Woman in Gold (2015)
Drama
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons
Director: Simon Curtis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
An eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle
Director: Tim Burton
The Mourning (2015)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Starring: Michael Rene Walton, Louis Mandylor, Dominique Swain, Sally McDonald, Kinga Philipps, Larry Hankin, Peter Dobson
Director: Marc Clebanoff
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The Four Warriors (2015)
Adventure
Four battle-weary Crusaders take on a mission to track down the evil predator who has abducted all the men and children from a devastated village.
Starring: Christopher Dane, Hadrian Howard, Fergal Philips, Glenn Speers, Alex Childs, Kristian Nairn, Jessica Blake
Director: Phil Hawkins
Storming Juno (2010)
History | War
In June 1944, the Western Allies invaded the Third Reich in Operation Overlord, and Canada was a participant with its area of operations in Normandy, France designated Juno Beach. This film depicts the true stories of several Canadian soldiers in the invasion in its various aspects like the paratroopers, tank crews and regular infantry. Braving misfortune and ferocious German resistance, these Canadians fought to bring the fight to the Nazis in Western Europe at last.
Starring: Benjamin Muir, Kevin Jake Walker, Craig Cyr
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
In Enemy Hands / U-Boat (2004)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
At the height of Hitler's notorious U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish is taken prisoner in a battle with a German submarine. However, meningitis strikes more than half of the German crew, and there aren't enough Germans to run the submarine. Avoiding both the contagion – and POW protocol – crew members and prisoners alike must work together to survive. But it isn't until a U.S. carrier locates the ship that the men aboard the U-boat are put to the ultimate test of will and survival.
Starring: William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Thomas Kretschmann, Clark Gregg, Scott Caan, Rene Heger
Director: Tony Giglio
The Marksman (2005)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A once high-ranking Soviet military leader has resurfaced in Chechnya, where he has been consolidating his power with remarkable success. United States intelligence discovers he's been able to construct a thermonuclear weapon from materials scavenged from an abandoned nuclear power plant, and he and his soldiers have taken a handful of powerful citizens hostage. In hopes of preventing a global catastrophe, the military brings in Painter, a special agent known as "the Marksman" for his talent in focusing in on the key elements of a crisis and resolving it. Painter and his crew attempt to get inside the nuclear plant-turned-terrorist base and rescue the hostages before U.S. forces begin staging a full-scale attack. But Painter's plan soon backfires when the military's operations don't go as planned, leaving him to wonder who set him up — and why.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, William Hope, Emma Samms, Anthony Warren, Peter Youngblood Hills, Ryan McCluskey, Warren Derosa
Director: Marcus Adams
While We're Young (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An uptight documentarian and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz, Matthew Maher, Peter Yarrow
Director: Noah Baumbach
Behaving Badly (2014)
Comedy
Teenager Rick Stevens, has a crush on Nina Pennington, they form a friendship and embark on a rock n' roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend, Kevin.
Starring: Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan McDermott, Lachlan Buchanan
Director: Tim Garrick
Kill Me Three Times (2014)
Action | Thriller
In the Australian surfing town of Eagle's Nest, a young woman is the thread that binds three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge.
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Bryan Brown, Simon Pegg
Director: Kriv Stenders
Vampyros Lesbos / Die Erbin des Dracula / Lesbian Vampires (1971)
Horror
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Ewa Strömberg, Dennis Price, Heidrun Kussin, José Martínez Blanco, Andrea Montchal
Director: Jesús Franco
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly, she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on, she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where, on the spur of the moment, she buys a crumbling villa. She assembles a crew of oddballs and immigrants to repair the house; over the next year, as they work, she welcomes one of her New York friends who's pregnant and at loose ends, and she seeks love, first (tenuously) with her married real estate agent, then with a charming stranger. Although life gets in the way of love, Frances's wishes come true in unexpected ways, and there's always the Tuscan sun.
Starring: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Don McManus, Elden Henson
Director: Audrey Wells
Bon Lin / Bon to Lin chan (2014)
Comedy
Natsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon. She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring back her friend back, Natsuko and her childhood friend Rintaro Tomoda (Mahiro Takasugi), also known as Lin, go to Tokyo together. With the help of a man, who they met through an internet forum for "boys’ love" manga fans, they head to Miyu-chan's house.
Starring: Emma Sakura, Mahiro Takasugi, Hakushu Tôgetsuan, Rino Higa
Director: Keiichi Kobayashi
Chloe and Theo (2015)
Comedy | Drama
From the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero.
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Lori Tan Chinn, Mira Sorvino, Christopher Backus, Larry King, Theo Ikummaq
Director: Ezna Sands
Underdog Kids (2015)
Action | Family
A group of inner-city kids bravely take on the undefeated Beverly Hills Junior Karate Team in the ultimate showdown at nationals.
Starring: Phillip Rhee, Beau Bridges, Mirelly Taylor, Tom Arnold, Max Gail, Ellia English
Director: Phillip Rhee
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
K. O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Heyman, Rachel Blanchard, Maury Chaykin
Director: Atom Egoyan
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Comedy | Drama
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Starring: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry
Director: Glenn Jordan
Hero at Large (1980)
Comedy | Romance
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Starring: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver, Neill Barry
Director: Martin Davidson
Starting Over (1979)
Comedy | Romance
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation – seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him – he realizes where his loyalty lies.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton
Director: Alan J. Pakula
American Ninja (1985)
Action | Adventure | Romance
In American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff plays American "GI Joe" who, based in the Philippines, gets hip to a crooked arms racket involving none other than the military itself. There's no end to the rib-cracking opportunities Dudikoff encounters as he knee-knocks his way through a host of bad guys, rescues a lady in distress, and ventures to thwart the thieving arms vendors.
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka, Don Stewart
Director: Sam Firstenberg
