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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Mystery | Thriller
Christine Lucas wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is or who the man is sleeping next to her. As she tries to piece together her life using a video journal she has been keeping, the few people around her offer confusing information and conflicting memories.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Crompton, Adam Levy
Director: Rowan Joffe
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Tags: Adam Levy, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Crompton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Nicole Kidman, Rowan Joffe
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Men, Women & Children / Pale Blue Dot (2014)
Comedy | Drama
The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Starring: Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dean Norris
Director: Jason Reitman
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Tags: Ansel Elgort, Dean Norris, Jason Reitman, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt
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The Golden Era / Huang jin shi dai (2014)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The life of Chinese writer Xiao Hong, from her childhood in the Heilongjiang Province to her final days in Hong Kong's Repulse Bay. The love of the author's life, newspaper editor Xiao Jun and the inspiration she drew from him as well as the surrounding literary scene in creating some of China's most enduring masterpieces is explored against the backdrop of a turbulent time that included the formation of the Chinese Communist government and World War II.
Starring: Wei Tang, Shaofeng Feng, Zhiwen Wang, Yawen Zhu, Xuan Huang, Lei Hao, Quan Yuan
Director: Ann Hui
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Tags: Ann Hui, Lei Hao, Quan Yuan, Shaofeng Feng, Wei Tang, Xuan Huang, Yawen Zhu, Zhiwen Wang
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends / Rurôni Kenshin: Densetsu no saigo-hen (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends is the second of two 2014 live-action Japanese movies directed by Keishi Otomo and based on a manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It’s preceded by Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen. The new films are based on the Kyoto arc from the original manga and revolve around former government assassin Shishio Makoto’s desperate struggle to overthrow the government of Japan.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Emi Takei, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yû Aoi, Munetaka Aoki, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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Tags: Emi Takei, Keishi Ohtomo, Munetaka Aoki, Takeru Sato, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yû Aoi
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Tokyo Tribe / Tookyo Toraibu (2014)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Five years after the Shibuya riots, the Tribes of Tokyo have been enjoying a period of relative peace, until Kim and two other members of the Musashino Saru intrude on the territory of the Wu-Ronz in Bukuro. Mera, the leader of Wu-Ronz kills the three Saru, under the assumption that they were members of the Shibuya Saru. Two days later, after searching for who killed his friends, Musashino Saru member Kai runs into Mera. Old friends in their high school days, the two get into a confrontation that ends up leaving Tera, the leader of Musashino Saru, dead and setting the stage for violence between the Tribes.
Starring: Ryôhei Suzuki, Young Dais, Nana Seino, Ryûta Satô, Shôko Nakagawa
Director: Shion Sono
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Tags: Nana Seino, Ryôhei Suzuki, Ryûta Satô, Shion Sono, Shôko Nakagawa, Young Dais
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2 / Ju-on 4 (2003)
Drama | Horror
While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old fetus in her womb.
Starring: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Shinobu Yûki
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Tags: Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie, Noriko Sakai, Shinobu Yûki, Takashi Shimizu, Yui Ichikawa
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Ju-on: The Grudge / Ju-on 3 (2002)
Horror
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Tags: Kanji Tsuda, Megumi Okina, Misa Uehara, Misaki Itô, Takashi Shimizu, Yui Ichikawa
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Shogun's Sadism / The Joy of Torture 2: Oxen Split Torturing / Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei (1976)
Drama | Horror
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her personal slave to torment him, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the cruel master of a brothel to repay his debts, he becomes friends with the young girl Sato. Together, they escape and try to get by on scams and theft.
Starring: Yûsuke Kazato, Rena Uchimura, Akira Shioji, Masataka Iwao, Ryuichi Nagashima, Yûsuke Tsukasa
Director: Yûji Makiguchi
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Tags: Akira Shioji, Masataka Iwao, Rena Uchimura, Ryuichi Nagashima, Yûji Makiguchi, Yûsuke Kazato, Yûsuke Tsukasa
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Ouija (2014)
Horror
A girl is mysteriously killed after recording herself playing with an ancient Ouija Board, which leads to a close group of friends to investigate this board. They later find out that some things aren't meant to be played with, especially the 'other side'.
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A. Santos, Douglas Smith, Shelley Hennig
Director: Stiles White
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Tags: Ana Coto, Bianca A. Santos, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Olivia Cooke, Shelley Hennig, Stiles White
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He ovat paenneet / They Have Escaped (2014)
Drama
Two teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey.
Starring: Roosa Söderholm, Pelle Heikkilä, Petteri Pennilä, Teppo Manner
Director: J.P. Valkeapää
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Tags: J.P. Valkeapää, Pelle Heikkilä, Petteri Pennilä, Roosa Söderholm, Teppo Manner
