Convoy (1978)
Action | Drama
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cho Dependent (2011)
Comedy
Miss Margaret Cho is back, and she has a few things she'd like to share with you. From her hilarious recounting of her backstage feud with the Palins during 'Dancing with the Stars' to musical interludes featuring Cho's witty original songs, this new concert film from our favorite all-American girl will have you howling from beginning to end. (You'll also never look at the 'American Idol' contestants the same way again, but you'll just have to hear Margaret explain that one.)
Starring: Margaret Cho, Rusty Shelby
Director: Lorene Machado
Snezný drak / Snow Dragon (2013)
Family | Fantasy
The story tells about a princess who grows up without a mother. Her father, a kind and just king, loves his daughter above all else, but he wants to marry her at any cost. And nobody really knows why he is in such a hurry. King holds a grand ball on his castle. Number of princes would like a princess as their wife, but the one, which princess herself chooses, her father doesn't like from incomprehensible reasons… Only later it becomes clear that behind all this is an ancient curse, queen of witches anda Snow Dragon. Princess and her chosen one must endure a difficult and dangerous journey…
Starring: Jitka Cvancarová, Pavel Doucek, Arnost Goldflam, Jirí Hájek, Pavel Liska
Director: Eugen Sokolovský
Duch nad zlato / Ghost Over Gold (2013)
Comedy | Fantasy
Vagrant Vojta accidentally discovers underground gold treasure, which is guarded by a mysterious spirit. He also obtains a tinderbox with which he can summon the spirit and let him bring anything. But Vojta is interested in the beautiful princess more than in gold.
Starring: Viktor Preiss, Veronika Kubarová, Ondrej Novák, Jirina Bohdalová, Martin Dejdar
Director: Zdenek Zelenka
Láska rohatá / Devilish Love (2009)
Family | Fantasy
A fairy tale about devils, good, evil, stupidity, cleverness, honesty and love.
Starring: Jirina Bohdalová, Matej Hádek, Nada Konvalinková, Jirí Mádl, Oldrich Navrátil, Tatiana Pauhofová
Director: Hynek Bocan
Mr. Vampire III / Ling huan xian sheng (1987)
Comedy | Horror
Expelled by a band of restless ghosts in his village, Taoist Priest Mao Ming, and his two spirit companions, visit another village to seek wealth. There, Ming meets Master Gau, the "Vampire Buster," who is trying to defeat an evil Sorceress and her henchmen, whose goal is to conquer the human race. Gau also informs Ming that humans and ghosts cannot co-exist peacefully. As Ming and his ghost companions part ways, they are later attacked by the Sorceress. As a result, Ming joins forces with Gau to put a stop to the evil menace.
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Richard Ng, Billy Lau, Fong Liu, Corey Yuen, Ma Wu, Wing-Cho Yip, Sammo Hung
Director: Ricky Lau
The Killer Elite
Action | Crime | Thriller
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A…
Starring: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, Burt Young
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family's disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
Starring: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Silvia Fenz
Director: Michael Haneke
Mark Lui Thank You Concert (2013)
Music
Enjoy the timeless Canto-pop pieces in the Thank You Concert of Mark Lui, who single-handedly composed and produced many of Hong Kong's greatest hits in the past twenty years of his career. Held in July 2013 at the Hong Kong Coliseum, his all-star concert was supported by Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Janice Vidal, Andy Hui, Miriam Yeung, Dicky Cheung, William So, Stephy Tang, JW, Aarif Lee, Rubberband, Candy Lo and more. You can revisit hits such as "Love Song," "Please Break Up with Me," "Please Teach Me How Not To Love Him," "Anniversary," "Heat and Shine" and "Big Story in a Small City" all in one go.
Starring: Mark Lui, Kelly Chen, Sammi Cheng, Leon Lai, Leo Ku, Miriam Yeung, Andy Hui, Candy Lo, Lik-Sun Fong, Stephy Tang, Lan Wei, Justin Lo, Edmond Leung, William So, Daniel Chan, Dry, Anthony Lun, Mimi Lo, Charles Ying, RubberBand, Aarif Rahman, Big Four, JW
Midsummer's Equation / Midsummer Formula / Manatsu no hôteishiki (2013)
Mystery
Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama) is invited for a presentation on Submarine Mineral Resources Development in Harigaura. He stays at an inn. Manabu meets Kyohei who came to the inn, which is run by his aunt's family, for summer vacation. The next morning, Tsukahara, who is another guest at the inn, is found dead on the bank of a port. Manabu becomes involved in the case.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kazuki Kitamura, Anne Watanabe, Gin Maeda
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Woody Allen writes and directs this comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine (Blanchett) travels from New York to San Fransisco to stay with her sister Ginger (Hawkins). The ensemble cast also features Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Woody Allen
The Seduction of Mimi / Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore (1972)
Comedy
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood in Lina Wertmuller's dark comedy. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer — but he just can't shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover — and love child — under wraps. That's when his wife announces she's pregnant.
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Gone Missing (2013)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may have led to the disappearances. Loving but overprotective mom Rene's worst fears come true when her 18-year-old daughter Kaitlin and her best friend Matty go missing from a San Diego resort during Spring Break. Rene will stop at nothing to find her daughter, even if it means starting her own investigation into the night her daughter went missing. With the help of her son Kennedy and Matty's mom Lisa, Rene navigates the San Diego Spring Break scene, digging into her daughter's night of partying, and discovering some unsettling facts about Kaitlin's secret life. With the clock ticking, Rene gets closer and closer to the truth about her daughter's disappearance. But will she make it to her daughter in time or is she already too late?
Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Lauren Bowles, Brigette Davidovici, Gage Golightly
Director: Tara Miele
Desk Set (1957)
Comedy | Romance
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network's research department.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall
Director: Walter Lang
Fangoria Presents: The Occupants / The Occupants (2014)
Horror | Thriller
Lucy has a new husband, a new home and a new baby, but old ghosts won't let her be. She tries to help the tortured souls break free of their torment and move on, but soon finds these ghosts don't want her help.
Starring: Cristin Milioti, Michael Rady, James Urbaniak, Toby Huss, Macey Cruthird, Katherine Kamhi
Director: Todd Alcott
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Free Ride (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Cam Gigandet, Drea de Matteo, Liana Liberato, Yvette Yates
Director: Shana Betz
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Austenland (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Follows 30-something, single Jane Hayes, a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen朿razed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency杄ra gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined.
Starring: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Jennifer Coolidge, Bret McKenzie, Georgia King, James Callis, Jane Seymour, Ricky Whittle
Director: Jerusha Hess
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, Masam Holden, Dayo Okeniyi
Director: James Ponsoldt
Captain Phillips (2013)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Thriller
The Maersk Alabama became the first US cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years when heavily armed Somalis boarded the vessel on the 8th of April 2009. As commander of the ship, Captain Richard Phillips inevitably found himself at the heart of events. Held hostage by the pirates under the command of Muse, Phillips attempts to protect both his crew and ship to the best of his ability. However, as the drama plays out and Phillips spends more time in the company of his Somali captors, he gradually comes to realise that they have a story, too. Far from the greedy, heartless thugs of pirate lore, the Somalis may well represent the forces of globalisation. Based on the real life hijacking of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, David Warshofsky, John Magaro, Chris Mulkey
Director: Paul Greengrass
Fame (1980)
Drama | Music | Musical
In Alan Parker's 'Fame', teenagers selected for New York City's High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in show business. This episodic tale follows savvy Coco (Irene Cara), timid Doris (Maureen Teefy), gay Montgomery (Paul McCrane), macho Raul (Barry Miller), soulful Bruno (Lee Curreri), and others as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity. Cara, electric as the budding songstress Coco, shines brightest.
Starring: Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri, Anne Meara
Director: Alan Parker
