Shine (1996)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud, Googie Withers
Director: Scott Hicks
The Dyatlov Pass Incident / Devil's Pass (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
In February of 1959, nine Russian hikers ventured into a remote area of the Ural Mountains. Two weeks later, all of them were found dead. What happened is a mystery that has baffled investigators and researchers for decades. It has become known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. When five ambitious American college students are issued a grant to return to the site of the original events, they gear up with the belief that they can uncover and document the truth of what happened to the supposedly experienced hikers. But what they find is more shocking than anything they could have imagined. Retracing the steps of the Russians' ill-fated journey, the students are plagued by strange and increasingly terrifying phenomena that suggest that in spite of the desolate surroundings, they are not alone. The forces at work in the Dyatlov Pass Incident have been waiting for them.
Starring: Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, Luke Albright, Ryan Hawley, Gemma Atkinson, Nikolay Butenin
Director: Renny Harlin
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Drama
To escape her cruel, angry father – and discover the truth about her late mother’s past – 14-year old Lily Owens flees with her caregiver and friend Rosaleen to a South Carolina town where she’s taken in by the bee-keeping Boatwright sisters.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
I've Loved You So Long / Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
Drama
Follows Juliette, who after 15 years in prison returns to her hometown of Nancy. When she is reunited with her younger sister Lea, with whom she stays, Juliette finds herself imprisoned by another pain and secret. Meanwhile, Lea seems to lead a happy, calm and "normal" life with her husband Luc , two young daughters, many friends and an exciting job. Although siblings, Juliette and Lea are complete strangers to each other.
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot, Lise Ségur
Director: Philippe Claudel
Powder Room (2013)
Comedy
Socially awkward and unlucky in love, Sam's only relief from her lonely life is her visit to the nearby clubs at the weekend with her friends Chanel, Saskia and Paige. One night, Sam bumps into her old college friend Michelle who is home from her successful life in Paris with her beautiful and glamorous friend Jess. Feeling intimidated by their presence, Sam starts spinning a web of lies to make herself appear less of a loser, but with one lie leading onto another will she be able to survive the night while retaining some semblance of her own identity?
Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash, Oona Chaplin, Riann Steele, Sarah Hoare
Director: M.J. Delaney
3 A.M. 3D: Part 2 / Ti sam khuen sam 3D (2014)
Horror
'The Third Night' follows a series of events that occur after a motorcycle gang leader by the name of Rang dies. 'The Convent' is about an all-girl convent school where occasionally the sound of someone playing a piano is heard from the old abandon chapel. 'The Offering' is about a shop that sells paper money and offerings to the dead.
Starring: Sinjai Plengpanit, Supanart Jittaleela, Ray MacDonald, Thawat Pornrattanaprasert, Hataichat Eurkittiroj, Intach Leorakwong, Jirawat Wachirasarunpat
Director: Isara Nadee, Kirati Nakintanon, Putipong Saisikaew
Trick The Movie: Last Stage / Torikku Gekijoban Rasto Suteji (2014)
Comedy | Mystery
Trade company employee Shinichi (Noriyuki Higashiyama) recommends to Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman (Kiko Mizuhara) and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Kazuki Kitamura, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Beauty and the Beast (TV Series 2012- )
Drama | Thriller
Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue that leads her to Vincent Keller, who was reportedly killed in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to control his super-strength and heightened senses.
Starring: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Nina Lisandrello, Austin Basis, Sendhil Ramamurthy
Creator: Ron Koslow
Affluenza (2014)
Drama
Suburbia, 2008. Swept up in a heady pre-recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, aspiring photographer Fisher Miller (Ben Rosenfield) escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young, beautiful elite. With a stash of high-quality weed and a vintage camera, he gains access to his gorgeous cousin Kate’s (Nicola Peltz) circle of wealthy and indulged friends, just as their entitled reality is about to spin out of control. A revealing take on the hidden perils of privilege. Also starring Gregg Sulkin, Nicola Peltz, Grant Gustin, Samantha Mathis & Steve Guttenberg.
Starring: Ben Rosenfield, Gregg Sulkin, Nicola Peltz, Grant Gustin, Steve Guttenberg, Samantha Mathis, Valentina de Angelis, Carla Quevedo, Danny Burstein, Adriane Lenox
Director: Kevin Asch
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Going Bongo (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A newly recruited American doctor "mistakenly" volunteers to work in Africa for a month.
Starring: Ernest Napoleon, Emanuela Galliussi, Ashley Olds
Director: Dean Matthew Ronalds
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
Biography | Drama
Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech, The Lone Ranger) and Golden Globe nominee Dominic West (300, The Wire) star as Hollywood’s most famous volatile on-again-off-again lovers in this new 90-minute drama from BBC AMERICA. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had one of the most fascinating, glamorous and tempestuous relationships of the 20th century – the two most famous movie stars of their day who played out every high and low of their love affairs, multiple marriages and divorces right in the public eye. Burton and Taylor follows their private and public relationship played out against their ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward‘s stage play, Private Lives. Tempestuous, funny, and dripping with diamonds – this is the last battle of the Burtons.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Dominic West
Director: Richard Laxton
Carmen la de Ronda / A Girl Against Napoleon / The Devil Made a Woman (1959)
Drama
Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808 Spain. Micaela is madly in love with Antonio but he is devoted to Carmen, the region's most beautiful gypsy who lives and sings at a local inn.
Starring: Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral, Maurice Ronet, Germán Cobos, José Marco Davó
Director: Tulio Demicheli
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea / Ponyo / Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
The daughter of the king of the ocean, Ponyo is no ordinary goldfish – she has all the magic of the sea at her disposal. But when five-year-old Sosuke finds her near his seaside home, a special connection sparks between the two children, and Ponyo becomes determined to become human.
Starring: Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yûki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Automotive (2013)
Crime
Automotive is a classic film noir set in present-day LA. The entire movie is seen from inside a car, the hero's 1964 Mercury Montclair. From its limited perspective (camera only inside the car) we piece together his criminal plans as they unravel. The movie begins as Kansas makes a getaway from a crime we never see. Is that a body he's putting in the trunk? He buries it in the desert night under headlights while a beautiful woman watches from the backseat. She is Lonely, his lover and accomplice… or is she? Kansas quickly finds himself in everyone's cross-hairs when Lonely's rich husband is suspiciously murdered. Did Kansas kill him? Or is he being set up? Can he trust the woman he loves?
Starring: Will Estes, Emily Baldoni, Tessa Thompson, Ross McCall, Pippa Scott, Jim Hanks, Matthew Del Negro, Kevin P. Kearns
Director: Tom Glynn
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Five Dances (2013)
Drama | Music | Romance
FIVE DANCES is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself.
Starring: Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller, Kimiye Corwin, Luke Murphy
Director: Alan Brown
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Getting Go, the Go Doc Project (2013)
Drama
College boy, Doc (Tanner Cohen, Were The World Mine) is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go dancer, nicknamed Go (Matthew Camp). He befriends his hunky crush with the intention of shooting a movie about what it's like to live in his skin. Camera in hand, he follows his subject across the city: into bars, onto rooftops and dance floors and ultimately his bedroom. But as they grow closer, flirtation blurs the line between subject and filmmaker until a steamy night together solidifies deeper feelings. Cory Kruekeberg's explicit directorial debut explores the thrill and danger of getting exactly what you wished for.
Starring: Tanner Cohen, Matthew Camp, Ramón Olmos Torres, Judy McLane, Tedd Merrit
Director: Cory Krueckeberg
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Hotel Paradise / Hôtel du Paradis (2012)
Drama
In Hotel Paradise, a haven of solidarity for all the abandoned, two lives meet: Paul, 50, at the end of the line, who only sees his children every other weekend, and Marie, 35, who returns 15 years later carrying a secret.
Starring: Caroline Ducey, Claude Berne, Zirek, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Fedele Papalia
Director: Claude Berne
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Fuzz Track City (2012)
Comedy | Mystery
Murphy Dunn, a wannabe James Bond, is relegated to a down and out private detective. Murphy finally gets his big break when he is hired by a sultry woman from his past to find her missing son. Murphy soon finds himself embroiled in a mystery of mayhem, music and murder surrounding an obscure 1970's rock record with a chance to finally "shoot his weapon"! Will the guns, gadgets, gizmos and his good looks be enough to capture the Villain and impress the ladies?
Starring: Todd Robert Anderson, Dee Wallace, Tarina Pouncy, Abby Miller, Matthew Ashford, Kelly Van Kirk, Sean Wing, Josh Adell, Dave Florek
Director: Steve Hicks
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Vanished (2011)
Mystery | Thriller
When a child is kidnapped in the middle of nowhere, the parents Winona Gant and her fianc‚ Hunter are torn. Suddenly, the phone rings, it's the kidnapper and they're not looking for money… She wants retribution! 'Vanished' is a gripping psychological thriller dealing with child kidnapping and how far a parent will go seeking revenge.
Starring: Cassandra Magrath, Chloe Guymer, Carolyn Bock
Director: Michael Adante
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Noah (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
A man suffering visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family a coming flood. Inspired by the Biblical story.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Darren Aronofsky
