My Life as a Dog / Mitt liv som hund (1985)
Comedy | Drama
A twelve-year old Swedish boy is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a country village after his mother becomes ill.
Starring: Anton Glanzelius, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kicki Rundgren, Tomas von Brömssen, Ralph Carlsson
Director: Lasse Hallström
All the King's Men (1949)
Drama
All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence, and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Also included is the romance between one of his "right hand women" and the up-and-coming journalist who brings Stark to prominence.
Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge, Shepperd Strudwick
Director: Robert Rossen
Venus in Fur / La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Drama
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Roman Polanski
Barbed Wire Dolls / Frauengefängnis (1976)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them…
Starring: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton, Ronald Weiss, Martine Stedil, Eric Falk
Director: Jesús Franco
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam / A River Called Titas (1973)
Drama
Based on the acclaimed novel by Advaita Malla Barman, and shot in Ghatak’s childhood home of East Bengal shortly after the independence of Bangladesh, the film captures the songs, speech, rituals, and rhythms of a once self-sufficient community and culture swept away by natural catastrophes, modernisation, and political conflict.
Starring: Rosy Samad, Fakrul Hasan Bairagi, Narain Chakraborty, Kabari Choudhury, Chetana Das
Director: Ritwik Ghatak
Why Don't You Play in Hell? / Jigoku de naze warui (2013)
Action | Drama
Muto (Jun Kunimura) and Ikegami (Shinichi Tsutsumi) are two gangsters who hate each other, but Ikegami is in love with Muto's actress daughter Michiko (Fumi Nikaido). Meanwhile, Muto attempts to make his wife Shizue's (Tomochika) dream come true which is to have their daughter appear in a movie. Koji (Gen Hoshino), who is just a passerby, is mistaken for a movie director. Koji then requests to independent film director Hirata (Hiroki Hasegawa) to cast Michiko as the leading actress in his film. Their situation soon goes completely wrong.
Starring: Jun Kunimura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Fumi Nikaidô, Tomochika, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino
Director: Shion Sono
The Contractor / The Shooter (2007)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Retired CIA Black-Ops hit man James Jackson Dial is living his life in seclusion on his ranch in Montana when he is offered the chance to redeem himself by his former employer, Jeremy Collins. A few years ago, Dial was seconds away from taking down notorious terrorist cell leader Ali Mahmoud Jahar when when his carelessness allowed Jahar to escape, marking his mission as a failure. Now, Collins wants Dial to eliminate Jahar, who has been captured and is now in the custody of the police in London, England. Provided with a safe house, passports, and an assistant named Terry Winchell, Dial is off to London to finish what he started years ago. Disguised as a priest, Dial gets in position in a church's bell tower across the street from the building that Jahar is being brought into. When Jahar is brought out of his transport truck, his head is covered by a jacket, leaving Dial without a clean shot. Not wanting to fail again, Dial patiently waits for his opportunity. Moments later, Dial fatally shoots Jahar in the head. Because of a delay caused by a pair of cops, Winchell is late bringing the getaway car, and that brings attention to them fleeing the scene. After numerous attempts to stop the car, the police open fire, killing Winchell. The car, now out of control, comes to crashing stop, injuring Dial. On the run and bleeding profusely, Dial makes his way to the safe house, where he meets curious 12-year-old neighbor Emily Day, who lives with her grandmother. Emily helps Dial stop the bleeding. Even though Jahar was eliminated, the mission was a failure to Collins because Dial was observed fleeing the scene on a security camera. In the USA, Collins is being investigated for running a CIA Hit Squad, and if word gets back about Dial and the death of, Collins will be exposed. Stopping at nothing to keep his name clean, Collins frames Dial for the murder of Chief Inspector Andrew Windsor. Now a wanted man by Collins and the British police, Dial must do whatever it takes to prove his innocence, knowing that Inspector Annette Ballard, Windsor's vengeful daughter, is after him as well.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown, Charles Dance, Gemma Jones
Director: Josef Rusnak
Goodbye World (2013)
Comedy | Drama
James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community.
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Gaby Hoffmann, Kerry Bishé, Ben McKenzie, Mark Webber, Caroline Dhavernas, Scott Mescudi
Director: Denis Hennelly
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So Long! (TV Mini-Series 2013)
Comedy | Drama
"So Long!" (stylized as "So long !" with a space before the exclamation mark) is the 30th major single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It is also AKB48's sixth cherry blossom-themed single, and its first single of 2013. This single was released in Japan on February 20 in four different versions. The 64-minute long music video for the title track is directed by director Nobuhiko Obayashi. The Nippon Television network aired a 3-episode special television drama based on the title track from 11-13 February 2013.
Starring: AKB48, Yûko Ôshima, Haruna Kojima , Haruka Shimazaki, Jurina Matsui, Mariko Shinoda
Creator: Yasushi Akimoto, Sayaka Kuwamura
The Tattooed Swordswoman / The Blind Woman's Curse / Kaidan nobori ryû (1970)
Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a glancing blow to her eyes, thus cutting her badly, and blinding her. Amid the ensuing fight, no one notices that a black cat laps the young woman's wound. Years later, revenge between the two clans continue, plus added dissension amongst Akemi's people, leading to more deaths. A new member comes to help them, but she is a strange woman – and blind. The curse of the blind woman is about to fell on the dragon-lady.
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô, Hideo Sunazuka, Shirô Ôtsuji
Director: Teruo Ishii
I girasoli / Sunflower (1970)
Drama
A desperate woman searches for her missing husband who never returned from the Russian front during World War II.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Anna Carena, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Di Grazia
Director: Vittorio De Sica
The Swimmer (1968)
Drama
In suburban Connecticut, a handsome advertising executive heads home by swimming from pool to pool through his neighborhood. Along the way, more of his life story is revealed via his complicated interaction with his neighbors.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Marge Champion, David Garfield, Kim Hunter, Charles Drake
Director: Sydney Pollack, Frank Perry
Of Love and Shadows (1994)
Drama
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli, Diego Wallraff, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras, Susana Cortínez
Director: Betty Kaplan
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How I Met Your Mother (TV Series 2005- )
Comedy | Drama | Romance
How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall, dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Lily, a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he, too, hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is his friend Barney, a confirmed bachelor with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin, he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny has something else in store.
Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Bob Saget
Creator: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
The Izu Dancer / Izu no odoriko (1974)
Drama
Based on Yasunari Kawabata real life sotry in which he had a brief time of romance with a girl dancer.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Yaariyan (2014)
Drama | Romance
A college student must win an inter college competition to save his college from being demolished by property builders.
Starring: Himansh Kohli, Vivek Bhatnagar, Nicole Faria, Gulshan Grover, Aditya Kohli, Dev Sharma, Rakul Preet Singh
Director: Divya Khosla
The Philosophers / After the Dark (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Starring: James D'Arcy, Sophie Lowe, Daryl Sabara, Freddie Stroma, Rhys Wakefield, Bonnie Wright, Jacob Artist
Director: John Huddles
Matinee (1993)
Comedy | Drama
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Starring: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, Lisa Jakub
Director: Joe Dante
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Drama | War
In 1943, two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb and Robert Flemying) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War. The Allies are about to invade Sicily – but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece.
Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Director: Ronald Neame
Tiger Bay (1959)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins, Anthony Dawson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
