The Greatest

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The Greatest (2009)

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Dragonfly

Dragonfly

2002 ★ 6.5

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007 ★ 6.6

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Premonition

Premonition

2007 ★ 6.3

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.

The Shack

The Shack

2017 ★ 7.5

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

2010 ★ 6.7

Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Paradise

Paradise

1991 ★ 6.2

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

Hancock

Hancock

2008 ★ 6.4

Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

Sherrybaby

Sherrybaby

2006 ★ 6.1

After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.

Resurrection

Resurrection

1980 ★ 6.5

The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.

In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom

2001 ★ 6.9

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014 ★ 6.5

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

Angel Face

Angel Face

1953 ★ 7.1

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Sky

Sky

2015 ★ 6.2

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

Double Mommy

Double Mommy

2016 ★ 7.4

After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins. When Ryan's mother demands a paternity test, they find out that Ryan is only the father of one baby... The other father is Ryan's best friend Brent, who Ryan discovers date-raped Jess at a party over the summer. With college recruiters and an overbearing father looming over Brent's head, he will stop at nothing to make sure that he clears his name--even if it means getting rid of Jess and her babies! Morgan Obenreder, Mark Grossman, Megan Gallagher, Griffin Freeman, David Starzyk star. (2017)

Good One

Good One

2024 ★ 6.5

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

Harry & Son

Harry & Son

1984 ★ 5.8

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.

Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015 ★ 7.1

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Bravetown

Bravetown

2015 ★ 6.7

After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.

Call Jane

Call Jane

2022 ★ 6.5

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

2003 ★ 5.9

Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden who died years ago.

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