The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Connie Nielsen, Tamara Tunie, Judith Ivey
Director: Taylor Hackford
Hitman / Sat sau ji wong (1998)
Action | Comedy
A dying old man hires a mysterious rogue assassin known as the 'King of Assassins' to kill the former yakuza boss who murdered his family during the Sino-Japanese war. Ironically, the yakuza boss forsees his own death and establishes a $100 million dollar revenge fund to reward the person who kills the instigator.
Starring: Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato
Director: Wei Tang
Men in Black 3 / MIIIB (2012)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with a younger version of Agent Kay to stop an evil alien from destroying the future.
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Afghan Luke / Afghan Luke and the Burgundy of Hash (2011)
Drama
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom, tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar. Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.
Starring: Nick Stahl, Stephen Lobo, Ali Liebert, Nicolas Wright, Steve Cochrane
Director: Mike Clattenburg
Mad Monster Party (1967)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror | Musical
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor…
Starring: Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, Ethel Ennis
Director: Jules Bass
Kung Fu Dunk / Gong fu guan lan (2008)
Comedy | Sport
Shi-Jie (Jay Chou) grows up in a martial arts school and he is well versed in kung-fu. With his skills and his good reflexes, Shi-Jie also excels in basketball, especially the slam dunk technique. On the pretext of helping Shi-Jie find his family, Wang-Li (Eric Tsang) invites him to join the university's basketball team in hopes of making money out of him.
There Shi-Jie faces new challenges on the basketball team, especially with team mates Ting- Wei (Bo-Lin Chen) and Xiao-Lan (Baron Chen). With the upcoming championship games and the appearance of Li-Li (Charlene Choi), the team must put aside their differences and personal emotions to face their common rivals.
Starring: Jay Chou, Eric Tsang, Gang Wang, Charlene Choi, Bo-lin Chen, Chu-he Chen
Director: Yen-ping Chu
Cyborg Girl / Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu (2008)
Action | Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
A lonesome college student, Jiro, is spending his 20th birthday alone, when suddenly, a beautiful girl turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her. But his happiness does not last long as she disappears as suddenly as she appeared. A year later, on his 21st birthday, Jiro runs into her again at the same restaurant, where she saves him and countless others from a crazy assassin. She looks the same, but this time she is somehow different. It is the beginning of a relationship that would change his life forever.
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
Director: Jae-young Kwak
MTV Video Music Awards 2012 (TV 2012)
Awards | Music
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, hosted by Kevin Hart, took place on Thursday, September 6, 2012, honoring the best music videos from the previous year. The awards were broadcast from the Staples Center arena at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. Nominations were announced on July 31, 2012. Rihanna and Drake received five nominations, while Katy Perry and Beyoncé received four.
One Direction were the biggest winners of the night winning their three nominations, including Best New Artist, and Rihanna went on to win Video of the Year, becoming the first female artist, and only second artist overall (after Eminem), to win the award twice.
Starring: Kevin Hart, Sway Calloway, James Montgomery, Jim Cantiello, Demi Lovato, Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, Calvin Harris, Pink, Frank Ocean, One Direction, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Green Day, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry, Dwight Howard, Miley Cyrus, Mac Miller
Poltergeist III / Poltergeist 3 (1988)
Horror | Thriller
They're back…again! And they're still looking for Carol Anne in this riveting and climactic finale to the Poltergeist trilogy. Sent by her parents to live in a Chicago high rise with her aunt, uncle and cousin, Carol Anne must face demons more frightening as ever before, as they move from invading homes to taking over an entire skyscraper!
Starring: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Lara Flynn Boyle, Zelda Rubinstein
Director: Gary Sherman
Poltergeist II: The Other Side / Poltergeist 2 (1986)
Horror
The Freeling family settles into a new home following the annihilation of their former residence by terrifying visitors from the netherworld. But the spirits of the dead are still hell-bent on luring the family's clairvoyant daughter Carol Anne to "the other side"!
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Will Sampson
Director: Brian Gibson
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Hunger (2008)
Biography | Drama | History
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners, rather than as ordinary criminals. McQueen dramatizes prison existence and Sands's final days in a way that is purely experiential, even abstract, a succession of images full of both beauty and horror.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Rory Mullen, Brian Milligan
Director: Steve McQueen
Rumble Fish (1983)
Drama
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother — The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Chris Penn
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Murder 2 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Starring: Jaqueline Fernandes, Yana Gupta, Emraan Hashmi, Amardeep Jha, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Director: Mohit Suri
The Pianist (2002)
Biography | Drama | War
An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland, Szpilman struggled to stay alive–even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. Szpilman eventually reclaimed his artistic gifts, and confronted his fears–with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Director: Roman Polanski
The Bucket List (2007)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before they "kick the bucket" and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Alfonso Freeman
Director: Rob Reiner
Original Sin (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, whore, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin
Director: Michael Cristofer
The Getaway (1972)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside – and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence – from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Come Undone / Cosa voglio di più (2010)
Drama
One day at a colleague's going away party, Anna meets Domenico, a virile, slightly older chap who's married with two small kids. Passion's flames are rapidly kindled and result in steamy encounters.
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Giuseppe Battiston, Teresa Saponangelo, Fabio Troiano
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cloclo / My Way (2012)
Biography | Drama | Music
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Starring: Jérémie Renier, Benoit Magimel, Monica Scattini, Sabrina Seyvecou, Ana Girardot, Joséphine Japy, Robert Knepper
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
The Prey / La Proie (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence for robbery. When he learns that his wife is in financial difficulty he confides in his cellmate, Jean-Louis Maurel, the location of the booty of his last heist. Maurel is due to be released soon and Franck is certain that he can trust him to come to his wife's rescue…
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López, Natacha Régnier, Serge Hazanavicius, Zinedine Soualem, Caterina Murino
Director: Eric Valette
