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An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.

With a carnival backdrop, a hotshot pilot tracks the mysterious "Eagle" who issues his threats to corporate officers via sky-writing.

A woman tries to find her son's whereabouts after he leaves Mexico to find work in the United States.

The Divine Miss Didi is a gorgeous movie star who's fed up with taking bubble baths in every film. Jumping out of the tub, she dashes off the set and heads north to the small town of Rocky Point, Oregon. There, real estate agent Tom Meade makes a phone call to his wife and, through a mixed-up connection, reaches Didi instead. His wisecracking, unkempt housekeeper listens in, shocked at Meade's plan for a midnight rendezvous. When Didi disappears,...

As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power....

Homeless and misunderstood, Juliard-trained piano genius, Romulus, finds a frozen corpse outside his Manhattan cave. Romulus risks his remaining sanity to prove who committed the murder for the sake of justice.

Citizens living in Fortitude, an Arctic town hailed as the safest place on Earth, are rocked to the core by the murder of one of their own. A detective is quickly flown in from out-of-town to assist the local Chief of Police with the investigation of the town's first-ever violent crime and the two men must work together despite the deep mistrust each has for the other.

The hardboiled Marlowe's latest cases, the search for an ex-convict's lost love, and the murder of a client, take on an even more sinister turn when they begin to connect, leading the private eye deeper and deeper into the seamy underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles. As the stakes are raised and the body count swells, it looks like Marlowe might be next on the list to take the big sleep.

"Midsommar": A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult "The farewell": A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies. "The lighthouse": Two lighthouse keepers...

A young picture framer thinks that he has a terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.