Lump of Sugar / Gakseoltang (2006)
Drama | Romance
Shi-Eun is a woman whose love for riding horses makes her face trials and tribulations.
Starring: Su-jeong Lim, Oh-seong Yu
Director: Hwan-kyung Lee
The Old Garden / Orae-doen jeongwon (2007)
Drama | History | Romance
Blending politics with romance, noted director of "The Housewife" weaves a story of two activists in hiding in a remote shack. The intimate setting proves to be fertile ground for hidden desires.
Starring: Jung-ah Yum, Jin-hee Ji, Eun-seong Lee, Hee-seok Yun, Hyo-jeong Ban
Director: Sang-soo Im
The Virgin Psychics / Eiga: minna! Esupâ da yo! (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
I am psychic! You are psychic! Everyone is psychic… but still virgin! Full of laughs and through the eyes of a virgin teenager who wishes to become a hero by saving the world with his suddenly acquired psychic power. Based on the comic "Minna! Esper Dayo!" by Kiminori Wakasugi.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Elaiza Ikeda, Erina Mano, Makita Sports, Motoki Fukami, Reiya Masaki, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken Yasuda
Director: Sion Sono
Gli ultimi saranno ultimi / The Last Will Be Last (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Luciana is leaving the simple and quiet life she's always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with his husband Stefano, even if he doesn't always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other's side, but shortly after she finds out she's pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, claiming for the justice she affirms to deserve.
Starring: Paola Cortellesi, Alessandro Gassman, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Director: Massimiliano Bruno
Michael Collins (1996)
Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Michael Collins, one of the most important and controversial figures in the Irish fight for independence. Collins formed the Irish Volunteers, who used a combination of terrorist violence and guerilla warfare to combat the British, and also employed espionage.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
Kaos / Chaos (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Five stories set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Starring: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Game of Thrones (TV Series 2011- )
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and the icy horrors beyond.
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Gwendoline Christie, Liam Cunningham, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jerome Flynn, Nathalie Emmanuel, Rory McCann
Creator: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Western
In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Zoë Bell
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Ip Man 3 / Yip Man 3 (2015)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson, Jin Zhang, Lynn Hung, Patrick Tam, Karena Ng
Director: Wilson Yip
Growing Up / Xiao bi de gu shi (1983)
Drama
Adapted from Taiwanese author Chu Tien Wen's novel, the film tells the story of a young man who grows up in a military dependants' village during the early days of modern Taiwan.
Starring: Chun-fang Chang, Ching-Kuo Yan, Doze Niu
Director: Kun Hao Chen
The Sandwich Man / Er zi de da wan ou (1983)
Drama
Adapted from novelist Huang Chun-ming’s three short stories: The Taste of an Apple, The Sandwich Man, and Vicky's Hat, the omnibus film foregrounds several downbeat characters who fight and struggle for their lives in the developing country of Taiwan. The film depicts, sympathetically, their self-depreciation and self-respect, laugh and tears, and hope and despair.
Starring: Bor Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-feng Tseng, Te-Nan Lai, Fu-yu Hou
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Jen Wan, Zhuang Xiang Zeng
In Our Time / Guang yin de gu shi (1982)
Drama
Composed of four vignettes, the film explores Taiwanese society from the 50s to the 90s through individual stories of growth.
Starring: Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen
Director: Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko,Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang
Coming Home / Gui lai (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Late Blossom / Geu-dae-leul sa-rang-hab-ni-da (2011)
Drama | Romance
"Late Blossom" follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk (Lee Soon-Jae) delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song (Yun So-Jeong) – a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong (Song Jae-Ho) works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife (Kim Soo-Mi) who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.
Starring: Soon-jae Lee, So-jeong Yun, Jae-ho Song, Su-mi Kim, Dal-su Oh Ji-hyo Song
Director: Chang-min Choo
Unforgettable (1996)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Unsuccessfully framed for his wife's murder, Dr. David Krane attempts to find the real culprit by utilizing a new drug that allows him to experience the memories of other people first-hand. As he gets closer to the truth, the injections begin to take their toll on his life. Additionally, a history of alcoholism, a career crisis, and the involvement of police officers in the murder all conspire to prevent Dr. Crane from learning what really happened. The challenge, then, is for the doctor to overcome these obstacles before his time runs out.
Starring: Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote, Christopher McDonald, David Paymer, Duncan Fraser
Director: John Dahl
Backgammon (2015)
Drama | Mystery
When Lucian and Miranda are left alone in an isolated mansion for the weekend, their mutual attraction grows, as does their unease about the whereabouts of Miranda's ex-boyfriend who may be hiding somewhere in the house.
Starring: Noah Silver, Olivia Crocicchia, Brittany Allen, Christian Alexander, Alex Beh
Director: Francisco Orvañanos
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Les Misérables / Les misérables (1958)
Drama
Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.
Starring: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur, Danièle Delorme, Bourvil
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
The X Files: Fight the Future / X-Files: The Movie (1998)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, Texas, FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy surpassing anything they've ever encountered. With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor, Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be extraterrestrial in origin – and could destroy all life on earth. Their pursuit of truth pits them against the mysterious Syndicate, powerful men who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe, leading the agents from the cave in Texas, to the halls of the FBI, and finally to a secret installation in Antarctica which holds the greatest secret of all.
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner, William B. Davis
Director: Rob Bowman
Cal (2013)
Drama
Cal returns to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill in hospital. His finds that his home city is like many across Europe and the world, it's facing hard economic times and fallout from the global economic crisis, rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence as youth unemployment inexorably rises. His Auntie Jane, who has taken up residence in their run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually gratify herself by trying to seduce him. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his helps. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible.
Starring: Wayne Virgo, Tom Payne, Emily Corcoran, Lucy Russell, Daniel Brocklebank, Bernie Hodges, Simon Cook, Richard Cambridge, Garry Summers
Director: Christian Martin
Suits (TV Series 2011-)
Comedy | Drama
One of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate and hires the only guy that impresses him – a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout. Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers must continue the charade.
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, Gina Torres
Creator: Aaron Korsh
