Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Lower Depths / Donzoko (1957)
Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Comedy
Kate Reddy devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard and their two young children. It's a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate's acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison performs on a daily basis, and that Kate's super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate…
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Greg Kinnear
Director: Douglas McGrath
In Good Company (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age–a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Paul Weitz
Zapomenuté světlo / Forgotten Light (1996)
Drama
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml.
Starring: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Zilková, Petr Kavan, Jirí Pecha, Antonín Kinský, Jirí Lábus, Richard Metznarowski
Director: Vladimír Michálek
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Zlaté kapradí / The Golden Fern (1963)
Drama
The grim tales rarely penetrated baladičnost that neústila to happy endings. In this case, however, still black and white material intensifies the tragic tone of the story of betrayed love. According to the draft Jan Drda filmed by director Jiri Weiss film about a simple shepherd who gains the favor of forest fairies – and even from her magical ferns. But the gift of a careless protagonist undervalued carelessly allow to enlist in the army, where he charmed the calculating and selfish general's daughter, so the nymphs forget … The main role will be introduced former actress idol Vit Olmer, who later became director.
Starring: Vít Olmer, Karla Chadimová, Frantisek Smolík, Daniela Smutná, Otomar Krejca
Director: Jirí Weiss
Origin: Spirits of the Past / Gin-iro no kami no Agito (2006)
Animation | Anime | Drama | Romance
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary. The machine, which has preserved a beautiful girl named Tula from the past, is activated. Tula has a "mission" that had been entrusted to her by the past…
Starring: Ryo Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa, Masaru Hamaguchi, Toshikazu Fukawa
Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
The Quiet (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.
Starring: Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan
Director: Jamie Babbit
Le père Noël est une ordure / Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Comedy
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre.
Starring: Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Bruno Moynot
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
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The Ides of March (2011)
Drama
An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, Evan Rachel Wood
Director: George Clooney
Václav (2007)
Comedy | Drama
Feature film based on a true story that took place during Vaclav Havel's vast amnesty in early 90s.
Starring: Ivan Trojan, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Budar, Sona Norisová, Jirí Lábus
Director: Jirí Vejdelek
U mě dobrý / I'm All Good (2008)
Comedy
A ragtag group of friends and drinking buddies help a pal turn the tables on a con man in this easy-going comedy.
Starring: Jirí Schmitzer, Bolek Polívka, Lenka Vlasáková, Miroslav Vladyka, Josef Somr
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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Se7en / Seven (1995)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Lt. William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement, Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and grotesquely creative. He is known as John Doe and he is the most vicious serial killer alive, fashioning murders based on the seven deadly sins. As each new victim is discovered, the detectives must combine their collective experiences to track the trail of a killer bent on seeking attrition for society's sins.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Director: David Fincher
Red (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
U pokladny stál / He Stood at the Till (1939)
Comedy
One of the funniest comedies with legendary Vlasta Burian, about mistaken identities of assistant in hospital and a doctor.
Starring: Vlasta Burian, Adina Mandlová, Marie Blazková, Jaroslav Marvan, Cenek Slégl
Director: Carl Lamac
Shark Night (2011)
Horror | Thriller
Seven friends who are spending a weekend at a lake house discover the waters are infested with sharks.
Starring: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
Director: David R. Ellis
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Drama | Romance
Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, John Travolta, Gabriel Macht, Deborah Kara Unger, Dane Rhodes, David Jensen, Clayne Crawford
Director: Shainee Gabel
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Beautiful Girls (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In this post-coming-of-age comedy, a piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love. The high school reunion in a small Massachusetts town gives the group of buddies plenty of opportunities to try and sort out their views about women. From the former stud-turned-snowplow operator to the aspiring nightclub musician who escaped to New York, these clueless cads can only hope for some female guidance.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly
Director: Ted Demme
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The Rocketeer (1991)
Action | Adventure | Family
A stunt pilot living in 1930's California finds a stolen jet-pack and uses the device to fight gangsters and Nazis as The Rocketeer.
Starring: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino
Director: Joe Johnston
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The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2011)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In a dangerous, action-packed battle to regain his glory and reclaim the empire, Mathayus's journey is steeped in intrigue, sorcery and romance, fueling this new film that spawned from the billion-dollar The Mummy film franchise. The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption tops the series once again, featuring even more of the heart-stopping action, mind-bending stunts and astonishing plot twists that have earned the series millions of fans the world over.
Starring: Victor Webster, Ron Perlman, Billy Zane
Director: Roel Reiné
