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In Addams Family Reunion, the eccentric Addams family gathers for a family reunion filled with hilarious and spooky adventures. When their long-lost relative arrives, the Addams family must navigate through strange and campy situations, including a mysterious hotel, a butler, a book with hidden secrets, taxidermy, and even a dog with a transformation. As they uncover the family's dark past and deal with unconventional family dynamics, they learn the importance of love and acceptance.

Every Secret Thing tells the story of a detective and a female police officer who work together to solve the case of a missing child and a child murder in Baltimore. The investigation leads them to question suspects and uncover dark secrets in the process.

In 1980s London, a young film student enters into a complicated relationship while dealing with her own personal struggles, including drug addiction and co-dependency. The film explores themes of class distinction and toxic relationships.

After her husband's death, a war widow becomes the target of a psychopath who invades her home. Trapped inside, she must find a way to survive the night.

Unfaithfully Yours is a comedy film from 1948 that follows a symphony conductor named Sir Alfred De Carter. He becomes suspicious of his wife, believing she is having an affair. As his jealousy grows, Sir Alfred devises elaborate murder fantasies to get revenge. The film portrays the comedic chaos that ensues as Sir Alfred attempts to execute his plans.

After suffering a stroke, a filmmaker befriends a con man who takes advantage of her vulnerability and manipulates her into giving him money. As their friendship deepens, the filmmaker struggles to break free from his control and regain her independence.

In 'The Souvenir: Part II,' a filmmaker reflects on her life and relationships while trying to cope with the loss of her boyfriend. Set in 1980s London, she explores her artistic ambitions and personal growth amidst the challenges and choices she faces.

The Inheritor is a movie about a female executive who inherits her father's steel business and becomes the target of a neo-fascist minister. As she tries to reform the steel industry and protect her family's legacy, she must navigate political intrigue and face threats from the minister and his hitman. Along the way, she forms alliances with a reporter and a social reformer, and discovers the true meaning of power and love.

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Man Trouble is a 1992 comedy romance film that follows a man who finds himself in a series of comedic mishaps and misunderstandings after getting involved in a romantic relationship. With his life turned upside down, he must navigate the challenges of love and trust.

After becoming pregnant and being abandoned by her boyfriend, a woman assumes the identity of another woman who dies in a train crash. She moves to a small town, gets married and starts a new life, but her troubled past catches up with her.

Fu Sheng and his real-life brother star as friends who are searching for a treasure that a Shaolin priest, a villainous traitor and his sister are also trying to find.

Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.

Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.

Returning home from a trip to visit his mother, Nick discovers that a good friend of his, Sid, has apparently raped his girlfriend, Mary. More concerned with his own wounded pride than with Mary's lingering feelings of guilt, pain and betrayal, Nick vows revenge.