Going Bongo (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A newly recruited American doctor "mistakenly" volunteers to work in Africa for a month.
Starring: Ernest Napoleon, Emanuela Galliussi, Ashley Olds
Director: Dean Matthew Ronalds
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
Biography | Drama
Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech, The Lone Ranger) and Golden Globe nominee Dominic West (300, The Wire) star as Hollywood’s most famous volatile on-again-off-again lovers in this new 90-minute drama from BBC AMERICA. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had one of the most fascinating, glamorous and tempestuous relationships of the 20th century – the two most famous movie stars of their day who played out every high and low of their love affairs, multiple marriages and divorces right in the public eye. Burton and Taylor follows their private and public relationship played out against their ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward‘s stage play, Private Lives. Tempestuous, funny, and dripping with diamonds – this is the last battle of the Burtons.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Dominic West
Director: Richard Laxton
Carmen la de Ronda / A Girl Against Napoleon / The Devil Made a Woman (1959)
Drama
Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808 Spain. Micaela is madly in love with Antonio but he is devoted to Carmen, the region's most beautiful gypsy who lives and sings at a local inn.
Starring: Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral, Maurice Ronet, Germán Cobos, José Marco Davó
Director: Tulio Demicheli
Five Dances (2013)
Drama | Music | Romance
FIVE DANCES is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself.
Starring: Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller, Kimiye Corwin, Luke Murphy
Director: Alan Brown
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Getting Go, the Go Doc Project (2013)
Drama
College boy, Doc (Tanner Cohen, Were The World Mine) is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go dancer, nicknamed Go (Matthew Camp). He befriends his hunky crush with the intention of shooting a movie about what it's like to live in his skin. Camera in hand, he follows his subject across the city: into bars, onto rooftops and dance floors and ultimately his bedroom. But as they grow closer, flirtation blurs the line between subject and filmmaker until a steamy night together solidifies deeper feelings. Cory Kruekeberg's explicit directorial debut explores the thrill and danger of getting exactly what you wished for.
Starring: Tanner Cohen, Matthew Camp, Ramón Olmos Torres, Judy McLane, Tedd Merrit
Director: Cory Krueckeberg
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Hotel Paradise / Hôtel du Paradis (2012)
Drama
In Hotel Paradise, a haven of solidarity for all the abandoned, two lives meet: Paul, 50, at the end of the line, who only sees his children every other weekend, and Marie, 35, who returns 15 years later carrying a secret.
Starring: Caroline Ducey, Claude Berne, Zirek, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Fedele Papalia
Director: Claude Berne
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Noah (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
A man suffering visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family a coming flood. Inspired by the Biblical story.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Grand Central (2013)
Drama | Romance
Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet, Johan Libéreau
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Sabotage / Breacher (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An elite and tight-knit unit of the Drug Enforcement Agency is targeted by a violent cartel after a major bust at a safe house. They are also investigated by their own when millions of dollars of recovered money vanishes.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Mireille Enos, Joe Manganiello, Max Martini, Josh Holloway, Terrence Howard, Olivia Williams
Director: David Ayer
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Redemption Trail / Beyond Redemption (2013)
Drama
Two powerful, yet deeply troubled women — refugees from political and personal trauma — flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary, Tess, (Hamilton) lives off the grid on a Sonoma vineyard, fiercely detached from all connections. Her hermetic life cracks when she gives reluctant shelter to a desperate young woman, Anna (Rabe) who has attempted suicide in a nearby forest. An unlikely alliance forms between the two, where other close relationships have failed — David, Anna's husband, (Linklater) and John, Tess' employer (Weber), cannot break through their walls. But the very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves, as not only survivors, but as heroes capable even of a thrilling shoot-out in the name of outlaw justice. Reclaiming freedom, and life, they plunge forward, towards an unknown, transformative horizon.
Starring: Lily Rabe, LisaGay Hamilton, Jake Weber, Hamish Linklater, Beth Lisick, Asta Sjogren-Uyehara, Juliette Stubbs
Director: Britta Sjogren
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Secretariat (2010)
Drama | Family | History | Sport
Despite knowing nothing about horse racing, stay-at-home mum Penny Chenery agrees to take over the Meadow Stables in Virginia after her father falls ill. With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin, Chenery manages to overcome the odds by navigating her way through an aggressive, male-dominated business and ultimately producing the champion racehorse, Secretariat, who becomes the first Triple Crown winner for 25 years in 1973.
Starring: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Dylan Walsh, Otto Thorwarth
Director: Randall Wallace
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Drama | Romance
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott
Director: Douglas Sirk
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn / 92 Minutes (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A curmudgeonly man is mistakenly told that he has 90 minutes to live by his doctor and promptly sets out to reconcile with his wife, brother and friends in the short time he believes he has left.
Starring: Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, James Earl Jones, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
The Single Moms Club (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Brought together by a vandalism incident at their children's school, a group of single mothers from different walks of life bond, and create a support group that helps them find comedy in the obstacles of life.
Starring: Nia Long, Amy Smart, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Terry Crews, Zulay Henao, Cocoa Brown
Director: Tyler Perry
Tracks (2013)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A young woman goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with her four camels and faithful dog.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Melanie Zanetti, Rainer Bock, Robert Coleby
Director: John Curran
Extraordinary Measures / Crowley (2010)
Drama
Fate and determination push idealistic father John Crowley (two of whose children suffer from a rare disease) into joining forces with reclusive medical researcher, Dr. Robert Stonehill. Together, this unlikely pair face impossible odds as they battle the entire medical establishment and time itself to find a cure before it's too late.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Courtney B. Vance, Patrick Bauchau, Jared Harris
Director: Tom Vaughan
Gorgo (1961)
Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Starring: Bill Travers, William Sylvester
Director: Eugène Lourié
Kartellet / The Cartel (2014)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The successful entrepreneur Lars Halbo returns to Denmark when he inherits the family firm, but when he refuses to cooperate in illegal cartel pricing, his little company comes under heavy pressure.
Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen, Lene Maria Christensen, Tanya Lund Andersen, Jesper Asholt, Lars Brygmann, Peer Bruun
Director: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup
The Magician / Ansiktet (1958)
Comedy | Drama
Dr. Vogler is a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town’s cruel, eminently rational minister of health, Dr. Vergerus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny.
Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gertrud Fridh
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Nikita (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn't tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation. For the time being, however, Division continues to recruit and train other young people and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex, is just beginning to understand what lies ahead for her and why the legendary Nikita made the desperate decision to run.
Starring: Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford, Shane West, Melinda Clarke, Xander Berkeley, Lyndie Greenwood, Dillon Casey, Noah Bean, Devon Sawa
Creator: Craig Silverstein
