Election / Hak se wui (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.
Starring: Simon Yam, Tony Leung, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ka Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung
Director: Johnnie To
City of Life and Death / Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)
Drama | History | War
Centers on the Nanking Massacre that occurred in December, 1937, when Japanese aggressor troops occupied the eastern Chinese city and killed over 300,000 citizens.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Wei Fan
Director: Chuan Lu
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Crime | Drama
A nameless New York cop is hopelessly addicted to drugs, gambling and sex. As he makes his way to various crime scenes, he is concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs. As his bad decisions drive him deeper into debt, his life becomes a surreal hell, with a constant intake of crack, coke, heroin and booze eroding what remains of his sanity. An investigation into the rape of a nun leads to his spiritual breakdown at the church crime scene, where he sees Jesus and the road to his salvation.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Tamerlis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel, Eddie Daniels
Director: Abel Ferrara
Catch and Release (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam (Kevin Smith), hyper- responsible Dennis (Sam Jaeger), and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), an irresponsible playboy whom she’d previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Kevin Smith, Sam Jaeger, Tina Lifford, Juliette Lewis
Director: Susannah Grant
Invincible / Who's Nuts Invincible (2006)
Biography | Drama | Sport
'Invincible' is the inspiring true story of Vince Papale, an ordinary guy who, against extraordinary odds, gets a one-in-a-gazillion shot at living every sports fan’s wildest fantasy. Like the city he lives in and his beloved hometown NFL team, the down-and-out Vince (Mark Wahlberg, 'The Italian Job') has seen better days. But then the Philadelphia Eagles’ new coach Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear, 'Little Miss Sunshine') calls an unprecedented open tryout, and the 30-year-old bartender who never played college ball makes the cut. Now Vince needs every bit of his gritty, never-say-die attitude and enormous heart to survive in the high-stakes world of professional football.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli, Michael Kelly
Director: Ericson Core
Brubaker (1980)
Crime | Drama
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Starring: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Happy Slapping (2013)
Drama
Five bored suburban rich kids set off to the inner city to seek out fame by creating an evening so shocking that their camera phone footage will turn them into instant Internet celebrities. After they are rivaled by another gang and intimidated by their on-line idol, they are forced to take their mischief up a notch if they want to make a name for themselves. But what will they risk losing in doing so? Watch their cell phone footage to find out… This ground-breaking film asks the perennial question posed by youth worldwide: "How far would you go to be famous?…"
Starring: Jesse Camacho, Erica Deutschman, Shayne Devouges, Alex Harrouch, Tristan D. Lalla, Laurin Elizabeth Padolina, Annakin Slayd, Jaa Smith-Johnson
Director: Christos Sourligas
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And Uneasy Lies the Mind (2014)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A man's sanity slowly unravels during a couple's retreat to his isolated winter mansion.
Starring: Jonas Fisch, J'aime Spezzano, Dillon Tucker , Michelle Nunes, Isaac Nippert
Director: Ricky Fosheim
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Chavez: Cage of Glory (2013)
Action | Drama
Barely being able to make ends meet and doing everything he can possibly do to cover his ill son's growing medical bills, Hector Chavez turns to his fighting roots in the underbelly of LA. His amateur Mixed Martial Arts videos go viral grabbing the attention of the world's top MMA federation. Hector is then given a dream come true opportunity to go up against the MMA World Champion; a vicious fighter whose last opponent is in critical condition in the same hospital as his son. Hector is faced with a real do-or-die situation and must risk it all so his son can have the surgery he needs to survive.
Starring: Hector Echavarria, Danny Trejo, Steven Bauer, Patrick Kilpatrick, James Russo, Sadie Katz
Director: Hector Echavarria
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Serena and the Ratts (2012)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
In the dawn of the discovery of time travel, Serena, a young, beautiful killer-for-hire, teams up with an underground renegade group to prevent a high profile assassin from traveling back in time to commit a murder that will alter the course of history.
Starring: Evalena Marie, Jonathan Thomson, Dave Neal, Marek Tarlowski, Jeremy Bates, Eddie Nason, Lenny Lashley
Director: Kevin James Barry
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Silver Forest / Silberwald (2011)
Drama
Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the forest they finally find a release for their aggression by joining a Nazi gang – only to discover the boundaries where harmless play turns into murder.
Starring: Saladin Dellers, Basil Medici, Naftali Wyler, Noemi Eggimann
Director: Christine Repond
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Ice Princess (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
With the help of her coach, her parents, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey (Trachtenberg) from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere
Director: Tim Fywell
Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
A multi-layered series that looks back to the formative years of Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior's life in secluded Japan. The boys are, unknowingly, the last practitioners of the ancient fighting style known as "Ansatsuken" (Assassin's Fist). The series follows them as they learn about the mysterious past of their master, Goken, and the tragic, dark legacy of the Ansatsuken style. Can their destiny be changed, or will history repeat itself?
Starring: Simeon Tsolov, Akira Koieyama, Christian Howard, Mike Moh, Togo Igawa, Mark Killeen, Hal Yamanouchi, Shogen, Gaku Space, Joey Ansah, Hyunri
Director: Joey Ansah
La baie des anges / Bay of Angels (1963)
Drama | Romance
This precisely wrought, emotionally penetrating romantic drama from Jacques Demy, set largely in the casinos of Nice, is a visually lovely but darkly realistic investigation into love and obsession. A bottle-blonde Jeanne Moreau is at her blithe best as a gorgeous gambling addict, and ClaudeMann is the bank clerk drawn into her risky world. Featuring a mesmerizing score by Michel Legrand, BAY OF ANGELS is among Demy's most somber works.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, André Certes, Nicole Chollet
Director: Jacques Demy
The Fault in Our Stars / TFiOS (2014)
Drama | Romance
Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Mike Birbiglia
Director: Josh Boone
Permanent Vacation (1980)
Drama
An alienated Manhattanite wanders the city meeting and reacting to the bizarre behavior of others.
Starring: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes, Sara Driver
Director: Jim Jarmusch
The Last Ship (TV Series 2014- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction. Executive Producer Michael Bay presents The Last Ship, starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra and Adam Baldwin.
Starring: Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin, Charles Parnell, Travis Van Winkle, Marissa Neitling, Christina Elmore, Jocko Sims, John Pyper-Ferguson, Sam Spruell, Michael Curran-Dorsano , Kevin Michael Martin
Creator: Hank Steinberg, Steven Kane, William Brinkley
Defiance (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Set on a future Earth, Defiance introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan, the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few oasis of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world.
Starring: Grant Bowler, Stephanie Leonidas, Graham Greene, Dewshane Williams, Julie Benz, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Jesse Rath, Trenna Keating, Nicole Muñoz, Jessica Nichols, Kevin Shand, Mia Kirshner, Justin Rain, Noah Danby
Creator: Kevin Murphy, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Clark Perry, Michael Taylor
Thread of Lies / U-a-han Geo-jit-mal (2014)
Drama
14-year-old schoolgirl Cheon Ji (Kim Hyang Gi) takes her own life one day without leaving a suicide note. Her widowed mother (Kim Hee Ae) and older sister Man Ji (Ko Ah Sung) are left reeling from the grief and the shock. They never saw the warning signs. Seeking answers, Man Ji begins to approach Cheon Ji's classmates and gradually learns about her sister's peer circle and the class queen bee, Hwa Yeon (Kim Yoo Jung), who befriended then bullied her.
Starring: Hie-ae Kim, Ah-sung Ko, Yoo-Jeong Kim, Hyang-gi Kim, Dong-il Song
Director: Han Lee
Draft Day (2014)
Drama | Sport
The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Ivan Reitman
