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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
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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
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L'intrepido (2013)
Comedy
This film is an affecting and timely story about a middle-aged, precariously employed jack-of-all-trades in Milan who doggedly tries to get by in an unfeeling city while trying to retain his dignity and his passions.
Starring: Antonio Albanese
Director: Gianni Amelio
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Freejack (1992)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Bounty hunters from the future raid the present to provide new bodies for the super rich. Auto racer Alex Furlong is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak's 21st-century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie, now 15 years older and an executive at McCandless.
Starring: Mick Jagger, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, Amanda Plummer
Director: Geoff Murphy
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Comedy | Mystery
No one ever paid any attention to shy librarian Betty Lou Perkins, until someone found The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag! And when Betty Lou confesses to a crime she didn't commit, her world turns upside down! The bogus confession launches a series of uproariously funny events as a new, sexy Betty Lou captures headlines, rocks out in nightclubs, outwits the mob and wins cheers from the townspeople! Starring a truly exceptional cast including Penelope Ann Miller and Cathy Moriarty – get ready for a fun-filled adventure that's loaded with laughs from beginning to end!
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, Alfre Woodard, Julianne Moore, Cathy Moriarty, Andy Romano
Director: Allan Moyle
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Mest / Revenge / The Red Flute (1989)
Drama | History
In a rage, a teacher murders a boy. Another boy is bred, for one sole purpose: to avenge his brother’s death. Kazakh master Ermek Shinarbaev’s close collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer Anatoli Kim yielded three great films, the most remarkable of which is this beautiful, profoundly unsettling film. A true odyssey, geographically and psychologically. One of the greatest films to emerge from the Kazakh New Wave, and one of the toughest.
Starring: Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te, Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Oleg Li, Juozas Budraitis
Director: Yermek Shinarbayev
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Last Love / Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
Starring: Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Justin Kirk, Michelle Goddet, Gillian Anderson, Jane Alexander
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
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I Am Love / Io sono l'amore (2009)
Drama | Romance
A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono
Director: Luca Guadagnino
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Russkiy kovcheg / Russian Ark (2002)
Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Alexander Sokurov's (Mother and Son) cinematic tour-de-force follows a modern filmmaker who magically finds himself transported to the 18th century. There, he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. Filmed with a cast of thousands, three live orchestras and an army of technicians, Russian Ark is the longest uninterrupted shot in film history, and the first feature film ever created in a single take.
Starring: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Comedy
A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin
Director: David O. Russell
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Written in Blood (2003)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the wife of Detective John Traveller and her lover are executed in bed and John takes the blame, his partner and friend, Detective Matthew Ransom, becomes very upset, affecting his marriage that was not working well. The lover of John's wife was the son of Luke Williams, a detective of the same department, and he does not accept the death of his son. After the trial and conviction of John, Matthew separates from his wife Mary Ramson, being sexually arrested by John's daughter Jude. Meanwhile, a serial killer kills the enemies of John, leaving clues in the crime scenes relatives to Sherlock Holmes tales and Matthew suspects of Jude.
Starring: Michael T. Weiss, Peter Coyote, Maureen Flannigan, Steve Rankin, Dan Gauthier, Gwen McGee, Nancy Valen
Director: John Terlesky
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Désaccord parfait / Remake / Twice Upon a Time (2006)
Comedy
Thirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady of English theatre is asked to present Louis with a lifetime achievement award. She is married and has a son and a dog that snores…but the game is on again…delightfully.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Jean Rochefort, Isabelle Nanty, Ian Richardson
Director: Antoine de Caunes
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The Efficiency Expert / Spotswood (1992)
Crime | Drama
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe, Angela Punch McGregor
Director: Mark Joffe
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Nicholas Nickleby / The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Drama
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in debtors prison.
Starring: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Bernard Miles, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
The 50th Anniversary special unites three Doctors to once again save the universe.
Starring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Nick Hurran
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Notting Hill (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans, James Dreyfus, Dylan Moran
Director: Roger Michell
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Santa Switch (2013)
Family
As the Christmas season approaches, Dan Ryebeck (Ethan Erickson) is facing unemployment, and struggling to pay for the gifts he thinks will impress his two kids, Sally (Annie Thurman) and Joe (Griffin Cleveland). Always chasing a new business idea, Dan hasn't had time for family, including his wife Linda (Anne Dudek), who is finally fed up and filing divorce papers. Threatened by Linda's handsome and successful young boss, Trevor, Dan knows he must make this Christmas the best one yet to win his family back. But after auditioning for a mall Santa job and quickly losing his cool, Dan is frustrated and broke, blaming the holidays for his troubles. Little does he know his luck is about to turn around when the real Kris Kringle (Donovan Scott) pays him a visit from the North Pole. Deciding to take a vacation and leave Dan in charge, Kris sends his hard-working elf assistant Eddie (Sean Astin) to guide Dan as the new Santa Claus, hoping he'll learn a lesson in Christmas spirit. With the sudden power to impress Linda and the kids by making every wild Christmas wish come true, Dan soon gets carried away. As the fate of the whole world's Christmas rests in his hands, can Dan focus on what his family really needs without flubbing his greatest gig yet?
Starring: Ethan Erickson, Anne Dudek, Annie Thurman, Griffin Cleveland
Director: David S. Cass Sr.
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Zombie Hamlet (2012)
Comedy
Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester Beauchamps offer to fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back. But when Hester dies in mid shoot, Osric dresses up as Hester to cash the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police and ambitious local news reporter Shine Reynolds. Inspired by an actual incident.
Starring: John Amos, Shelley Long, Jason Mewes, Travis Wester
Director: John Murlowski
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Sahkanaga (2011)
Mystery
In the winter of 2002, over 300 bodies were discovered strewn about the property of the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, GA, in various stages of decay. "Sahkanaga" imagines this event from the perspective of a teenager who discovers the first body. Filmed on location in Walker County, GA, with a cast of non-professional actors, some of whom had direct connections to the real-life scandal, "Sahkanaga" observes a tight-knit community on the brink of a terrible tragedy and their efforts to make sense of the unknowable.
Starring: Trevor Neuhoff, Kristin Rievley, Jace Flatt, Charles Patterson, Laura Maynard, Sharon Huey, Chip Jones, Rhea Thurman
Director: John Henry Summerour
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Tags: Charles Patterson, Chip Jones, Jace Flatt, John Henry Summerour, Kristin Rievley, Laura Maynard, Rhea Thurman, Sharon Huey, Trevor Neuhoff
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Living by the Gun / Livin' by the Gun (2011)
Action | Western
Blaming her uncle for both her family's troubles and the death of her father, a young girl vows to even the score and sets out on a quest for vengeance. To survive the Wild West, she becomes a ruthless killer, cutting down everyone who stands in her way. When their paths finally cross, only one can survive, but who will find redemption at the end of their bloody road.
Starring: Jeffery Babineau, Pat McIntire, Judith Rhodes, Buck King, Charles Gill, Dom Degen
Director: James Miller
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