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After British forces defeat Italian forces in North Africa, Germany taps German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to drive eastward along the North African coast to seize the Suez Canal. British forces are routed, and it comes down to a stand at El-Alamein. There, Britain's Eighth Army in North Africa, led by Bernard Montgomery, keeps the Germans bottled up and unable to overrun Egypt. After several long, bloody battles, and with assistance from Australian and New Zealand forces, the Allies win the day. Rommel signals Hitler that the cause is lost. He is not granted permission to retreat but begins withdrawing troops, leaving the Italians alone to be trounced by allied forces.

The film presents the imagined story of Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, as she grapples with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It explores the emotional, familial, and artistic consequences of this tragedy, serving as a poignant backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's renowned play, Hamlet.

A reclusive writer receives an invitation to a bachelorette party of her best friend from high school, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years.

A 16-year old from a family of psychics has been foretold that she will cause her true love to die. Avoiding boys was pretty easy when she was younger but harder now that she is beginning to find herself attracted to them, especially the rich prep school-going circle of teen known as the Raven Boys. One of the boys is seeking the burial place of a Welsh noble who is said to be in deep slumber and whoever awakens him will be granted a favor.

In the wake of his brother's death, a young African American youth tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem, aided by his imagination and the magic of Legos.

The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.

Set in "New Manhattan," a city rebuilt by Japanese money, a bike gang leader must rescue his younger brother from his involvement in Akira, a secret government project. While doing so, the biker must battle with anti-government activists, shady politicians and reckless scientists.

Tamer Elnoury, an undercover agent and active Muslim, joins the elite counter-terrorism unit after September 11th. He infiltrates and brings down a terror cell stateside, running up against the clock to foil them, with worn techniques which still entail listening, recording, and proving terrorist intent.

The story of finance journalist Matt Prior and his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity, and his dreams.

Kit Carson, a trapper and mountain man, is married two Indian women but participates in the bloody battles against the tribes during the 19th century campaign to settle the West. His exploits, are captured in pulp tales known as "blood and thunders."

A guardian angel falls in love with a mortal, a lonely musician in Manhattan they are tasked to guide.

A young kid is arrested for putting out a hit on the clients of the Silk Road, the illegal online bazaar he created where one could buy illegal goods including drugs or services like contract killings.

An illusionist has the power to hypnotize his foes at great speed. With his companion Lothar, an African strongman, Mandrake fights evildoers ranging from gangsters to masters of disguise to aliens. He also has a twin brother who uses his power for evil instead of good.

In Masters of the Universe, an orphan named Adam discovers he is a prince destined to be the savior of a faraway land and must quickly learn of his power and the importance of saving his true home from an evil force.

A college-age couple meets and the young man makes a startling confession. Turns out their souls have been reincarnated over hundreds of years, but these soulmates keep losing each other. While he remembers the details of their previous lives — and his often exasperating attempts to connect with her romantically — she cannot recall the events of those past lives.

Two foot soldiers in a New Jersey crime syndicate, bent on expanding its horizons in the construction business, are sent to Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, Europe’s most massive post-WWII construction site. While scouting the area for their syndicate, they encounter other criminal factions with the same idea, including the Russian mafia.

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Centers on a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital who’s ordered not touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby dies in her care, she’s then taken to court by the couple.

A worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion will reduce civilization to ashes unless it can be stopped by an improbable group of heroes led by an enigmatic man known as The Fireman. It's no simple blaze: the condition starts as an inky stripe on a bodypart, looking like a tattoo. It's a highly contagious deadly spore that eventually causes the sufferer to burst into flames. Millions are infected; among them is a nurse who treated numerous sufferers until they eventually perished, with the hospital burned to the ground. Pregnant, she finds herself infected with the spore. Knowing infected mothers have birthed healthy babies, she too is in a race against time.