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TIFF 2017: 5 things to look forward to on Day 6

Here are your highlights for the sixth day of the Toronto International Film Festival.

There's a little bit of everything on Day 6 at TIFF, including romance, action and fear

A little bit of everything is on tap for TIFF's sixth day - romance, action and fear. (David Donnelly/CBC)

Can you believe it? It's already Day 6 of the Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie madness continues Tuesdaywith several more star-studded red carpets.

1. Professor Marston& the Wonder Women

This movie takes a look at William Moulton Marston, the American psychologist who created the icon of female power, Wonder Woman.

It's set in the 1920s, following the lives ofProfessor Marston and his wife(Luke Evans and Rebecca Hall). Enter one of his students, played by BellaHeathcote from Fifty Shades Darker, who eventually becomes entangled with the duo.

Their love triangle, romantically and academically, eventually inspires Bill to create afemale superhero.

All three actors are expected to be there for the world premiere of the filmat 6:00 p.m. at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

2. Mudbound

Hillary Jordan's award-winning novel about racial tensions in the Jim Crow southern United States of the 1940scomes to life in Mudbound.

StarringCarey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige, and Garrett Hedlund, the film follows several characters living in the wake of the Second World War, dealing with racial tensions, new starts and the desire to rise above it all.

See thefilm, directed by Dee Rees,at Roy Thomson Hall at 6 p.m.

3. Loving Pablo

Javier Bardem and PenlopeCruz come together to portray the livesof Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord,and his long-time lover Virginia Vallejo.

The film is adapted from a memoir written by Vallejo called Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar,and focuses on her viewpoint, which shiftsfrom romantic feelings to shock after discovering his actions.

Check it out at 9:00 p.m. at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

If you don't make it to one of the screenings, you couldcheck out the recent popular Netflix seriesNarcos, which also focuses on the life of PabloEscobar.

4. Brawl in Cell Block 99

Remember when VinceVaughn gave that terrifying performance as Norman Bates in Psycho?

Well, Vaughn hones his thriller chops again in Brawl in Cell Block 99, with the help of Don Johnson and Jennifer Carpenter.

In the movie, Vaughn plays a former boxer turned drug runner who eventually lands himself in prison. As Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky describes it: " ... what begins as a sober crime drama magnificently descends into a nightmare so deranged that it will slack-jaw even the most jaded Midnight maven."

Catch Vaughn's performance at Midnight Madness tonight beginning at 10:45 p.m. at Ryerson Theatre.

5. Focus on women in film continues

This time, with the fifth annual Telefilm Canada + Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year's Women in Film.

Scarborough's Ellen Wong plays wrestler Fortune Cookie on Netflix series GLOW. She's one of several women being honoured tonight. (Petar Valkov/CBC)

The event, held at the Spoke Club starting at 4 p.m., will have its own red carpet full of inspiring women, includingAlethea Arnaquq-Baril (Angry Inuk), Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf), Catherine Bainbridge (Rumble), Chlo Leriche (Before the Streets), and Mina Shum (Meditation Park); actors Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid's Tale), Ellen Wong (GLOW), Kawennhere Devery Jacobs (Rhymes for Young Ghouls), Mylne Mackay (Nelly), and Shailyn Pierre-Dixon (The Book of Negroes); and screenwriters Joanne Arseneau (19-2) and Sherry White (Maudie).