The Bible (TV Mini-Series 2013)
Action | Drama
This is a 10-hour mini-series. It tells some of the best-known stories from the most popular book in human history, from Noah's Ark and the Exodus to Daniel in the Lion's Den to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Starring: Darwin Shaw, Diogo Morgado, Roma Downey
Narrator: Keith David
Creator: Roma Downey, Mark Burnett
Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
Action | Crime | Drama
Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Antapal / The Gangster (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this violent lifestyle is more and more difficult for Jod. He tries to avoid violence when he can but is soon put aside by more violent youngsters. When some of his friends die in internal wars, he decides to take his revenge on the gang.
Starring: Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Supapprom, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Wasu Sangsingkaew, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nantharat Chaowarat
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
Rumble in the Bronx / Hung fan kui (1995)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam
Director: Stanley Tong
Runaway Train (1985)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Manny is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck, makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head full steam for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves trapped, alone and speeding towards certain disaster.
Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Ghett'a Life (2011)
Action | Drama
Derrick, a ghetto teenager, dreams of being Jamaica's next world boxing champion, but politics and tribal violence divide the community. His father, a loyal party supporter, forbids him from attending the boxing gym which is situated in a tival part of town. Derrick defiantly follows his heart but is confronted by the local crimelord who threatens his family. Derrick refuses to give up and the ignorance of divisiveness soon give way to the triumph of unity.
Starring: Winston Bell, Kevoy Burton, O'Daine Clarke, Carl Davis, Chris McFarlane
Director: Chris Browne
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Killing Season (2013)
Action | Thriller
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, a reclusive American military veteran Bejamin Ford and a European tourist Emil Kovac strike up an unlikely friendship. But when the tourist's true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one.
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia, Elizabeth Olin
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Blaze You Out (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Blaze You Out tells the story of Lupe, a strong-willed aspiring DJ, and her younger sister Alicia who live in the Esperanza Valley, a community that is suffocating by generations of heroin use. When Alicia witnesses a murder and disappears, Lupe sets out on a dangerous journey that forces her into the town's ruthless underworld. She quickly discovers that in order to save the person that matters most, she must harness the power that exists within her and connect with the divine that surrounds her.
Starring: Veronica Diaz-Carranza, Melissa Cordero, Q'orianka Kilcher, Mark Adair-Rios, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Elizabeth Peña
Director: Mateo Frazier, Diego Joaquin Lopez
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Hatchet III (2013)
Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
Starring: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Derek Mears, Rileah Vanderbilt
Director: BJ McDonnell
Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro / A Friend Is a Treasure (1981)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives – and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett, Salvatore Borghese
Director: Sergio Corbucci
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia and the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. They join King Caspian and a warrior mouse named Reepicheep for a mission which holds the fate of Narnia itself. The courageous voyagers overcome their own greatest temptations, as they travel to mysterious islands; have fateful confrontations with magical creatures and sinister enemies; and reunite with their friend and protector, the "Great Lion" Aslan.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Gary Sweet, Terry Norris
Director: Michael Apted
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
The characters of C.S. Lewis's timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure awaits, battling alongside a new ally: Prince Caspian.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell
Director: Andrew Adamson, David Strangmuller
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
In World War II England, the four Pevensie siblings – Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter – enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of 'hide-and-seek' in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch's powerful hold over Narnia. Based on C.S. Lewis' beloved literary classic.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy
Director: Andrew Adamson
Shao Lin xiao zi / Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984)
Action | Comedy
Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin kids stealing his sword style (besides, he wants a son to teach it to, and the closest thing he has is a lesbian daughter) that he is taken off guard when some real bad guys come along to kill his family, but the Shaolin family helps them out. All the while, everyone is desperately trying to get the lesbian girl to marry Jet Li.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Qiuyan Huang, Chia Hui Liu, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
Shao Lin Si / The Shaolin Temple (1982)
Action
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor, who killed his father. The monks have to help him, and in the process, they save the true emperor, who rewards them greatly. Based on a true story from Shaolin folklore, but highly fictionalized.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu, Chun Hua Ji, Hu Jian Qiang, Wang Guang Quan
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
Hatari! (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Adventure, camaraderie, love and laughs combine against the breathtaking vistas of Africa in this 1962 treat as an American game catcher and a photographer who strikes a deal to travel with his trapping crew.
Starring: John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, Gérard Blain
Director: Howard Hawks
Barrio Brawler (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
A martial arts instructor must enter the world of illegal pit fighting in order to save his family and his dojo.
Starring: Marco Antonio Alvarez, Dennis Ruel, O.G. Dave Rivera, Morgan Benoit, Stacey Rose, E. Ambriz DeColosio
Director: Jose Montesinos
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
Action | Drama | Romance
An escaped prisoner hiding from authorities, Sam always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom, he aids a beautiful young widow against a ruthless developer who wants her land. Hunted by the police and the developer's hired killers, Sam pulls no punches in his furious fight for survival.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kieran Culkin, Rosanna Arquette, Ted Levine, Joss Ackland, Allan Graf
Director: Robert Harmon
I Declare War (2012)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Bang, bang, you're dead. No, really dead. A group of twelve year old kids play war in a forest but the audience views the action through their eyes. They fire real machine guns, hear mortars exploding around them, and dodge bloody shrapnel from grenades. I Declare War is a movie for young and adult audiences alike, featuring twelve to thirteen year old actors in the tradition of Stand By Me. With overtones of Lord of the Flies, I Declare War is a parable for not only events broadcast nightly on newscasts throughout the world, but a chilling depiction of the capacity for youth and man to take charge and to win at all costs.
Starring: Siam Yu, Gage Munroe, Michael Friend, Aidan Gouveia, Mackenzie Munro, Alex Cardillo
Director: Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson
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Four Brothers (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund co-star in this gripping tale of brotherly love, betrayal and revenge from acclaimed filmmaker John Singleton. After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, the estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. Defying police orders, the four begin turning their old Detroit neighborhood upside down searching for the mastermind behind the brutal killing. Along the way, they discover they are bound by ties thicker than blood in this emotionally powerful, action-packed drama.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard. Sofía Vergara
Director: John Singleton
