The Stone Killer (1973)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A top New York detective is sent to Los Angeles where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo, Norman Fell, David Sheiner
Director: Michael Winner
La belle noiseuse / The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Drama
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Director: Jacques Rivette
Krisha (2015)
Drama
Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Starring: Krisha Fairchild, Olivia Grace Applegate, Bryan Casserly
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love / Nanami, First Love / Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968)
Drama | Romance
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
Starring: Kuniko Ishii, Kôji Mitsui
Director: Susumu Hani
Passion / Godard's Passion (1982)
Comedy | Drama
On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems static and bloodless. Hanna owns the hotel where the film crew stays. She lives with Michel, who runs a factory where he's fired Isabelle, a floor worker. Hanna and Isabelle are drawn to Jerzy, hotel maids quit to be movie extras, people ask Jerzy where the story is in his film, women disrobe, extras grope each other off camera, and Jerzy wonders why there must always be a story.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Menashe (2017)
Drama
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Starring: Menashe Lustig
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch / Air Bud 4 (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Josh has gone to college and his little sister Andrea enlists their dog Buddy in her baseball team just as Buddy's puppies are kidnapped by Rocky the Raccoon.
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Caitlin Wachs, Cynthia Stevenson, Richard Karn, Molly Hagan, Jeffrey Ballard
Director: Robert Vince
Sayonara (1957)
Drama | Romance
A US air force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki
Director: Joshua Logan
Mad World / Yat nim mou ming (2016)
Drama
A mentally ill stockbroker struggles to reconcile with his estranged father and his perturbed ex-fiancée.
Starring: Shawn Yue, Eric Tsang, Charmaine Fong, Elaine Jin
Director: Chun Wong
Cuisine et dépendances / Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
Comedy | Drama
Martine and Jacques knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people – witness the fact that they have been putting up with having writer Georges be their informal roommate, as he sleeps on their living-room sofa off and on over the years whenever he is between jobs. They have invited their friend and his wife Charlotte over for dinner, and are on pins and needles, as they want everything to go just right. Instead, George allows his bitterness that Charlotte, his ex-girlfriend, married a success to overwhelm him, and Martine and Jacques are apalled when their brother, who hasn't a penny and is deeply in debt, persuades their guest of honor to join him in a high-stakes poker game.
Starring: Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Sam Karmann, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Director: Philippe Muyl
Detroit (2017)
Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Starring: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, John Krasinski, Anthony Mackie
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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The Price / Dara Ju (2017)
Drama
A young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path.
Starring: Aml Ameen, Lucy Griffiths, Bill Sage, Hope Olaide Wilson, Michael Hyatt, Peter Vack
Director: Anthony Onah
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Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue / Yozora wa itsudemo saikô mitsudo no aoiro da (2017)
Drama | Romance
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a 'girlie bar' hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation, and unable to reach through a hard outer shell that stops her from expressing tenderness to anyone else. Sosuke Ikematsu, one of Japan's most important young actors, stars as Shinji, who struggles as a day-hire construction worker with a sense of impending doom, but who still tries to find the source of an unnamable hope he feels inside. The setting is Tokyo in 2017, where empty words, a sense of doom, and feelings of isolation co-exist with hope, trust, and love. In the sense of real life conjured up in these two people is a new kind of film: the densest kind of love story.
Starring: Shizuka Ishibashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Director: Yûya Ishii
Gook (2017)
Drama
Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers, own a struggling shoe store and have an unlikely friendship with Kamilla, a street wise 11-year-old African American girl. Kamilla ditches school, Eli stresses about the store, and Daniel tries to have a good time. It's just another typical day at the store until the Rodney King verdict is read and riots break out. With the chaos moving towards them, the trio is forced to defend the store while contemplating the future of their own personal dreams and the true meaning of family.
Starring: Simone Baker, Justin Chon, Curtiss Cook Jr., David So
Director: Justin Chon
Going Thru a Thing (2011)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family
Charlie robs banks to pay the bills. All Samantha, Sammy, his precocious 13 year old daughter wants, is a normal father with a normal job. When the school teachers go on strike, her basketball team desperately needs a new coach and Charlie is coerced into the position by his 'hole in the head' gang, and the notion that it might ease his upcoming sentencing. A chance to bond with his daughter spirals Charlie's life out of control, this time involving Sammy, her team and an angry mob boss who watched too much Oprah. Going thru a Thing is the humorously poignant story of a middle-aged man who realizes that growing up can take place at any age and that's its never too late to change direction.
Starring: Aelah Thomson, Jo Marr
Director: Jo Marr
Cherry (2010)
Comedy | Drama
An Ivy League freshman gets an unexpected education when he falls for an older woman and her 14 year-old daughter develops a crush on him.
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Britt Robertson, Matt Walsh, Esai Morales, D.C. Pierson
Director: Jeffrey Fine
All Saints / Fields of Faith (2017)
Drama
When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.
Starring: John Corbett, Cara Buono, David Keith, Barry Corbin, Gregory Alan Williams, John Newberg
Director: Steve Gomer
Legs (2015)
Drama | Fantasy | Music
A Rock Star is in peril in the Hollywood Hills… 'Legs' Johnson needs to disappear, but a love from his past makes it difficult to move on.
Starring: Eddie Steeples, Diahnna Nicole Baxter, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Tasha Guevara, Jesse Hlubik, Carmen Rojas
Director: Kevin Ford
Bonobo (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A feuding mother and daughter find an unlikely source of help to reunite them – at a hippie commune, the last place that conservative, high-brow Judith ever thought she'd step foot in.
Starring: Will Tudor, James Norton, Tessa Peake-Jones, Eleanor Wyld, Josie Lawrence
Director: Matthew Hammett Knott
The Yakuza (1974)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter – and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi
Director: Sydney Pollack
