Young Stalin traces the little-known, stranger-than-fiction early life of Joseph Stalin — street fighter, bank robber, and revolutionary — before he became the architect of Soviet tyranny. Set against the backdrop of Imperial Russia’s criminal underworld and revolutionary ferment, the film explores the making of a man who would reshape the 20th century with violence and ideology – and the largest bank heist in Russian history.
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The Deb
The Deb follows lovable farm girl and high school outcast Taylah Simpkins, who is certain the upcoming Debutante Ball, ‘the Deb,’ is her one chance to redefine herself. When her cynical city cousin Maeve is exiled to Taylah’s drought-stricken town Dunburn, she thinks the ball is a “heteronormative shit-show” and immediately disrupts the status quo. In their search for the spotlight, Taylah and Maeve dig deep to find self-acceptance — and a date to the Deb.
Mad About The Boy – The Noël Coward Story
Noel Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world. He wrote, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time, and was also a world renowned songwriter and performer. This is his inspirational story told in his own words, music, and home movies.
Tetris
Based on the true story of American video game salesman Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) and his discovery of Tetris in 1988. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
She Came To Me
Steven Lauddem is creatively blocked and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. At the behest of his wife Patricia, formerly his therapist, he sets out in search of inspiration. What he discovers is much more than he bargained for, or imagined.
American Animals
American Animals is the extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.
Centering on unpredictable wild child Warren (Evan Peters) and aspiring artist Spencer (Barry Keoghan), two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky, the film follows the duo through college life at separate universities, as adult pressures begin to weigh heavily on their futures. Realizing their lives may never be important, they organize the brazen theft of some valuable books from the special collections library of Spencer’s college, including Audubon’s Birds of America, valued at $10 million. Enlisting two more friends, budding accountant Eric (Jared Abrahamson) and fitness fanatic Chas (Barry Jenner), the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fence of the stolen volumes, taking cues from popular heist movies. But the thieves’ plans go awry, placing their bright futures in limbo. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) elevates the heist movie to bold and thrilling new heights.
I, Tonya
Based on the unbelievable, but true events, I, TONYA is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, and a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother, LaVona Golden, Craig Gillespie’s I, TONYA is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked––and checkered––glory.
Hacksaw Ridge
Set during WWII, Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of Desmond Doss, who, in Okinawa during one of the bloodiest battles of the war, saved the lives of 75 men without the use of any weapons. He was the only American soldier to fight on the front line without a gun – Doss believed the war was justified, but that killing was nevertheless wrong.
Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Pig
First time filmmaker Michael Sarnoski’s Pig tells the story of a truffle hunter (Cage) who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.