Le dernier vol / The Last Flight (2009)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
A woman goes on a journey to find her husband after his plane disappears in the Sahara.
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Marquet, Frédéric Epaud, Saïdou Abatcha, Michaël Vander-Meiren
Director: Karim Dridi
Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure / Eiga Doraemon: Nobita to kiseki no shima – Animaru adobenchâ (2012)
Animation
Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catches a big bird Moa, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect extinct the animal, Nobita and Doramon go to Beremon Island which is protected by a golden beetle named Herakles. They meet a girl from the Rokkoro tribe and a boy who looks exactly like Nobita on Beremon Island …
Starring: Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Kôzô Kusuba
Tropical Inferno / Women in Cellblock 9 / Frauen für Zellenblock 9 (1978)
Action | Crime | Drama | Horror
Another sadistic women's prison film from the director of Ilsa, the Wicked Warden and Barbed Wire Dolls, this exploitation film posits a group of revolutionaries led by Karine Gambier thrown into a South American jail. Howard Vernon plays the staff torture specialist, Dr. Costa, who manages to extract information from Gambier, necessitating an escape by the women to warn their compatriots. Plenty of sex and violence is featured for the raincoat crowd, while Franco cultists will delight in Vernon's wonderfully sinister performance as the prison doctor.
Starring: Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Aida Gouveia, Esther Studer
Director: Jesús Franco
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword / Zatôichi abare tako / Zatôichi 7 (1964)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold / Zatôichi senryô-kubi / Zatôichi 6 (1964)
Action | Drama
In the 1840s, Ichi, blind masseur and quick-draw swordsman, travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years' ago. The villages in the area, after several years of famine, have struggled to raise 1,000 ryo in taxes they owe. The money is stolen while in transit to the governor. Ichi is accused as is Boss Chuji, a samurai Ichi respects. Ichi sets out to find the money and clear his own and Chuji's names. Along the way, he must face Kichizo's sister, some of Chuji's own gang, a corrupt governor, and his henchmen. Loyalties shift even as Ichi's moral compass stays true.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall (2013)
Comedy
In this one-hour special, some of the biggest names in comedy pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded in 1963 by Budd Friedman. From its earliest days in New York City to a Hollywood expansion and beyond, The Improv played a major part in the American stand-up explosion of the '80s and '90s.
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Jay Leno, Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Judd Apatow, Lewis Black, Larry David, Damon Wayans, Richard Lewis, Marlon Wayans, Bill Maher, Shawn Wayans
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After a series of crimes leads them to take to the Texas hills, lovers Ruth Guthrie and Bob Muldoon are finally cornered in a shack and involved in a fierce shootout with the police. In the ensuing battle Ruth critically injures a police officer, and Bob, unwilling to see his love sent to jail, admits to firing the shot, resulting in a sizable prison sentence. Years later, as he slowly acclimatises to life behind bars, the unexpected news that Ruth has borne him a daughter turns Bob's world upside down, resulting in him staging an audacious escape from prison and setting out across country to track down his family.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck
Director: David Lowery
Zatoichi on the Road / Zatôichi kenka-tabi / Zatôichi 5 (1963)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseuer Ichi (or "Zatôichi") is asked by a dying man to deliver the maiden Mitsu (or "Omitsu") to her family in Edo, and Zatôichi feels honor-bound to do so. But rival gangs each have an interest in kidnapping the girl for ransom. Zatôichi joins with one of the gangs when the other gang captures Mitsu, but he then finds that to rescue her, he must fight both gangs.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Uwasa no onna / The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Drama | Romance
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession. Hatsuko is having a discrete affair with the young Dr. Matoba, who looks after the geisha girls. The doctor is attracted to Yukiko, who initially despises him and everything connected with the geisha house. However Yukiko gradually changes her views.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
La vie de bohème / The Bohemian Life (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilmss, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Mon meilleur ami / My Best Friend (2006)
Comedy
François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers. Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno's chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the "three S's" – being sociable, smiling and sincere – though they don't come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno's naiveté in playing along, but what's the cost of cheating at friendship?
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet
Director: Patrice Leconte
Deep Rising (1998)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi
When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one!
Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi, Anthony Heald, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Stephen Sommers
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that…
Starring: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Kari Väänänen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Horror | Sci-Fi
Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople…
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, Sandor Elès, Katy Wild, Kiwi Kingston
Director: Freddie Francis
About Adam (2000)
Comedy | Romance
A waitress meets personable, attractive Adam and they soon become lovers, then get engaged. Wasting no time, Adam starts an affair with her bookish sister, who knows about the first relationship. Their (none-too-happily) married third sister knows about both these liaisons but is still attracted to Adam. The lad is certainly playing the field, but in their own ways the girls seem to be getting just as much out of the deal as him.
Starring: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Tommy Tiernan
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Unhook the Stars (1996)
Drama | Romance
Character study about Mildred, an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter finally leaves home, she finds that, for the first time in her life, she has nobody to worry about – but soon becomes involved in the life of Monica, a young mother whose husband has left her to look after her young son J.J.. As the relationship blossoms, Monica teaches Mildred that there is more to life than taking care of others.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Nick Cassavetes
The Punk Singer (2013)
Documentary
A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.
Starring: Kathleen Hanna
Director: Sini Anderson
Let's Get Lost (1988)
Documentary | Music
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.
Starring: Chet Baker
Director: Bruce Weber
The Family (2013)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, Dominic Chianese, David Belle
Director: Luc Besson
Open Grave (2013)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A man wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Fleeing the scene, he breaks into a nearby house and is met at gunpoint by a group of terrified strangers, all suffering from memory loss. Suspicion gives way to violence as the group starts to piece together clues about their identities, but when they uncover a threat that's more vicious – and hungry – than each other, they are forced to figure out what brought them all together – before it's too late.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Kretschmann, Erin Richards, Josie Ho, Max Wrottesley
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
