Burke & Hare / Horrors of Burke and Hare (1972)
Horror
A pair of enterprising street thugs provide anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College梠ften by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes though even more nefarious methods.
Starring: Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards
Director: Vernon Sewell
Perfect Friday (1970)
Comedy | Crime
Lord Nicholas Dorset and his beautiful wife Britt live entirely beyond their means, while their timid bank manager Mr Graham has long envied his customers' wealth. Having devised an apparently foolproof plan to rob his own bank, Mr Graham decides that Nicholas and Britt's desperate financial situation makes them his ideal accomplices.
Starring: Stanley Baker, Ursula Andress, David Warner, Patience Collier, T.P. McKenna, Joan Benham
Director: Peter Hall
Blood and Sand (1941)
Drama | Sport
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Sorry, Thanks / Living with the Animals / Dong-mool-gwa Ham-gge Sa-neun Se-sang / Mi-han-hae, Ko-ma-weo (2011)
Drama
"Sorry, Thanks" is an omnibus film containing four short films. The central theme is the relationship between pets and their owners. In Heung-Sik Park's "My Younger Brother" a 6-year-old girl gets separated from her dog when her mother gets pregnant with her second child and the family decides to give the dog away for adoption. Soon-rye Lim's "Catty Kiss" tells the story of an old maid who often takes in stray cats. This has caused a conflict with her father who doesn't understand why she devotes so much money and time into the cats. Jeom-gyoon Oh's "Chu Chu" shows the friendship between the homeless man Young-jin and the stray dog Chu Chu. In Il-gon Song's "Thank You, I'm Sorry" a hard-working mother inherits a dog after the death of her father. Taking care of her father's dog causes her to reflect on her life.
Starring: Seo-Hyeon Ahn, Ji-ho Kim, Young-min Kim, Tae-hwa Seo
Director: Soon-rye Lim, Jeom-gyoon Oh, Heung-Sik Park, Il-gon Song
The Beast and the Beauty / Yasuwa minyeo (2005)
Comedy | Romance
Dong-Gun has a serious complex of sorts. He has low self-esteem about his appearance, particularly a scar that sits next to right eye-brow. His world changes when he drives down a street and is flagged down by a beautiful girl that gets into his car. The girl, named Hae-Joo, is blind and mistakes Dong-Gun’s car for a taxi cab and asks him to take drive her to another part of Seoul. He immediately falls for Hae-Joo and realizes that Hae-Joo’s blindness would be perfect for him and his low self-esteem. Dong-Gun soon becomes Hae-Joo’s eyes, taking her to various places and describes what everything looks like to her. When Hae-Joo asks Dong-Gun what he looks like, Dong-Gun inexplicably describes someone from his high school that he looked up to. His name ws Jun-Ha. They soon fall for each other and see each other day for 3 years. Everything changes once Hae-Joo receives a phone call from her doctor. The doctor tells her that a donor has been found and she can soon see again, once she has an operation. Dong-Gun again feels like the Beast and he doesn’t know what to do once the Beauty gets her vision back. Things are further complicated when Dong-Gun’s high school friend, Jun-Ha, randomly crosses path with Hae-Joo and falls for her as well.
Starring: Seung-beom Ryu, Min-a Shin, Sang-tae Ahn, Kang-woo Kim, Kil-Kang Ahn, Jong-shin Yuns
Director: Gye-byeok Lee
Fierce People (2005)
Drama | Thriller
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Starring: Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart, Paz de la Huerta, Elizabeth Perkins
Director: Griffin Dunne
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Bloodsport (1988)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Inside a hidden Hong Kong arena, elite combatants clash in the Kumite, the little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact fighting. No Westerner had ever won this titanic tournament – until iron-willed American Frank Dux entered it.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Forest Whitaker, Bolo Yeung, Norman Burton, Leah Ayres, Donald Gibb
Director: Newt Arnold
Saturday Morning Mystery / Saturday Morning Massacre (2012)
Horror
Four professional ghost hunters, who travel in a vintage van accompanied by their canine companion, get far more than they bargained for when they investigate a creepy mansion with a mysterious past.
Starring: Josephine Decker, Paul Gordon, Jonny Mars, Ashley Spillers, Adam Tate
Director: Spencer Parsons
Absence (2013)
Horror | Thriller
Doctors are baffled when a young expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. The police are investigating the situation as a missing child and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
Starring: Erin Way, Eric Matheny, Ryan Smale, Stephanie Scholz, Michael Angelo Covino
Director: Jimmy Loweree
Ernest & Celestine / Ernest et Célestine (2012)
Animation
The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
Starring: Pauline Brunner, Anne-Marie Loop, Lambert Wilson, Patrice Melennec, Brigitte Virtudes, Léonard Louf
Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Patlabor 3: The Movie / Patlabor 3 / WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002)
Action | Animation | Crime | Sci-Fi
Two police detectives and SV2 investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occuring in and around Tokyo Bay.
Starring: Katsuhiko Watabiki, Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa
Director: Takuji Endo, Fumihiko Takayama
Patlabor 2: The Movie / Patlabor 2 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: The Movie 2 (1993)
Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The date is 2002, three years after the events of Patlabor: The Movie. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia begins the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to send shockwaves throughout Japan's military. With evidence of an impending military takeover, the scattered members of the original SVD (Special Vehicle Division) must gather to defend the city against danger.
Starring: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata, Daisuke Gôri, Shigeru Chiba, Osamu Saka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Patlabor: The Movie / Patlabor 1 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (1989)
Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 1999. Japan has concentrated 45% of its entire labor force in the ambitious Babylon Project, designed to save the Tokyo Bay area from being submerged as an effect of the sea level increment. For this purpose, a 500-meter wide and 150-meter high multy-level platform, called the Ark, has been built on the sea. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the eventual destruction of Tokyo. What is the connection between the suicide, the new Mobile Police AV-X0 Zero Labor, and a military prototype Labor suddenly gone berserk?
Starring: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Duresori: The Voice of East / Du-re Sori Story (2012)
Drama | Music | Teen
Seul-Gi and Ah-Reum are 3rd year students at the National High School of the Traditional Arts. They are also best friends. Seul-Gi majors in pansori (Korean traditional music) and Ah-Reum majors in Gyeonggi Folk Music. During their summer break, the girls struggle with pressures and anxiety. They then take a special summer school class due to a lack of attendance. Meanwhile, the Education Burea informs their school that they will take part in a chorus contest. The school selects Teacher Ham, a composer, to make up the school's chorus team. The pool consists of students from the special summer school class. A conflict also ensues between Ms. Ham, who majored in western music, and the students, who are majors in traditional Korean music. Can the students compete in the chorus performance?
Starring: Jo Ah-Reum, Choi Eun-hye, Choi Eun-Yeong, Lim Ha-nee, Ham Hyeon-Sang, Kim Seul-gi
Director: Cho Jung-Rae
The Magic Christian (1969)
Comedy
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone–and anything–can be bought with money.
Starring: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Leonard Frey
Director: Joseph McGrath
Over the Top (1987)
Action | Drama | Family | Sport
Big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk's (Sylvester Stallone) only chance for a better existence, which includes starting his own business and earning the love of his son, lies in his considerable talent for armwrestling.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall, Chris McCarty
Director: Menahem Golan
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt, a guy who's never been able to finish anything, decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever for 40 straight days. No touching. No kissing. No foreplay. No fooling around. No self-gratification. No nothing. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life. Sexy and spirited, Erica drives Matt wild. Now, with everyone betting he won't finish what he started, he's just trying to hold on, and hoping she's willing to hold out…
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Monet Mazur, Paulo Costanzo, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Trese
Director: Michael Lehmann
Knockaround Guys (2001)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Tom Noonan, Barry Pepper, Arthur J. Nascarella
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Bulletproof (1996)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Small time crook Archie Moses considers Rock Keats his best buddy, until Moses graciously brings Keats on a big-time drug score and is horrified to discover that his trusted friend is actually an undercover cop. When a gunfight breaks out, Keats is accidentally shot in the head by Moses in the ensuing melee. After recovering, Keats returns to work only to find that his first assignment is to escort his ex-best friend back home from Arizona, so Moses can turn state's evidence against the ruthless drug king pin he was working for. Hardly a happy traveling duo, they soon discover that there's a mole revealing their every move and that they are neither safe from the police, the FBI nor the drug thugs hot on their trail. Although they hate each other now, they soon realize that with their lives at stake, the original ties that bind are still strong–especially if it means surviving.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Damon Wayans, Jonathan Loughran, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, James Farentino
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Orphan Black (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
"Orphan Black" follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the stranger's identity, who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth: she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers the chilling fact that there are more people like her out there – genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. With no idea who created the clones, she'll need to discover the reason in a hurry as an assassin is killing them one by one.
Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Creator: John Fawcett, Graeme Manson
