Black Dog (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Kelly, Graham Beckel
Director: Kevin Hooks
Whatever It Takes (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
High school senior Ryan has a crush on sexy, popular Ashley. Ryan's best friend Maggie thinks he should get over it already. But Ashley's super jock cousin Chris has the hots for Maggie, and he's willing to do whatever it takes, including swapping identities and advice with Ryan, to win her heart.
Starring: James Franco, Shane West, Kip Pardue, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Aaron Paul
Director: David Raynr
Truth (2015)
Biography | Drama
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Elisabeth Moss, Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Bruce Greenwood
Director: James Vanderbilt
Legend (2015)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston, Paul Anderson, Paul Bettany, Taron Egerton
Director: Brian Helgeland
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Drama | Romance
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Starring: Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni
Director: Marielle Heller
45 Years (2015)
Drama | Romance
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine James, Tom Courtenay, Dolly Wells, Sam Alexander, Hannah Chalmers
Director: Andrew Haigh
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Biography | Drama | History
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Patrick Lyster, James Gregory, Tyrone Keogh
Director: Bille August
The Choirboys (1977)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Starring: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht, Tim McIntire
Director: Robert Aldrich
The American Friend / Der amerikanische Freund (1977)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Director: Wim Wenders
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Berry family weathers all sorts of disasters, but keeps on going in spite of it all. The film is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Starring: Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Paul McCrane, Beau Bridges, Lisa Banes, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Tony Richardson
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
Comedy | Drama
An American woman, well-versed in political campaigns, is sent to the war-torn lands of South America to help install a new leader but is threatened to be thwarted by a long-term rival.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Zoe Kazan, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd
Director: David Gordon Green
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Suffragette (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Sarah Gavron
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Freeheld (2015)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells, and activist Steven Goldstein, unite in Laurel and Stacie's defense, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.
Starring: Ellen Page, Julianne Moore, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell
Director: Peter Sollett
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A Girl Like Her (2015)
Drama
Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. But when a shocking event changes both of their lives, a documentary film crew, a hidden digital camera, and the attention of a reeling community begin to reveal the powerful truth about A Girl Like Her.
Starring: Jimmy Bennett, Hunter King, Lexi Ainsworth
Director: Amy S. Weber
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Foreign Land (2016)
Drama | Family
Life changed for Alejandro Reis – Alex – in just a few brief moments when he discovers that he is not an American citizen. His parents brought him across the Mexican border when he was just months old. Flora Hendricks, on the other hand is born in Missouri. She decides to run away from home. Alex finds himself deported to Mexico On a seeming parallel track, Flora is arrested for shoplifting. And put in the same deportation bus with Alex. Once on Mexican soil Alex and Flora find out quickly that they are way out of their depth. They learn quickly that Tijuana and most of the other border towns are ultra violent places that are overrun by dangerous, warring criminal factions.
Starring: Jeffrey Licon, Alex Frnka, Peter Holden, Art Bonilla, Elpidia Carrillo, Giselle Bonilla
Director: Rafi Girgis
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Hero the Movie (2015)
Drama
Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu (Takuya Kimura) takes charge of a possible murder case implicating diplomats from the foreign embassy of Neustria. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation is doesn't go anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian embassy.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Keiko Kitagawa, Takako Matsu, Kôichi Satô
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Hero (2007)
Drama
Kohei (Takuya Kimura) returns to Tokyo and reunites with his former colleagues. He will be up against one of the famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a car accident which killed a soon to be married fiancee. He will team up with his best partner, Amemiya (Matsu Takako), to solve this case. Their 'interesting' relationship becomes more interesting when they travel to Korea together to solve the case.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Schone Handen / Clean Hands (2015)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sylvia (Thekla Reuten) and Eddie (Jeroen van Koningsbrugge) live a good life in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid. They have two children. The richness comes from a thriving drug trade, led by Eddie. A brutal police raid shakes things up and then Sylvia decides to flee the place. But Eddie would not allow that, because she knows too much.
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Cees Geel, Angela Schijf, Teun Kuilboer
Director: Tjebbo Penning
De tweeling / Twin Sisters (2002)
Drama | Romance | War
De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) is an epic story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany. 1920s Germany. Two Sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The story follows their lives as they try to reconcile their differences while World War II impacts each of them on their lives and finally in old age when they meet again, with the hope that the differences in their youth can finally be reconciled.
Starring: Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras, Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Julia Koopmans, Sina Richardt
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Autostop rosso sangue / Hitch Hike (1977)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer and his beautiful wife pick up a stranded motorist. But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.
Starring: Franco Nero, David Hess, Corinne Cléry, Joshua Sinclair
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
