Movies in Development (Page #169)

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Leon Lewis, a Jewish lawyer, leads a spy ring that includes ex-Klansmen and the son of a German general. While law enforcement is busy chasing ineffectual communists, Lewis’ ring stops several outlandish plots to kidnap or kill prominent Hollywood figures like Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin and Samuel Goldwyn to promote the Nazi cause.

A father must fight for his family's survival after his son inadvertently exposes them to dangerous criminals via the Internet.

Inspired by true events, the script centers on a biracial high school student who returns with his white mother to her hometown in Mississippi, where he falls for a white girl. When prom season arrives at the high school, he is shocked to discover that she cannot be his date at the segregated prom. He soon finds himself a catalyst for change, not only for the prom but for the school and entire town.

A guy takes a weekend away from his life of normalcy telling his wife he’s out of town on business. He hits a strip club and ends up in a high stakes poker game where he loses his house. He’s got forty eight hours to get his house back by turning it into a brothel.

A contractor's artist wife suffers from an illness that prevents her from being in the sunlight and, as such, he builds a futuristic house that blocks out any natural light. When a band of criminals attempts to break into the house to steal one of his wife's valuable sculptures, he must evade and outsmart them to protect his home.

A divorced dad attends his college homecoming in an attempt to reconnect with his eldest daughter. When Bert arrives on campus, he realizes his kids have “parent trapped” him with his ex-wife. Then, “the weekend’s focus turns to competition, debaucherous mayhem and, perhaps, a chance to reunite his family,”

A group of adventurers exist in a fantasy world. During the day they embark on quests and battle evil wizards and when they get home from their busy day of slaying, they unwind by engage in a role-playing aptly titled game "Homerooms and Hall Passes" where they assume the identities of average eighth-graders. All is fun and games until an ancient curse sends the young adventurers into a world of mundane suburbia. While there, they must band together to survive their toughest adventure yet: middle school.

A CPA is dumped at the altar and forced to spend what would have been his honeymoon with his estranged, larger-than-life father.

Two 20-somethings are determined to hook up with each other, but find their efforts repeatedly foiled.

A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful member of a rebel army out of prison to help her reunite with her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

A rebellious young woman is forced to return to her country home thanks to forced home detention program. Living with her small-town-minded mother and stepfather seems like a fate worse than death until she begins to suspect that something malevolent may be in house as well.

American FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) executive Chuck Blazer earns the nickname "Mr. Ten Percent" in FIFA circles because of his rumored cut from the organization's lucrative TV and sponsorship deals. He admits to accepting bribes and begins working as an informant for the FBI after the government accuses him of tax evasion.

Set during the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chinatown restaurants from Sacramento to San Francisco start renting their banquet halls for rehearsal space and booking the young bands of nascent West Coast punk as dinner entertainment to bring in additional business. These Chinese and Filipino restaurants become some of California's most important venues and the focal point of the seminal West Coast punk music scene.

What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; and—perhaps mostly importantly—the chance to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding.

A cause-and-effect look at a world where time travel becomes accessible to the common man and how fragile reality can become.

A girl has ten days to figure out whether or not the guy she is with is right for her.