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In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find M...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Moby DickFifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent SunshineA hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Runaway TrainWhen virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Andromeda StrainA father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gra...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The RoadAfter getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent 10 Cloverfield LaneA beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent San FranciscoA Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretens...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The HurricaneThe amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everyth...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent AliveWhen their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Poseidon Adventure