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Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns, ...

Jeong Yoon is a caring wife and mother and a sensitive woman who finds herself plunged into a legal ordeal thousands of miles from home. After ...

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the ...

Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented ...

Two people bound together in the same road and fall for each other in an unexpected way.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the ...

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo — the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial — ...

A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider ...

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he ...

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully ...

An Irish mob story set in 1970s Hell’s Kitchen. After the mobsters are sentenced to jail, their wives take their place — and do as good of ...

Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to ...

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back ...

An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special is a mix of stage time, funny stories about adulthood and conversations with family in her childhood home.

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing ...

Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the ...

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at ...

Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street ...

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing ...

Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a ...

A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other’s ...

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world’s population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a ...

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is ...

Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways — the now-legendary ...

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also ...