Big Joys, Small Sorrows / Shin yorokobimo kanashimimo ikutoshitsuki (1986)
Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Starring: Gô Katô, Hitoshi Ueki, Reiko Ôhara, Yoko Shinoyama, Hayao Okamoto
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Being Two Isn't Easy / I Am Two Years Old / Watashi wa nisai (1962)
Comedy | Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts of the child. They initially live in an apartment building, and then move into the doting grandmother's house.
Starring: Hiro Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Misako Watanabe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Ballad of Orin / Melody in Gray / Hanare goze Orin (1977)
Drama
This unsentimental Japanese tragedy chronicles the lonely life and quiet death of a blind Geisha girl whose desire for sexual freedom causes her to become an outcast.
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Tomoko Naraoka, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Tôru Abe, Yoshio Harada
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
The Rolling Stones: Let's Spend the Night Together (1982)
Documentary | Music
In the tradition of Hollywood directors taking on the task of documenting rock & roll event, Hal Ashby's 'Let's Spend the Night Together' is a record of the Rolling Stones' 1981 U.S. tour. Filmed at just two venues, it beautifully captures the spirit of the shows and the hard work that goes into staging a Stones concert.
Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Ron Wood, Ian Stewart, Ian McLagan, Ernie Watts, Bobby Keys
Director: Hal Ashby
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Comedy | Horror
An eighteen-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and she decides to have a slumber party. There is friction between some of the invited guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently across the street from the host's house). Meanwhile, a murderer of five people with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and eventually makes his way to the party, where the guests begin experiencing an attrition problem, with only the new girl to help them.
Starring: Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso, Andree Honore, Gina Smika Hunter
Director: Amy Holden Jones
En solitaire / Turning Tide (2013)
Drama
It tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendée Globe (a round-the-world non-stop single-handed yacht race). After several days of racing, Yann, who is in the lead, has to stop to repair a damaged rudder.
Starring: François Cluzet, Samy Seghir, Virginie Efira, Guillaume Canet, Karine Vanasse
Director: Christophe Offenstein
Smrt cerného krále / The Death of Black King (1972)
Crime
The Death of Black King (the title devises both to chess play and to murder of Mr Král (in English King)) is the last of four movie-continuators of TV series Sinful People of Prague, the famous cycle of mysteries from the first decades of Czechoslovakia. In this full-length movie criminologists investigate strange murder of "debt-collector" Král. The crime is complicated – there are many suspicious and many other lesser serious misdoings.
Starring: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Jana Brejchová, Vlastimil Brodský
Director: Jirí Sequens
Partie krásného dragouna / The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon (1970)
Crime
The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon is full-length picture consequent on a successful TV series The Sinful People of Prague. It is a serial of criminal cases investigated by a group of detectives from the time of the First Republic. In this movie investigators looks for the murderer of one old lonely lady from peripheral Prague quarter. The suspicious is young and beautiful dragoon Rudi, coming son-in-law of the local commissar. But he is entangled to another crime!
Starring: Josef Vinklár, Josef Bláha, Josef Abrhám
Director: Jirí Sequens
Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Monaghan, Ray Liotta, Jane Fonda
Director: Geoff Moore, David Posamentier
The Way We Dance / Kuang wu pai (2013)
Drama | Teen
Fa leaves behind her unsatisfactory life working at her parent's shop to enter a university. Fa's true calling is to dance and she joins the school's hip-hop club. Soon, Fa falls into the heated world of dance competitions and becomes involved in a complicated romance.
Starring: Babyjohn Choi, Janice Fan, Tommy Ly, Cherry Ngan, Lok Man Yeung, Goon Chung Wong, Singh Hartihan Bitto
Director: Adam Wong
Hindsight / Poo-reun so-geum (2011)
Action | Crime | Romance
Retired mob boss Du-heon enrolls in a cooking class with the hopes of making a fresh start as a restaurant owner. In the class he meets a quirky girl, Se-bin, and finds himself drawn to her. Despite his determination to wipe the slate clean, Du-heon is summoned back into the criminal fold by his old colleagues.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Se-Kyung Shin, Jeong-myeong Cheon, Min-jun Kim, Jong-hyeok Lee, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Roe-ha Kim, Dal-su Oh
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Documentary of AKB48: No Flower Without Rain (2013)
Documentary
Documentary follows the group after Atsuko Maeda's graduation announcement. The other members are shaken and a fierce fight for the center position takes place. The girls also deal with a clause that prevents members from dating and popularity gaps between the membrs.
Starring: AKB48
Director: Eiki Takahashi
Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend / Figyua na anata (2013)
Drama | Erotica | Fantasy | Romance
A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.
Starring: Kokone Sasaki, Tasuku Emoto, Mitsu Dan, Yuki Mamiya
Director: Takashi Ishii
Grudge Match (2013)
Comedy | Sport
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout — 50 years after their last match.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin, Kevin Hart, Jon Bernthal
Director: Peter Segal
August: Osage County (2013)
Drama
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham
Director: John Wells
Risky Business / Les risques du métier (1967)
Drama
In an idyllic country town, Jean Doucet and his wife Suzanne teach at the local school. One day, their happy lives are shattered when one of their schoolgirls brings a charge of attempted rape against Doucet.
Starring: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary
Director: André Cayatte
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Drama | History
When Pope Julius ll commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees to Rome. The Agony And The Ecstasy is a fascinating dramatization of the battle of wills behind one of the world's artistic masterpieces.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi
Director: Carol Reed
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser, Miguel Sandoval, Loren Dean
Director: Richard Benjamin
Countdown (2012)
Horror | Thriller
Three Thai teens in New York City are planning the New Year's Party of their lives. They called Jesus, a drug dealer, to drop off some stuff at their apartment so they can celebrate and countdown the end of the year in style. Little did they know that Jesus' visit that night will change their lives forever.
Starring: Pachara Chirathivat, Jarinporn Joonkiat, Pattarasaya Kreuasuwansri, David Asavanond
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
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Rapid Response Corps (2012)
Action | Comedy
The actual plot line evolves around the Corps being hired by an attractive lady. She suspects her husband in infidelity. The team discovers that, indeed, the gentleman is having an affair with another, young, attractive lady. However, they also uncover another secret: the husband is in the head of a crime syndicate. While secretly recording a conversation between members of the syndicate, the team finds out that the underground organization's new business is the counterfeit of the 500 Euro bill, aiming to flood the local and European markets with fakes. Vasko realizes the disclosure of this planned criminal affair has the potential to become the stepping stone on the way to big success. So the team throws itself into the investigation with great energy and zeal, and their adventures begin…
Starring: Vasko Mavrikov, Evgeni Budinov, Ivelin Naydenov, Diana Lyubenova, Marian Valev, Bashar Rahal, Stoiko Peev
Director: Stanislav Donchev
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