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On a poor New Hampshire farm in 1860’s America, family ties are tested during the Thanksgiving holiday when a wealthy, bitter woman pays an unexpected visit to her estranged daughter and grandchildren. As she attempts to control the family with money and social influence, secrets of the past are revealed—ones that could tear the family apart forever, or finally reunite it for a long-awaited, old-fashioned Thanksgiving. Inspired by Louis May Alcott’s...

Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

An Irish-American secret society of militant coal miners in Pennsylvania battle their exploitation with violence and even murder.

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...

The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award-winning drama. Academy Award® Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch (The Edukators) in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly recreates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping...

With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.

In Georgia Oakley’s stunning directorial debut, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen, in a powerhouse performance), a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.

From director Robert Redford comes a film that celebrates the power and potential of the human spirit. Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron star in this highly-acclaimed tale of a local hero with a promising future whose hopes are shattered on the battlefields of war. The disillusioned young man turns his back on the world – until a fateful visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, THE...