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Movies that have never gotten proper distribution to date. Some are tied up in legal and financial limbo, while others were never properly finished. A couple have squeaked out in bootlegs or limited theatrical showings, but most continue to simply gather dust.
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- DirectorTony KayeStarsKarl UrbanBrittany SnowStephen DorffStory follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Earl Pike, a criminal, tries to get his family's illegal gun collection to a safe haven.
- DirectorMars CallahanScott SpiegelStarsAlan RitchsonLee MajorsJoe PantolianoThe Z-Rows, four friends who are bullied by their graduating high school class find revenge against the now freshman college students while on Spring Break during 1983.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsTatum O'NealColin FrielsShirley KnightA man resettles his American family to New Zealand where he gets a new job at a prison in the city Wellington. His daughter has an affair with one of his prisoners he is to look out for.
- DirectorRichard BaskinPaul JustmanStarsRachel SweetSusan BarnesDiane BellamyA young trio of musicians, called The Third Dimension, enter a battle of bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel.
- DirectorGary WeisStarsFran DrescherMews SmallAllan ArbusA soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsAlex Hyde-WhiteJay UnderwoodRebecca StaabWhen dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid explorers are given incredible powers.
- DirectorMichael FrenchJonathan LawrenceScott MillerStarsOlga KurylenkoMi YangDavy WilliamsSet in a mythical world, the story of an unlikely love story between a young human and a mermaid.
- DirectorDavid P. MooreStarsNeal HuffAnney GiobbeRik Alan Walter
- DirectorPeter FilardiStarsVincent KartheiserChad ChristSabine SinghBased on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.
- DirectorTom SchillerStarsZach GalliganApollonia van RavensteinLauren TomAn artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, after he takes a trip to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
- StarsRichard DreyfussDanny GloverJon HederEthan Jones, a sixth-grade English teacher is on a mission to get the newly constructed Junior High gymnasium named after his elderly father Winston, the old retired gym teacher, despite the fact that being dead is one of the requirements.
- DirectorAllan F. NichollsStarsMeat LoafJosh MostelFrederick CoffinWhen rock singer Meat Loaf, who has his own biker band, falls in love with a rock star, Cher, the two make "Dead Ringer for Love."
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsJames FrancoGiancarlo EspositoJosh HartnettA young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father.
- DirectorCharles BandStarsBarbara CramptonJeffrey CombsDavid WarnerIn this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and finally a sequel to THE DUNGEONMASTER.
- StarsTom Goodman-HillCillian MurphySienna MillerAn account of counterculturalist Richard Neville's misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s.
- DirectorBob BendetsonPeter ShinStarsAndré 3000Marlon BrandoBrendan FraserCandy company worker Howard Kind gains special abilities after being bitten by insects.
- DirectorAdil El ArbiBilall FallahStarsBrendan FraserMichael KeatonJ.K. SimmonsBased upon the popular DC character, Barbara Gordon dons the guise of Batgirl to fight crime.
- DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsKevin SpaceyMichael StuhlbargGriffin DunneA young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol, Gore Vidal, who teaches him about life, love, and politics.
- DirectorEvi QuaidStarsMichael CaineRandy QuaidCatherine McCormackThis is a comedy about a group of people with various addictions who meet up at the tables in Las Vegas.
- DirectorBryan BuckleyStarsKelsey GrammerRoberta AngelicaSusan AntonA mockumentary about The New Jersey Turnpikes, a failing basketball team.
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsAlfre WoodardCharles S. DuttonJill ClayburghAn unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
- DirectorChris StokesStarsMarques HoustonBrenda SongKat GrahamBOOGIE TOWN, a modern day West side Story for the hip hop generation, takes place in a New York City of the future. There's no more violence, no more drugs - in their place are illegal dance contests, which occur in the underground world of "Boogie Town." Micha and Jay, leaders of rival dancing crews, acquire superpowers which take the contests to new levels. Despite the animosity between the two gangs, Micha falls in love with Jay's beautiful sister Natalie and the two become a future-day Romeo and Juliet.
- DirectorMichie GleasonStarsBeverly RossJacques MartialGreta RonningenFollows the story of Sarah, who comes under fire from her family, friends and colleagues when she marries an African man, Maas. When she discovers that Maas is part of an underground group of South African freedom fighters, she must analyze her own political and sexual beliefs.
- DirectorMichael AlmereydaStarsChiwetel EjioforLauren AmbroseConnie NielsenLee, a writer, and Mae, his partner, wrestle with their relationship issues. Mae reminisces about an ex; Lee channels his frustration into writing a mind-bending story mingling reality and fantasy.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisPeter AhlmLars AmbleA circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
- DirectorAlexandra KingStarsMarina AndersonPaul BartelAnne BendelA dark comedy set in the fictitious tiny hamlet of Spraine. A big city private detective is hired to track down an animal serial killer gone awry. The town wanted to bury the story, keep the outsiders out. The police had to pin the crimes on somebody: three notorious bad boys are being falsely accused of brutally slaying the local farm animals. The detective gets drawn into the intricacies of this seemingly upstanding community, only to find out the true meaning of animal lovers... a bit more than he bargained for.
- DirectorRyan PageChristopher PomerenkeStarsLizzy CaplanRon LivingstonJoe Lo TruglioLiving in a fantasy era long gone and obsessed with old time country stars, the prettiest girl in a small Arizona town finds a lost iPod filled with songs that speak to her sensitive heart. Jolene Gillis is convinced the owner is her soul mate and she is thrust into a sexy, heartwarming and hilarious adventure of mistaken identities, ATVs, line dancing competitions, kidnappers, time machines and doppelgangers.
- DirectorJalal MerhiStarsSam HeughanLauren CohanPaul TelferThe coming of age of young Alexander, future world conqueror, from his boyhood in Macedonia to his assumption of Regent of the Land, after proving his worth to his father, the demanding King Phillip.
- DirectorBlaine NovakStarsDiane LaddJennifer NicholsonJonathan SilvermanA man loses his wife to an indifferent bed. He is not sleeping with another woman but cannot make love with her. She abandons the marriage, leaving her husband the go back to his self destructive ways that, in the end, she hopes will kill him. As he searches for his poison, he finds a gun instead, puts it in his mouth and, just before he pulls the trigger, he wonders how it got there and who put it there so conveniently.
- DirectorAlan MehrezBarry SamsonStarsFrank StalloneDennis HopperPeter DobsonThree guys move from New Jersey to Miami, where two of them end up killing the third.
- DirectorMarc TurtletaubStarsRobin WeigertAlicia SilverstoneSharon StoneGreek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
- DirectorElana KrauszStarsShirley Anne FieldMatthew FlintElana KrauszLara, after spending a year in Mexico unsuccessfully trying to save her marriage to Steven, returns to the United States to find Max, her lover.
- DirectorTheodore H. Kuhns IIIStarsSuzanne AdkinsonBill AllenJulie AllenA tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsWilliam FichtnerLance ReddickConstance ZimmerSurvivors in post apocalyptic Russia after nuclear war.
- DirectorBill GunnStarsEdward Michael BellLinda MarshRichard DowIn this unreleased film, Michael and Lee Berger are an unhappily married couple looking to rekindle their marriage. After moving to Puerto Rico to live in his brother's house that Michael inherited after a murder-suicide, they decide to try swinging - with disastrous results.
- DirectorPaul MaddenStarsBurt YoungLainie KazanBrad DourifDeath of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
- DirectorBradley BattersbyStarsMatthew Currie HolmesAmber GrossJulie MondAfter serving in Iraq, two young Marines return home to Idyllwild California to settle a domestic dispute only to find themselves tangled in a web of deceit and murder.
- DirectorPeter N. AlexanderStarsEric RathCliff RocaTom LuceThis period piece is a fictional biography of a cult leader's rise to power and his subsequent descent into isolation and paranoia.
- DirectorFrank HowsonStarsAbigailTommy DysartMichael Lake
- DirectorMarc GracieStarsMarcus GrahamBruce VenablesLucy BellPolicemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realise they are probably the only two honest cops on the force.
- DirectorStephen JamesStarsTom McCarthyMelora HardinJerry HardinFive old friends reunite in Dallas for one buddy's wedding. Over the course of a week, each guy faces a major crisis - Mitch loses the love of his life; Burdett loses his job; Cal unexpectedly discovers he is a father; and Stewart reveals a secret the others might not want to hear. In the end, each one has to rely on the help of his friends to see him through his life-changing dilemma.
- DirectorSarah ThorpStarsClea DuVallKevin CorriganJennifer AspenJane, a formerly suicidal Los Angeles waitress, decides her life does have meaning after all when she finds a gun that was thrown away after a convenience store robbery, starting a life of crime.
- DirectorSteve PostalStarsDave KnappAngela ShepardMaurice S. PostalA young newlywed couple is attacked by a monster at their honeymoon resort.
- DirectorMichael WorthStarsTim ThomersonLance HenriksenNatasha AlamWhen 80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
- DirectorAlbert BandStarsLionel StanderKathleen FreemanJackie GayleA comedian literally dies during his act and is then memorialized by friends and colleagues.
- DirectorTed RoesgenStarsClark David AusloosLori BarrettShane BarrettA group of plucky kids come together to make a movie to save their local community theatre from being tore down to make room for a sludge factory.
- DirectorKip KoenigStarsClea DuVallJD SoutherMary Kay PlaceBright, neurotic Bell sets two goals for New Year: to quit smoking, and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she puts all her energy into the second.