Il capitale umano / Human Capital (2013)
Drama
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Starring: Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio, Matilde Gioli
Director: Paolo Virzì
My So-called Love / Ai de fa sheng lian xi (2008)
Romance
Raised in a broken family, Cat (Barbie Hsu) runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam (Eddie Peng), but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu (Joseph Chang) is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine (Easton Tung), but is he really her heart's final home?
Starring: Barbie Hsu, Eddie Peng, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Ming-hsiang Tung
Director: Leading Li
The River / He liu (1997)
Drama | Romance
In Taiwan, Xiao-kang, a young man in his early 20s, lives with his parents in near silence. He is plagued by severe neck pain. His father is bedeviled by water first leaking into his bedroom and then flooding the apartment; rain is incessant. Xiao-kang's mother is overcome by sexual longing for her son, sometimes making seemingly incestuous overtures. They try virtually every intervention for Xiao-kang's neck: Western medicine, a chiropractor, acupuncture, an herbal doctor, and a faith healer, Master Liu. Are the family's silent dynamics and Xiao-kang's neck pain connected? And what about the body floating in the Tamsui River: is everything dead?
Starring: Tien Miao, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Ann Hui
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Vive l'Amour / Ai qing wan sui (1994)
Drama
The film focuses on three city folks who unknowingly share the same apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Rebels of the Neon God / Qing shao nian nuo zha (1992)
Crime | Drama
Defying his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood and their relationships is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.
Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Chang-bin Jen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Tien Miao, Yu-Wen Wang
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment.
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Martin Henderson, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Gillies, Indira Varma
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Girl's Step / Gâruzu suteppu (2015)
Drama | Teen
Azusa and Narumi are 2nd grade high school students. They lack confidence and also any kind of ambitions. Hazuki, Tamaki and Mika are also unnoticed students at the same high school. These five girls form a dance club and begin to dance to get credits. They soon learn the joys of dancing and also learn to express themselves.
Starring: Anna Ishii, Fûka Koshiba, Karin Ono, Mika Akizuki, Miku Uehara
Director: Taisuke Kawamura
Jaws 2 (1978)
Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Another giant Great White Shark terrorizes beach goers in this sequel to Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Birkebeinerne / The Last King (2016)
Action | Adventure | Drama
In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country's history.
Starring: Anders Dahlberg, Åsmund Brede Eike, Elg Elgesem, Pål Sverre Hagen, Thorbjørn Harr, Benjamin Helstad
Director: Nils Gaup
Nobi / Fires on the Plain (1959)
Drama | War
It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions facing the men, some go insane and resort to murder and cannibalism. In the midst of this, Pvt. Tamura tries to survive without giving up his principles.
Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hikaru Hoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Masaya Tsukida, Yasushi Sugita, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Uzak / Distant (2002)
Drama
Translated into English as 'Distant', this bleak and poignant drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan reflects on the loneliness and neuroses of modern urban life. Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir) is a middle-aged photographer living and working in Istanbul, whose tidy habits and cool demeanour are tried when his young cousin Yusuf (Emin Toprak, who was tragically killed in a car crash shortly after the film was completed) comes to stay with him while he looks for work. Yusuf is a good-natured but insensitive country boy from a poor village background, while Mahmut is a modern professional who is on the verge of a mid-life crisis since his ex-wife's announcement that she is leaving for Canada with her new husband. The two men form an awkward relationship, which is reflected in their inability to communicate with others around them.
Starring: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kesal, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Killer Bride's Perfect Crime / Kirâ vâjin rôdo (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Hiroko is soon to marry when disaster strikes. On the road to Mount Fuji a woman falls on the hood of her car. The woman is Kobayashi Fukuko, and she attempts suicide again and again. The two women become friends, but Hiroko will meet disaster once again.
Starring: Juri Ueno, Yoshino Kimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Sôichirô Kitamura
Director: Gorô Kishitani
Valley of Love (2015)
Drama
Isabelle and Gérard go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer to an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Dan Warner, Aurélia Thiérrée, Dionne Houle
Director: Guillaume Nicloux
The Oxford Murders (2008)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men, Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the university hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, and thus begins an elaborate puzzle, in which nothing is as it seems, and the truth is elusive.
Starring: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Alex Cox, Jim Carter
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Ex (2009)
Comedy | Romance
Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. It was released February 6, 2009 in Italian cinema and has been recognized as "national cultural interest" by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
Starring: Vincenzo Salemme, Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi, Cécile Cassel, Fabio De Luigi
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Tear This Heart Out / Arráncame la vida (2008)
Drama
Set in 1930s Puebla and Mexico City, Tear This Heart Out is based on the novel by Angeles Mastretta about the resourceful young bride of a predictably corrupt politician at the dawn of the PRI party’s 70 years of control of the Mexican government.
Starring: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Irene Azuela, Carmen Beato, Fernando Becerril, Julio Bracho
Director: Roberto Sneider
A French Gigolo / Cliente (2008)
Drama | Romance
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Hiegel, Marilou Berry
Director: Josiane Balasko
Empties / Vratné lahve (2007)
Comedy | Drama
A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Starring: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Pavel Landovský, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jirí Machácek
Director: Jan Sverák
Deep Red / Profondo rosso (1975)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Starring: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra
Director: Dario Argento
Buddymoon (2016)
Comedy
When a former child actor is dumped by his fiancé days before the wedding, his excitable German best man takes him on the honeymoon instead: a backcountry trek in the remote mountains of Oregon.
Starring: David Giuntoli, Flula Borg, Claire Coffee, Brian T. Finney, Jeanne Syquia, Hutch Harris
Director: Alex Simmons
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