Everest (2015)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A hiking expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Keira Knightley
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Miss Hokusai / Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)
Animation | Biography | Drama
An adaptation of Hinako Sugiura’s cult manga, a beautiful story revolving around O-Ei, daughter of master painter Hokusai. The director of the exquisite "Colorful" created this portrayal of a family and an age, the era of the city of Edo during the early 19th century. And it also fulfills a major challenge with flying colors: to turn the pictures by the author of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" into animated images.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kôra, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Keiichi Hara
Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
Biography | Drama
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Edward Zwick
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Biography | Drama | War
The life and career of the respected World War II German general.
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Henry Hathaway
Life (2015)
Biography | Drama
1955 was the year that Anton Corbijn was born, going on to make a name for himself with his portraits of musical stars. Now the director retrieves this date, 1955, and this profession, photographer, to compose a new picture, one of James Dean who just finished shooting East of Eden and of Dennis Stock, the photographer who immortalized him for Life magazine.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ben Kingsley
Director: Anton Corbijn
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Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Music
Authorised documentary chronicling the life of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Made with the consent of Kurt's family, the feature uses footage from home movies, audio diaries and journals to document the late musician's life from his own perspective, from his alienated youth spent in the Pacific Northwest to his rise and fall with alternative rock band Nirvana. Interviews with the artist himself, wife Courtney Love and fellow bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are also included to shed light on his private life while he was an integral part of Nirvana, battling drug addiction and at the same time starting a family.
Starring: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Kurt Cobain, Dale Crover, Dave Grohl
Director: Brett Morgen
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
Biography | Documentary
A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brandon recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.
Starring: Marlon Brando
Director: Stevan Riley
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between.
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
Director: Louis Malle
Pasolini (2014)
Biography | Drama
A look at the final days of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and the confusion surrounding his death in 1975.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Riccardo Scamarcio, Adriana Asti, Giada Colagrande, Valerio Mastandrea
Director: Abel Ferrara
Noble (2014)
Biography | Drama
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Starring: Deirdre O'Kane, Sarah Greene, Gloria Cramer Curtis, Brendan Coyle, Mark Huberman, Nhu Quynh Nguyen Linh
Director: Stephen Bradley
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Biography | Drama | Sport
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, Rebecca De Mornay, Heath Ledger, John Robinson, Alexis Arquette
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Americons (2015)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama
A broken down collegiate football star who gets a shot at real-estate stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.
Starring: Beau Martin Williams, Matt Funke, Jon Gries, Sam McMurray, Tim Griffin, Trai Byers
Director: Theo Avgerinos
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Lee Rock II / Ng yi tam jeung – Lui Lok juen ji yi (1991)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
The new Police Commissioner reports his duty and finds Lee Rock is actually the most powerful person in the entire Police force. He promotes Lee to the rank of inspector. Lee realizes this promotion is actually the manoeuvre of his surrender of power. Subsequently, ICAC is formed, Lee decides it is the right time to resign. Lee's son, Yin, has graduated and joins the ICAC. He has strong hatred towards his father and determine to put his dad behind bars for the enormous evil sum Lee gathered…
Starring: Andy Lau, Sharla Cheung, Aaron Kwok, Man Tat Ng, Chingmy Yau
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon
Love & Mercy (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Director: Bill Pohlad
Love & Mercy (2014)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Director: Bill Pohlad
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Bessie (2015)
Biography | Drama | Music
Queen Latifah stars as legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in this HBO Films presentation, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dee Rees (named one of 20 filmmakers to watch by The New York Times). The film focuses on Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues," who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
Starring: Tika Sumpter, Michael Kenneth Williams, Queen Latifah, Bryan Greenberg, Oliver Platt
Director: Dee Rees
Sylvia (2003)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner, Amira Casar
Director: Christine Jeffs
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
During one man's unforgettable visit to liberal and socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love with a worldly and mysterious woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove irresistible, he finds himself courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion and desire!
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi, Estelle Eonnet, Thandie Newton, Seth Gilliam
Director: James Ivory
The Lady (2011)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. THE LADY also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Susan Wooldridge, Benedict Wong
Director: Luc Besson
