Bad Night (2015)
Adventure
When Kate and Abby are mistaken for famous art thieves, their fun night out quickly goes from good to bad.
Starring: Lauren Elizabeth Luthringshausen, Jenn McAllister
Director: Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Drama
Tom Wingo is unhappy with his life. His wife doesn't understand him and he also doesn't get along with his dominant mother. When his sister attempts suicide, her psychologist Susan Lowenstein consults him. Patiently and cautiously she uncovers the terrible secret hidden in Tom and Savannah's childhood.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Jeroen Krabbé, Melinda Dillon
Director: Barbra Streisand
Lifeline / Shi wan huo ji (1997)
Action | Thriller
The story revolves around a dutiful yet indifferent fireman who strives to win back his valor and love against his strict superior and his doctor girlfriend respectively.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Alex Fong, Ruby Wong, Wong Ho-Yin, Damian Lau, Carman Lee
Director: Johnnie To
After Words (2015)
Drama | Romance
Marcia Gay Harden stars as a librarian who attempts to escape her mid-life crisis by traveling to Costa Rica. There she meets a younger man Juan (Óscar Jaenada – Cantinflas), who takes her on an unexpected journey filled with adventure and romance.
Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Óscar Jaenada, Jenna Ortega, Ron Canada, Jackie Torres
Director: Juan Feldman
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Lost After Dark (2015)
Horror
Spring Ball, 1984. Adrienne (Kendra Timmins, Midnight Sun, Wingin' It), a straight-A student, joins her quarterback crush Sean (Justin Kelly, Maps To The Stars, Big Muddy) and some friends in sneaking out of their high school dance for some unsupervised mayhem. The teens' party plans hit a snag when they run out of gas on a deserted road. They head out on foot and discover a rundown farmhouse where they hope to find help, but instead find themselves at the mercy of Junior Joad (Mark Wiebe, Sweet Karma), a cannibal killer from an urban legend. After the brutal murder of one of their friends, the group s quest for help becomes one of survival. Will anyone survive the night?
Starring: Robert Patrick, David Lipper, Eve Harlow, Jesse Camacho, Justin Kelly, Kendra Leigh Timmins, Sarah Fisher
Director: Ian Kessner
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The Curse of Downers Grove (2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood — but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret…. For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?
Starring: Bella Heathcote, Kevin Zegers, Tom Arnold, Lucas Till, Penelope Mitchell
Director: Derick Martini
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Sun Belt Express (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A down-on-his-luck ethics professor ends up on a completely unhinged run across the Mexican border with his teenage daughter in tow – and four undocumented immigrants in the trunk.
Starring: Tate Donovan, Rachael Harris, Ana de la Reguera, India Ennenga, Miguel Sandoval, Stephen Lang
Director: Evan Buxbaum
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Justice My Foot / Sam sei goon (1992)
Comedy
Sung Shih Chieh, a brilliant, but somewhat shifty lawyer who uses his verbal dexterity in the pursuit of cash, not justice. His kung-fu kicking wife frowns on his success as it has had a terrible karmic price: all twelve of their infant sons have died prematurely. Sung agrees to leave his legal chicanery behind, but a murder case involving Madame Chou arrives on his doorstep. Sung is pulled out of self-imposed retirement by this sensational case, and the Qing Dynasty legal world had better watch out!
Starring: Stephen Chow, Anita Mui, Carrie Ng, Man Tat Ng
Director: Johnnie To
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Drama | Romance
As Mike and Anna, two film actors involved in a tumultuous affair, and Charles and Sarah, the star-crossed Victorian lovers whom the actors portray, Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons are at their compelling best. Just as his character Charles' reputation is ruined by the enigmatic Sarah, Mike finds he cannot accept the intangible affections of the wily Anna. The skillful interweaving of these two love stories – one period, one contemporary – yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together…and just as easily tear them apart.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Peter Vaughan, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell
Director: Karel Reisz
Bessie (2015)
Biography | Drama | Music
Queen Latifah stars as legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in this HBO Films presentation, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dee Rees (named one of 20 filmmakers to watch by The New York Times). The film focuses on Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues," who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
Starring: Tika Sumpter, Michael Kenneth Williams, Queen Latifah, Bryan Greenberg, Oliver Platt
Director: Dee Rees
Remember the Daze / The Beautiful Ordinary (2007)
Comedy | Drama
A glimpse into the teenage wasteland of suburbia 1999 that takes place over 24-hours, and the teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium.
Starring: Amber Heard, Alexa PenaVega, Leighton Meester, Melonie Diaz
Director: Jess Manafort
The Borrowers (1997)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
They're charming and small and live behind the wall. They're The Borrowers, tiny people whoese big family adventure is filled with some of the most eye-popping effects ever seen on film. Based on the beloved classic novels by Mary Norton, and starring John Goodman, The Borrowers is a film treat to be enjoyed by people of all sizes!
Starring: John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Tom Felton, Bradley Pierce
Director: Peter Hewitt
Tall Tale / Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Western
A young boy draws inspiration from the tall tales of Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyon to fight against a evil land baron in the old west.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn, Stephen Lang
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Shipwrecked / Haakon Haakonsen (1990)
Adventure | Family
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
Starring: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch, Bjørn Sundquist, Eva von Hanno
Director: Nils Gaup
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain.
Starring: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo, Anthony James
Director: John Hough
Last Rites (1988)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Daphne Zuniga (The Sure Thing) set the screen ablaze in this controversial tale of a love affair between a priest and a sexy woman. A relentlessly entertaining tale of lust, betrayal and revenge with a shocking final twist, Last Rites administers equal measures of white-knuckle suspense and white-hot romance. A Mafia hit a vulnerable witness a man of the cloth with a secret past. When Father Michael Pace (Berenger) finds himself drawn to the mistress (Zuniga) of a brutally murdered mobster, he risks his life, his standing and even his faith to protect her in this riveting thriller that will keep you guessing until the final frame.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Dane Clark, Paul Dooley
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
In the Arms of a Killer (1992)
Drama | Thriller
A rookie detective's investigation of a particularly brutal murder takes a personal turn for her when her lover turns out to the their main suspect.
Starring: Jaclyn Smith, John Spencer, Nina Foch, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sandahl Bergman, Linda Dona
Director: Robert L. Collins
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Tony (Ike Eisenmann) and Tia Malone (Kim Richards) are two orphan children with psychic powers. Their clairvoyance prompts evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) to lure them to his mansion to exploit their powers. While escaping, they meet a friendly camper (Eddie Albert) and begin to unravel the mystery of their origin. Soon, all three are fleeing townspeople who have branded the children witches. Eventually someone with greater power leads the children home.
Starring: Lance Kerwin, Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann
Director: John Hough
Charlie's Country (2013)
Drama
Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Starring: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
Director: Rolf de Heer
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Horror
Two brothers and their girlfriends, plus a pair of marauding bikers, encounter the young Leatherface and his family.
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, R. Lee Ermey, Andrew Bryniarski, Lee Tergesen
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
