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Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.

A 20-year CIA vet is convicted of spying and is sentenced to 23 years in prison, becoming the highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. After leaving behind a failed Army career and while in a state of depression, his youngest son begins to seek solace and advice from his father who is in an Oregon federal prison. The father raises his son's spirits but also coaches him in spycraft, in effect launching a second act of espionage from behind bars by using his son as a courier. In the ensuing year and a half, the son travels the world selling secrets to the Russians, all the while getting deeper and deeper over his head.

A beleaguered detective named Lucie Hennebelle discovers that his friend comes down with a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare and spectacularly violent film from the 1950s. The cop discovers that the film has been embedded with subliminal images that those who come in contact with it end up dead. The detective teams with a Paris cop who has been trying to figure out the film’s connection to five men murdered and left in the woods. Together they get to the bottom of what has to be the most disturbing and powerful film ever made.

The story centers on the real life problems and controversies behind the scenes of a top-rated soap opera, that turn the series into a phenomenon.

A college student learns he is going deaf and memorizes his favorite songs to help capture the most important memories of his life — including falling in love.

Shakespeare Shapiro decides to chronicle every mortifying detail of his quest to get into college and find a girlfriend in his memoir, a writing project that every high school senior must complete.

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

A surrealist story about all the ways we hurt our friends without knowing it, and all the ways they stick around to save us.

Joe Gillis, a hunky but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.