Out of Inferno / Tao chu sheng tian (2013)
Action
On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Angelica Lee, Sicheng Chen
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man / Zatôichi sakate giri / Zatôichi 11 (1965)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Mori
Akasen chitai / Street of Shame (1956)
Drama
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who's now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Mickey seems the most devil-may-care, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.
Starring: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Aiko Mimasu, Kenji Sugawara, Yasuko Kawakami
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Havana 57 (2012)
Drama
Havana 1957, "Sin Capital of the World" – Mafia run nightclubs, sex, drugs, booze and gambling. President Batista heads a dictatorship benefiting wealthy Yankee corporations; student radicals rally with the poor, and revolutionaries. Ruben Velez, a young cop believes in law and order where his fellow officers control the population with torture, intimidation, and murder. His partner, a dirty cop cold-bloodily murders a student and Velez's outrage is met with indifference and a warning: play the game or suffer the consequences.
Starring: Juan Riedinger, Elisabetta Fantone, Paulino Nunes
Director: Jim Purdy
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La mise à l'aveugle / Small Blind (2012)
Drama
Denise is a woman of ripe age whose life has recently changed with the divorce from her husband Michel, the relocation to the neighborhood of her youth, and the retirement from her position as financial director in a large company now directed by her son, Alex. An object of contempt by her husband, her son and at her former workplace, Denise desperately clings to them, unable to communicate. This changes when Denise meets her new neighbors who initiate her to the world of poker. Little by little, she submits to the pleasures of the game and substitutes one family for another.
Starring: Micheline Bernard, Louis Sincennes, Marc Fournier, Christine Beaulieu, Julien Poulin, Pierre-Luc Brillant
Director: Simon Galiero
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Four (2012)
Drama
In a nameless, suburban American town, the smell of barbeque fills the air as Fourth of July celebrations move from a hot summer day into night. Joe, a man who works hard and travels a lot, leaves his family behind for the holiday, citing a business trip. Abigayle, his precocious daughter, is left to tend to her ill mother and manage the house on her own, yet again. Seeking just enough attention to get her through another night of her lonely responsibilities, she turns to Dexter, a former high school basketball star whose best days are behind him. And while Abigayle is out with Dexter, Joe is quietly spending time around town with June, a young man he met online who's struggling to accept himself. And for just this night, the small world that these four live in will become even smaller, though the freedom they experience has never been so dangerous, fleeting and honest.
Starring: Wendell Pierce, Aja Naomi King, Emory Cohen, E.J. Bonilla, Yolonda Ross
Director: Joshua Sanchez
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Toad Road (2012)
Horror | Thriller
A portrait of contemporary youth culture, where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.
Starring: Sara Anne Jones, James Davidson
Director: Jason Banker
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Barracuda (2010)
Action | Adventure
Based on actual events, Barracuda is an original, vengeance themed story and fresh take on sexual perversions, the lives it affects and the pursuit of it. When we first meet Summer, a sensitive yet cynical portrait artist who supplements her income as a phone sex operator from her rickety old houseboat in Venice, she is at the end of her emotional rope. The callers, whom she began recording as proof of how normal, professional men can also be pedophiles and rapist, have entered her dreams at night. When no one will believe or listen to the taped phone conversations with these otherwise ordinary men, Summer take matters into her own hands and drives her vintage Plymouth Barracuda across the country, surprising and exposing these deviants at their homes. Accountability, closure with ones demons and how love conquers even the most cynical ensues. Barracuda is a witty and brazenly honest story of the unbeatable human spirit.
Starring: Christy Oldham, Shane Woodson, Pippa Hinchley, Elina Madison, Kaden Graves, David Castro, Will Beinbrink
Director: Christy Oldham, Shane Woodson
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