood.

Follows a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. One day, the woman finds she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.

The true story of Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Haditha, Iraq.

High school student Laurel's beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes to her epistolary confidants about navigating new and complicated friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time. Ultimately, the letters reveal the painful truth about her past.

An LAPD cop who becomes a mole investigating a crime against the head of the Mexican mafia. He and his partner soon become involved in web of corruption and retribution involving gang bangers, dirty cops and the mexican mob.

Focuses on the formative years of Elvis Presley up to his enlistment in the Army.

A man is hired by the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers and goes through the training program to eventually rise up to being a successful bond trader.

Follows the true-life 761st Tank Battalion, an African-American armored unit which saw combat as part of the U.S. Army during WWII under General George S. Patton.

After a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, a teenager finds himself wrongfully pursued by a corrupt Department of Homeland Security agent. Using technological tricks, he must elude capture while exposing the truth.

The story of Laura Ingalls and her family who wander the west in search of a place to can call home.

Story centers on the mysterious death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, and the events that built up to it.

Amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, T Kira Madden, a queer, biracial teenager, faces cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lives a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface is a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronts her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she finds lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls.

Set during a sixty second elevator ride, a young man struggles to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

A 19-year-old woman moves to Hollywood, quickly finds fame as a reality series star and then has to deal with the ramifications of living a fishbowl life.

The story of a teenager whose apparent death sets off a series of paranormal events. Frightened by what appears to be otherworldly activity, her family discovers secrets about their daughter as well as what lurks beneath Lake Mungo.