Strong-Willed Movies

New Century City, 199X. Under red rain and neon, Meridian's mega-corp AI PROPHET runs the streets, and its sharpest weapon is ZERO, a faceless super-soldier whose chest-mounted cassette deck lets him "Overclock" faster than anything alive. Then PROPHET sends Zero to hunt down a fugitive engineer, only to find she's his mother, Ada Rourke. She tells Dex the truth before a Meridian sniper kills her: she built that deck to save his life, Meridian turned it into a leash, and PROPHET learned to fight by recording him. With her last breath, she slots a homemade tape into his chest. The tape hides his signal and locks away his power, and she makes him promise no more blood and to look after his little sister, Roxy. Meridian declares Zero dead. Three years later, Dex is the night janitor at the Circuit Board, an underground arcade, where his mother's voice loops faintly from his chest: "Lock it away." He takes it all. Sector Patrol's Sgt. Brick Morrow uses him as a punching bag on breaks, his boss, Duke, docks his pay for breathing, and his ex, Brooke, turns up with her new fiancé, Meridian VP Preston Vail, who pours champagne into Dex's mop bucket and flicks in a coin. Then Roxy's face hits every wanted screen in the city. She has stolen PROPHET's Master Ledger, Meridian's private record of who gets promoted, who gets arrested, and who never comes home, because she doesn't believe their mother died in a robbery. She has no idea Dex held Mom while she died, or who he used to be. To her, Zero is the hero on the bootleg combat tapes her boyfriend Jett sells, and Dex is "just a janitor." Steel shutters slam down. Brick seals the arcade and starts a thirty-minute clock: hand over the Ledger before Meridian's Cleanup Crew arrives, because Cleanup leaves no witnesses. Enforcers storm in with red visors that show PROPHET's prediction of where every target will run, and they gun down a panicking patron in his predicted path. Jett bails through a crawl hatch. Dex hides Roxy in the ceiling ducts, not knowing she has slipped the Ledger under the lining of his mop bucket. Duke sells them out. Brick's visor scans Dex and returns something impossible: NO FILE. Dex refuses to fight and takes a beating, then gets dragged upstairs to be beaten again as a show while Preston pins his arms and Brooke films it for laughs. Bloodied on the floor with a walkie hidden against his chest, he guides Roxy through the building like a game he has already beaten, because five years with PROPHET in his ear taught him exactly where it sends its men. Then Brooke rats him out, Brick crushes his hand, and Duke hands Roxy over for the bounty. With Brick's pistol at her temple and the count at two, Dex half-ejects the tape. For two seconds the arcade flickers blue, Brick's gun comes apart in midair, and Dex is somehow back where he started, nose bleeding and holding his mop. Brick's visor flashes MOVEMENT NOT PREDICTED, but nobody believes the broken janitor did it. The search goes on, Dex keeps taking hits without swinging back ("Because I promised Mom"), and then Brick kicks over the cleaning cart, and the gold Ledger spins out of the bucket. Now the mop boy is an accomplice. With the Ledger in hand, Brick reveals the truth: everyone dies at zero, Dex and Roxy first. Preston tries to trade Brooke for his own life, and Duke and Jett grovel for mercy. To find whoever beat PROPHET, Brick shoots up Volt and jacks an official Meridian ZERO combat tape into his neck, turning Dex's own recorded moves against him. Dex dodges the combinations he invented, until PROPHET learns his defenses and Brick puts him through a wall of CRTs. With three seconds left and a gun at the back of Roxy's head, Dex chooses his sister over his secret. He ejects his mother's tape all the way, and a blue pulse blows out every screen and visor in the room. He plucks Brick's bullet from the air an inch from Roxy's skull, turns his own fighting style back on Brick, snaps the steel shaft off his mop to make a staff, drops the enforcers, and tears the shutter clamp out of the concrete. The Ledger is back in Roxy's hands, Preston has wet himself, and Brooke quietly pockets the scorched tape from her camcorder. Dex reseats the tape and nearly collapses, then pockets the data drive from Brick's visor and tells his stunned sister the truth: Zero never died. High in Meridian Tower, Director Halden Voss watches a 41-second Zero signal burst over Sector 9 and orders Zero brought home and everyone who saw him buried.

Branded a monster’s son for his silver eyes, twelve-year-old Ash faces execution. The continent’s greatest swordsman, demon hunter Silas, is betrayed and murdered; a fragment of his soul enters Ash, who escapes the flames. Ash unravels his family’s ancient demon-binding puzzle and protects his sister Ella’s inheritance. His young body cannot contain Silas’s strength, yet his Silvermoon Slash shatters a coffin bearing Ella’s name, revealing the soul within. At Silas’s memorial, Ash confronts old enemies and defeats dark hunters. He uncovers a conspiracy: Abyss Lord Moyuan and Order insider Morris have raised monsters and manipulated hunting contracts for thirty years. Ash’s father Aldric discovered the truth first and was framed as a traitor. Hours after their reunion, Aldric dies shielding Ash from Moyuan. Ash and Silas unite beneath a silver moon, slay Moyuan, and expose Morris, vindicating Aldric and Silas. Ash rejects the Silverblade title, choosing to earn glory under his own name. Silas returns control to Ash; a broken sword recognizes him as its master. Ash takes Ella south to see flowers. Then the scene returns to the execution night. A silver palm mark and another pair of silver eyes in the shadows signal this is not the end.

After Chloe steals her body, fiancé, and future, heiress Scarlett Sinclair is pushed from her family’s clock tower. She wakes up one hour before the Halloween party where the betrayal began, back in her own body and ready to fight. Knowing that two enchanted masks can exchange bodies at midnight, Scarlett recruits Raven Doyle, an escaped death-row inmate, to take her place. Chloe expects to become Scarlett but instead ends up in Raven’s body. A fingerprint scan identifies her as a wanted fugitive, and she is arrested before the entire party.

New York Mafia godmother Katerina has spent six years living under a concealed identity on a farm, caring for her frail youngest daughter, Bianca. With her eldest son Kyle about to get engaged, she decides to bring Bianca home to rejoin the family. On their way back to the city, an arrogant woman deliberately crashes into their car, demands an exorbitant amount of compensation, and prevents Bianca from receiving medical care during an asthma attack. Katerina soon discovers that the woman is Ravenna, the fiancée Kyle has described as "innocent and kind." Desperate to win the godmother's approval, Ravenna refuses to believe that the farm woman she looks down on is her future mother-in-law. How will Katerina protect her daughter—and can she make her son see his fiancée's true colors?

Seven years ago, Elodie gave birth to a son, Colin, for her husband Arthur, but Colin was born with a rare genetic disease. To save his grandson, Walter, the old patriarch of the Voss family, forcibly extracted Elodie's neural cells, leaving her near death, and dumped her in the Ashen City landfill. Losing her memory, Elodie gave birth to a daughter, Iloen, sustained by the residual energy of her pendant, and mother and daughter clung to each other in the slums for seven years. Seven years later, Iloen saved up crystals to treat her mother's illness, but after a car accident conflict with Colin, Helen blacklisted her identity. To protect her daughter, Elodie was struck by a hover-car and gravely injured, and Iloen sold her own heart to raise money to buy a Voss Group bio-chip—only to be blocked by the blacklist again. Through Elodie's appearance, the pendant's reaction, and a paternity test, Arthur gradually confirmed that Iloen was his daughter and began to suspect that the woman in the hospital bed was Elodie. Vera, out of jealousy, concealed the genetic report, while Lucian attempted to use consciousness-overwriting to "resurrect" his daughter, plunging Elodie into a life-and-death crisis once more. In the end, Arthur rescued Elodie; Walter confessed the truth of those years; Vera was imprisoned; and Lucian's memory deteriorated. Though Elodie woke with no memory, with Arthur, Colin, and Iloen by her side, she learned to be loved again.

The much-anticipated Dragon Trial Ceremony begins, with prodigies from all great houses gathering in the arena. Once triumphant and unrivaled, Rick dominates the field with his fourfold S-Rank Talent. He defeats Rayne, a threefold prodigy, emerging as the brightest star and drawing the favor of the Five-Yuan Council. To defend her clan’s honor, Ashley steps forward without hesitation to face Rick in a desperate duel. Outmatched by the gap in their strength, she falls, gravely wounded and trapped in mortal peril. Just as all believe the outcome is sealed and none can stand against Rick’s might, the long-biding Clark steps into the fray. To save his benefactor and wipe away his shame, he strikes with overwhelming force, unleashing the heaven-defying power of the Dragon King. He lands a devastating blow on the arrogant Rick, and this sudden, earth-shattering twist stuns every soul present.

Lynn Wilson is a successful lawyer who built her career on protecting other women. So when her son is accused of assaulting and impregnating a young woman, she's shocked. Not just because he’s innocent…but because her “son” is a Bernese Mountain Dog. But if no one’s going to believe her, then she might as take justice into her own hands.

Ivan Crane arrives in Sleepy Hollow pretending to be the perfect boyfriend for wealthy Katrina Von Dutch. What he actually wants is financial security. What he gets is a Headless Horseman hunting him through the woods—and August, Katrina’s viciously handsome brother, repeatedly dragging him out of its path. But every rescue leaves August more corrupted, and every near-death encounter forces the two men closer.

A legendary underworld godfather who has retired from the life and disguised himself as a down-and-out mechanic is forced to reveal his identity to protect his daughter. With thunderous means—and insisting on the law rather than vigilante justice—he settles scores against the consortium-villains who bully others, and finally returns in peace to being an ordinary father.

Serafina Valenti, the powerful godmother of the Valenti family, once donated a kidney to save her adopted son and chosen heir, Luca. Three years later, she returns home for his wedding, only to find that his fiancée, Vanessa, has taken over the family—and Luca has turned against her. Betrayed by the son she sacrificed everything for, Serafina makes a ruthless decision: strip Luca of his inheritance and choose a new heir.