Mockingbird (2014)
Horror
A couple are given a camera and a set of instructions which they must follow or else someone will die.
Starring: Todd Stashwick, Alexandra Lydon, Audrey Marie Anderson, Barak Hardley
Director: Bryan Bertino
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The Devil Incarnate / Copiii: The 1st Entry (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Newlyweds Holly and Trevor Davidson are on a road trip to celebrate their honeymoon in Miami when their new life together takes a surreal turn. A whimsical pit stop in a tourist trap goes horribly wrong and they find themselves forced to face an ominous new presence in their lives and an ambiguous threat. But is that threat coming from Trevor's family, Holly's dark past, or something far more sinister and otherworldly, such as the ancient curse of the Copiii Pierdere?
Starring: Graci Carli, Rod Luzzi, Emily Rogers , Cindy Hogan, Barbara Van Fleet, Walter J. Colson, Tom Riska
Director: L. Gustavo Cooper
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Tasting Menu / Menú degustació (2013)
Comedy
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before separating) reunite for a once-in-lifetime meal.
Starring: Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Vicenta N'Dongo, Andrew Tarbet, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea
Director: Roger Gual
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Inner Demons (2014)
Horror
An 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her – with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.
Starring: Lara Vosburgh, Morgan McClellan, Kate Whitney, Brian Flaherty, Colleen McGrann, Christopher Parker
Director: Seth Grossman
Misfire (2014)
Action | Crime
Hardened DEA agent, Cole, descends into the dangerous underworld of Tijuana, Mexico in search of his journalist ex-wife who he believes has been abducted by a charismatic Cartel boss with aspirations for public office.
Starring: Gary Daniels, Vannessa Vasquez, Michael Greco, Luis Gatica, Geoffrey Ross, Patricia Peinado Cruz
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
The Two Faces of January (2014)
Thriller
1962. A glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland and his alluring younger wife Colette, arrive in Athens by boat via the Corinthian Canal. While sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal, a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. However, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands and Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets. When Rydal visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, Chester presses him to help move the body of a seemingly unconscious man who he claims attacked him.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, David Warshofsky
Director: Hossein Amini
Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Into The Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Halbrook, Into The Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn
Director: Sean Penn
Zerkalo / The Mirror (1975)
Biography | Drama
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on episodes from his own life in this story of a dying man reflecting on his relationships with his parents, wife and son. The film includes a number of reflections on the Russian people and their history, using the life of one man to consider the Russian experience from the Second World War through to the end of the Stalinist period. The film also features Tarkovsky's father reading his own poems and his mother (Larisa Tarkovskaya) playing the role of the on-screen matriarch.
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alla Demidova
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
El Somni / The Dream (2014)
Documentary
El somni (The dream) is a remarkable film directed by Franc Aleu, which shows the creative process of over 40 international artists who participated in a dinner put together as an opera in twelve dishes, with gastronomic creations by the Roca brothers, from the restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. A visual experience that enables the spectator to get to know the dynamic approach and the challenges that have taken the Roca brothers to the top. Images, matter, music, flavor and smell converge on this journey with guests such as Ferran Adrià, Zubin Mehta, Miquel Barceló, Freida Pinto, Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Harold McGee.
Starring: Joan Roca, Josep Roca, Jordi Roca
Director: Franc Aleu
Deck the Halls / All Lit Up (2006)
Comedy | Family
This holiday comedy is centered around two neighbors in a small New England town who go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Starring: Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Kristin Davis, Alia Shawkat, Jorge Garcia
Director: John Whitesell
Next of Kin (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A southern boy goes to Chicago where he becomes a cop and finds himself in the middle of a plot involving a vengeance-seeking Appalachian relative.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Paxton
Director: John Irvin
Across 110th Street (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Slicker than a Harlem shakedown, Across 110th Street "hits hard" (Cue) with a jacked-up, smacked-down thrill-ride through the hell-raisin' hoods of Harlem! Cooler-than-cool Anthony Quinn leads a hot cast, including Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto, in a "hair-raising" (Motion Picture Herald) cop thriller that packs a double barrel of "gory vengeance raw, ugly and unnervingly real" (Playboy)! When a crew of gun-totin' gangstas knocks over a mafia racket in Harlem, their plan gets blown to hell and the crib gets blown to bits! But as the bullets start flyin' and cops start dyin', a pair of New York's finest (Quinn and Kotto) are forced to work together to bring justice to the streets before the Mafia brings the ghetto to its knees! Now, wanted by the Man and hunted by the Mob, there ain't no way these homicidal homeboys are getting across 110th Street except in a body bag! Directed by Barry Shear (The Deadly Trackers).
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Bernard, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Richard Ward
Director: Barry Shear
Topkapi (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Jules Dassin
Last Weekend (2014)
Comedy | Drama
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Alexia Rasmussen
Director: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
Sex Tape (2014)
Comedy
A married couple wake up to discover that the sex tape they made the evening before has gone missing, leading to a frantic search for its whereabouts.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Jack Black, Rob Lowe, Ellie Kemper
Director: Jake Kasdan
Decoding Annie Parker (2013)
Drama
Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
Starring: Aaron Paul, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Rashida Jones, Corey Stoll, Helen Hunt, Marley Shelton
Director: Steven Bernstein
Beloe solntse pustyni / The White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | War
The film tells the tale of a Red Army soldier who has been bringing Communism to the region and has obviously gained the respect of the Army through various brave deeds. But now he has been discharged after many years away from home. He yearns to see his wife again but has been constantly diverted on his journey home to her. Suhkov (for that is his name) is now readying himself to finally put this desert behind him and make his way to his home, but he soon finds himself made the guardian of the 9 wives of an infamous bandit named Abdullah. He must escort them to a village and await assistance there, however he is soon to find that this will be his biggest and most dangerous diversion yet.
Starring: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Pavel Luspekayev, Raisa Kurkina, Tamara Fedotova, Nikolai Godovikov
Director: Vladimir Motyl
Le capitan / Captain Blood (1960)
Action | Adventure
Le Capitan, adapté du célèbre roman de Michel Zevaco, avec verve et somptuosité, tant pour les duels, les décors, les combats que la distribution. Un film de cape et d'épée comme nous sommes aujourd'hui incapables d'en réaliser.
Starring: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli, Pierrette Bruno, Lise Delamare
Director: André Hunebelle
Vrchní, prchni! / Waiter, Hater! (1981)
Comedy
A suave but down-and-out would-be concert violinist on his way to an audition, is mistaken for a waiter and discovers a new, if not terribly legal or honest, source of income.
Starring: Josef Abrhám, Libuse Safránková, Daniela Bakerová, Zdenek Sverák, Eliska Balzerová, Jirí Kodet
Director: Ladislav Smoljak
Harmontown (2014)
Documentary
A documentary that follows Dan Harmon on tour for his podcast series after he was fired from Community in 2012.
Starring: Dan Harmon, Jack Black, Joel McHale, John Oliver, Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller, Jason Sudeikis
Director: Neil Berkeley
