Sissi (1955)
Comedy | Drama | History
In the first of a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the young vibrant princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.
Starring: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad
Director: Ernst Marischka
The Aristocats (1970)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Music
Upon Madame Adelaide Bonfamille's passing her cat Duchess and 3 kittens stand to inherit her fortune. But not if Edgar the butler can help it.
Starring: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, Dean Clark
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Sky Blue / Wonderful Days (2003)
Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Would you know the colour "sky blue" if you had never seen the sky in your life? This futuristic Korean animation is set in a world where mankind's reckless exploitation of the environment has sparked a planet杦ide catastrophe that has shielded the sun from view. Can two young freedom fighters find a way to clear the clouds and allow the people of Earth to see the blue sky for the first time in their lives?
Starring: Marc Worden, Cathy Cavadini, Andrew Ableson, Joon-ho Chung, David Naughton
Director: Moon-saeng Kim
Rob-B-Hood / Robin-B-Hood/ Bo bui gai wak (2006)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Brought up in an impoverished family, and kicked out of school in his teens, Thongs found himself on the wrong side of the tracks despite being nimble-footed and neat-fingered. Spurned by his family and hounded by debtors, he is goaded by his greedy landlord to collaborate in harebrained heists. Together with the agile and opportunistic Octopus, the trio kidnaps the baby grandson of a tycoon. However, due to some unexpected glitches, they fail to hand him over to the triad as planned.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Michael Hui, Louis Koo, Charlene Choi, Biao Yuen, Yuanyuan Gao, Terence Yin
Director: Benny Chan
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Bicycle Looking for Whale (2011)
Drama
Eun-Chul (Park Ji-Bin) and Eun-Ha (Lee Seul-Gi) lives in a small village. They are the only family they have. One day, stubborn Eun-Ha begins to beg Eun-Chul to go and see a whale. Eun-Ha follows Eun-Chul all day long and keeps talking about the whale. To quiet her, Eun-Chul makes a false promise. Eun-Ha has a disease which is eroding her vision. Adults tell them that Eun-Ha should be sent to a good facility, but Eun-Chul can't separate from his sister. Eun-Chul decides to show a whale to Eun-Ha before she loses her vision completely. They begin travel from Namwon to Jangsaeng where they can see a whale. They travel their by bicycle. Along the way to Jangsaeng, Eun-Chul and Eun-Ha meet Duk-Soo (Lee Mun-Shik). Eun-Chul and Eun-Ha have a warm feelings towards him like the father they never had …
Starring: Ji-bin Park, Seul-gi Lee, Mun-shik Lee, Min Je, Yeo-jin Kim
Director: Young-ro Kim
Mick Taylor Band: The Tokyo Concert (2009)
Mysic
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Ch�telet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.
Starring: Aleksey Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov, Mélanie Laurent, François Berléand, Miou-Miou
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Bus Stop (1956)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus stops at Grace's Diner the passengers learn that the road ahead is blocked. By now everyone knows of the kidnaping, but Bo is determined to have Cherie.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart
Director: Joshua Logan
Nell (1994)
Drama
Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only people she knew were her mother and twin sister. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Nobody has ever met Nell. After her mother's death, she's discovered by the local doctor Jerome. He's fascinated by her, since she speaks a mangled language, developed by her sister and herself growing up, "twin speak" if you will. But Paula, a psychology student, wants her observed in a laboratory. The judge decides they get three months to observe her in the forest, after which he'll decide about Nell's future.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy
Director: Michael Apted
Poker King / Pou hark wong (2009)
Comedy
Poker King is a welcome return to a good old Hong Kong genre favorite – the gambling comedy. Louis Koo and Lau Ching Wan team up again after Overheard for lighter fare, facing off as rival poker players in gambling capital Macau. All in for both the gambling and the comedy, the tanned duo preen, bicker, mug, and throw down the cards for a light and entertaining casino escapade. Ingenue Stephy Tang (La Lingerie) not to mention Cherrie Ying, Josie Ho, Jo Koo, and model Kama bring some sass and eye candy, while Wong Yau Nam, Eddie Cheung, and Lam Suet add comedic support.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Josie Ho, Stephy Tang, Cherrie Ying, Jo Kuk, You-Nam Wong
Director: Hing-Ka Chan, Janet Chun
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Legendary Assassin / Long nga (2008)
Action | Thriller
An assassin who is fresh from his latest kill becomes stranded in an island, when he inadvertently befriends a female police officer (Celina Jade). As the night progresses, the unspoken truth honored by the two sides of the law is broken. After the remains of a body that belonged to a drug lord and syndicate crime leader are found, chaos ensues and criminals ravage the once peaceful streets in a race against time to find the mysterious murderer that's loose and out for blood.
Starring: Jacky Wu, Celina Jade, Kara Hui, Alex Fong, Zhan-Wen Ke, Ronald Cheng, Baocheng Jiang, Sammy Leung, Mark Cheng, Suet Lam, Kai Man Tin, Noriko Aoyama
Director: Chung Chi Li, Jacky Wu
Running Turtle / Geobugi dallinda (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Jo Pil-seong, a rural detective, is an unhappy husband, often blamed by his older wife for gambling. Despite her being hard on him, he steals money from her to bet on bull butting. Fortunately, he chalks up an unexpected win, but his luck, by no means, lasts long because his money gets snatched by an unprecedented absconder.
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Kyeong-ho Jeong, Woo-seon Seon, Mi-ri Gyeon, Ji-na Kim, Jeong-geun Sin
Director: Yeon-woo Lee
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Striking Truth (2010)
Documentary
Documentary for charismatic Ultimate Fighting Champion Georges St-Pierre and dynamic MMA fighter David "The Crow" Loiseau. The movie follows the two fighters over the past four years, starting with UFC 58 USA vs. Canada where Loiseau was fighting for the championship against Rich Franklin and Georges was the co-main event against BJ Penn. The film juxtaposes their two careers with St. Pierre's meteoric rise to UFC champion and Loiseau facing personal challenges. The movie charts their respective ups and downs as they follow their paths.
Starring: Georges St. Pierre, David Loiseau
Director: Steven J. Wong
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How I Met Your Mother (TV Series 2005- )
Comedy | Drama | Romance
How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall, dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Lily, a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he, too, hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is his friend Barney, a confirmed bachelor with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin, he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny has something else in store.
Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Bob Saget
Creator: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
Crazy Horse (2011)
Documentary
In Crazy Horse, he pulls back the curtain on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, a landmark that has prided itself as "the best nude dancing show in the world" since 1951. Le Crazy Horse sets itself apart from the average strip club by adhering to exacting standards in choreography, lights and physiques. The erotic revue is composed of songs and sequences that blend traits of old-fashioned burlesque, Bob Fosse and Cirque du Soleil, designed not only for the enjoyment of men, but also couples.
Starring: Philippe Decouflé, Naamah Alva, Daizy Blu, Philippe Katerine
Director: Frederick Wiseman
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Natural Born Killers (1994)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis star as Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson, two young, attractive mass murderers in love in Oliver Stone's wild-eyed satire on the American fascination with criminals. After killing Mallory's loathsome parents, the pair perform a ritual "marriage" and take off on a "honeymoon" killing spree that wipes out 52 people. Bloodthirsty tabloid reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) reports their every move to an adoring public while warden Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones) is only too eager to welcome such celebrities to his prison.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore
Director: Oliver Stone
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Ninja Assassin (2009)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them…and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow, Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi, to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan!
Starring: Rain, Rick Yune, Naomie Harris, Shô Kosugi
Director: James McTeigue
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Comedy | Family
In his latest misadventure, Mr. Bean–the nearly wordless misfit who seems to be followed by a trail of pratfalls and hijinks–goes on holiday to the French Riviera and becomes ensnared in a European adventure of cinematic proportions. Tired of the dreary, wet London weather, Bean packs up his suitcase and camcorder to head to Cannes for some sun on the beach. But his trip doesn't go as smoothly as…
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Steve Pemberton, Lily Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton
Director: Steve Bendelack
Bean / Bean: The Movie (1997)
Comedy | Family
An average man who lives alone, dresses in a jacket and tie, and relates to children better than adults, Mr Bean finds himself in a series of catastrophes of his own creation. As the caretaker of Britain's Royal National Gallery, he is sent to the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles to accompany "Whistler's Mother." His misadventures begin on the trans-Atlantic flight and go on from there to their ultimate conclusion.
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Burt Reynolds, John Mills, Andrew Lawrence
Director: Mel Smith
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Comedy
Two young men are trying to make their way in a corporation. One on charm, the other on hard work. When they go to the president (Bernie) with a serious financial error on a printout, he pretends to be thrilled and invites them to his beach house for the weekend. He actually plans on having them killed. Bernie is also fooling around with the girlfriend of his mafia partner. When the partner has Bernie killed, the boys end up having to pretend Bernie is still alive as the frustrated hit man tries time and time again to complete the job.
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Then She Found Me (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Following schoolteacher April Epner's (Helen Hunt) separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mom (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman
Director: Helen Hunt
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