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Hotel 33

Thriller, Supernatural
<p>Based on the presumed event surrounding the disappearance of 32 people on the opening night of the Grand Hotel in Williamsport, Pa., in 1953. While Detective Kaminsky is investigating the event, four teenagers break into the now-abandoned hotel for a night of festivities. Things soon go awry, and Kaminsky now has to turn his attentions to discovering the mysterious happenings surrounding the strange disappearance of two of the four teenagers.</p>
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Hotel Artemis

Thriller
<p>The near-future thriller, set in its own distinctive crime universe, is drawing comparisons to "Ex Machina," "Drive" and "Looper."The film is set in the near-future and takes place in an underground Los Angeles hospital, where the city's sinister criminals are treated. The story follows Jean Thomas, the nurse (Jodie Foster) who runs the hospital as she discovers that one of her patients is actually there to assassinate another.</p>
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Hotel Desire

Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass.
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Hotel Excelsior

A mysterious concierge guides us through stories that unfold in the same room over a century. A Jewish businessman celebrates a lonely family festivity with his daughter. A planned suicide leads to a life-changing encounter. An ageing rock band struggles with their image, and a young woman sees a callboy as her big chance for financial independence.
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Hotel for Dogs

Comedy, Family
<p>"Hotel for Dogs" stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday -- and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."</p>
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Hotel Mumbai

Drama, Thriller
<p>Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.</p>
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Hotel Noir

Drama
<p>Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.</p>
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Hotel Rwanda

Drama
<p>Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.</p>
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Hotel Transylvania

Animation, Comedy, Family
<p>Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's (Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free from meddling from the human world. But here's a little known fact about Dracula: he is not only the Prince of Darkness; he is also a dad. </p><p>Over-protective of his teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula fabricates tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. As a haven for Mavis, he opens the Hotel Transylvania, where his daughter and some of the world's most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - can kick back in safety and peace. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.</p>
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Hotel Transylvania 2

Animation, Family, Comedy
<p>The Drac pack is back for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 2! Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania... Dracula's rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn't showing signs of being a vampire. </p><p>So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny - and in for a major cultural shock of her own - "Vampa" Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a "monster-in-training" boot camp. But little do they know that Drac's grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. </p><p>And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood - and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania - things are going to get batty! </p>
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

Animation, Comedy, Family
<p>In Sony Pictures Animation's "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation", join our favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel.</p><p> It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. </p><p>But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind.</p>
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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

Animation,Comedy,Adventure
<p>When Van Helsing's mysterious invention, the "Monsterfication Ray", goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster. In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it's too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent.</p>
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Hottest State, The

Drama, Romance
<p>Adapted by Ethan Hawke from his own novel of the same name, "The Hottest State" is a bittersweet romance that distills the joy, pain, erotic highs, and emotional lows of first love. Ethan Hawke directs and co-stars in the film along with Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Laura Linney.</p> <p>Days before his 21st birthday, William (Mark Webber), an actor, meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Oscar-nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno), a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all – Texas – in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn and sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness, but surely leads to newfound maturity.</p>
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Hottie and the Nottie, The

Comedy, Romance
<p>Nate Cooper(Joel Moore) has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton) since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, or maybe send her a valentine, his family moved away. In the intervening years there have been other women in Nate's life, but none who could measure up to Cristabel. Convinced she's the only girl for him, Nate decides to move back to L.A. and track her down.</p><p>The good news: she's still single and stunning. The bad news: there's a reason she's still single. Cristabel's still best friends with the same ugly little girl Nate remembers from first grade, June Phigg (Christine Lakin). The two are inseparable. They live together. They go to yoga together. They would even go on double dates together...if only June could get a date. And Cristabel simply refuses to leave dear June home alone.</p><p>Determined to spend as much time as possible with Cristabel, Nate sets out to find a boyfriend for June. But even when he pays them, guys all flee at the sight of her. And then it hits him: June needs a makeover. But as Nate and June become friends and she emerges from her cocoon, Nate slowly realizes that the girl of his dreams isn't the hottie at all. It's the nottie -- who turns out to be something of a hottie herself.</p>
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Hound Dog’s Release

History
<p>A compelling mystery about an old song and it&#8217;s impacts on the generation growing up hearing it.</p>
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Hounddog

Drama, Music
<p>A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surrounds her.</p><p>Lewellen lives with her stern religious zealot grandmother, GRAMMIE (Piper Laurie), but spends most of her time down the hill with her much-adored DADDY (David Morse) in his falling down shack. Daddy is wild and rough and frequently brings home a beautiful but troubled woman (Robin Wright Penn) who has a mysterious history with him and comes and goes when his drink and abuse become too much for her. But while she's around, Lewellen's longing heart reaches for her love.</p><p>Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis Presley. When Elvis Presley comes to town for a concert, Lewellen is desperate to go but has no money for a ticket. Her best friend, Buddy, trying to get her a ticket, arranges for her to do her Elvis impersonation for a local teenager in exchange for tickets to the concert. During the impersonation, the teenager attacks Lewellen and steals her innocence.</p><p>The attack leaves Lewellen feeling alone and hopeless. It is only the caretaker CHARLES (Afemo Omilami) who can see the spirit in Lewellen and save her soul. He teaches her to use The Blues, to turn her tragedy into a gift. Lewellen ultimately finds her true voice, giving her the strength and courage to walk away from her past and into her future.</p>
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Hounds of Love

Crime, Drama
<p>In suburban Perth during the mid 1980s, people are unaware that women are disappearing at the hands of serial killer couple John and Evelyn White. After an innocent lapse in judgment, Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings) is randomly abducted by the disturbed couple. </p><p>With her murder imminent, Vicki realizes she must find a way to drive a wedge between Evelyn (Emma Booth) and John (Stephen Curry) if she is to survive. Hounds of Love is an exercise in expertly-crafted tension, offering a bold, challenging debut from writer/director Ben Young.</p>
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Hourglass

Thriller
<p>An adaptation from Myra McEntire's novel is catching on with a youthful female demographic. It's a time-slip romance about a teen girl plagued by visions of the past, who meets a handsome stranger who can see the future. Together they travel through time and find action, adventure and romance.</p>
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Hours

Thriller, Drama
<p>A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.</p>
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Hours of Fun

Comedy, Family
<p>The story of two childhood friends who ordered a slew of novelty toys (such as X-ray glasses, Sea-Monkeys and transforming robots) from the back pages of their late-'70s comic books. Thirty years later, the toys begin living up to their wild advertising claims, forcing the pair to save their town from the ensuing chaos.</p>
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Hours, The

Drama
<p>THE HOURS is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a differnt time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears.</p> <p>Virginia Woolf, in a suburb of London in the early 1920's, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, "Mrs. Dalloway".</p> <p>Laura Brown, a wife and mother in Los Angeles at the end of World War Two, is reading "Mrs. Dalloway", and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating changes in her life.</p> <p>Clarissa Vaughan, a contemporary version of Woolf's Mrs/ Dalloway, lives in New York City today, and is in love with her friend Richard, a brilliant poet who is dying of AIDS.</p> <p>Their stories inertwine, and finally come together in a surprisingm transcendent moment of shared recognition.</p>
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House

Drama, Horror, Thriller
<p>On a deserted back road in Alabama, Jack and Stephanie find themselves driving fast and running late. Their world suddenly changes when a strange accident leaves them stranded with no car, no cell phone coverage, and no help in sight. They have no choice except to continue on foot. As darkness approaches, they round a bend and see a small sign at the top of a long gravel driveway: The Wayside Inn.</p><p>The exhausted couple stands in front of an inviting house, complete with gated stone wall, ancient oak trees, and a note welcoming weary travelers. Inside they find another couple with an equally troubling story about a similar accident. It seems that backwoods pranksters have made their day miserable. Still, they are safe...</p><p>Or so they think.</p>
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House at Sugar Beach, The

Drama
<p>Based on the NY Times journalist Helene Cooper's memoir. The movie follows Cooper's family escape and survival, and 23 years later, Cooper's return to her native country to find the foster sister that her family left behind.</p>
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House at the End of the Street

Horror, Thriller
<p>Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Oscar(R)-nominee Elisabeth Shue; Leaving Las Vegas, Piranha 3D) and her daughter Elissa (Oscar(R)-nominee Jennifer Lawrence; X-Men: First Class, Winter's Bone) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared - leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot, My Soul to Take), as the sole survivor. Against Sarah's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan - and the closer they get, the deeper they're all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined. </p>
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House at the End of Time, The

Horror
<p>"The House at the End of Time" is described as being similar in tone to "The Conjuring" and "The Sixth Sense." It follows a mother who returns to the site of a crime that took place 30 years earlier and left her family shattered. There, she must come to grips with the supernatural aspects that led to the tragedy.</p>
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House Bunny, The

Comedy
<p>In Columbia Pictures' comedy "The House Bunny," Anna Faris charms as Shelley Darlington, a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex -- only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside.</p><p>Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have -- a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.</p>
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House Cat

Horror
<p>Living out of her car and hustling gig to gig, a woman takes a last-ditch job house-sitting a cat, only to discover she isn&#8217;t there to care for the cat; she is the cat.</p>
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House Next Door, The

Comedy, Horror
<p>It centers on overstressed Carl Black (Epps) who, after surviving a night of terror and becoming a best-selling author, moves his family back to his childhood home where he hopes to work on a new book. But when his quirky neighborhood becomes host to a mysteriously extravagant pimp (Williams), Carl's work is interrupted as his cousin becomes convinced the new neighbor is a vampire and is trying to steal Carl's entire family away.</p>
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House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2, The

Action,Comedy,Horror
<p>Bestselling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.</p>
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House of Bodies

Thriller
<p>The story follows Kyle, a deaf child who enjoys chatting online with Nicole (Latifah), a relay operator at a telephone service for the hearing-impaired. Kyle's fascination with the macabre leads him to explore the House of Bodies, a voyeur website based out of the former home of serial killer Henry Lee Bishop (Fonda), now on death row. When police discover a string of grisly copycat murders, a detective (Howard) must race to uncover the mystery.</p>
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House of Criticism

<p>Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz are both rockstars in the world of art criticism. They&#8217;re also madly in love. Reflecting on their relationship, careers, and the ever-evolving New York City art scene, this unlikely power couple invites us into their surprisingly humble world.</p>
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House of D

Drama
<p>A comical and touching story of a man looking back at his childhood in 1970s Greenwich Village, Lions Gate Films' "House of D" is the feature film writing and directing debut of actor David Duchovny, starring Duchovny, Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, Téa Leoni, Frank Langella and Erykah Badu.</p> <p>An American artist living a bohemian existence in Paris, Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) is trying to make sense of his troubled adult life by reflecting upon his extraordinary childhood...The year is 1973, and thirteen-year-old Greenwich Village native Tommy Warshaw (Anton Yelchin) is on the brink of becoming a man. While his bereaved single mother (Téa Leoni) continues to mourn the death of his father, Tommy escapes his own grief by causing trouble at school and making afternoon meat deliveries with his best friend Pappas (Robin Williams), a mentally challenged janitor. Following the romantic advice offered by Lady (Erykah Badu) - incarcerated in the infamous Greenwich Village Women's House of Detention for shadowy reasons - Tommy even experiences his first taste of love. Yet when an unexpected tragedy radically alters his world, Tommy must make a life-defining choice - one that will compel the adult Tom Warshaw, thirty years later, to confront his unfinished past.</p> <p>Vividly capturing the spirit of youth in all its joy and heartbreak, "House of D" examines with humor and pathos a boy's harrowing coming of age and the manner in which it defines his adulthood. Sensitively directed by Duchovny and bolstered by affectionate portrayals from a talented cast, "House of D" is a winning, hopeful story about overcoming loss and coming to terms with one's past.</p>
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House of Death

Horror
<p>At night, a boy is terrorized by a dark latex figure.</p>
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House of Flying Daggers

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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House of Fools

Drama
<p>In <i>House of Fools</i>, a beautiful young Chechen woman, Janna (Julia Vysotsky) is one of several inmates living in a psychiatric hospital. Insulated from the world, the inmates are oblivious to the war that rages around them.</p> <p>Janna spends her time playing her accordion. Her playing soothes the mischievous, and sometimes violent, behaviour of her fellow patients. In her private dream world, Janna finds comfort and safety when "fiance" Bryan Adams sings her love songs. One evening, the train that had nightly delighted the inmates, does not pass. In the morning, when the patients awaken to discover that the medical stuff has vanished, the problems of the outside world begin to invade their refuge.</p> <p>As Russian troops near, the patients must fend for themselves. The insane, the fragile, and the handicapped must now organized themselves as best they can. As some begin to think of leaving, the sound of nearby bombing sends them running back for cover.</p> <p>A group of Chechen soldiers invade the hospital and settle in with the patients. Janna becomes attracted to a soldier and plans to leave with him. But she is left behind when the Chechens leave. Dissapointed and saddened, all she can do is play her accordion and revel in the love of her "fiance" Bryan.</p>
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House of Gucci

Drama,Biography,History
<p>When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately&#8230; murder.</p>
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House of Ka

Horror
<p>After her father contracts a supernatural illness, a young aristocrat named Margaret Trelawny and a gentleman lawyer unravel a deadly mystery to save her father&apos;s life.</p>
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House of Night

Thriller
<p>A 16-year-old girl named Zoey Redbird, is sent to a special boarding school after learning she is genetically earmarked to become a "vampyre" in adolescence, or killed in the process.</p>
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House of Re-Animator

Horror
<p>When there's a death in the White House, "re-animator" Herbert West is brought in to bring the corpse back to life.</p>
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