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Birds Like Us

Animation,Adventure,Fantasy
<p>Based on the 11th century Persian masterpiece "The Conference of the Birds" by Farid al-Din 'Attar the first Bosnian animated movie ever follows a motley crew of birds, doomed to one another, led by a bat, which embarks on a journey and faces storms, raging mountains, stars and the sea, all in search of happiness. </p><p>Flung out of the safe haven of Birdabad into a world tormented by the Horror, the lovely Hupu, her silent husband Hasan, the ever-helpful little Mi and the tyrant Kondor are forced on an epic journey to find their way home.</p>
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Birds of America

Comedy, Drama
<p>Led by Morrie (Matthew Perry) the oldest of three siblings he has ended up raising his younger brother Jay (Ben Foster) and kid sister Ida (Ginnifer Goodwin ) in the same house in which he now lives with his wife, Betty. Jay's life is a dangerous mess, and when he and Ida come to live with Morrie and Betty the younger siblings antics highlight the social tightrope they are walking with the picture-perfect couple (Gary Wilmes and Hilary Swank) next door who are also the only people standing between Jay and Betty and the promise of financial and emotional security.</p>
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
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Birth

Drama, Mystery
<p>Ten years after the sudden death of her beloved husband Sean, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is finally ready to emerge from the shadow of grief and begin a new chapter in her life. She has agreed to marry Joseph (Danny Huston), a good-humored, cultured man who has patiently courted the lovely young widow for three years. Anna's decision pleases her mother Eleanor (Lauren Bacall), an elegant and commanding woman who has welcomed Joseph into the family's spacious apartment on New York's aristocratic Upper East Side. The apartment has been Anna's home since Sean's death, and it is also the present residence of her pregnant sister Laura (Alison Elliot) and Laura's husband Bob (Arliss Howard), who are having their own home remodeled. And it is there that friends and relatives gather one night for Anna and Joseph's engagement party.</p> <p>Those guests include Clifford (Peter Stormare), who was Sean's best friend, and Clifford's wife Clara (Anne Heche). The couple is not entirely at ease in these privileged environs : as the elevator arrives. Clara decides their gift is not properly wrapped and sends Clifford up to the party alone. As Clara pauses in the building's marble lobby to ponder her options, her gaze lights on a young boy (Cameron Bright), sitting by himself in an anteroom. Clara soon leaves the building for Central Park, unaware that the boy is following her. When she returns to the apartment building a while later, the boy is back in his place.</p> <p>Following close on the heels of the engagement party is Eleanor's birthday celebration, an intimate event attended by close family friend Mrs.Hill (Zoe Caldwell). But before the cake can be cut, an uninvited guest appears as if out of nowhere. It is the same young boy, and he wants to speak privately with Anna. Indulging what seems to be a whim, Anna accompanies the child to the kitchen. There, he declares that he is her dead husband Sean and warns her not to marry Joseph. A stunned and angry Anna takes the boy downstairs, instructing Jimmy the doorman (Milo Addica) to send him home. Jimmy confirms that he knows the child. His name is Sean.</p> <p>But Sean will not be dissuaded, and begins to write to Anna. The boy regularly visits Anna's building with his father Mr.Conte (Ted Levine), a tutor who has clients there. Joseph, curious about this 10-year-old who has been writing to his fiancee, decides to speak to Sean at the apartment where his father is working. The three adults - Joseph, Anna and his father - order him to leave Anna alone, but Sean staunchly, calmly refuses. When the child collapses at the end of the confrontation, Anna cannot help but feel pained.</p> <p>Sean's surreal intrusion on Anna's life is met with varying reactions in Anna's family. At the boy's own suggestion, Bob quizzes him about details of the dead Sean's life, and the child's knowledge is uncanny. More unnerving still is the intensity and certainy of his love for Anna. Mrs.Conte (Cara Seymour), who is estranged from Sean's father, allows the boy to see Anna, in the hope that he can be persuaded to abandon his belief that he is her husband.</p> <p>Instead, it is Anna's belief that is strengthened. Though she cannot deny the strangeness of it all, she is increasingly drawn to the little boy and willing to flout the wishes of her fiance and family to see him. Could this child truly be Anna's husband, returned to her? How can she refuse the chance to experience again the love she felt for him?</p>
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Birth Is for P*ssies

<p>A rookie doula is thrust into her first birth with a mother she&apos;s never met. After a rocky start, she quickly learns supporting women through labor is messier, funnier, and more profound than any training could have prepared her for.</p>
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Birth of a Nation, The

Drama, Biography
<p>Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.</p>
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Birth of the Dragon

Action, Biography, Drama
<p>Set against the backdrop of San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee&#8217;s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.</p>
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Birthday Cake, The

Crime,Thriller
<p>"The Birthday Cake" begins with the 10th anniversary of Giovanni's father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of carrying on the family tradition of bringing a cake to the home of his Uncle Angelo, Brooklyn's last Mafia boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Giovanni's life is forever changed and he's forced to grow up after witnessing murder, violence, chaos and the truth about what happened to his father.</p>
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Birthday Ticket

Drama
<p>A surprise birthday gift brings the cracks of an imbalanced friendship into focus.</p>
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Birthmarked

Comedy
<p>In 1977, two respected scientists, Ben Morin and his wife Catherine quit their jobs at the university to conduct an experiment they think will revolutionize our understanding of human identity. The project aims to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature. They want to prove that everyone has the same potential to become anything. Maya, a newborn girl adopted from two feebleminded parents, is raised to be smart, while Maurice, a newborn boy adopted from two anger-prone parents, is raised to be a pacifist. Finally, their own biological son Luke, who comes from a long lineage of scientific brains, is raised to become a revered artist. The experiment will reveal little scientific truth, but rather lead Ben and Catherine to discover the true value of family.</p>
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Bisping: The Michael Bisping Story

Documentary
<p>His passion for combat sports wasn't keeping him alive so survival mode kicked in for Michael and he was forced to take normal jobs, including working in factories, slaughterhouses, demolition companies; in addition to working as an upholsterer, postman, tiler, plasterer, and salesman. In his later years though, Michael's career as a UFC fighter would take off and he would become one of the sports fan favorites, but with any combat sport comes the shrapnel of getting kicked and punched in the face on a nightly basis. In a controversial fight against the steroid-induced Victor Belfort, the unthinkable would happen to change the course of Bisping's life forever. He would suffer a detached retina from a blow and kick to the head that would disfigure and scar the fighter forever, threatening to end a career he has sacrificed everything for. With a wife and kids that love him, they plead for the battered and bruised fighter to hang up the gloves, as they feel he has nothing left to prove. But in the end that decision is left to only one man: Michael Bisping.</p>
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Bit of Bad Luck, A

Comedy, Drama
<p>Brooks Caldwell (Cary Elwes), an erudite and handsome lawyer, has it all: wealth, social status and a red-hot career. His success is, in reality, a product of his marriage to his beautiful, socialite wife Amanda (Terri Polo), a wealthy timber heiress. Feeling underappreciated, Brooks finds solace by having extramarital affairs. </p><p>When discovered by Amanda, Brooks' philandering is not only humiliating, but drives Amanda to orchestrate a wicked plan to bring her husband down. When Brooks leaves for a weekend romp with his latest squeeze (Agnes Bruckner), his life quickly descends into a bizarre, nightmarish, downward spiral ending with all hell breaking loose!</p>
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Bitch

Drama
<p>A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together.</p>
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Bitch Posse, The

Action, Drama, Thriller
<p>Focuses on three friends, Cherry, Amy and Rennie, high school seniors who come from troubled homes and form a dangerous alliance called the Bitch Posse. Something occurs that rips apart the friendship and haunts them into adulthood.</p>
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Bitch Slap

Action, Adventure
<p>"Bitch Slap" is a post-modern, thinking man's throwback to the "B" Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950's - 70's as well as a loving, sly parody of the same. Inspired by the likes of Dragstrip Girl;, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill; Kung Fu Nun and the pantheon of Blaxploitation films, "Bitch Slap" will mix girls, guns, outrageous action and jaw-dropping visuals with a message... don't be naughty! </p><p>At its core, "Bitch Slap" follows three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) as they arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 Million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. Things quickly spin out of control as allegiances change, truths are revealed, other criminals arrive for the score, the fate of the world hangs in the balance and they are forced to confront a villain much worse than they ever expected... themselves. It's the ultimate morality tale as, one by one, they realize the whole she-bang was a set-up and one of them may not even be human... </p><p>What also makes "Bitch Slap" different is a complicated "B" story device that runs throughout the film to illuminate character, backstory and relationship histories not previously revealed. Like the film Memento, these scene flashbacks take place in reverse, so by the end of the film, you have a wholly different take on who these women are and why they are behaving so badly. Bet you never saw THAT in Jailbait Babysitter!</p>
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Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James

Documentary,Music,Drama
<p>This profile of legendary funk/R&amp;B icon Rick James captures the peaks and valleys of his storied career to reveal a complicated and rebellious soul, driven to share his talent with the world.</p>
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Bite

Horor
<p>While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits.</p><p> Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.</p>
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Bite Back

Drama
<p>Luis is a young vampire tired of following the strict rules. His mentor Monica, with a youthful appearance but not much older in age, is frustrated with him and warns that breaking the code will only lead to trouble. Luis decides to go against her, leading to a rift between the two of them.</p>
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Bite The Bullet

Horror
<p>A woman swept up in a passionate new romance discovers her boyfriend is the charismatic leader of a secretive cult&#8212;only to be abducted by his devoted followers and forced into a harrowing moral dilemma where her survival depends on betraying everything she believes.</p>
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Bitter Christmas

After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she decides to travel to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. The story of these women run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.
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Bitter Harvest

Drama, Romance
<p>Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th Century, "Bitter Harvest" is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin's genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. </p><p>As Stalin advances the ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union, a young artist named Yuri (Max Irons) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks) from the "Holodomor," the death-by-starvation program which ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians. </p><p>Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti-Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine.</p>
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Bitter Moon

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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Bittere Früchte - Ausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft

The documentary follows the trail of fruit and vegetables from the shopping cart back to various cultivation areas throughout Europe. The entire supply chain is revealed via a system that includes the inhumane exploitation of harvest workers and agricultural businesses. The aggressive pricing policy of the supermarket groups, their "lowest price promise", has established a modern form of slavery in Europe.
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Bitters

<p>At the end of a lovely wedding rehearsal, the Maid of Honor gives a speech in a last-ditch attempt to win the love of the bride.</p>
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Bittersweet

Documentary
<p>A coming-of-age story set in the Dominican Republic, where a group of young aspiring bachata musicians seek answers to love and life through their music. Filmed at the Academia de Bachata, the world&apos;s first bachata music school. Featuring maestro Martires de Leon, guitarist and arranger for Romeo Santos.</p>
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Bittersweet Symphony

Drama
<p>A musician who has just completed her first soundtrack to a Hollywood feature finds her personal life getting complicated.</p>
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Biutiful

Drama
<p>Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.</p>
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Bjork: Biophilia Live

Documentary, Music
<p>From a mind unlike any other, Biophilia Live chronicles the multidimensional concert centered on the eighth studio album of avant-garde Icelandic artist Bjork. Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland, unique voices in their own right, film Bjork live in performance and punctuate her music with evocative animation and science and nature footage. The infinitely creative journey presents a culmination of work that represents one of the most original musical endeavors of a generation.</p>
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Black

Drama
<p>Mavela, a 15-year-old teenager, did not fit in. That was until she encountered The Black Bronx. A well-known, she feels at home in the gang. Accepted, she has friends now, who lead her into street life. </p><p>For the very first time Mavela feels like she belongs. In return she quickly learns The Black Bronx is a lifetime commitment. Once a gang member always a gang member. And she has no intention of leaving. </p><p>One day world's collide when she meets Marwan, a member of a rival gang, at a police station. Marwan is a member of The 1080's. Keenly aware of the risks of getting involved with anyone from a rival group, they try to avoid their attraction but can only resist so long.</p><p> The young couple is forced to hide, seeing each other in secret. Just as they begin to imagine a new life for themselves a violent reckoning reminds Mavela where she belongs - and to whom. To break free they will have to betray the very loyalties their gangs are founded on and are vitally aware of the consequences if they fail.</p>
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Black 47

Drama
<p>Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.</p>
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Black Adam

Action,Superhero
<p>Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods&#8212;and imprisoned just as quickly&#8212;Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.</p>
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Black and Blue

Drama, Crime, Action
<p>Rookie cop Alicia West, an Army veteran, inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.</p>
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Black Angel

Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she is to meet her lover Helmut Schultz, a lieutenant in the infamous SS with whom she is having a passionate love affair. During the journey, Livia retraces the steps of her sexual aberration. But a surprise awaits her in the lagoon city.
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Black Angel: The Feature Film

Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
<p>A warrior must save a young maiden from an evil force.</p>
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Black Annis

Horror
<p>Following a personal tragedy, Ann becomes aware of an eerie presence stalking her every move, as frightening changes begin to occur.</p>
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Black Bag

Drama,Thriller
<p>When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.</p>
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Black Balloon, The

Drama
<p>When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in.</p><p>When his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take things easy, his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford).</p><p>Thomas, with the help of his new girlfriend Jackie (Gemma Ward), faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie's unusual antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up frustrations about his brother to pour out - in a story that is funny, confronting, and ultimately heart-warming.</p><p>"The Black Balloon" is a story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family.</p>
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Black Bear

Thriller
<p>At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.</p>
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Black Beauty

Drama
<p>Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.</p>
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Black Book

Thriller, War
<p>Holland 1944 - The final years of the Second World War find the beautiful singer Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten) taking refuge with the Tsjempkema family in rural Holland. Once a popular and wealthy singer, Rachel has been waiting out the war like many Jews in Europe, separated from her family and a moment away from being caught by the Gestapo. Her temporary safe-house is destroyed by an Allied bomber under fire by a German fighter and Rachel is left in the arms of Rob (Michel Huisman), a sympathetic young boy, who promises to help her to safety. The next morning, Rob takes Rachel to her contact in town, who she hopes will help her find her family and escape across into liberated territory.</p><p>They arrive at the home of Mr. Smaal (Dolf de Vries) and his wife (Diana Dobbleman), a compassionate lawyer who has worked secretly to help Jews escape from Holland. Reluctantly, Mr. Smaal arranges for Rachel to join her family and cross enemy lines into Allied territory, marking her name and rendez-vous point in a little black leather notebook. But during the dangerous crossing, the boat is ambushed by German troops. The Nazi's ruthlessly kill the boats' passengers and Rachel only narrowly escapes by jumping overboard into the river.</p><p>The next morning, Rachel is rescued by Gerben Kuipers, one of the leaders of the Dutch resistance. A kind and generous man, Kuipers offers Rachel a job and a safe place to stay. But embittered by the memory of the ruthless murder of her family, Rachel decides to become a resistance fighter to seek revenge against the Germans.</p><p>During her first mission, Rachel escorts Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman), another leader within the Dutch resistance, to smuggle guns and correspondence aboard a train. Posing as a couple, they hope to sneak past German troops patrolling the station, but when the Germans announce a thorough bag check, Rachel's quick thinking leads her into the arms of Ludwig Muntze (Sebastian Koch) the head of the Dutch SD. Rachel charms capture Muntze's attention, and as the soldiers ask for her bags he instructs them to leave them alone. Their brief encounter makes a lasting impression on both Rachel and Muntze, but as they part, both believe this to be their last encounter together.</p><p>That prediction, however, proves short lived after an accident reveals the resistances' attempt to transport weapons and ends with the capture of several top resistance fighters including Kuipers' son. Blinded by his love for his son, Kuipers solicits both Rachel and Akkermans to break into the SD headquarters to free the captives. Remembering her encounter with Muntze, Rachel volunteers herself to seduce Muntze and obtain the release of the captives.</p><p>Her initial meeting with Muntze results in her being hired as his assistant, assuring her close and intimate contact with the leadership of the SD forces. Befriending Ronnie (Halina Reijn), Rachel is confronted by the vicious ruthlessness of the Nazi regime and is even forced to print the execution orders for her captive compatriots. Rachel soon learns the dire condition of the prisoners, and realizes that the future of their survival lies in Muntze's hands. The merciless nature of the Nazi leadership would normally never yield, but Rachel discovers Muntze's resolve wavering under the weight his conscience. Before Muntze is able to finish secret negotiations with the resistance to cease fighting in exchange for the prisoners, his second in command Franken (Waldemar Kobus) reveals Muntze's secret negotiations to General Kautner (Christian Berkel). Muntze is arrested and summarily condemned to death for treason and aiding the resistance.</p><p>Seizing this moment of turmoil in the Nazi leadership, Akkermans mounts a rescue in an attempt to free the captured resistance fighters. But the surprise arrival of their small squad into the SD headquarters was anticipated by the Germans. Unable to save any of the captured prisoners, Akkermans is the only one to make it out alive. But unknown to the resistance fighters, Rachel helps Muntze, whom she has grown to love, to escape.</p><p>The failed escape leads the resistance to believe they were betrayed by a self-serving traitor. Learning of Muntze's escape, they begin to believe that Rachel exchanged information for his release. Now on the run from both the Nazi's and the resistance, Rachel and Muntze spend the next several weeks waiting out the war together.</p><p>Several months later, following the Allied liberation of Holland, Muntze and Rachel return to seek out Mr. Smaal's help to escape the harsh judgment of the victorious Dutch resistance. However, their return to the jubilant city is not a welcome one. Together, Rachel and Muntze are confronted with the harsh vengeance of the victor's justice as Muntze is recognized as the leader of the SD. Trying to flee the throngs of civilians demanding his arrest, Muntze is captured and executed on the orders of General Kautner, claiming yet one more victim for his ruthless regime. Alone once more, Rachel sets out to uncover the person who framed her as the traitor and right her blighted wartime record. But, as she delves deeper into the events of the past, Rachel uncovers trails of deceit pointing to compatriots she once counted as her closest friends and embarks upon a retributive justice of her own, to right the wrongs of this unforgiving period of history.</p>
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Black Box

Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
<p>After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.</p>
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Black Butterfly

Thriller, Psychological
<p>Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.</p>
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Black Christmas

Horror, Thriller
<p>As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions...</p>
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Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King

As a lionhearted boy who can't wield magic strives for the title of Wizard King, four banished Wizard Kings of yore return to crush the Clover Kingdom.
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Black Coal, Thin Ice

Thriller, Romance, Crime
<p>Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another badly injured. The surviving officer Zhang Zili is suspended from duty; he takes a job as a security guard at a factory. Five years later, another series of mysterious murders occurs. Aided by a former colleague, Zhang decides to investigate under his own initiative. He discovers that all the victims were connected to Wu Zhizhen, a young woman who works at a dry cleaners. Pretending to be a customer, Zhang begins to observe her and finds himself falling in love with the reticent Wu Zhizhen. One cold winter's day he makes a horrific discovery. His life now in danger, he realises it is not always possible to separate guilt from innocence.</p>
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Black Crab

Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
<p>To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.</p>
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Black Dahlia, The

Drama, Mystery, Thriller
<p>Master storyteller Brian De Palma, known for such classic crime dramas as "The Untouchables," "Scarface" and "Carlito's Way," as well as his suspense thrillers "Carrie," "Dressed to Kill" and "Blow Out," directs this adaptation of James Ellroy's ("L.A. Confidential," "American Tabloid") best-selling crime novel.</p> <p>"The Black Dahlia" weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia"-an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public.</p> <p>While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families-who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim.</p> <p>True crime meets urban legend when De Palma brings Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia" to the big screen.</p>
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