Metal Tornado (2011)
Action | Sci-Fi
Metal objects are consumed by magnetic tornadoes wreaking havoc everywhere. No one seems able to stop them.
Starring: Greg Evigan, Nicole de Boer, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sophie Gendron, John Maclaren, Alexis Maitland
Director: Gordon Yang
12 Angry Men (1957)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
In what seems to be an open and shut murder case, twelve jurors slowly begin to take serious interpretation of the "beyond a reasonable doubt" clause and over the course of an hour and a half debate their impending verdict on a hot New York summer day.
Starring: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, Robert Webber
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Hunting Party (2007)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Scott Anderson, Gordana Vukres, James Brolin
Director: Richard Shephard
The Frankenstein Syndrome (2010)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A group of researchers conducting illegal stem cell research discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Unable to conduct legal human trials, the researchers turn to corpses to test their serum.
Starring: Ed Lauter, Louis Mandylor, Tiffany Shepis, Kristina Wayborn, Scott Anthony Leet, Patti Tindall, Maya Stojan
Director: Sean Tretta
Adoration (2008)
Drama | Teen
A high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who lives with his uncle. In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. Years ago, Simon's father crashed the family car, killing both himself and his wife, making Simon an orphan. Simon has always feared that the accident was intentional. Simon reads his version to the class and then takes it to the Internet. In essence, he has created a false identity which allows him to probe his family secret. As Simon uses his new persona to journey deeper into his past, the public reaction is swift and strong. Then an exotic woman reveals her true identity. The truth about Simon's family emerges.
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Devon Bostick
Director: Atom Egoyan
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The Drummond Will (2010)
Comedy | Mystery
Estranged brothers Marcus and Danny find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous quest to unravel the mystery surrounding their father's very unlikely wealth.
Starring: Mark Oosterveen, Phillip James, Jeremy Drakes, Jonathan Hansler, Victoria Jeffrey, Nigel Osner
Director: Alan Butterworth
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Drama | Romance
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man (Ken Watanabe) who is out of her reach. Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi
Director: Rob Marshall
Hung (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Drama
"It's hard to make an indecent living." Thomas Jane heads up the cast in this comedy as Ray Drecker, a middle-aged basketball coach and high school History teacher who figures out how to put his exceptional physical endowments to use and change his fortunes. Forced to find an alternative… More source of income after a series of unfavorable events, Ray takes on a whole new profession aided by his pimp and business partner, Tanya Skagle. Joining Jane and Adams are Men in Trees' Anne Heche who plays Ray's ex-wife, Jessica and Eddie Jemison as Jessica's new husband, Dr. Ronnie Haxon. Rounding up the series cast are Charlie Saxton and Sianoa Smit-McPhee who play Jessica and Ray's twin children, Damon and Darby. Created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, the series is filmed both in areas of Detroit, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Anne Heche, Rebecca Creskoff, Gregg Henry, Eddie Jemison, Lennie James
Creator: Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin
Hung (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Drama
"It's hard to make an indecent living." Thomas Jane heads up the cast in this comedy as Ray Drecker, a middle-aged basketball coach and high school History teacher who figures out how to put his exceptional physical endowments to use and change his fortunes. Forced to find an alternative… More source of income after a series of unfavorable events, Ray takes on a whole new profession aided by his pimp and business partner, Tanya Skagle. Joining Jane and Adams are Men in Trees' Anne Heche who plays Ray's ex-wife, Jessica and Eddie Jemison as Jessica's new husband, Dr. Ronnie Haxon. Rounding up the series cast are Charlie Saxton and Sianoa Smit-McPhee who play Jessica and Ray's twin children, Damon and Darby. Created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, the series is filmed both in areas of Detroit, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Anne Heche, Rebecca Creskoff, Gregg Henry, Eddie Jemison
Creator: Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin
Hung (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Drama
"It's hard to make an indecent living." Thomas Jane heads up the cast in this comedy as Ray Drecker, a middle-aged basketball coach and high school History teacher who figures out how to put his exceptional physical endowments to use and change his fortunes. Forced to find an alternative… More source of income after a series of unfavorable events, Ray takes on a whole new profession aided by his pimp and business partner, Tanya Skagle. Joining Jane and Adams are Men in Trees' Anne Heche who plays Ray's ex-wife, Jessica and Eddie Jemison as Jessica's new husband, Dr. Ronnie Haxon. Rounding up the series cast are Charlie Saxton and Sianoa Smit-McPhee who play Jessica and Ray's twin children, Damon and Darby. Created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, the series is filmed both in areas of Detroit, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Anne Heche, Rebecca Creskoff, Gregg Henry, Eddie Jemison
Creator: Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin
Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Horror
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
Starring: Lauren Holly, Eric F. Adams, Marcelle Baer, Edrick Browne, Leanne Cochran, Thomas C. Daniel
Director: Steven C. Miller
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La mala educación / Bad Education (2004)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
In the early 60s, two boys – Ignacio and Enrique – discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Javier Cámara, Alberto Ferreiro
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Sprague Grayden
Director: Tod Williams
Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night / Paranômaru akutibiti: Dai-2-shô – Tokyo Night (2010)
Horror | Thriller
The Yamano family lives in a secluded home in a remote Tokyo residential area. Their 27-year-old daughter Haruka suffered a compound fracture in a car accident while traveling in America. Haruka returns home in a wheelchair. There to meet her is her younger brother 19-year-old Koichi. Their father is away from the Yamano resident due to a business trip abroad. Koichi is left to take care of his sister until she can walk again.
Starring: Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama
Director: Toshikazu Nagae
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Horror | Thriller
After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban "starter" tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
Director: Oren Peli
The Rock (1996)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated U.S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert and a former Alcatraz escapee, is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe
Director: Michael Bay
Take That: Progress, Live (2011)
Music
Progress Live includes the band's entire epic-live show filmed in Manchester, plus bonus behind the scenes footage, filmed across the 29 UK dates, giving a unique insight into life on the road of one of the most successful bands in UK history. Named after the three-million-plus selling 'Progress' album that reunited them, the Progress Live 2011 tour, was one of the biggest and most anticipated reunions of the summer, with Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams, playing to massive sell-out audiences around the UK and Ireland. This was the first time the band had toured together as a five-piece since 1995, and they played a monumental two and half hour set filled with all the biggest hits from their incredible 20 year history.
Starring: Take That
Director: Simon Stanford
Andrea Bocelli Concerto: One Night in Central Park (2011)
Music
2011 live release from the world's most beloved tenor. Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli performed a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15th with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, as a special gift to New York City.
Starring: Andrea Bocelli, Céline Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, David Foster, Ana María Martínez, Pretty Yende, Nicola Benedetti, Bryn Terfel, Andrea Griminelli
Director: Alan Gilbert
The Big Bang Theory (TV Series 2007-2019)
Comedy | Romance
Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities… including love.
Starring: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik
Creator: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady
Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2010)
Action | Adventure
The story is a prequel to the video game Assassin's Creed II. It centres around the father of the game's main character Ezio Auditore de Firenze. Giovanni is an assassin living during the Renaissance in 15th century Italy. At this dawn of a new era, a conspiracy is being plotted by one corrupt family to overthrow the powerful Medici family and destroy a unified Italy. As an assassin, Giovanni must face this threat and bring justice. The story introduces the situation before Assassin's Creed II, and the enemies of both characters.
Starring: Romano Orzari, Claudia Ferri, Devery Jacobs
Director: Yves Simoneau
