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
The Machine (2013)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, which is designed to help humanity. But things go wrong when the MoD steal their breakthrough and teach it to become a robotic weapon.
Starring: Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Denis Lawson
Director: Caradog W. James
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Best Night Ever (2013)
Comedy
Claire is about to get married and she goes to Las Vegas with her sister and two friends for her bachelorette party. Things quickly spiral out of control.
Starring: Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, Eddie Ritchard, Crista Flanagan
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
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Everyday / Here and There (2012)
Drama
Shot over the course of five years, this documentary-style feature from prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom offers a masterful meditation on the daily travails of a family living apart from their imprisoned patriarch.
Starring: Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Shaun Kirk, Robert Kirk, Katrina Kirk, Stephanie Kirk, Darren Tighe
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Putzel (2012)
Comedy | Romance
For Walter Himmelstein, a young man endearingly known as Putzel, life literally doesn’t go beyond his family's fish store on the upper west side of Manhattan. In this heartwarming romantic comedy about sex, love and smoked fish, Walter's aspirations of taking over his uncle's fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who becomes romantically involved with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. While Walter tries to thwart their romance in order to ensure his taking over the business, he finds his circumscribed life thrown off kilter, and, after years of being undermined by his family and friends, finally starts to realize that he’s more than a Putzel.
Starring: Jack Carpenter, Melanie Lynskey, John Pankow, Susie Essman
Director: Jason Chaet
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Apocalypse Kiss (2014)
Sci-Fi
In this futuristic science fiction thriller, government security agent Jerry Hipple has been unsuccessfully tracking the city's most infamous criminal The Red Harvest Killer. When two nomadic lovers, Katia and Gladys enter the city the death count rises and are being credited as Red Harvest killings. Obsessive compulsive Adrian, the actual Red Harvest Killer becomes furious that the sexy serial killing duo are grabbing media attention under his alias. Not only does Adrian attempt to reclaim his rightful reputation but he also decides to cleverly aid his detective counterpart through the case. All the while, killers and victims alike are unaware the world is about to reach an abrupt catastrophic ending.
Starring: D.C. Douglas, Tom Detrik, Carmela Hayslett, Tammy Jean, Tom Atkins, Michael Berryman, Lloyd Kaufman
Director: Christian Grillo
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Black Coffee (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Robert (Henson) picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out – until Morgan (Dennis) enters into his life. Just as things start to heat up between them, trouble brews as Morgan's ex-husband (Rucker) vows to get her back and Robert's gold-digging ex-girlfriend (Hubbard) returns with an agenda of her own. With the help of his cousin (Keyes), Robert's about to find out how much good can come out of a bad situation in this charming romantic comedy that's good to the last drop.
Starring: Christian Keyes, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Gabrielle Dennis, Erica Hubbard, Lamman Rucker
Director: Mark Harris
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Je'Caryous Johnson's Men, Money and Gold Diggers / Men, Money & Gold Diggers (2014)
Comedy
Caleb Peterson has it all-a great job, plenty of money, and a fine fiancée in former model Paisley Terrell. They're all set to get married just as soon as she signs a prenuptial agreement, but there's just one problem…"Paisley don't do pre-nups!" As war wages and trusts start to crumble, it turns into a battle of the sexes.
Starring: Patrice Fisher, Omar Gooding, Je'Caryous Johnson, Jill Marie Jones, Vanessa Williamss, Malik Yoba
Director: Roger Melvin
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The Faculty (1998)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Elijah Wood
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Conte de printemps / A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy flat; she's loaned hers to a cousin, so she accepts the invitation of Natasha, a music student whom she meets at a party, to sleep in her father Igor's bedroom because he's always with his young girlfriend, Eve. Natasha tells Jeanne a story of a missing necklace and her suspicions of Eve. They all meet at dinner, then again at Igor's country house. Is Natasha scheming to get Igor and Jeanne together alone? Once alone, what determines how they choose to act? And the necklace, what of it?
Starring: Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloïse Bennett, Sophie Robin, Marc Lelou, François Lamore
Director: Eric Rohmer
La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome’s decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife – a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old – his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes.
Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Riding the Bullet / Stephen King's Riding the Bullet (2004)
Horror | Thriller
A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.
Starring: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen, Barry W. Levy
Director: Mick Garris
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Steve Kahan, Terry Alexander, Alex McArthur
Director: Richard Donner
The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV 2014)
Awards | Music
The Academy of Country Music Awards were first held in 1966, honoring the industry's accomplishments during the previous year. It was the first country music awards program held by a major organization. The Academy's signature "hat" trophy was created in 1968. The awards were first televised in 1972 on ABC. In 1979, the Academy joined with Dick Clark Productions to produce the show. Dick Clark and Al Schwartz served as producers while Gene Weed served as director. Under their guidance, the show moved to NBC and finally to CBS, where it remains today.
In 2003, the awards show left Los Angeles and moved to Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The show is now held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The Academy also adopted a sleeker, modern version of the "hat" trophy that year, which is now made by New York firm Society Awards. In 2004 the organization implemented online awards voting for its professional members, becoming the first televised awards show to do so. The 48th Academy of Country Music Awards was broadcast live on April 7, 2013 and co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton. Both are also nominated for Entertainer of the Year.
Starring: Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line, Justin Moore, The Band Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Lee Brice, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban
The Unknown Known (2013)
Documentary
Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Starring: Donald Rumsfeld
Director: Errol Morris
Hot Dog… The Movie (1984)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro on the slopes as the pro's ex-girlfriend sets her eyes on the new blood.
Starring: David Naughton, Patrick Houser, Tracy Smith, John Patrick Reger, Frank Koppala, James Saito, Shannon Tweed
Director: Peter Markle
