Streets of Fire (1984)
Action | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
Starring: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Richard Lawson
Director: Walter Hill
Conrack (1974)
Drama
White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks. He quickly learns that his students, who have never left the island, lack not only a basic understanding of academic items such as the alphabet and simple arithmetic, but also of other basic necessities of life such as personal hygiene. They can't even pronounce his name, they who call him Conrack. The teachers before him, including the school principal Mrs. Scott, have always treated the students as being slow and basically unteachable of academics. Conrack, a free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the academic subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to human anatomy, and some of the fun things in life like classical music, art, baseball, movies, swimming (despite living on an island, the islanders live in fear of the river because they don't know how to swim), and Halloween. He does so with compassion and without being patronizing. His teaching methods come under question by both Mrs. Scott and the Beaufort School District administration led by its superintendent, Mr. Skeffington. These differences in viewpoint may place Conrack's tenure at the school in jeopardy.
Starring: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas, Ruth Attaway
Director: Martin Ritt
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Crime | Drama
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Joseph Wiseman, Fausto Tozzi, Pupella Maggio
Director: Terence Young
Lotte in Italia / Struggle in Italy (1971)
Drama
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Starring: Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Anne Wiazemsky
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Beat the Devil (1953)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown
Director: John Huston
Native Son (2019)
Drama
A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.
Starring: Nick Robinson, Margaret Qualley, KiKi Layne, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sanaa Lathan, Ashton Sanders
Director: Rashid Johnson
Prospect (2018)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father's greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must carve her own path to escape.
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Andre Royo, Sheila Vand, Anwan Glover
Director: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
Grass / Pulipdeul (2018)
Drama
In a small Café, Min-hee Kim plays a guest who prefers to observe but not interact with the other guests herself.
Starring: Min-hee Kim, Joobong Kee
Director: Sang-soo Hong
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Biography | Drama | History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Director: Anthony Harvey
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015)
Crime | Drama
Jesse investigates the grim works of a serial killer in Boston and becomes concerned with a wayward teen in Paradise.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Luke Perry, Leslie Hope, William Devane, Al Sapienza, Alex Carter
Director: Robert Harmon
Tabi no omosa / Journey Into Solitude (1972)
Drama
A 16-year-old girl grows into maturity while hiking the 88-temple pilgrimage around Shikoku.
Starring: Yôko Takahashi, Kyôko Kishida, Hideo Sunazuka, Rie Yokoyama, Kana Nakagawa, Toshihiko Yamamoto
Director: Kôichi Saitô
What Color Is Love? / Playing for Keeps (2009)
Biography | Drama
A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Based on a true story.
Starring: Jennifer Finnigan, Roger Cross, Doug Savant, Brian Markinson, Enuka Okuma, Agam Darshi
Director: Gary Harvey
Think Again, Junpei / Junpei, kangaenaose (2018)
Crime | Drama
21-year-old Junpei is a low ranking gangster. He is busy taking care of miscellaneous works. One day, his boss gives him a mission to kill a high ranking gangster from a rival group. Junpei wanting recognition from his group, accepts the assignment. Junpei meets Kana and they spend the night together. He tells her about his assignment. She thinks his enthusiasm for the job his assignment, but she also feels some excitement. She stays with him for 3 days until he carries out his mission.
Starring: Shûhei Nomura, Yurina Yanagi , Katsuya Maiguma, Amane Okayama, Gaku Sano, Junki Tozuka, Yûki Satô, Kisetsu Fujiwara, Suzuka Morita, Manaka Kinoshita
Director: Toshiyuki Morioka
The River's Edge (1957)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger, Tom McKee, Frank Gerstle
Director: Allan Dwan
Train of Shadows / Tren de sombras (1997)
Drama
A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
Starring: Juliette Gautier, Anne Céline Auche, Ivon Orvain, Jessica Andrieu, Marc Montserrat
Director: José Luis Guerín
Cyborg 2087 / Man from Tomorrow (1966)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey, Warren Stevens, Eduard Franz, Harry Carey Jr.
Director: Franklin Adreon
Unicorn Store (2017)
Comedy | Drama
A woman named Kit receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Bradley Whitford, Karan Soni, Joan Cusack, Mamoudou Athie
Director: Brie Larson
Shino Cannot Say Her Own Name / Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai (2018)
Dram | Family | Teen
Following the manga source material high school girl Ooshima Shino has a speech impediment and, as such, enjoys a lack of friends and general awkwardness. Shino soon meets Kayo who is tone-deaf despite her love of music and song. None of it is a show-stopper. They decide to found a music group, which changes them both.
Starring: Sara Minami, Aju Makita, Riku Hagiwara, Kinuo Yamada, Kaoru Okunuki
Director: Hiroaki Yuasa
Imagination Game / Imajineshon Gemu (2018)
Drama
Makiko Hayami works hard at a large company and she is single. She has a secret that she can't tell anyone. Her secret is that she is known as a charismatic goddess on a website where underwear are hidden on the street and hints are given about its location. One day, she meets Aoi who sleeps in the park. Aoi runs the blog "Husband Revenge Site."
Starring: Masami Hisamoto, Tomomi Itano, Koutaro Tanaka, Minami Sengoku, Susumu Terajima, Shuto Washio
Director: Taisuke Hata
Blue Summer / Ao-Natsu: Kimi ni Koi Shita 30-Nichi (2018)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
An urban girl spends a summer in the country, and meets a young boy. Is this the start of love?
Starring: Wakana Aoi, Hayato Sano, Seika Furuhata, Takumi Kizu, Rinka Kumada, Atom Mizuishi, Shiori Akita, Reo Shimura
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
