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This prequel to National Lampoon's cult hit Van Wilder takes us to the beginning of young Van's (Jonathan Bennett) college career and reveals how the charismatic slacker became the indomitable party animal we've come to know and love. Shocked by the conservative environment of his new school, Van sets out to liberate the student body from the iron fist of the domineering Coolidge College dean (Kurt Fuller). (netflix.com)

The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for a million dollar ransom. There is only one man who is brave enough and smart enough to bring him back and that man is Big Jake. (imdb)

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown. (imdb)

An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans. (imdb)

One day, I-a high schooler-found a paperback in the hospital. The "Disease Coexistence Journal" was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. (imdb)

A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)

At a Catholic high school, the popular girl teams up with a sophomore reporter to investigate a case of stolen SAT exams. Once the duo target their suspects, a larger conspiracy is unearthed.

A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding. (imdb)

A group of friends are horrified when the male stripper they hired for a wild bachelorette party in Miami winds up dead.

Collin, during the last days of his parole, moves boxes out of houses with his friend Miles, navigating through a series of tense situations in their neighbourhood involving race and violence.