Proud (2004)
Drama
The USS Mason entered World War 2 on a presumably doomed mission. The all African-American crew overcame the harsh realities of war abroad and segregation at home… and was finally honored for its heroism in 1994.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Stephen Rea
Director: Mary Pat Kelly
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Final (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Bill wakes up from a coma in a hospital ward, raving about tissue regeneration experiments, final injections, organ transplants and having been cryogenically frozen. Battling flashbacks of his father's death and a car crash, occasional hallucinations and fits of rage he tries to piece together his own history with the help of Ann, a lonely medical psychologist sent in to evaluate whether he should be released. In their confrontational, sexually-charged sessions, Bill flip-flops between pitch-perfect self-diagnoses and his paranoid bio-tech fantasies, but slowly begins to heal. But things are not what they seem.
Starring: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan, Jim Hornyak, Maureen Anderman, Marin Hinkle
Director: Campbell Scott
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Gravity (2013)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalsky is on his final mission in space, while medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone is making her first outing on the Space Shuttle. While they are engaged in extra-vehicular activity, debris collides into the shuttle, damaging it irreparably. Kowalsky and Stone now find themselves drifting in space with low oxygen supplies, and cut off from all communication on Earth. They work together in their attempt to survive, but will they make it back to solid ground?
Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro / Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor. However, due to the increasing popularity of Nascimento, the Governor invites him to team-up with the intelligence area of the Secretary of Security. Along the years, Fraga, who is married with Nascimento's former wife, is elected State Representative and Nascimento's son Rafael has issues with his biological father.
Starring: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Seu Jorge
Director: José Padilha
Romeo and Juliet / Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Drama | Romance
When the star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Ed Westwick, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti
Director: Carlo Carlei
Wadjda (2012)
Drama
A rebellious Saudi Arabian girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves, in this coming-of-age tale. Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda has her heart set on a green bicycle, so that she can beat the boys in their neighbourhood races. But when her mother forbids it, anticipating a reaction from a society that disapproves of women riding bicycles, an enterprising Wadjda decides to raise the money herself, by entering a local Qur'an-reading competition that's offering a cash prize.
Starring: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
The Best Man Holiday / The Best Man 2 (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A follow-up to the 1999 film, THE BEST MAN, which centers on a writer whose recent autobiography put him at odds with being the Best Man at his friend's wedding.
Starring: Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Regina Hall, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography | Drama | Music
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer who rose from poverty to fame.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Pat Patterson
Director: Michael Apted
Le temps du loup / Time of the Wolf (2003)
Drama
Isabelle Huppert and Beatrice Dalle star in Haneke's nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
Director: Michael Haneke
Nostalghia (1983)
Drama
At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world.
Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotic
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Dimensions (2011)
Drama
Cambridge, England, 1921 – or so it seems. A brilliant young scientist becomes obsessed with finding a way back to his past – no matter what the cost.
Starring: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford, Patrick Godfrey, Olivia Llewellyn, Sean Hart, Edward Halsted
Director: Sloane U'Ren
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
My Last Round / Mi Último Round (2011)
Drama
Unfazed by the attention he receives from women, Hugo searches for something meaningful to break up the monotony of his life. The young man becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, who must maintain a hard and gruff image for his fans and fellow fighters. When Octavio furtively acts on the subtle flirtations Hugo throws at him, he is abruptly rejected. Hugo tries to curtail his desire, but eventually surrenders to their magnetic attraction. They enter into an intense romance that would never be accepted in their small town in southern Chile. The couple moves to capital city Santiago with energized dreams of building their life together and protecting their love from a hostile world. But when Hugo confuses his feelings for a naive colleague at his new workplace, nothing turns out as planned. Set to an evocative acoustic score, writer/director Julio Jorquera's first feature tells a heartfelt story with an assured hand, eliciting complex and naturalistic performances that capture the passionate rise and tragic fall of a couple's relationship.
Starring: Roberto Farías, Héctor Morales
Director: Julio Jorquera Arriagada
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Mooz-Lum (2010)
Drama | Family
Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq (Evan Ross) enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.
Starring: Evan Ross, Nia Long, Roger Guenveur Smith, Danny Glover, Dorian Missick
Director: Qasim Basir
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
The Ravine of Goodbye / Sayonara keikoku (2013)
Drama
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi Tachibana (Anne Suzuki) is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi Tachibana is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Shunsuke Ozaki (Shima Onishi). The neighbor's lover Kanako (Yoko Maki) has informed the police of this. Meanwhile, magazine reporter Watanabe (Nao Omori) covers the story. As Watanabe investigates the case, he discovers the shocking fact that Shunsuke Ozaki was involved in a rape case 15 years ago. Even more shocking, Watanabe learns that the victim in the rape case is Shunsuke's lover Kanako.
Starring: Yôko Maki, Shima Ohnishi
Director: Tatsushi Ohmori
Pure / Till det som är vackert (2009)
Drama
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone – until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Gothenburg Concert Hall that sends her reeling and opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she has to follow proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Samuel Fröler, Isabella Alveborg, Josephine Bauer
Director: Lisa Langseth
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Drama
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life – society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Colin Friels
Director: Fred Schepisi
Lullaby for Pi / Lullaby (2010)
Drama
Since his wife Josephine died, Sam (Rupert Friend, Pride & Prejudice) has lost his way. Abandoning the bar where he used to perform dazzling concerts, he spends his nights alone in the hotel room where they first met. The hotels concierge, George (Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland), his best friend and mischievous guardian angel, decides to shake up Sams world by messing with the hotel keys. One night, a distressed girl bursts into Sams shelter and locks herself in the bathroom. Sam convinces Pi (Clmence Posy, the Harry Potter films) to open up, and together the two lost souls forge a powerful bond. They agree to meet on the opposite sides of the same door each night, and to bare their souls to one another until the day they fall in love. Only then will they open the door, and start living the rest of their lives together.
Starring: Rupert Friend, Clémence Poésy, Matt Ward, Forest Whitaker, Sarah Wayne Callies
Director: Benoît Philippon
Loves Her Gun (2014)
Drama
Loves Her Gun is a romantic tragedy about a young woman who flees violence in New York for the laid back environment in central Texas. Once she settles into Austin she falls into the local gun culture and some of her same worries come back to haunt her.
Starring: Francisco Barreiro, Melissa Bisagni, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Jennymarie Jemison, Heather Kafka, Ashley Spillers
Director: Geoff Marslett
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Mars & Avril / Mars et Avril (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Set in a futuristic environment, "Mars et Avril" tells the story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost in a virtual world on the way to Mars.
Starring: Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage, Jean Asselin
Director: Martin Villeneuve
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
