A dedicated teacher (Hilary Swank) in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals.

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Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft

Dirección General de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía

Instituto de Cinematografía y de las Artes Visuales

A Los Angeles teacher (Hilary Swank) inspires a class of at-risk students to believe in themselves.

Freedom Writers

When David Greene (Brendan Fraser) receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends (Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell) turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

Student (Brendan Fraser) hides his Jewish heritage at 1950s prep school.

School Ties

Former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther, are happy to welcome a nun and six orphaned girls into their California farmhouse. Years earlier, the couple's 7-year-old daughter Annabelle died in a tragic car accident. Terror soon strikes when one child sneaks into a forbidden room and finds a seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.

Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales

A nun and six orphaned girls become the target of a former toy maker's possessed doll.

Annabelle: Creation

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica

A disillusioned priest helps a social worker and her children battle the legendary ghost La Llorona.

The Curse of La Llorona

A young killer experiences intense pleasure whenever she hears the sound of human pain.

Sound of Violence

A satire and a celebration of family values, the imagery of horror films, suburban life, the American Dream, and the ultimate taboo: death.

A satire and a celebration of family values, the imagery of horror films and more.

The Loneliest Boy in the World

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In 2049, Ti-Jeanne must revive Caribbean spirits and survive a possession ritual to save her people who are confined to an island off the mainland of Toronto.

In 2049, Ti-Jeanne must revive Caribbean spirits and survive a possession ritual to save her people.

Brown Girl Begins

Lennon fuels her ambition while pursuing entree into a podcast featuring live music and conversations with the artists she so fervently admires.

Lennon fuels her ambition while pursuing participation in a live music podcast.

Poser

The DeBeers diamond cartel corners the market on love with the "A diamond is forever" catchphrase, but a wave of undetectable synthetic diamonds floods global gem markets, threatening to expose the artifice behind a multi-billion dollar industry. Featuring interviews with diamond merchants, DeBeers execs, auctioneers, gemologists, designers, investigators and scientists.

Synthetic diamonds flood global gem markets, threatening to expose the artifice behind the industry.

Nothing Lasts Forever

A black English teacher (James McDaniel) coaches a girl's basketball team at an American Indian high school.

A high-school teacher (James McDaniel) coaches a girl's basketball team.

On the Edge

After a disheartening and haunting career wears him down, New York City paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) begins to collapse under the strain of saving lives and witnessing deaths. Through the course of a few nights, three co-workers (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore) accompany Pierce as he grasps for sanity and pushes to be fired. Before Pierce falls off the edge, he still has a hope when he forms a friendship with a victim's daughter (Patricia Arquette).

After too many years on the job, an EMS paramedic begins an emotional descent during 56-hour tour.

Bringing Out the Dead

When a massive hurricane hits her Florida town, young Haley ignores the evacuation orders to search for her missing father, Dave. After finding him gravely injured in their family home, the two of them become trapped by the rapidly encroaching floodwaters. With the storm strengthening, Haley and Dave discover an even greater threat than the rising water level -- a relentless attack from a pack of gigantic alligators.

Gigantic alligators swarm around a woman and her father as floodwaters engulf their family home.

Crawl

What Margaux wants, Margaux gets. As seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, its highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of its own. A carefree weekend of partying soon turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux plans to eliminate them one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

College students must fight for their lives when a smart house's AI system goes on a killing spree.

Margaux

This live action feature is inspired by the most successful interactive video-game character in history -- Lara Croft. Beautiful and brainy, Lara (Angelina Jolie) is the heroine of Eidos Interactive's phenomenally successful "Tomb Raider" game series. It is one woman's fearless quest criss-crossing the globe, in an amazing attempt to save the world.

A globe-trotter (Angelina Jolie) battles otherworldly creatures for an artifact.

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