Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Don, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.
Starring: Marshall Allman, Claire Holt
Director: Steve Taylor
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Double Trouble / Bao dao shuang xiong (2012)
Action | Comedy
Double Trouble opens with art thieves attacking a Taiwan museum exhibit, only to be stopped by Jay, a lone-dog security guard who refuses to work with the rest of his team. Jay is later reprimanded by his boss, Captain John, for disrupting what turns out to be a training exercise.
Starring: Jaycee Chan, Yu Xia, Jessica Cambensy, Jiajia Deng, Han Dian Chen, Vivian Dawson, Fei Zhang
Director: David Chang
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Shall We Dance? / Shall we dansu? (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Yu Tokui
Director: Masayuki Suo
SeeFood / Seafood / Sea Level (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Pup, a bamboo shark, discovers egg sacs while playing around the ocean with his friends. When he sees human poachers stealing the eggs from his reef, Pup makes it his mission to save his family. As he leaves the sea and enters the beautiful, yet dangerous, world of humans he'll prove he isn't too small to save his family.
Starring: Steven Bone, Colin Chong, Chi-Ren Choong, Jason Cottom, Kennie Dowle
Director: Aun Hoe Goh
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Arachnophobia (1990)
Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks before they take over the entire town.
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Stuart Pankin, Henry Jones, Peter Jason
Director: Frank Marshall
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches reign of terror once and for all.
Starring: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw
Director: Kenny Ortega
Sahara (2005)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Master explorer Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) takes on the adventure of his life when he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of North Africa. Searching for whal locals call "The Ship of Death", a long lost Civil War battleship filled with coins, Pitt and his wisecracking sidekick (Steve Zahn) use their wits and clever heroics to help Doctor Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) who believes the ship may be linked to mysterious deaths in the very same area.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz, Lambert Wilson, Glynn E. Turman
Director: Breck Eisner
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Housefull 2 (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Four son-in-laws marry four brides whose four father-in laws mistake every son-in law for Jolly.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Shreyas Talpade, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Shazahn Padamsee
Director: Sajid Khan
Tampopo / Dandelion (1985)
Comedy
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
Director: Jûzô Itami
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Sur la piste du Marsupilami / HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami (2012)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery… With his resourceful local guide Pablito (Jamel D'ebbouze), D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Alain Chabat, Fred Testot, Lambert Wilson, Liya Kebede
Director: Alain Chabat
The Sting (1973)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston
Director: George Roy Hill
Lucky Trouble / Vykrutasy (2011)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
Who said you have to win to be a champion? Slava Kolotiloff, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Fingers" comes to conquer Moscow with the manuscript to his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he conquers the heart of a beauty named Nadia. As their wedding approaches, Slava needs only to quit his job and tie up loose ends back in "Fingers" before returning to Moscow to start a new life with his new bride. But due to a number of bizarre circumstances he is unable to leave and back in the big city, the wedding goes on regardless as Nadia has to fend off the attentions of her ex-boyfriend Danya, who seems ready to do whatever it takes to win her back.
Starring: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Milla Jovovich, Ivan Urgant, Sergey Garmash, Galina Jovovich
Director: Levan Gabriadze
Holes (2003)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Mystery | Romance
"But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity." Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay the gypsy Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats IV is accused of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert). It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn't for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to "build character." But when an artifact from the famous "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they're digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley's family curse?s
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Arquette, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Khleo Thomas, Byron Cotton, Jake M. Smith, Brenden Jefferson, Max Kasch, Miguel Castro
Director: Andrew Davis
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Comedy | Drama
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three childrenóChas, Margot, and Richieóand then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Wes Andersonís hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson
Director: Wes Anderson
Lightbulb / Ingenious (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Starring: Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Renner, Ayelet Zurer, Marguerite Moreau, Amanda Anka
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer
Life as We Know It (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Holly Berenson is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Eric are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Alexis Clagett, Brynn Clagett, Brooke Clagett
Director: Greg Berlanti
Ocean's Eleven / Ocean's 11 (1960)
Comedy | Crime | Music
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin, cards snap, slots chime, champagne fizzes, shows go on…and the lights go out. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and 10 partners in crime, it's the ideal moment to steal millions.
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte
Director: Lewis Milestone
Lapland Odyssey / Napapiirin sankarit (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in Northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life. Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Starring: Pamela Tola, Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen, Timo Lavikainen
Director: Dome Karukoski
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Muži v naději / Men in Hope (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
It should be a true story about men and their real hopes, fears and expectations. And also on their infidelity, which can sometimes create even a happy marriage and relationship," Vejdělek said, describing the simple plot. Popular Czech actor Jiří Macháček, who also starred in Women in Temptation, plays the main character Ondřej, while Simona Stašová, Bolek Polívka and Eva Kerekésová round out the cast.
Starring: Jirí Machácek, Bolek Polívka, Petra Hrebícková, Vica Kerekes, Simona Stasová
Director: Jirí Vejdelek
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Bunty Aur Babli / B.N.B. (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Unhappy with his life and circumstances, Rakesh, the son of a railway employee in India, wants to become rich very quickly. He quarrels with the rest of his family, and leaves for Mumbai city. On the way there he meets with another runaway, Vimmi, a wanna-be model and actress, they end up getting attracted to each other, and together they carry out a rash of daring robberies – prompting the authorities to ask Dashrath, a senior ranking police-man to apprehend them and bring their respective careers to an abrupt halt. Will Rakesh and Vimmi – now known as Bunty and Babli – let Dashrath end their careers that easily?
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji
Director: Shaad Ali
