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Flight(2012)

R
| 2h 18min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2,686 votes)

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Kelly Reilly, Melissa Leo, Don Cheadle, Nadine Velazquez, ...
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Instant Family(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1,256 votes)

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Directed by Sean Anders - With Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Merced, Octavia Spencer, Tig Notaro, Margo Martindale, ...
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Smashed(2012)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 112 votes)

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Directed by James Ponsoldt - With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Bree Turner, ...

CrissCross(1992)

R
| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.

Directed by Chris Menges - With Goldie Hawn, Anna Thomson, Annie McEnroe, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, Keith Carradine, ...

Blush(2015)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.

Directed by Michal Vinik - With Sivan Noam Shimon
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Mary Goes Round(2018)

1h 27min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.

Directed by Molly McGlynn - With Aya Cash, Jess Salgueiro, Kristian Bruun, Kimberly-Sue Murray, Sarah Deakins, John Ralston, ...
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A Night Too Young(2012)

1h 5min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

On New Year's Day, two preteen boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world.

Directed by Olmo Omerzu - With Martin Pechlát, Cyril Drozda, Leoš Noha, Nataša Burger, Ondřej Volejník, Milan Mikulčík, ...

Paper Tigers(2015)

1h 42min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.

Wax On, Fuck Off(2010)

4min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Ralph Macchio, once a former teen idol, once on the top the world of the 80s. Now he is a family man with a loving wife and the nicest man in Hollywood....That is the problem. Because he never once participated in a scandal he is not as popular as he used to be. Sick and tired of it, his wife stages an intervention with his former co stars and manager. They explain to him that in order to further his career he has to shed the nice guy routine and become the most hated man in America. With some inspiration by other scandalous celebrities such as Colin Farrel and Christian Bale; Macchio decides to partake in every scandal known to modern America. Will he succeed in his career or would he go too far?

The Circle(1967)

58min | Documentary

Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.

Directed by Mort Ransen

Come to Harm(2022)

1h 45min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When his mother relapses, Oliver is forced to go look for his younger brother in the world of crime throughout the night.

Order Inside(2019)

21min | Horror, Thriller

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house.

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April(2022)

21min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Set to a vibrant landscape, 'April' follows the emotional up-and-down journey of a full-of-life high school girl, named April (played by Celine Alva), as she navigates change, friendships, and ultimately a decision that could permanently alter her life.

Nobody's Boy(2021)

32min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A hustler named Oscar encounters both the light and dark of humanity in an alcohol fueled odyssey of sex, love, and death.