Clover / Kuroba (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Saya Suzuki (Emi Takei) is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge (Tadayoshi Okura). Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.
Starring: Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna, Masahiko Nishimura
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
L.A. Story (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Starring: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marilu Henner, Kevin Pollak
Director: Mick Jackson
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Comedy | Drama
Set in the 1970s, amidst the British-Irish conflicts, this touching and funny film follows the journey of self-discovery of a young man who realizes at a very young age that he is different.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Mary Coughlan, Dominic Cooper
Director: Neil Jordan
The Laramie Project (2002)
Crime | Drama
In October 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a portrait of a town painfully forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight.
Starring: Nestor Carbonell, Christina Ricci, Dylan Baker, Terry Kinney, Mark Webber, Laura Linney
Director: Moisés Kaufman
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Two attractive young lesbians, Maggie and Kim, meet in Vancouver, develop a passionate romance, and move in together. Meanwhile, Maggie's well-meaning but naive mother Lila gets divorced and decides to move to Vancouver and join the household. Soon after, Lila is befriended by Judy, a transsexual about to undergo a sex-change operation. Complications ensue as the conservative Lila learns the truth about Maggie, Judy, and their diverse group of friends.
Starring: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox
Director: Anne Wheeler
The Late Shift (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Talk-Show
Based on the non-fiction best-seller of the same name, film is a dramatization of the rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman to be the successor of Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".
Starring: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Peter Jurasik
Director: Betty Thomas
Looking for Richard (1996)
Documentary | Drama
Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scene's from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play and the events that happened at the time the play is set. Interviews with mostly British actors are also included, attempting to explain why American actors have more problems performing Shakespearean plays than they do.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Al Pacino, Aidan Quinn, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey
Director: Al Pacino
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf / White Fang 2 (1994)
Adventure | Family
In order to save one of the last Alaskin native tribes, Fang bands together with a friend of his master to stop miners from destroying a sacred land.
Starring: Scott Bairstow, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Lewis, Charmaine Craig
Director: Ken Olin
Poison (1991)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the black and white "Horror," a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality, drinks it, and becomes a festering, contagious murderer; a female colleague who loves him tries to help, to her peril. In "Homo," a prisoner in Fontenal prison is drawn to an inmate whom he knew some years before, at Baton juvenile institute, and whose humiliations he witnessed. This story is told in dim light, except for the bright flashbacks.
Starring: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta, Lydia Lafleur, Ian Nemser
Director: Todd Haynes
Nuts (1987)
Drama | Thriller
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Robert Webber
Director: Martin Ritt
Tin Men (1987)
Comedy | Drama
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney
Director: Barry Levinson
The Longest Yard (1974)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Sport
A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter, Eddie Albert, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Harry Caesar
Director: Robert Aldrich
Hardcore (1979)
Drama | Thriller
A deeply religious Midwestern businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films.
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Dick Sargent, Season Hubley, Gary Graham, Larry Block
Director: Paul Schrader
