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Adam

Drama, Romance
<p>In movies, when two twentysomethings serendipitously wind up under the same Manhattan roof, witty repartee usually transpires, then sparks fly, and eventually they fall into bed. But the boy and the girl in Adam are no ordinary characters, and their romance is anything but familiar. Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer, encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment. A pleasant chemistry flows, but his awkwardness is perplexing. Whether avoiding eye contact or standing by blithely while Beth drags a heavy load up steep stairs, Adam seems utterly oblivious to social convention. </p><p>Then one night, Adam regales Beth with an elaborate outer-space light show. It's a magical moment, tainted slightly by his obsessively thorough astronomical explanation. Their connection is palpable. It becomes clear that Adam's inability to decipher nonverbal signals is beyond his control. And yet Beth doesn't balk. Their mutual interest tentatively takes root.</p><p>What makes this rare story about obstacles to human intimacy credible is its tremendous psychological wisdom; what makes it transcendent is the intelligence and authenticity radiating from actors Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. Though their particular challenges are extraordinary, Beth and Adam's tricky relationship elucidates something universal: truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into discomfiting territory-and the shake-up can be liberating.</p>
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Adam Green's Aladdin

Drama, Comedy, Adventure
<p>Adam Green's "Aladdin" is a hyper-sensory, poetic, and humorously modern take on the Arabian Nights Classic tale. Revolving around Aladdin's dysfunctional family, who live in an "average" American city ruled by a corrupt Sultan with a decadent socialite daughter, the film explores themes of technology, government repression, greed, and true-love.</p>
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Adam Project, The

Adventure,Drama,Fantasy
<p>Adam Reed, age 13, and still grieving the sudden death of his father a year earlier, walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. Together they must embark on an adventure into the past to find their father, set things right, and save the world. The three working together, both young and grown Adam come to terms with the loss of their father and have a chance to heal the wounds that have shaped them. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams discover they really don't like each other very much, and if they're going to save the world, they're first going to have to figure out how to get along.</p>
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Adam Resurrected

Drama
<p>After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.</p>
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Adam's Apple

Documentary
<p>An intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam&#8217;s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach, the film transforms a deeply personal archive, collected over two decades, into a powerful, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change.</p>
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Adaptation

Comedy
<p>From director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the team responsible for the highly acclaimed "Being John Malkovich", comes "Adaptation", a wildly unconventional comedy about a writer who, out of sheer desperation decides to insert himself into the screenplay he's struggling to adapt. It's a great idea, until reality and fiction begin to overlap in the most unexpected ways.</p> <p>Despite the success of his first produced script, "Being John Malkovich", for which he recieved an Academy Award(R) nomination for best original screenplay, Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is plagued by insecurities, both in his career and his personal life. When he is hired to adapt "The Orchid Thief", a nonfiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), he is completely stumped. Though, on the surface, the book is about Laroche's flower poaching adventures in the Florida Everglades, on another level it's also about the desire in all of us to experience passion. This longing plagues the book's author, Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) and, Charlie realizes, himself as well.</p> <p>Charlie's twin brother, Donald Kaufman (also played by Nicolas Cage), only makes things worse when he moves in with Charlie and announces he's going to be a screenwriter too. As Charlie battles his severe case of writer's block, Donald cheerily types away on a script about a serial killer with multiple-personality disorder. Donald's script immediately sells, making him the "hot" new writer in town. As if Charlie wasn't feeling bad enough, Donald is also getting laid regularly, while Charlie can't even get to first base.</p> <p>Then, one day, Charlie has a last ditch inspiration. He'll use his own dilemma as a framework for the script about Laroche and Orlean. But as the words start to flow, and the story takes shape, Charlie inadvertently sets in motion a chain of events impacting on the lives of all the characters.</p>
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Addams Family 2, The

Animation,Comedy,Family
<p>The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.</p>
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Addams Family Values

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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Addams Family, The

Animation, Family, Comedy
<p>The Addams family&apos;s lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.</p>
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Adderall Diaries, The

Drama
<p>Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliott, "The Adderall Diaries" is the gripping and complex story of how an author's fascination with a high-profile murder case leads him to come to terms with his troubled past while embarking on a potentially life-changing romance in the present.</p><p>James Franco plays Stephen Elliot, a once-successful novelist paralyzed by writer's block and an escalating Adderall dependency, who becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder case as a way to escape his personal troubles. His interest leads him to meet Lana Edmond (Amber Heard), a smart, sexy reporter who gives him unique access to the case. </p><p>As their relationship takes off, Stephen is suddenly thrust back into the past when his father (Ed Harris), a cruel and vindictive man, shows up to challenge the veracity of the memoir Stephen is writing. </p><p>As Stephen simultaneously delves into the details of the murder case (which turns out to have some unexpected parallels to his own troubled upbringing) and reunites with his estranged father, he is forced to separate truth from lies and fact from fiction-ultimately leading him to finally reconcile his past and confront his future.</p>
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Addicted

Drama, Psychological
<p>A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.</p>
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Addicted to Change

Action
<p>In a near future Britain, at a biotech lab on the brink of collapse, three interns invent a cognitive enhancing drug. They begin full scale manufacture, only to become targets of government forces who view their breakthrough as a threat.</p>
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Addicted to Fresno

Drama, Comedy
<p>"Addicted to Fresno" is a raunchy, uproarious comedy about co-dependent sisters (Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne) who work as hotel maids in Fresno, CA. Shannon (Greer) is fresh out of sex rehab when her younger, overly optimistic lesbian sister Martha (Lyonne) lands her a job as a maid at Fresno Suites, the local hotel. </p><p>When Shannon jeopardizes her fresh start by accidentally killing a hotel guest after a post-rehab relapse, Martha goes to great lengths to help her sister cover up the crime. Shannon finally learns to take responsibility for her actions as the sisters begin to resolve their tortured relationship.</p>
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Addicted to It

Animation
<p>Dace attempts the impossible: a peaceful walk without his phone. But his device, Phoney Bunny, springs to life and chases him like a clingy ex. As he recruits fellow screen junkies, one question remains: can you live without your phone?</p>
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Addiction

Horror
<p>After finally building the life he once dreamed of, a young man begins to feel suffocated by the constant effort it takes to maintain it. Exhausted and disillusioned, he starts to lose sight of why he worked so hard in the first place.. As his addiction tightens its grip, his reality begins to fracture. Without the substance, his mind spirals-distorting his perception and isolating him from the world around him. Soon, he starts seeing a dark, shadowy version of himself lurking in the distance... watching, waiting, and slowly getting closer. What begins as an escape turns into a psychological nightmare, as the figure grows impossible to ignore-an eerie manifestation of his unraveling mind, and a haunting reflection of the path he&apos;s chosen.</p>
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Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Thriller, Crime
<p>New York City, 1968 Max Bornstein had the wit, looks and charm that would carry him beyond the typical man's troubles. He was untouchable... Yet the typical man's troubles were the least of Max's worries: He was a full-time dope fiend and a part-time father working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry. </p>
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Ade: A Love Story

Romance, Drama
<p>The story centers on a 19-year-old American student traveling with a feminist companion in Africa who falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces.</p>
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Adeline The Dog!

Comedy
<p>Adeline, a small mutt makes her enthusiasm for food and classic French cinema clear, specifically her love for Jean-Luc Godard films.</p>
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Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets

Superhero, Action
<p>Explores the darker logical underpinnings of superhero tropes. In a world in which superheroes exist, personal foibles and the resulting celebrity culture are front and center. In the story, tragedy has struck the superheroic team Guardians of Justice, and in its aftermath secrets are revealed, lives are changed, and the war to end all wars begins.</p>
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Adiós Para Nunca

Thriller
<p>Antonella asks Miguel to meet, no matter what. Miguel and Antonella spend the day together, but Miguel gets no answer about the reason why they went out, which makes him increasingly nervous.</p>
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Adjustment Bureau, The

Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama
<p>Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) -- a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself-the men of The Adjustment Bureau-who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path.. or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her.</p>
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Admin

Drama
<p>The relationship between a female casting director and her assistant unravels after a powerful auteur crosses a line during a meeting.</p>
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Admiral

Action, Adventure, Biography
<p>When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county&apos;s strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.</p>
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Admission

Drama, Comedy
<p>Tina Fey (Date Night, 30 Rock) and Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Knocked Up) star in "Admission", the new film directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz (About a Boy), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness. Straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. Soon, Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted - but in the process finding her way to a surprising and exhilarating life and romance she never dreamed of having.</p>
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Adonis

<p>When Nathan is invited to a poolside stag party, the thought of standing beside his perfectly sculpted friends sends his confidence spiralling. Facing his body insecurities head-on, he must decide whether to take the plunge or hide away. A queer comedy.</p>
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Adopt a Highway

Drama
<p>Russ Millings (Ethan Hawke) has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.</p>
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Adoration

Drama
<p>"Adoration" speaks to our connections -- with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.</p><p>Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend.</p><p>The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who reads his version to the class and then takes it to the Internet. He has created a false identity, which allows him to probe a family secret. As Simon uses his new persona to journey deeper into his past, the public reaction is swift and strong. Then an exotic woman revels her true identity and the truth about Simon's family emerges.</p>
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Adored

Horror
<p>In the unsettling horror film Adored, a young woman’s obsession with a charismatic social media influencer spirals into a terrifying nightmare. The story centers on a lonely and impressionable fan who wins a once-in-a-lifetime contest to spend a weekend with her idol at his secluded estate. Initially, she is swept up in the glamour and attention, but the dreamlike atmosphere quickly curdles as she discovers the influencer’s true, sinister nature. His carefully curated online persona masks a dark and manipulative reality, and she realizes she is not a guest but a captive in a twisted game. Trapped in a remote location with no way to escape, she must use her wits to survive the psychological torment and violent intentions of her host. With a pervasive sense of dread and mounting tension, Adored explores the dark side of fame, the dangers of parasocial relationships, and the fight for survival against a monstrous ego.</p>
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Adrenalina

<p>A doctor who hides a criminal compulsion.</p>
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Adrienne

Documentary
<p>As the muse of Hal Hartley&#8217;s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitress, Adrienne Shelly was a shining star in the indie film firmament. A devoted young mother, her life was right on track until her husband found her dead. Filmmaker Andy Ostroy has been fighting to discover the truth about his wife&#8217;s death ever since.</p>
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Adrift

Horror
<p>While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa (newcomer Laura Neiva) discovers that her father (Vincent Cassel of "Black Swan"), a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman (Camilla Belle of "From Prada to Nada"). Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect family.</p>
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Adrift in Manhattan

Drama
<p>A lush meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city, Alfredo de Villa's ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN is the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes.</p><p>Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help--something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence.</p><p>With raw, exacting performances by a top-notch cast, including Heather Graham, Dominic Chianese, Elizabeth Peña, and Victor Rasuk (of RAISING VICTOR VARGAS fame), ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN wields fertile metaphors and a sophisticated sense of psychology to penetrate the subtle process of human transformation and the possibilities for meaningful interchange lying dormant in contemporary urban life.</p>
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Adult Beginners

Drama, Comedy
<p>A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company&#8217;s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs &#8212; only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up &#8212; but not without some bad behavior first.</p>
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Adult Life Skills

Comedy
<p>Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. </p><p>But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. </p><p>Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. </p><p>Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.</p>
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Adult Only Institute

Chi-soo is a repeater who gets bullied by his friends. However, he had a secret about his body that rumors wouldn't die down about... The secret was that he was the possessor of an outstanding package. Rumors about Chi-soo spread and all the women begin to desire him. Chi-soo who realizes what he has, takes revenge on those who bullied him by conquering all their women...
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Adult World

Drama
<p>Vibrators and confessional poetry collide in this sexy comedy about an aspiring writer cum sex toy shop clerk and her crusty literary idol (John Cusack). Amy (Emma Roberts) is a naive, awkward aspiring poet in a post-grad existence that is going nowhere. Living with her parents in a bland upstate New York town, certain of her yet-to-be-acknowledged literary greatness and desperate for income, she begrudgingly accepts a job at Adult World, the local sex shop owned by a frisky elderly couple (including a wonderful Cloris Leachman) and staffed by diva transvestite Rubio and adorable local boy Alex. Amy balances her work amongst the pornography and sex toys by fiercely pursuing a surefire kick start for her success: a mentorship with reclusive, crusty and alcoholic writer Rat Billings, played by a bitterly funny John Cusack.</p>
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Adulterers

Thriller
<p>On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to learn how far a jealous husband will go.</p>
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Advanced Prostitute 2

Jini feels skeptical about her familiar life. A life you want to run away from. She has a crush on the newly entered boxer Doosan and asks to leave the place together. Doosan decides to stay there, contrary to Jini’s wishes. By the way…
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Advantageous

Drama, Sci-Fi
<p>Set in the near future, "Advantageous" focuses on Gwen Koh (Jacqueline Kim), a single mother, whose aspirations for her daughter drive her to the precipice of a fraught decision. Gwen works as a spokesperson for the Center for Advanced Health and Living (an innocuous sounding organization that is, in fact, a corporate behemoth) and finds that she is in danger of losing her job. That would make it impossible for her to send her daughter Jules to private school, a termed "advantage" that in actuality is more a necessity to shield Jules from this future society's brutal economic disparities. The Center's newest and untested health procedure offers Gwen a dangerous, life-altering chance to continue her career. To weigh her options, Gwen attempts to reconnect with an estranged relative (Ken Jeong, "Community") and his new wife, but as seems standard for all in this dystopian landscape, Gwen remains alienated and alone.</p><p>Through this allegorical structure, "Advantageous" intelligently investigates present-day society's perspectives on femininity and motherhood and how they intersect with questions of beauty, surveillance and the economy. Including eerie and ingenious low-key special effects and a deliciously understated performance by Jacqueline Kim, this sci-fi film is rife with underlying tension and lyrical beauty perfectly matching the city's atmosphere of quiet desperation. Also starring Jennifer Ehle ("A Gifted Man", Zero Dark Thirty) and James Urbaniak ("The Venture Bros.," Henry Fool).</p>
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