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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.

Set in the summer of 1974, it wraps a murder mystery around the beginnings of modern Wall Street mergers-and-acquisitions hustlers

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

On an African beach, a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets a vacationing upper-middle-class British couple who've wandered into an area outside the safety of their resort.

Adventures of a mischievous boy and his schoolmates, teacher and parents in Paris in the 1960s.

A veteran jazz pianist is mourning the death of his wife. His son returns home with his own wife, disrupting the couple's careers as musicians in Europe to deal with the brilliant Sonny as his behavior becomes manic and destructive. The trio tries to present the illusion of a functioning family, as the eccentricities inherent in being working musicians leads them tumbling toward a tragic but impactful conclusion.

The story tells of a nerdy florist who comes across a plant that, due to an eclipse, now requires a steady supply of human meat.

A mad Prussian scientists engineers a group of soldier dogs in a Canadian village. The hyper-intelligent dogs, who walk erect and use voice boxes to communicate, revolt against their masters and, dressed in 19th century formal wear, show up in modern New York.

A family of four kids, who are living a contemporary Swiss Family Robinson dream on a tropical island, set out to find themselves a home and end up saving the world.

Teenagers in Havana deliberately inject themselves with HIV to escape the oppression of "Special Period" Cuba.

Richard Branson goes from rags-to-riches as an entrepreneur with roots in the music business, as well as his love for death-defying stunts, including riding across the Atlantic Ocean in hot-air balloons.

A movie star lothario finds himself falling in love with a beautiful Chinese actress and her female translator.

An avid Jane Austen fan lives in present day New York with her boyfriend until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.

A ragtag unit of Allied soldiers fight Hitler's occult agents and other supernatural threats during WWII.

A mild-mannered school cafeteria server secretly dishes out helpings of justice as she and her assistant investigate wrongdoings.

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.

Set in New York, the lives of a prodigal graffiti artist and an upper east side socialite collide.

A teenage girl grapples with her own morality as she contends with the dreadful consequences of her ambition.