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Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. (imdb)

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple. (imdb)

Rahul and Anjali were best friends at college. Anjali realizes that she has fallen for Rahul but is too late, since Rahul has already fallen for Tina. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves and Tina and Rahul get married. They soon have a daughter, but Tina passes away due to complications during her pregnancy. The daughter is named after Anjali. Through reading the letters that her mom left for her, Anjali learns that Tina knew that Anjali was in love with Rahul and she vows to bring them together again.

An ancient mask transforms a mild-mannered bank clerk.

A southern gothic tale about a man named Karl, who's just been released from an asylum - some 25 years after he committed a gruesome crime. He returns to the southern town of his youth, where his quiet, gentle manner and simple charm land him a job and lead him to an unlikely friendship with a young boy and his widowed mother.

A highly styled 'genre' film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart. (imdb)

A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area. (imdb)

Elliot is going to the island of Eden to live out his submissive fantasies, but inadvertently photographs diamond smugglers at work... (imdb)

Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lil before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast"... (imdb)