Tracks (2013)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A young woman goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with her four camels and faithful dog.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Melanie Zanetti, Rainer Bock, Robert Coleby
Director: John Curran
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Biography | Crime | Documentary | News
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Starring: Aaron Swartz
Director: Brian Knappenberger
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Jack Strong (2014)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers of the Warsaw Pact forces, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination, he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that very moment the life of his family and his own is in constant danger as one careless move may lead to tragedy.
Starring: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov, Dagmara Dominczyk
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
The Wind Rises / / Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project / Kaze tachinu (2013)
Animation | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Inspired by the aesthetics of design, and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi only dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age, and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. Having dreamed of creating an elegant and flight worthy plane since childhood, Jiro's life-long labor finally pays off in adulthood, when he creates the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. What Jiro never imagined, however, not even in his wildest dreams, was the fate that would befall his beloved creation – that his labor of love would eventually be used for something beyond his wildest expectation: war.
Starring: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Steve Alpert, Morio Kazama
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
The Basketball Diaries / Streets of New York (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
An autobiographical account of poet and rock musician Jim Carroll's delinquent high school years, during which he excelled playing basketball for a boy's club team, meanwhile hustling to support his growing heroin addiction.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Vincent Pastore, Bruno Kirby
Director: Scott Kalvert
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Biography | Drama
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Max Pomeranc, Robert Stephens
Director: Steven Zaillian
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent.
Starring: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone
Director: Robert Wise
Burning Blue (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which abruptly changes course when a sailor reports seeing one of the top ranking fighter pilots in a gay club. The aviator and three of his squadron mates and their spouses all become the subject of a deadly modern day witch hunt entangling them in a web of jealousy and deceit which tests their concept of love, friendship and honor and changes their lives forever.
Starring: Trent Ford, Tammy Blanchard, Morgan Spector, Rob Mayes, William Lee Scott
Director: D.M.W. Greer
Britney Spears Workin' It (2014)
Biography | Documentary
With the release of her eighth studio album, Britney is back and she's workin' it! This documentary chronicles the career of international superstar from her more innocent years with the release of "Baby One more Time" to being the highest paid judge on US X Factor and collaborating with Will.i.am on her latest album. She is worldwide a pop icon, who continues to grow and deliver to her fans. This is her inside story.
Starring: Britney Spears. Julia Montgomery Brown
Director: NJ Silva
Devil's Knot (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing them as part of a satanic ritual.
Starring: Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Mireille Enos, Dane DeHaan, Kevin Durand, Stephen Moyer, Elias Koteas
Director: Atom Egoyan
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Gonzalo Pizarro orders a small Spanish expedition of forty men to search for El Dorado, leaving the mountains of Peru and going down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling
Director: Werner Herzog
Ragamuffin (2014)
Biography | Drama
"Ragamuffin" is based on the life of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius, raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with his own darkness tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with success in Nashville and depression in Wichita, Rich desired most of all to live a life of honest and reckless faith amidst a culture of religion and conformity.
Starring: Michael Koch, David Schultz, Wolfgang Bodison, James Kyson, Mitch McVicker
Director: David Schultz
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Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Biography | Drama
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Nikolai Kinski
Director: Jalil Lespert
Lone Survivor (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
Based on the failed mission "Operation Red Wings" which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28, 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Alexander Ludwig, Emile Hirsch, Eric Bana
Director: Peter Berg
The Monuments Men (2014)
Biography | Drama | War
In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them.
Starring: Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville
Director: George Clooney
W. / Bush (2008)
Biography | Drama | History
'W.' takes viewers through George Walker Bush's eventful life — his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Oliver Stone
Rob Roy (1995)
Action | Adventure | Biography
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Vals Im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Animation | Biography | Documentary | Drama | War
Documents the filmmaker's journey toward discovering the truth about an Israeli Army mission he participated in during the first Lebanon War of the early 1980s that left him with a loss of memory about the events. The long-forgotten images begin to resurface as the director interviews old friends and comrades around the world.
Starring: Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag
Director: Ari Folman
Bronson (2008)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama
This drama tells the real-life story of the infamous British prisoner Charles Bronson (not to be confused with the actor from the U.S. of the same name). Though Bronson was initially sentenced to seven years for burglary, his bad behavior–including attacking violently, taking hostages, and staging protests from the roof–has had him imprisoned for more than three decades, most of it in solitary confinement.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Hugh Ross, Juliet Oldfield, Jonny Phillips, James Lance, Amanda Burton
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Summer in February (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
British drama based on the lives and loves of the Newlyn School of artists, influential at the beginning of the 20th century. Arguably the wildest and most free-spirited sect of the school is the Lamorna Group, who live together at the Lamorna Valley Estate on the Cornish coast. Alfred Munnings is one of the foremost artists based at Lamorna, a strident opponent of modernism particularly famous for his skill at depicting horses. However, Alfred faces stern competition for the love of fellow artist Florence Carter-Wood in the form of the estate's land agent Gilbert Evans.
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Mia Austen, Shaun Dingwall
Director: Christopher Menaul
