Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Biography | Drama | Romance
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Starring: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis
Director: Peter Webber
Conte d'automne / Autumn Tale (1998)
Drama | Romance
Magali, 45, is a wine producer in the south of France. She's a widow, and her best friend, Isabelle, decides to find her a new husband. She puts an ad in the local newspaper and finds a nice man, Gérald. At Isabelle's daughter's wedding, Magali eventually meets Gérald. But there's another man around, Etienne…
Starring: Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Alexia Portal, Stéphane Darmon, Aurélia Alcaïs
Director: Eric Rohmer
Conte d'été / A Summer's Tale (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A young man, Gaspard, who went to Dinard (a town by the sea in the Bretagne) because he hopes to meet the girl he thinks he is in love with – Lena. Shortly after his arrival he comes into contact with Margot who works as a servant at her aunt's creperie. He spends a long time with her, and discusses the way he feels about Lena but he hesitates to tell the truth about his relationship. The reason is that he isn't quite sure himself. Although he insists he loves Lena, doubts arise…
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin, Aimé Lefèvre, Alain Guellaff, Evelyne Lahana
Director: Eric Rohmer
Extract (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman) is sitting pretty. With a beautiful wife, a comfortable home and the almost finalized acquisition by General Mills of the culinary extracts business he has built with his loyal lieutenant Brian (J.K. Simmons), Joel seems to have it all. Except his wife is about as interested in him as she is in her career (supermarket coupon design), his employees want a piece of the pie and the sweet young thing with designs on him (Mila Kunis) is really a wily con-artist. On the advice of a drug-addled confidante (Ben Affleck), Joel cooks up a scheme to cheat with impunity by hiring a gigolo to seduce his wife-only to discover the young object of his affection is behind a lawsuit by long-time employee Step (Clifton Collins, Jr.) that will scotch the General Mills deal and leave Joel penniless. The best-laid plans unravel with hilarious results in this off-the wall comedy about life in the not-so-fast lane.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons, Clifton Collins Jr.
Director: Mike Judge
Elevenfourteen / 11:14 (2003)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
Starring: Henry Thomas, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Barbara Hershey, Hilary Swank, Rachael Leigh Cook
Director: Greg Marcks
The Rocket (2013)
Drama
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Starring: Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Suthep Po-ngam, Boonsri Yindee, Sumrit Warin, Alice Keohavong
Director: Kim Mordaunt
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
Drama
It is 1986 in Iran. Undercover French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam (Caviezel) is traveling though a small southwestern village when his car breaks down. Surrounded by strife, he has little choice other to wait until his car is repaired and is soon approached by persistent local Zahra (Aghdashloo), who convinces him to follow her into the courtyard behind her home. There, she reveals to him that she has just bore witness to a most heinous crime – the stoning of an innocent woman who refused to divorce her husband so he could marry a younger girl. To get his way the husband accused his wife of adultery and, in order to ensure that she had no chance of defending herself, blackmailed several male villagers to testify on his behalf. A tribunal was quickly called, and her fate forever sealed.
Starring: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, Jim Caviezel, Bita Sheibani, Ali Pourtash, Parviz Sayyad
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Drama | Music
In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful young African American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improve, turn pro, and rise to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry with it's casual racism and greed while the personal weaknesses of the members threaten to destroy the integrity of the band.
Starring: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry Lennix, Diahann Carroll, Hawthorne James
Director: Robert Townsend
Self-Delusion and Other Obstacles (2013)
Comedy
When the girl of his high school dreams moves in next door, Nick Peters is determined not to shy away for a second time. But before he can declare his love, he discovers she is waiting for her boyfriend to propose. Her boyfriend, however, is "in the closet" and has no real intention of proposing. So, Nick decides to lure him out and accidentally finds himself entangled in a comedic love triangle. Nick soon realizes to win the girl of his dreams, he may have to make out with the man of hers. "Self-Delusion and Other Obstacles" is a sweet romantic comedy that will leave audiences pleasantly surprised.
Starring: Derick Snow, Cassie Self, Michael Remington, Jeff Howard, Xavier Santiago, Katie Burgess, Cooper Cox, Rich Bentz, Marla Taylor
Director: Brandon Bergin
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Wet and Reckless (2013)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
A reality television show goes horribly wrong forcing its ill-equipped stars to hunt for buried treasure to find a way home.
Starring: Lucas Till, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sean Whalen, Jason Trost, Kathy Sue Holtorf, Coy Jandreau, Matt Cohen
Director: Jason Trost
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Hot Guys with Guns (2013)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
If you can imagine Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as younger, hotter ex-boyfriends, you'll have the basis for Hot Guys With Guns, a modern take on the old-fashioned detective story. It's Chinatown meets Boystown.
Starring: Marc Anthony Samuel, Brian McArdle, Alan Blumenfeld, Jay Huguley, Joan Ryan
Director: Doug Spearman
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Cut/Print / Untitled Detroit Horror Project (2012)
Horror | Thriller
A group of ambitious filmmakers set out to create the world's first reality horror movie. Their plan was simple; they'd offer an active serial killer complete anonymity and a worldwide platform from which to display his work in exchange for genuine footage of his grisly crimes. What ensues is a hellish game of cat and mouse as a cryptic filmmaker, known only as The Maestro, comes out from hiding in search of his "perfect shot".
Starring: Ken Foree, Randall Godwin, James Ohngren, Vince Orlando
Director: Nathaniel Nose
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Marianne: The Ghost Inside / Marianne (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence. Not only must he raise his newborn child alone, he must also contend with the mood swings of his older daughter Sandra, a rebellious youth harbouring deep animosity towards her father, blaming him for all the ills that have befallen the family. Faced with such difficult circumstances, Krister is slowly losing his grip on himself, which threatens the teaching career he exhibits a waning interest in. The mental health of this damaged man is deteriorating and those around him have reason to be concerned. Especially because, for some time now, Krister has been plagued by night terrors, his fitful slumber intruded upon by a mysterious woman with dark designs on him. He initially believes these visions are a symptom of serious post-traumatic shock. Krister does, after all, have a number of skeletons in his closet that gnaw at his conscience. It gradually becomes evident that this nocturnal visitor may be supernatural. Whether or not anyone believes it, he knows that a creature from folklore has placed a curse on him. And now, true calamity will descend on Krister and those close to him.
Starring: Thomas Hedengran, Peter Stormare, Tintin Anderzon, Sandra Larsson, Dylan M. Johansson
Director: Filip Tegstedt
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Gromozeka (2011)
Drama
In present day Moscow three childhood friends in their forties – former school band players – live their everyday lives of a police officer, a taxi driver and a surgeon. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal, love and ageing are told in parallel. In fact, unknown to our heroes, their paths cross and their lives become connected. But they are not aware of it even when they reunite for a breaking performance at their graduation anniversary.
Starring: Nikolay Dobrynin, Boris Kamorzin, Leonid Gromov, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Polina Filonenko
Director: Vladimir Kott
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It Looks Pretty from a Distance / Z daleka widok jest piekny (2011)
Drama
Unfolding in a secluded Polish village 'Z daleka widok jest piekny' (It looks pretty from a distance) is a love story between a scrapper and a young woman. Seen through the monotony of everyday life the film depicts the hardships of a rural community in present-day Poland. The bucolic landscape becomes the seemingly idyllic backdrop from which a sudden disappearance disrupts their once quiet community.
Starring: Marcin Czarnik, Piotr Nowak, Elzbieta Okupska, Jerzy Lapinski, Agnieszka Podsiadlik
Director: Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
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Heart of a Lion / Leijonasydän (2013)
Drama | Romance
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Starring: Laura Birn, Peter Franzén, Jasper Pääkkönen, Pamela Tola, Jussi Vatanen
Director: Dome Karukoski
22 Bullets / L'immortel (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Starring: Jean Reno, Marina Foïs, Kad Merad, Joey Starr, Gabriella Wright, Fani Kolarova
Director: Richard Berry
A Brief History of Time (1991)
Biography | Documentary
Unlike the book, this film is about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking. Despite his near total paralysis, he was able to develop theories on par with ones from great minds such as Newton and Einstein. Clips of Hawking's lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together in this anecdotal biography.
Starring: Stephen Hawking
Director: Errol Morris
Defending Your Life (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Starring: Albert Brooks, James Eckhouse, Rip Torn, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Grant
Director: Albert Brooks
La Bamba (1987)
Biography | Drama | Music
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Richie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with Donna, his girlfriend.
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano, Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsberry, Brian Setzer
Director: Luis Valdez
