The Insect Woman / Nippon konchûki (1963)
Drama
A woman, who suffered much in her life, forges valiantly to survive, much like an industrious "ant".
Starring: Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi, Daizaburo Hirata
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Silent House (2012)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat, a young woman descends into madness.
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens
Director: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Hijacked (2012)
Action | Thriller
A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Starring: Randy Couture, Dominic Purcell, Vinnie Jones, Craig Fairbrass, Tiffany Dupont
Director: Brandon Nutt
Bitch Slap (2009)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When three curvaceous babes arrive at a desert hideaway to steal over $200 million from an underworld kingpin, things quickly spiral out of control. Allegiances are switched, truths are revealed, criminals are unmasked and nothing is quite what it seems as the fate of the world is precariously balanced among this trio of sexy femmes fatales.
Starring: Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, William Gregory Lee, Kevin Sorbo
Director: Rick Jacobson
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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Horror
Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall.
Starring: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, John Carson, Jacqueline Pearce
Director: John Gilling
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Action | Drama | Thriller
When the president of Russia suddenly dies and is succeeded by a man about whom little is known, tension increases as old fears ignite new paranoia. Director of Central Intelligence Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst from the Russia desk, Jack Ryan, to supply insight and advice. Then the unthinkable happens: the capital of Chechnya is leveled by a nuclear bomb. America is quick to blame the Russians, and mistrust escalates despite Ryan's certainty that other players are at work. He is right. Terrorists bent on provoking open war between the two nations are moving behind the scenes to manufacture and escalate a conflict. When they successfully detonate a second bomb outside Baltimore during the Super Bowl, the world is pushed inexorably towards war… unless Ryan can supply the needed proof to stem the tide of disaster in time.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Bruce McGill
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Patriotic American Jack Ryan's (Harrison Ford) just been promoted to Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA. But before he can adjust to the demands of his position as advisor to the President, Jack's got to investigate a massacre that took the lives of several dignitaries. Probing relentlessly, Jack uncovers the disturbing truth about criminal activities involving an international drug cartel and a close friend of the United States President. Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Harris Yulin
Director: Phillip Noyce
Patriot Games (1992)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is forced back into service when he saves the lives of the English minister to Northern Ireland and his family from a terrorist attack, killing one of the perpetrators in the process. The dead man's brother, also a member of an IRA splinter faction, vows revenge on Ryan and his family and pursues them to the United States. Ryan knows it is only a matter of time till he comes face to face with his nemesis… and that only one of them will come out alive. Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox
Director: Phillip Noyce
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
Russia's newest Typhoon-class nuclear missile submarine Red October, equipped with a silent propulsion system, sets sail from Murmansk. At the same time a mysterious letter is sent from Red October's captain, Marko Ramius, to the chief political officer of the Soviet Navy. Shortly after almost the entire Soviet fleet in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean sets out for the Atlantic Ocean with the mission to hunt down and destroy the Red October. CIA-analyst Jack Ryan believes that Ramius is trying to defect to the West. The Pentagon and White House generals do not believe in his idea. They believe Soviet's story, that Ramius is a madman and that he will launch his nuclear missiles at the United States. A race between NATO and the Soviet Union begins. Who will find the Red October first? In the middle of all this Ryan is trying to get to Ramius and help him.
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Joss Ackland
Director: John McTiernan
The Three Stooges (2012)
Comedy
While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
Starring: Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Elles (2011)
Drama
Anne, a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja and Charlotte, are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
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My Best Enemy / Mein bester Feind (2011)
Comedy | Drama | War
Vienna in the 1930s. Victor Kaufmann, the son of a wealthy cosmopolitan Jewish couple, works in his father’s art gallery. His best friend whom he has known since childhood and from whom he is inseparable, is Rudi Smekal. Victor’s girlfriend, the attractive and vibrant Lena, is also a friend of Rudi’s. In a moment of exuberance Victor shows his friend a well-kept family secret: a drawing by Michelangelo that was believed lost. It comes as a terrible shock to Victor to learn that Rudi has long been a member of the Nazi party and is hoping that Austria’s annexation to Germany will improve his career chances with the Nazis. Having missed the right moment to flee Austria, the Kaufmanns are now stuck in Vienna. They transfer their estate to Lena in an attempt to protect it from being confiscated. Having bragged about the Michelangelo drawing, Rudi receives an order from Berlin to seize the art work. In order to save his old friends, Rudi suggests a deal: the drawing in exchange for the Kaufmanns’ freedom. But he has overestimated his influence. No sooner does the drawing fall into the hands of the Nazis than the Kaufmann family is sent to a concentration camp…
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller, Udo Samel, Uwe Bohm
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple / Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô (1955)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Novecento / 1900 (1976)
Drama | History
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock, the other born to a land owner. The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Werner Bruhns
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Airport (1970)
Drama | Thriller
Oscar winner Helen Hayes and Burt Lancaster lead an all-star cast in this gripping film about the manager of an international airport who struggles to deal with a bomb threat and a blizzard.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy
Director: George Seaton
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
Biography | Drama | War
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWI. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Director: Moustapha Akkad
No Doubt / Dol-i-kil Soo Eobs-neun (2010)
Drama
A family moves into the suburbs of Gyunggi-do. A while later a girl named Mi-rim goes missing and chaos takes over the village. Mi-rim's father searches for his daughter and while visiting the police station he stumbles upon a criminal record from one of the family members that just moved. Mi-rim's father and the villagers threaten and pacify Sejin and his family. The film follows the genre conventions of a thriller yet it also contains people's prejudices and oppression. Sejin's past record as a convict rids him of his individuality and his sister is on the brink of losing her job as a kindergarten teacher. The film questions what is true violence. The result, violence does not just include person to person, but can be silent brought on by a community that leads to a sacrifice of an individual. Such is the typical mechanism, murdering individuality through the violence of a group.
Starring: In-gi Jeong, Chang-sook Kim, Tae-woo Kim, Jeong-jin Lee, Seong-Eon Lim
Director: Soo-young Park
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto / Miyamoto Musashi (1954)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter in the isolated home of a widow, Oko, and her daughter, Akemi. Oko seduces Matahachi, who forgets his betrothal to the virtuous Otsu. Oko, Matahachi, and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. Matahachi's family rejects Takezo's report and has him arrested for treason. A monk rescues him from death and sentences him to the study of the samurai code. Otsu and Takezo fall in love, and she promises to wait for him when he sets off on the road as a knight errant.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
The Rebound (2009)
Comedy | Romance
In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Andrew Cherry, Kelly Gould, Lynn Whitfield
Director: Bart Freundlich
Wunderkinder (2011)
Drama
The story takes place in the Ukraine (Poltava) in 1941 before and during the German invasion. This story is about deep friendship between three musically talented children . Two Jewish children both virtuosic and a talented German girl who share a love of music .. Their friendship extends beyond the gaps of different religions and nationalities, The Nazis invasion to the Soviet Union destroyed their world and they and their families deal with death threats War brings with it.
Starring: Gedeon Burkhard, Natalia Avelon, Rolf Kanies, Kai Wiesinger, Catherine H. Flemming, Gudrun Landgrebe, Konstantin Wecker
Director: Markus Rosenmüller
