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A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Set in Las Vegas during the late 1960s, a pair of hustlers rob the decaying Moonlight Casino.

Billy Bigelow is a carnival barker with a serious temper, that gets him in trouble and in the middle of a robbery gone bad. He dies and is sent to purgatory, where he is given one day to return to Earth and fix his troubles.

Set in America in the 20's, Charles Carter, aka Carter the Great, a brilliant stage magician known for outrageous stunts carried out on elaborate sets. He runs into major problems -- and the Secret Service -- when he puts on the most outrageous stunt of all, using President Harding, who later dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room.

The film follows a young girl, Dáyami, living in a Mexican border town who tries to send her Christmas list to Santa tied to a balloon. The balloon is found by Randy and Marcella Heiss, a couple in Arizona grieving the loss of their own child, who make it their mission to fulfill the girl’s touching Christmas wishes.

Air Force Combat Control Technician (CCT) John Chapman dies in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge.

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

Set against the backdrop of the making of Star Wars, Peter Mayhew tries to balance a career as a hospital worker while chasing Hollywood dreams by playing furry suited alien Chewbacca, who goes on to become one of the most iconic screen sidekicks in modern times.

Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells enters a bank and tells the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb goes off as Wells exits the bank, which is surrounded by cops, and it kills him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discover that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot is Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years.

A married couple, verging on divorce, wishes they had never met. They are given a chance to see what life would have been like had they never gotten together.

The film is based on the main antihero in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's an original story rather than an adaptation of Jules Verne's 19th-century novel.

Story tracks a young boy and his father who must battle cardboard monsters that magically come to life.

Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

Capone's rise from the slums of Brooklyn to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition.

Follows the marriages and friendship of two academic couples, who meet in Madison, Wisconsin, over the course of several decades.