The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut
basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre,
archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti
westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.
SELMA
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month
period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous
campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent
opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in
President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most
significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava
DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and
visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the
movement prompted change that forever altered history.
AMIRA & SAM
An army veteran's unlikely romance with an Iraqi immigrant is put to the
test when she is faced with the prospect of deportation.
MISS JULIE
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled
daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to
seduce her.
SHADOW ZOMBIE
A southern tale of love and death set deep in Louisiana country. A
lonely drug dealer (Kim Filth) finds peace when he transforms into his
alter ego, Shadow Zombie, by merely painting his face and snorting
painkillers.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
When Anastasia Steele, a literature student, goes to interview the
wealthy Christian Grey as a favor to her roommate Kate Kavanagh, she
encounters a beautiful, brilliant and intimidating man. The innocent and
naive Ana starts to realize she wants him. Despite his enigmatic
reserve and advice, she finds herself desperate to get close to him. Not
able to resist Ana's beauty and independent spirit, Christian Grey
admits he wants her too, but on his own terms. Ana hesitates as she
discovers the singular tastes of Christian Grey - despite the
embellishments of success, his multinational businesses, his vast
wealth, and his loving family, Grey is consumed by the need to control
everything.
LOST RIVER
"Lost River" is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for
survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost
River, Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother of two, is led into a
macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her
family together. Her teenage son Bones (Iain De Casestecker) discovers a
mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and
sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and
the limits of those he loves.
HALT AND CATCH FIRE: SEASON 1
Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes the personal computing boom
through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose
innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their
personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and
ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie.
WILFRED: SEASON 3
The story of Ryan, a depressed man who believes he is getting nowhere in
his life and plans to kill himself. In the middle of his attempted
suicide, he is asked to watch his neighbor's dog, Wilfred, but Ryan can
only see Wilfred as a real person instead of an animal that everyone
else sees. As they begin to bond more and become friends, Wilfred
teaches Ryan a life lesson about people, love, and living.
OUTLANDER: SEASON 1
Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945
who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately
thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is
forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish
warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart
between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
MASTERS OF SEX: SEASON 2
Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson struggle to get their work back
on track while taking their relationship to a much more intimate place;
Libby flounders in a loveless marriage and turns to volunteering;
Former prostitute Betty DiMello tries for the American dream and ends up
working with Masters and Johnson; Dr. Austin Langham becomes the
spokesman for a popular diet company and the boy toy to its aggressive
founder.
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