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The Two Faces of January (2014)
Thriller
1962. A glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland and his alluring younger wife Colette, arrive in Athens by boat via the Corinthian Canal. While sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal, a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. However, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands and Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets. When Rydal visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, Chester presses him to help move the body of a seemingly unconscious man who he claims attacked him.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, David Warshofsky
Director: Hossein Amini
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Tags: David Warshofsky, Hossein Amini, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen
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Home: The House Imp / Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi (2012)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife, two kids and mother with him. They settle down in a 100-year-old house. There in the countryside they meet Zasikiwarasi and begin to unite together as a family.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Narumi Yasuda, Ai Hashimoto, Tatsuomi Hamada, Mitsuko Kusabue
Director: Seiji Izumi
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Tags: Ai Hashimoto, Mitsuko Kusabue, Narumi Yasuda, Seiji Izumi, Tatsuomi Hamada, Yutaka Mizutani
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Toiretto / Toilet (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Ray is a 30 something engineer obsessed with Gundam toys. He has a motto not to become close to anyone. During his mother's funeral he showed no emotions. His life is further turned upside when he is forced to live with his older brother Maury and younger sister Lisa. Older brother Maury was a pianist but is now a recluse. Younger sister Lisa is a college student who tends to look down on those around her. Also in there home is their Japanese grandmother who doesn't speak English at all.
Starring: Masako Motai, Alex House, Tatiana Maslany, David Rendall, Sachi Parker
Director: Naoko Ogigami
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Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Into The Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Halbrook, Into The Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn
Director: Sean Penn
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Tags: Catherine Keener, Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, Sean Penn, Vince Vaughn, William Hurt
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Zerkalo / The Mirror (1975)
Biography | Drama
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on episodes from his own life in this story of a dying man reflecting on his relationships with his parents, wife and son. The film includes a number of reflections on the Russian people and their history, using the life of one man to consider the Russian experience from the Second World War through to the end of the Stalinist period. The film also features Tarkovsky's father reading his own poems and his mother (Larisa Tarkovskaya) playing the role of the on-screen matriarch.
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alla Demidova
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
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Tags: Alla Demidova, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Andrey Tarkovskiy, Margarita Terekhova, Nikolay Grinko, Oleg Yankovskiy
