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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Drama
The emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. A married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil.
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Mario Gallo
Director: John Cassavetes
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Tags: Fred Draper, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Mario Gallo, Peter Falk
Posted on July 12, 2015 |
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Faces (1968)
Drama
Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit… A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery
Director: John Cassavetes
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Tags: Fred Draper, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Posted on July 12, 2015 |
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Shadows (1959)
Drama
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person with faith in his talent. The story moves back and forth, like jazz, among the three of them and what seems at first to be separate lives. Lelia meets Tony, and lets herself hope this is true love. Then he meets Hugh and prejudice gives Tony an excuse to cut and run. Can family and friendship bring solace for her hurt, purpose for Benny, and belief in Hugh? Is life more than shadows?
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd
Director: John Cassavetes
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Posted on July 11, 2015 |
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The Vancouver Asahi / Bankûbâ no asahi (2014)
Drama | Sport
The Vancouver Asahi baseball team consists of 2nd generation Japanese immigrants living in Canada. They play within a local amateur baseball league. The team got popular due to their fair play spirit, while struggling to fight against discrimination and poverty in their everyday lives. Reggie is a 2nd generation Japanese immigrant who works at a sawmill in Vancouver. He is the leader of the team and plays shortstop. Roy is the team's ace pitcher and works at a fishery field. Kaye is the team's 2nd baseman and co-worker of Reggie. Tom is the catcher and works at a tofu shop. Frank works at a hotel and plays baseball with the team.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yûsuke Kamiji, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kôichi Satô
Director: Yûya Ishii
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Tags: Kazuya Kamenashi, Kôichi Satô, Ryo Katsuji, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yûsuke Kamiji, Yûya Ishii
Posted on July 11, 2015 |
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Citizenfour (2014)
Documentary
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% reallife thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.
Starring: Edward Snowden
Director: Laura Poitras
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Wild Horses (2015)
Crime | Drama
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered – and that a local rancher was involved.
Starring: Robert Duvall, James Franco, Josh Hartnett, Luciana Pedraza, Angie Cepeda, Jim Parrack
Director: Robert Duvall
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Tags: Angie Cepeda, James Franco, Jim Parrack, Josh Hartnett, Luciana Pedraza, Robert Duvall
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It Follows (2014)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.
Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Maika Monroe
Director: David Robert Mitchell
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Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Things just aren't going well for Holly Parker. In addition to her cheating boyfriend, a scheming co-worker keeps undermining every shot Holly has at a promotion, and on top of it all, her rent is simply too much to handle alone. When her search for a roommate leads Holly to shy but sweet Tess Kostitch, the troubled renter thinks she may have finally solved at least one of her woes — but this roommate has a big secret. It doesn't take long for Holly and Tess to become friends, but in Tess' warped view of friendship, there is no kinder act than putting a friend in pain out of their misery. When Tess learns about Holly's unfaithful boyfriend and the trouble that Holly has run into attempting to land a big promotion, Tess prepares to do her new best friend a favor and make all of her troubles go away in the flash of a blade.
Starring: Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Todd Babcock, Brooke Burns, François Giroday, Tracey McCall, Rif Hutton
Director: Keith Samples
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Tags: Allison Lange, Brooke Burns, François Giroday, Keith Samples, Kristen Miller, Rif Hutton, Todd Babcock, Tracey McCall
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Jesus' Son (1999)
Drama
A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name of FH, their falling in love and how she introduced him to heroin, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying his daily schedule so that he passes a neighboring Mennonite household at the right time to hear the wife sing Gospel songs in the shower. Slowly, very slowly, FH lets his gifts emerge.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon, Mark Webber, Jack Black, Denis Leary
Director: Alison Maclean
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Jungle 2 Jungle / Jungle to Jungle (1997)
Comedy | Family
Michael Cromwell suddenly learns that he has a 13-year old son. The boy has been raised in the Venezuelan jungle by his estranged physician/researcher wife. He brings the boy to New York, and that's where the fun starts…
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden Stiers
Director: John Pasquin
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Tags: David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams, John Pasquin, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Short, Sam Huntington, Tim Allen
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Rapid Fire (1992)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Brandon Lee stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he can count on is his own martial-arts training.
Starring: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge, Tzi Ma
Director: Dwight H. Little
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Tags: Brandon Lee, Dwight H. Little, Kate Hodge, Nick Mancuso, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Tzi Ma
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Encino Man (1992)
Comedy
When they find a frozen caveman in their backyard, two high school outcasts thaw him out and introduce him to modern day life while he in turn, gets them to actually enjoy life.
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
Director: Les Mayfield
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Tags: Brendan Fraser, Les Mayfield, Megan Ward, Michael DeLuise, Pauly Shore, Robin Tunney, Sean Astin
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No Highway in the Sky / No Highway (1951)
Drama | Thriller
Jimmy Stewart stars as an aeronautical engineer who predicts that a new type of airplane will fail catastrophically after a certain amount of time in the air, and then finds himself on board one of the doomed planes while headed to a crash site.
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan
Director: Henry Koster
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Tags: Elizabeth Allan, Glynis Johns, Henry Koster, Jack Hawkins, James Stewart, Janette Scott, Marlene Dietrich
Posted on July 10, 2015 |
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Fantastic Girls / Deeree Girls (2015)
Comedy
In 1980, Ayuko (Mio Yuki) is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi (Rika Adachi), becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko (Yuri Shirahane) is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi (Kei Aran) who is now a teacher.
Starring: Mio Yûki, Rika Adachi, Yuri Shirahane, Kei Aran
Director: Akiko Ohku
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Tags: Akiko Ohku, Kei Aran, Mio Yûki, Rika Adachi, Yuri Shirahane
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Princess Jellyfish / Kurage hime (2014)
Comedy
A cross-dressing jellyfish geek that comes to turn the lives of several roommates inside out.
Starring: Rena Nônen, Masaki Suda, Hiromi Hasegawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Rina Ôta, Tomoe Shinohara, Azusa Babazono
Director: Taisuke Kawamura
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Tags: Azusa Babazono, Chizuru Ikewaki, Hiromi Hasegawa, Masaki Suda, Rena Nônen, Rina Ôta, Taisuke Kawamura, Tomoe Shinohara
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True Story (2015)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Caught fabricating part of an article in the New York Times Magazine, Michael Finkel is a disgraced journalist when he encounters and forms an uneasy bond with Christian Longo, a suspected murderer who claimed to be Finkel when arrested in Mexico.
Starring: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Ethan Suplee, Gretchen Mol, Genevieve Angelson
Director: Rupert Goold
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Tags: Ethan Suplee, Felicity Jones, Genevieve Angelson, Gretchen Mol, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Rupert Goold
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Strangerland (2015)
Drama | Thriller
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily. Suspicions run riot, rumours spread and public opinion turns savagely against the Parkers. With temperatures rising and the chances of survival plummeting with each passing day, Catherine and Matthew find themselves pushed to the brink as they struggle to survive the mystery of their children's fate.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Joseph Fiennes, Sean Keenan, Maddison Brown
Director: Kim Farrant
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Tags: Hugo Weaving, Joseph Fiennes, Kim Farrant, Maddison Brown, Nicole Kidman, Sean Keenan
Posted on July 10, 2015 |
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The Breakup Girl / Claire's Cambodia (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Three estranged sisters deal with the death of their father.
Starring: Shannon Woodward, Wendi McLendon-Covey, India Menuez, Joe Lo Truglio, Catherine Bach, Timm Sharp, Nick Thune
Director: Stacy Sherman
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Tags: Catherine Bach, India Menuez, Joe Lo Truglio, Nick Thune, Shannon Woodward, Stacy Sherman, Timm Sharp, Wendi McLendon-Covey
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The Suicide Theory (2014)
Drama
STEVEN RAY was never quite normal. But when the love of his life ANNIE is killed in a hit-and-run incident at a city cross walk, his violent and bizarre behavior becomes uncontrollable. One night, as Steven plots his next murder, a body drops from the sky and lands on his cab. Enter PERCIVAL, who's unsuccessful attempt at jumping off a building not only interferes with Steven's plans, but the chance encounter also introduces the two into each other's sad and lonely lives. Percival believes he's cursed after miraculously surviving each suicide attempt and concludes fate brought he and Steven together. So he hires Steven to assist him in suicide. Steven does not believe in fate and thinks Percival is desperate and delusional. But he accepts the offer. Easy money. After Percival continues to miraculously survive each attempt on his life, Steven starts to believe. He tries to help Percival figure out ways to break the curse. And in the process, they form an unlikely friendship through the common bond of tragedy.
Starring: Steve Mouzakis, Leon Cain, Joss McWilliam, Matthew Scully
Director: Dru Brown
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Posted on July 9, 2015 |
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Maestro! / Maesutoro! (2015)
Drama | Music
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou (Toshiyuki Nishida) appears in front of them. The orchestra members are not familiar with Tetsusaburo Tendou's background or career. At first, the members of the orchestra are resistant to Tetsusaburo Tendou. They change though as they are brought into Tetsusaburo Tendou's unprecedented world of music. Except for the concertmaster Shinichi Kousaka (Tori Matsuzaka), the members of the orchestra, who all have their own wounds and frustrations, recover their confidence.
Starring: Tôri Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Miwa, Yutaka Sado, Nobuyuki Tsujii
Director: Shôtarô Kobayashi
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Tags: Miwa, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Shôtarô Kobayashi, Tôri Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yutaka Sado
