Bali Big Brother / Kamisama wa Bali ni iru (2014)
Comedy
Sachiko (Machiko Ono) runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko meets rich Japanese man Aniki (Shinichi Tsutsumi). From him, Sachiko gets encouragement.
Starring: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Machiko Ono, Naoto Inti Raymi, Hiroshi Tamaki
Director: Toshio Lee
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation owner Annette Cosway has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason, is a sexist, racist tyrant who mistreats his servants and his wife. Paul flees to England after the servants and their countrymen revolt and burn down the mansion, killing Annette's young son. Annette goes insane and is consigned to the care of a servant. Her daughter Antoinette is placed in a convent until she is old enough to inherit the property, but the inheritance depends on her marrying a proper husband. By previous arrangement, she marries Edward Rochester. At first they are lustily in love, but Rochester proves to be as elitist who is as disrespectful as Mason. Rochester has title to all of Antoinette's property, but he despises Jamaica and wants to return to England. He also fears the black magic of Christophene, who mixes up a voodoo potion which ends up driving the couple farther apart.
Starring: Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick, Nathaniel Parker, Paul Campbell
Director: John Duigan
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The life of Pablo Picasso told from the 1940s to the 1950s as witnessed by his mistress Francoise Gilot.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Diane Venora, Joss Ackland, Dominic West
Director: James Ivory
School Daze (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
A not so popular man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at a historically black college.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn
Director: Spike Lee
Once in the Life (2000)
Crime | Drama
20/20 Mike and his half-brother Torch bump into each other under less than ideal circumstances — both are in jail, Mike on parole violation and Torch for theft. Torch is a heroin addict who has trouble financing his habit, so when Mike says he has a plan to make some quick money, Torch is more than eager to help. Mike and Torch try to swindle Hector, who works with his uncle Freddie Nine Lives as a bagman for drug kingpin Manny Rivera. While Mike and Torch are able to grab a large cache of heroin that Hector is carrying for Manny, the plan soon goes haywire and Hector and his men suffer heavy casualties. Mike and Torch go on the lam, while Manny's henchmen find Freddie and beat a confession out of him — in which he names Mike and Torch as the thieves. Manny wants his money back and hires an enforcer named Tony to find Mike and Torch and get the cash. To insure that Tony doesn't waste time, Manny holds Tony's wife captive until the money is returned.
Starring: Eamonn Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Titus Welliver, Annabella Sciorra
Director: Laurence Fishburne
Milk Money (1994)
Comedy | Romance
In MILK MONEY, when 12-year-old Frank Wheeler (Carter) and his two buddies save up their milk money and head into the city in search of a woman who will let them see her naked body, they think they’ve died and gone to heaven when V (Griffith) agrees to disrobe for them. Now stuck in the city and out of their element, the boys seek refuge in V who agrees to drive them back to the suburbs and away from the city’s chaos. But, when V’s car breaks down outside of his house, Frank decides that V would make a good step mom, and proceeds to play matchmaker for his dad, Tom (Harris). Thanks to Frank, Tom thinks that V is a math tutor, while V thinks that Frank knows the truth about her occupation. What ensues is a long, hilarious conversation that revolves around this comical misunderstanding.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko
Director: Richard Benjamin
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Drama
Jane (Frances McDormand) is a record producer trying to come up with a song for her band, whose lead singer Ian (Alessandro Nivola) is her younger lover. When Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiance Alex (Kate Beckinsale) turn up, people begin to explore their relationships and realise the tight control they have of their lives.
Starring: Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola, Melissa De Sousa
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Drama | Romance | War
A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War.
Starring: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Forget Paris (1995)
Comedy | Romance
Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met airline employee Ellen (Debra Winger).
Starring: Billy Crystal, Debra Winger, Joe Mantegna, Cynthia Stevenson, Richard Masur, Julie Kavner
Director: Billy Crystal
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher, Bridget Fonda
Director: Ate de Jong
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Biography | Drama | Romance
While searching for rare English books, New York writer Helene Hanff's letter to a London bookstore, run by Frank Doel, begins a relationship between the two that spans two decades and two continents. Although their personalities and cultures are miles apart, their friendship blossoms into a deeper affection.
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Director: David Hugh Jones
The Lie (2011)
Drama
A tall tale turns out to have long-term consequences in this dark comedy-drama.
Starring: Joshua Leonard, Kelli Garner, Alia Shawkat, Mark Webber, Jane Adams, Jess Weixler, James Ransone
Director: Joshua Leonard
Paradise in Service / Jun zhong le yuan (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Army rookie Andy to Kinmen and chosen into the elite of the amphibious forces, accept the harsh training Sergeant devil long Zhang, ready to become lean dragon frog soldier. Because the natural fear of water, Andy was distributed to known as the "military paradise" said special room work. Here the special tea, is a surrounded by barbed wire to paradise, secret and lies, loyalty and justice, together, they have been imprisoned in this beautiful island, ready to face the fate and time absurd ruthless.
Starring: Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Regina Wan, Ivy Chen, Bo-Chieh Wang
Director: Doze Niu
Wolf Warrior / Wolf War / Zhan lang (2015)
Action | Drama | War
A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.
Starring: Jacky Wu, Nan Yu, Scott Adkins, Kevin Lee, Kyle Shapiro, Wenzhuo Zhao
Director: Jacky Wu
Danny Collins (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Melissa Benoist
Director: Dan Fogelman
Balls Out / Intramural (2014)
Comedy | Sport
With marriage, graduation, and the real world looming on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb Fuller reassembles the ol' team of misfits for one last epic run in Intramural football.
Starring: Jake Lacy, Nikki Reed, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, Gabriel Luna
Director: Andrew Disney
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Drama | History | War
A dramatization of the Irish civil-rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Christopher Villiers
Director: Paul Greengrass
Groove (2000)
Drama | Music
Acclaimed ensemble piece that follows one life-changing night for a group of party-goers who attend an underground rave party at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse.
Starring: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Elizabeth Sun, Steve Van Wormer, Dmitri Ponce
Director: Greg Harrison
Orange Is the New Black (TV Series 2013- )
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Piper Chapman’s wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Dascha Polanco, Samira Wiley, Nick Sandow, Selenis Leyva, Yael Stone, Taryn Manning, Lea DeLaria, Joel Marsh Garland, Catherine Curtin
Creator: Jenji Kohan
Ray Donovan (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players. He is the go-to guy who makes the problems of the city's celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful drama unfolds when his father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Pooch Hall, Devon Bagby, Paula Malcomson, Steven Bauer, Katherine Moennig, Kerris Dorsey, Jon Voight, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, William Stanford Davis
Creator: Ann Biderman
