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Travis McGee, a free-living bachelor and reluctant hero who lives on a houseboat in Florida, works as a "salvage consultant," recovering property and money for clients and taking half the fee in return. McGee takes on tracking down a treasure that a solider escaped with and hid after World War II.

Details of the plot are being kept under wraps, but the story centers on an archeological discovery that sets off a globe-spanning race. The goal is to create a movie that will be to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" what the "Bourne" movies are to James Bond movies: a character-driven, treasure-hunting thriller.

Described as a re-telling of the Biblical sibling tale but with time with a vampire twist.

The story centers on an American economist who becomes the target of professional assassins. When a U.S. intelligence agent investigating his case finds herself discredited, the two end up on the run and uncover a vast multinational conspiracy manipulating the global economy and world events.

A discontented stay-at-home mom wakes up seven years prior and gets a second chance to relive the choices she made and tries to discover if changing her past can changer her future.

At an impasse, one of two lifelong pals on a remote Irish isle abruptly ends the friendship, resulting in alarming consequences for both.

Gerald Arbuthnot, who introduces his prospective employer, Lord Illingworth, to his mother. But she realizes that Illingworth is the man who jilted her long ago and is Gerald's father.

During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.

A quiet woman marries a charismatic scion of a political family and ultimately becomes a presidential First Lady.

"Bye Bye Birdie" centers on Conrad Birdie, an Elvis Presley-type rock 'n' roll star who is drafted into the Army, much to the horror of his broke agent, Albert Peterson. In an attempt to get some publicity to get rich and marry his sweetheart, Rose, Albert makes arrangements for Conrad to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show," where he will give his last kiss as a civilian to a girl. The lucky recipient, Kim, is selected from Conrad's fan club, and the group sets out to Sweet Apple, Ohio, to meet her, much to the dismay of Kim's new boyfriend, Hugo. Relationships begin to unravel as Rose gets impatient with Albert, and the jealous Hugo knocks Conrad out cold during the televised kiss.

Set on island of Catan, settlers must outwit one another amidst fierce competition for the island's scarce resources.

Explorers, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, are sent West by Thomas Jefferson in search of the mythical Northwest Passage.

Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.

Director Neill Blomkamp told EW, “I would do anything to go back to the world of 'District 9' again. Or 'District 10'.”

Adam Brown battles personal demons, including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.

In 2003, South African game preserve owner Lawrence Anthony sneaks into Iraq after the war begins and rescues the animals in the Baghdad Zoo.