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2) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
3) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
4) Cake
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A look into the darkly funny world of Claire Bennett who initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife. With her feisty housekeeper-cum-caretaker ever at her side, Claire searches for human connection and self-forgiveness in this tale of personal redemption.
5) The monster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A divorced mother and her headstrong daughter must make an emergency late-night road trip to see the girl's father. As they drive through deserted country roads on a steamy night, they suddenly have a startling collision that leaves them shaken but not seriously hurt. Their car, however, is dead, and as they try in vain to get help, they come to realize they are not alone on these desolate backroads. A terrifying evil is lurking in the surrounding...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Maria Guadalupe, Maria Paula and Maria Fernanda are identical triplets, with vastly different personalities. When they were young, their parents were killed in an auto accident and they were raised apart and meet again when they're grown.
María Guadalupe, María Paula y María Fernanda son trillizas idénticas sólo físicamente, ya que su forma de ser, vidas y destínos son diferentes. Cuando tenían tres años perideron a sus padres en un accidente...
8) Shutter
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they are involved in a tragic car accident, leaving a young local girl dead. When they regain consciousness, they find no trace of the girl's body. A bit distraught, the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his photographs. Jane believes...
10) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
11) MFKZ
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz live in a seedy tenement in a burnt-out, gang-and cockroach-ridden dystopian metropolis. Following a scooter accident, Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins.
12) Old stone
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Johnny Ma's thrilling debut feature, a Chinese taxi driver finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no good deed goes unpunished.
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
15) Child's pose
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Romanian
Description
A well-to-do Bucharest architect is determined to keep her deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses, and even the victim's family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into a brilliantly ambiguous study of obsessive motherly love....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dead to Me stars Christina Applegate as Jen, a poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn't necessarily want to deal with. Jen has been struggling to keep it together in the months since her husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident. When she joins a grief support group she meets Judy (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit with a shocking secret.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The New Founders of America invite you to celebrate your annual right to Purge. Writer/director James DeMonaco returns to craft the next terrifying chapter of dutiful citizens preparing for their country's yearly twelve hours of anarchy.
18) The gulf
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A six part New Zealand thriller TV series. Detective Senior Sergeant Jess Savage is recovering from a car crash that killed her husband when she hears about a new lead in a high-profile case she worked on years ago. Jess demands to continue the investigation but starts to notice troubling lapses in her memory. Are they a side effect of her injuries, or is she slowly losing her mind?
19) Broken embraces
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Fourteen years ago, he had two names: Harry Caine, the pseudonym he used for his literary works, and Mateo Blanco, his real name which he used to direct films. But that was before the accident when he lost his sight and his beloved Lena. Now he goes by Harry Caine. If he can't direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his Lena. When he is given the chance to tell his story, he can't refuse.
20) 21 grams
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.
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