Whale Rider (2002)
Drama | Family
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Director: Niki Caro
Runoff (2014)
Drama
The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desperate lengths to save her family when they are threatened with being forced from their land. An old friend, struggling to keep his own farm profitable by any means necessary offers Betty a way out.
Starring: Joanne Kelly, Neal Huff, Alex Shaffer, Kivlighan de Montebello, Darlene Hunt
Director: Kimberly Levin
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Gilgamesh (2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
A military expedition in Siberia gone wrong. The existence of humanity is in peril as Inanna, Sumerian goddess of lust and war has summoned a giant meteor to destroy the planet, after being accidentally set free from her ancient prison. The government has been overturned in a Communist take-over and the citizens of the world; brainwashed. In humanity's darkest hour, the ancient entity of Gilgamesh, older than the cosmos themselves, must decide whether or not to serve of mankind's final hope. Meanwhile, Inanna has hand selected the one man; married man and archaeologist, David Murphy, to live out the rest of eternity with her. Gilgamesh and Inanna are quickly targeted by the new government as potential weapons of mass destruction, and soon the apocalypse has begun.
Starring: Joshua Davis, Melantha Blackthorne, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Emily Coleman, Oselito Joseph, Richard Chandler
Director: Richard Chandler
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Twice Upon a Yesterday / The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A shambling, out-of-work actor, desperate to win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend, unexpectedly stumbles upon a way to turn back the clock.
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Lena Headey, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Coleman, Mark Strong, Neil Stuke
Director: Maria Ripoll
The Van (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the pressures of financial success sour their friendship forever?
Starring: Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan
Director: Stephen Frears
Sylvia (2003)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner, Amira Casar
Director: Christine Jeffs
Married to It (1991)
Comedy | Drama
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
Starring: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver
Director: Arthur Hiller
Dr. Giggles (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor, escapes from his mental institution to seek revenge on the town where his father was caught. The giggling doctor kills his victims with a surgical theme. His goal being to give one of the townfolk a heart transplant.
Starring: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Richard Bradford, Michelle Johnson
Director: Manny Coto
Danger Zone (1996)
Action | Drama
American mining engineer gets involved in civil war and international conspiracy in one African country.
Starring: Billy Zane, Robert Downey Jr., Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Lisa Collins, Ron Silver
Director: Allan Eastman
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Drama | Romance | Western
Always wanting to live the cowboy lifestyle, young John Grady (Matt Damon) sets off for a Hacienda in Mexico. While there, John enters into a passionate romance with the spellbinding Alejandra (Penelope Cruz), much to the displeasure of her powerful father. Doomed from the start, their illicit affair will culminate in murder and betrayal and young John will have to confront the ultimate test of inner strength and resilience.
Starring: Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Rubén Blades, Robert Patrick
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
The Boy (2015)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
An intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascination with death.
Starring: David Morse, Rainn Wilson, Jared Breeze, Bill Sage, Mike Vogel, Zuleikha Robinson, Aiden Lovekamp, David Valencia
Director: Craig William Macneill
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I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
Comedy | Drama
A sudden loss disrupts Carol's orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.
Starring: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott, Malin Akerman, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman
Director: Brett Haley
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6 Years (2015)
Drama | Romance
A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Ben Rosenfield, Lindsay Burdge, Joshua Leonard, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Director: Hannah Fidell
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Catching Faith (2015)
Drama | Family | Sport
John and Alexa Taylor appear to have the perfect life – they’re the envy of all the parents in town. Their son Beau is the high school football star and their daughter Ravyn is a straight-A student. But when Beau is caught drinking alcohol, his place on the team and his bright future are on the line. With the football season at stake and the judgmental community turning their backs on them, every member of the Taylor family is at a crossroads. Now, they must find the strength from one another, and the spiritual courage from within, to prove that faith and family is the only score that really matters.
Starring: Lorena Segura York, Garrett Westton, Bill Engvall, Bethany Peterson, Dariush Moslemi
Director: John K.D. Graham
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Samu Life / Samulife / Samuraifu (2015)
Drama
Nagaoka (Takahiro Miura) is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal education environment. To achieve his goal, Nagaoka struggles to make money by running a bar and publishing company.
Starring: Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Masaki Kaji, Reiya Masaki, Ryôsuke Yamamoto
Director: Takeshi Moriya
The Hidden Blade / Kakushi ken oni no tsume (2004)
Drama | Romance
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19th century Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while maintaining its fragile political base. Munezo, and his colleague Samon Shimada try to maintain their footing, paying heed to the demanding moral code of the samurai while also learning new military strategies, particularly the mastery of Western artillery. But Munezo also has a personal complication. He is secretly in love–so secretly, he may not even admit it to himself–with his family's maid, the sweet and beautiful country girl, Kie. His passion leads him to rescue Kie from a loveless marriage after she leaves his household; the samurai even shocks propriety by carrying away the low-caste young woman on his back. Just as Munezo starts to get his domestic situation in something to resembling order, Munezo hears devastating news. A comrade, Yaichiro Hazama, has been caught up in a plot in Edo. Their clan has sent the rebellious samurai home in the humiliating transport of a "prisoner's basket." Munezo comes under suspicion because he and Yaichiro, the clan's best swordsmen, shared a famed instructor, but Munezo refuses to cooperate with the chief retainer's witch hunt. Tension finally leads Munezo to confess his growing affection to Kie, a development that the young woman begins to hope will lead to the abandonment of caste structures. But before Munezo can realize his romantic destiny, Yaichiro escapes. Munezo is ordered to kill him, and the loyal, honorable samurai is faced with one final challenge to his principles.
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Yôji Yamada
Be with You / Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son, Yuji. His wife, Mio, promised before her passing that she'd be with them again when the rainy season starts. On the first anniversary of her death, Takumi and Yuji comes across a woman in the woods taking shelter from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yôsuke Asari, Yûta Hiraoka
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Lila & Eve (2015)
Drama | Thriller
When teenage Stephon is killed in a drive-by shooting, his mother, Lila, slips into a paralyzing grief. She joins a support group for women who have lost children to crime and meets Eve, a woman whose little girl was killed the same night as Stephon. Lila and Eve form a friendship, and Lila begins to crawl out of her depression. She develops a burning desire to find justice for her son, and she presses the authorities for answers, but they are slow-moving and ineffective. It's Eve who has the idea first-join together, find the drug dealers who shot Stephon dead, and bring them to justice themselves.
Starring: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Aml Ameen, Chris Chalk, Andre Royo
Director: Charles Stone III
Mia madre / My Mother (2015)
Drama
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Starring: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
Director: Nanni Moretti
Joker Game / Joka Gemu (2015)
Drama | Thriller
Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan". Meanwhile, Kato (Kazuya Kamenashi) is facing capital punishment for his refusal to follow a superior's order. Kato is then scouted by "D Kikan". He goes through a harsh training regiment and faces his first mission as a spy. In order to seize American ambassador Graham's confidential documents "Black Note." Kato infiltrates into an international city. A battle to gain possession of the "Black Note" ensues between Kato, a mysterious woman named Rin (Kyoko Fukada), the British Spy Agency, the Soviet Spy Agency and the radical army in Japan.
Starring: Kazuya Kamenashi, Kyoko Fukada, Yûsuke Iseya, Richard Shelton, Jasper Bagg, Richard Moss
Director: Yû Irie
