Sicario (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber, Jeffrey Donovan
Director: Denis Villeneuve
The Crossing 2 / The Crossing: Part II / Tai ping lun 2 (2015)
Drama
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Dawei Tong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Masami Nagasawa, Qianyuan Wang, Hitomi Kuroki
Director: John Woo
Stay as You Are / Così come sei (1978)
Drama | Romance
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure. He's happy to be a kid, so he tries to find out who her father is; his wife knows something is up; his daughter, who's Francesca's age and is pregnant, encourages the affair. Should he tell Francesca his fears that it might be incest? If he tells her and she doesn't care, what next? And what of his wife, who still wants to be married? Francesca takes control.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal, Mónica Randall, Ania Pieroni, Barbara De Rossi
Director: Alberto Lattuada
The Walk (2015)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Thriller
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Badge Dale, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Schwartz, Steve Valentine
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Keir Dullea
Director: Maya Forbes
The Martian (2015)
Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
An astronaut, left behind, uses his experience and knowledge to continue his existence on an alien planet in the hopes that one day he will be rescued.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Mackenzie Davis
Director: Ridley Scott
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Fargo (TV Series 2014- )
Crime | Drama | Thriller
From the Coen brothers is a fresh story spun out of the world of the Oscar-winning film. A drifter named Lorne Malvo arrives in small-town Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. The all new "true crime" case of Fargo's new chapter travels back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer investigates a case involving a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate.
Starring: Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Bokeem Woodbine, Brad Mann, Zahn McClarnon, Jeffrey Donovan, Jean Smart
Creator: Noah Hawley
Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
Le Mirage / The Mirage (2015)
Comedy | Drama
« Le Mirage » is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" becomes the band-aid to a meaningless existence. Stuff fills the void of the existence we weren't meant to lead.
Starring: Louis Morissette, Julie Perreault, Christine Beaulieu, Patrice Robitaille
Director: Ricardo Trogi
Cirkeln / The Circle (2015)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.
Starring: Josefin Asplund, Helena Engström, Miranda Frydman, Irma von Platen, Hanna Asp, Leona Axelsen
Director: Levan Akin
Memories of the Sword / Hyeomnyeo: Kar-ui gi-eok (2015)
Action | Drama | History
While the Goryo Dynasty in the medieval Korea, three warriors named Deok-ki, Poong-chun and Seol-rang have led a riot against the king and his foreign allies from Kitan, China. But Deok-ki betrays them, which results in the death of Poong-chun. But Seol-rang is able to escape with Seol-hee, Poong-chun's little daughter, and her sword. 18 years later, Seol-rang got blind but she raised and taught Seol-hee very well. Both feel that the time for revenge is right, but Deok-ki is now one of the most powerful men in the country. All of them know, that spilling blood is the only way of redemption.
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, Go-eun Kim
Director: Heung-Sik Park
Everest (2015)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A hiking expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Keira Knightley
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Detective Conan: Edogawa Conan Missing Case / Detective Conan: The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History / Meitantei Konan: Edogawa Konan shissou jiken – Shijou saiaku no 2-kakan (2014)
Animation | Drama
Conan, who has lost his memories, is dragged into a furore over a terrorist bombing plot, once again alongside the poor actor Sakurai! Unable to let down his guard until the very end, how would the incident conclude?
Starring: Minami Takayama, Megumi Hayashibara, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Ken'ichi Ogata, Kappei Yamaguchi
Director: Yasuichirô Yamamoto
L'homme qu'on aimait trop / In the Name of My Daughter (2014)
Drama
An aging French casino owner battles external forces and her own daughter for control of her business, leading to a number of tragedies.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, Adèle Haenel
Director: André Téchiné
Les cauchemars naissent la nuit / Nightmares Come at Night (1970)
Crime | Drama | Horror
For years considered a lost Franco film (after having played at a single theater in Belgium), Nightmares Come at Night was rediscovered in 2004 and has been recognized as a key film in the evolution of Franco's cinema, which in 1970 was assuming a dreamlike logic, governed more by the director's libido than the traditional horror movie structure.
Starring: Diana Lorys, Soledad Miranda
Director: Jesús Franco
F.I.S.T / F.I.S.T. (1978)
Drama
The charismatic Johnny Kovak joins the Cleveland chapter of a labor union in the 1930s and rises through the organization. As his power grows, his methods become more volatile, and a senator mounts a campaign to investigate his potential ties to the Mafia.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Kevin Conway
Director: Norman Jewison
Extinction (2015)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth… until now.
Starring: Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan, Valeria Vereau, Quinn McColgan
Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA / Joint Security Area (2000)
Drama | Thriller | War
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved – all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Byung-hun Lee, Tae-woo Kim, Yeong-ae Lee, Ju-bong Gi, Christoph Hofrichter
Director: Chan-wook Park
Miss Hokusai / Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)
Animation | Biography | Drama
An adaptation of Hinako Sugiura’s cult manga, a beautiful story revolving around O-Ei, daughter of master painter Hokusai. The director of the exquisite "Colorful" created this portrayal of a family and an age, the era of the city of Edo during the early 19th century. And it also fulfills a major challenge with flying colors: to turn the pictures by the author of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" into animated images.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kôra, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Keiichi Hara
Sex, Death and Bowling (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Eli McAllister, our eleven-year-old hero, is on a quest. He is also setting out to win The Fiesta Cup, a local bowling tournament. Joining him is his famous fashion designer uncle, Sean McAllister. Sean hasn t spent time with his family specifically his father for years. But now he has come home to bid farewell to his older brother, Eli s father. Thrown into the tournament as his ailing brother's substitute, Sean clashes with his father as old wounds are opened. But instead of reliving the past, they pull together to bowl their best for Eli who stands to lose so much. Funny, sweet and soulful SEX, DEATH AND BOWLING takes us on a journey to learn that the secret to life is loving what you have even if it is just a split.
Starring: Selma Blair, Drea de Matteo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Adrian Grenier, Bailey Chase
Director: Ally Walker
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