La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre (2016)
Comedy
An actress ready for anything to recover her former glory. A crazy night where all is possible.
Starring: Belén Rueda, Diego Peretti, Eduard Fernández, María Pujaltem Fele Martínez, Patricia Montero
Director: Inés París
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk — with the exception of Camille Dixon — a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora, whose estranged daughter Emma has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland, who also happens to be Cookie's best friend.
Starring: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance
Director: Robert Altman
Kidnap Ding Ding Don / Bang jia ding ding dang (2016)
Comedy | Romance
Don wakes up in an abundant house and realize can’t remember anything. He then finds a kidnapped girl Dingding next to him. In reverse, Dingding threatens and lures him for kidnapping in order to catch her father’s attention. Both fake hostage and kidnapper stays together and triggers a series of joke. During their stay in the village, they realize there is full of love, friendships and humanity. Dingding gradually gets rid of her spoiled and unruly attitude. Don’s pity for her evolves into love and touch Dingding’s heart. Good times never last, Dingding is kidnapped again. Don goes crazy and runs around all night for her. Unexpectedly, he finds that it is more than a kidnap…
Starring: Ivana Wong, Lik-Sun Fong, Kabby Hui
Director: Wilson Chin
Book of Love / Finding Mr Right 2 / Beijing Meets Seattle II: Book of Love / Bei jing yu shang xi ya tu 2 (2016)
Comedy | Romance
After setting box office record as the highest-grossing Chinese romantic comedy three years ago, the creative team and cast of FINDING MR. RIGHT return to the big screen with BOOK OF LOVE, an entirely new tale about destiny and chance encounter in the contemporary world, spanning across three continents.
Starring: Wei Tang, Xiubo Wu, Zhihong Liu, Paul Chun, Yi Lu
Director: Xiaolu Xue
Legend of the Dragon / Lung dik chuen yan (1990)
Comedy
When his impoverished rural family risks losing their meager farm, their son –who happens to be a billiards prodigy and a die-hard Bruce Lee fan — goes to the city to "fight" pool sharks from across China in a prestigious tournament. A riotous, strongly self-reflexive send-up of Shaw Brothers-style chop-sockies.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Teresa Mo, Wah Yuen
Director: Danny Lee, Lik-Chi Lee
The Beat That My Heart Skipped / De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common.
Starring: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Jacques Audiard
The Amateur Monster Movie (2011)
Comedy | Horror
After a group of boy scouts are mysteriously killed by a wolf-like creature on Cadaverous Island, Walter Romero, whose best friend was among the killed, sets out to find exactly what happened. In order to reach the island, Walter teams up with Johnny Mason, neighborhood stoner, to smoke up Ashley Valinski, neighborhood hottie, and get her to take them out on her father's boat. But soon after arriving on Cadaverous Island, a horde of zombies steals their boat, leaving them stranded, and the three are forced to team up with two cops, the mayor, and a team of botanists to either kill the monsters… or be killed themselves….. DUN-DUN-DUN!!!
Starring: Chris Ouchie, Jozef K. Richards, Samantha Goetz, Steve Golla, Stephen Kimble, Charles Ramsey
Director: Jozef K. Richards
I Am Potential (2015)
Drama
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Starring: Burgess Jenkins, Jimmy Bellinger, Judge Reinhold, Jama Williamson
Director: Zach Meiners
The Sea of Trees (2015)
Drama
Arthur Brennan treks into Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to contemplate life and death. Having found the perfect place to die, he encounters Takumi Nakamura, a Japanese man who has also lost his way. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and reconnects him to his love with his wife.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe, Katie Aselton, Jordan Gavaris, James Saito
Director: Gus Van Sant
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The Intervention (2016)
Comedy | Drama
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Cobie Smulders, Clea DuVall, Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter
Director: Clea DuVall
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Blood in the Water / Pacific Standard Time (2016)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
20-somethings Percy and Veronica try to live above their means and take on a housesitting gig at a palatial modern spread in the Hollywood Hills for the summer. The tranquility is broken by an unwanted visit by a former college classmate. His time since their liberal arts' years has been marked by imprisonment, shady business associations, and drug dealing and they're now trapped in a bizarre love triangle that winds up going terribly wrong.
Starring: Willa Holland, Miguel Gomez, Alex Russell
Director: Ben Cummings, Orson Cummings
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Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery / Ace the Case (2016)
Family | Mystery
A plucky kid puts herself in peril when she matches wits with three scheming criminals in Kid Witness, a suspenseful Manhattan mystery and family comedy caper from writer, director and producer Kevin Kaufman. Left in the care of her teenage brother Miles while their mom is out of town, 10-year-old Olivia Haden takes her dog Charlie for a late-night walk and witnesses a brazen kidnapping on the deserted streets of New York City. But when she tells Miles what she has seen, he dismisses her, and when she reports it to the NYPD, only a sympathetic detective named Dottie will even listen. Without solid evidence, there’s nothing Dottie can do, so the intrepid tween sets out to solve the crime herself. Facing down a trio of bumbling crooks, a mysterious fixer toting an oversized bunny, and a rapidly ticking clock, Olivia crisscrosses lower Manhattan in an exciting family-oriented thriller sure to delight kids of all ages, as well as their parents.
Starring: Ripley Sobo, Lev Gorn, Susan Sarandon, Marc Menchaca
Director: Kevin Kaufman
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Remember the Titans (2000)
Biography | Drama | Sport
In Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, African-American football coach Herman Boone is hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school football team. Boone faces a cool reception from the team's players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast, a local white coach who was bypassed for the job. As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance and bigotry, they work together to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. Based on a true story.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood
Director: Boaz Yakin
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Gerard Butler stars in this surfing drama. Santa Cruz teenager Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers that the Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists only a few miles from his home. Instantly gripped by the dream of surfing the wave, he begs local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him achieve his goal. But with tide patterns dictating that the Mavericks is due to reappear in just 12 weeks, has Jay got what it takes to conquer this epic wave?
Starring: Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Drama | Thriller
In this seductive spy thriller based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carre, Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush (Quills, Shine) delivers a dazzling performance as Harry Pendel, an ex- con turned tailor to the rich and infamous and married to smart and sexy Louisa (Jamie Lee Curtis – 'Halloween H20', 'True Lies'). Directed by Academy Award -nominee John Boorman ('Hope and Glory', 'Deliverance') and set in steamy Panama, where nothing is what it seems, Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan – 'The World is Not Enough', 'The Thomas Crown Affair'), a suave and ruthless British spy, entices Harry to eavesdropping on the powerful politicians he clothes. But Harry's talent for storytelling compels him to weave an elaborate tale that's not only taken as truth, but sets off a chain of events that threatens to destroy everything he treasures most in life.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Leonor Varela
Director: John Boorman
Deep Impact (1998)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner, while investigating a high-level scandal in Washington, stumbles upon the story that a comet is on a collision course with Earth. A year earlier, amateur teenage astronomer Leo Biederman discovered a new comet that is the one now certified to hit within the year. U.S. President Beck announces to the world that a spaceship called the Messiah will blast off in two months to plant nuclear bombs in the comet in hope of blowing it to bits. This plan fails, splitting the comet into two sections. The smaller will hit off the east coast creating a tital wave that will destroy New York and Washinton while the larger portion will land in Canada causing an ELE, or Extinction Level Event, complete with Earth-enshrouding clouds of dust that will wipe out all life. Declaring martial law, President Beck reveals that a network of caves is being built to accommodate 1 million citizens, most to be chosen by a national lottery.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell
Director: Mimi Leder
Kingpin (1996)
Comedy | Sport
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott, William Jordan
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Street of Joy / Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu (1974)
Drama
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Erotism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour, and a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.
Starring: Junko Miyashita, Meika Seri, Naomi Oka, Aoi Nakajima, Keizô Kanie
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
The Four Horsemen return for a second mind-bending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights in hopes of clearing their names and exposing the ruthlessness of a dangerous tech magnate.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan
Director: Jon M. Chu
Me Before You (2016)
Drama | Romance
A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.
Starring: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Charles Dance
Director: Thea Sharrock
