Movie Loop: January 2016

Sunday, 31 January 2016

New Releases on Netflix - Ladrones

Partners-in-crime Alejandro Toledo and Santiago Guzman come out of retirement to continue their tradition of taking down the rich to help the poor, assembling a new gang to steal back a community's land grants.

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New Releases on Netflix - Rise of the Krays

Based on a true story and told through the eyes of a close friend, identical twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray rise as amateur boxers to become two of the England's most feared and respected criminals.

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New Releases on Netflix - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Walt Disney broke new ground in 1937 with this animated feature-length film, based on the famous fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, about a jealous queen, her beautiful stepdaughter, seven lovable dwarfs and a handsome prince. The Oscar-nominated classic includes the songs "Whistle While You Work," "Heigh-Ho" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (which became a jazz standard via trumpeter Miles Davis in the 1950s).

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New Releases on Netflix - American Hero

Melvin is a different kind of superhero -- one with a host of bad habits that includes drugs and skirt-chasing, in addition to his awesome powers. But after realizing that he may lose custody of his son, Melvin vows to clean up his act.

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New Releases on Netflix - Man Up

In a romantic turn of fate, perennially single Nancy is standing under a train station clock when a stranger named Jack arrives and mistakes her for his blind date. Sensing an opportunity, Nancy decides to go with the flow to see where things lead.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bleeding Heart

May's peaceful life is turned upside-down when her long-lost sister, Shiva, shows up at her door. Appalled by the abusive treatment Shiva is enduring from her boyfriend, May decides to step into Shiva's world to rescue her.

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New Releases on Netflix - Breathe

When the worldly and charismatic Sarah enrolls at Charlie's high school, they soon become the best of friends -- until a holiday at the beach leads to emotional complications and misunderstandings between the two girls.

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New Releases on Netflix - Effie Gray

Dakota Fanning stars as Euphemia Gray, whose unfulfilled (and unconsummated) marriage leads to her affair with a young painter. The love triangle intensifies when Gray requests a then-unheard-of annulment.

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New Releases on Netflix - Freeheld

In this fact-based drama, same-sex partners Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree face tragedy and discrimination when Laurel is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and her request to pass on her pension benefits to Stacie is denied.

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New Releases on Netflix - Meadowland

Anguished by their son's disappearance, Sarah and Phil struggle to keep their bearings. But as months pass without word of their child, Sarah's desperate search for answers drives her to take increasingly greater risks.

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New Releases on Netflix - Shelter

Set on the mean streets of New York City, this moving drama follows two homeless souls -- a heroin junkie and a Nigerian immigrant -- who join forces for survival and soon fall in love. But secrets from the past threaten to derail the relationship.

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New Releases on Netflix - Truth

In this dramatic re-creation of news anchor Dan Rather's fall from grace, his stellar career comes to an abrupt end after erroneously reporting that President George W. Bush received preferential treatment that kept him from serving in Vietnam.

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New Releases on Netflix - He Never Died

Cursed with immortality and a hunger for human flesh, Jack lives a cloistered life, feeding his appetite by purchasing blood from a hospital intern. But Jack's life is upended when some gangland thugs and his long-lost daughter enter the picture.

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New Releases on Netflix - Hellions

Home alone on Halloween night, pregnant teen Dora Vogel ends up fighting for her life when a band of masked, demonic trick-or-treaters shows up, hell-bent on breaking into her house for reasons she doesn't understand.

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New Releases on Netflix - Infected

When a virus mutates its population into ravaging zombies that hunt by night, Los Angeles is locked down, leaving seven survivors to find a way out. As they flee the infected horde, the refugees also try to get their story to the outside world.

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New Releases on Netflix - Martyrs

After escaping the psychotic family who'd long held her hostage, traumatized 10-year-old Lucie arrives at an orphanage where she meets a kindred spirit in Anna. A decade later, the women seek revenge against their past torturers and victimizers.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Veil

This horror-thriller from Jason Blum, producer of Paranormal Activity, the Insidious franchise and The Purge, features an all-star cast, including Jessica Alba (Sin City), Lily Rabe (TV's American Horror Story) and Thomas Jane (The Mist). Thirty years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow.

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New Releases on Netflix - Visions

Leaving her hectic city lifestyle behind, young mother-to-be Eveleigh joins her husband David at their beautiful new vineyard home only to be plagued by terrifying noises and visions of a sinister hooded figure. No one else hears or sees these hallucinations, not even David, who grows increasingly worried about his wife's well-being. Desperate to prove her sanity, Eveleigh hunts down a local medium who reveals the haunted history of the vineyard in which she now resides. As she desperately pieces together past events to keep a future horror from occurring, Eveleigh uncovers a dark conspiracy that puts her life and the life of her unborn child at risk.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Last Witch Hunter

Hell-bent on destroying humankind, a powerful coven aims to unleash a devastating plague on New York City -- and it's up to an immortal witch hunter, a priest and a good-hearted young witch to thwart the lethal plan.

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New Releases on Netflix - Curve

Julianne Hough (Safe Haven) stars in this horror-thriller as a young bride-to-be who deliberately crashes her car off a deserted highway in an attempt to escape from a charming, predatory hitchhiker, played by Teddy Sears (Masters of Sex). When the plan backfires, trapping her in an overturned vehicle, she defends herself against a terrorizing psychopath—only to uncover a shocking truth that fuels her fight for survival.

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