Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
Hannibal (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Gifted criminal profile Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) has a unique way of thinking and can empathize with anyone, making it easy for him to figure out how a killer thinks. Needing the help of an expert when a twisted killer becomes too complicated for Will, he joins up with Dr. Lecter, one of the top psychiatrists in the country. Will and Hannibal (only the audience knows he's a serial killer) develop a talented partnership and seem unstoppable when it comes to catching criminals.
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Gillian Anderson, Hettienne Park
Creator: Bryan Fuller
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. / Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The missions of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. (The show is set in the Marvel Universe that began with the film Iron Man [2008] and crosses paths with elements from those movies.)
Starring: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Brett Dalton, Henry Simmons, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, B.J. Britt
Creator: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen
Suits (TV Series 2011-)
Comedy | Drama
One of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate and hires the only guy that impresses him – a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout. Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers must continue the charade.
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, Gina Torres
Creator: Aaron Korsh
Suits (TV Series 2011-)
Comedy | Drama
One of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate and hires the only guy that impresses him – a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout. Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers must continue the charade.
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, Gina Torres
Creator: Aaron Korsh
Slither / Incisions (2006)
Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
The sleepy town of Wheelsy could be any small town in U.S.–somewhat quaint and gentle, peopled with friendly folks who mind their own business. But just beneath the surface charm, something unnamed and evil has arrived and is growing. No one seems to notice as telephone poles become clogged with missing pet flyers, or when one of the town's richest citizens, Grant Grant, begins to act strangely. But when farmers livestock turn up horribly mutilated and a young woman goes missing, Sheriff Bill Pardy and his team, aided by Grant's wife Starla, uncover the dark force laying siege to their town and come face-to-face with an older-than- time organism intent on absorbing and devouring all life on Earth.
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Tania Saulnier, Don Thompson
Director: James Gunn
Homeland / Ieji (2014)
Drama
Jiro has come home. His tiny farming village is now deserted because it lies in the badly contaminated Fukushima zone. Nonetheless, Jiro begins cultivating his land. An old school friend helps him and together they plant rice. "It's like slow suicide", says Jiro's friend. Jiro's half-brother, Soichi, who has evacuated with his family cannot believe that Jiro has moved back into the old home. Soichi's step-mother, who is Jiro's biological mother, had never got over Jiro leaving. Suffused with grief and poetry, the images in this film describes life after the nuclear catastrophe. They also tell us what it means to go home when home will never be the same again.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Yûko Tanaka, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu
Director: Nao Kubota
Killers (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
In Tokyo, a serial killer is murdering women and posting his violent crimes on-line. In Jakarta, a rogue vigilante uploads his murdering spree for the world to see. A psychotic game of cat and mouse ensues as the two men battle for notoriety. Soon it becomes clear that it's only a matter of time until the two killers square off, face to face.
Starring: Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Kazuki Kitamura, Luna Maya, Mei Kurokawa, Denden, Ray Sahetapy
Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Brotherhood / Untitled Roslyn Project (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Adam Buckley finds himself in the middle of a convenience store robbery during his last night as a pledge for a college fraternity. When the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong, and every move proves disastrous, Adam is forced to confront a new challenge all together, and he has to take a stand.
Starring: Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta, Jesse Steccato, Jenny Shakeshaft
Director: Will Canon
Safety Last! (1923)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Přežít svůj život (teorie a praxe) / Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010)
Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.
Starring: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová, Daniela Bakerová, Emília Doseková
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Vesničko má středisková / My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Comedy
Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is such a sweet-natured fool that Pavek, exasperated as he becomes, always relents on his threats to find another partner. This Laurel and Hardy-like pair are at the heart of a comedy which finds humor in an abundance of everyday situations. The town doctor regularly wrecks his car because he's admiring the scenery, a romantic teenager develops a hopeless crush on his sister's schoolteacher, and an adulterous housewife and her boyfriend are just one step ahead of her suspicious, hot-headed husband.
Starring: János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek, Libuse Safránková, Jan Hartl
Director: Jirí Menzel
