So Close / Chik yeung tin si (2002)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
After two high-tech sister assassins kill a company's chairman, they meet their match in a clever and determined female cop.
Starring: Karen Mok, Qi Shu, Wei Zhao, Seung-heon Song, Yasuaki Kurata, Deric Wan
Director: Corey Yuen
The Keeping Room (2014)
Drama
Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women – two sisters and one African-American slave – must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.
Starring: Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Muna Otaru
Director: Daniel Barber
Young and Dangerous 3 / Goo waak jai 3: Jek sau je tin (1996)
Action | Drama
When the scummy Ugly Kwan makes a bid for the famed Hung Hing triad's top seat, Chan Ho-Nam and Chicken find their character and friendship tested. Treachery and violence may rule the underworld, but righteousness and loyalty prove to be just as powerful.
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Gigi Lai, Francis Ng, Chi Hung Ng, Simon Yam, Karen Mok, Anthony Wong
Director: Wai-Keung Lau
Tokyo Raiders / Dong jing gong lüe (2000)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Lam is a tough private eye who owns Tokyo with his debonair charisma and surprising fighting skills. Lam is hired by jilted bride Macy, who's in Japan tracking her wayward fiance Takashi. Joining them is Yung, a wushu expert masquerading as an interior designer in order to tail Macy for unknown parties.
Starring: Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Cecilia Cheung, Tôru Nakamura, Hiroshi Abe
Director: Jingle Ma
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen, Amy Ryan, Domenick Lombardozzi
Director: Steven Spielberg
Sans laisser de traces / Traceless (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Étienne Meunier is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal. With mounting pressure on him, Meunier confides to Chambon the secret of his success. He built his career on a lie…
Starring: Benoît Magimel, François-Xavier Demaison, Julie Gayet
Director: Grégoire Vigneron
Exposed (2016)
Drama
After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Mira Sorvino, Ana de Armas, Christopher McDonald, Laura Gómez
Director: Declan Dale
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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