The Tale of Iya / Iya monogatari: Oku no hito (2013)
Drama
As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.
Starring: Rina Takeda, Nobumitsu Ohnishi, Min Tanaka
Director: Tetsuichirô Tsuta
Two Step (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The lives of James, a directionless college dropout, and Webb, a career criminal with his back against the wall, violently collide.
Starring: Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas, Ashley Spillers, Barry Tubb, Brady Coleman, Jesse Dayton
Director: Alex R. Johnson
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The Surface (2014)
Drama | Thriller
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
Starring: Sean Astin, Chris Mulkey, Mimi Rogers
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
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The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Action | Drama | War
In 1915, Major Brand, commander of the 59th British Squadron in France, despairs that he has become the executioner of the young fliers in his squadron, who are being sent to their deaths in inferior planes. This is the story of Brand, his men, and the war in the air.
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Director: Howard Hawks
Underground / Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (1995)
Comedy | Drama | War
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" — only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.
Starring: Predrag Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a successful child psychologist in Philadelphia. The night he receives an award for his achievements, a former patient breaks into his house and kills himself. Drenched in guilt, the doctor comes to the aid of a tormented lad who can see ghosts. While making his analysis of the troubled boy, he discovers something that is not only fascinating, but could also be very dangerous.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Broken Horses (2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Anton Yelchin, Chris Marquette, María Valverde, Thomas Jane, Sean Patrick Flanery
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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David and Goliath (2015)
Drama
Follows young King David who took on the mighty warrior Goliath against all odds.
Starring: Miles Sloman, Jerry Sokolosky, Makenna Guyler, Paul Hughes
Director: Timothy A. Chey
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Path to War (2002)
Drama
A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his domestic policy agenda for the Great Society overtaken by an ever demanding commitment to ending the war. It also depicts his political skills as he crosses swords with political foes such as Bobby Kennedy and Governor George Wallace. Despite support and encouragement from stalwart friends such as Clark Clifford, Johnson realizes his management of the war no longer has the confidence of the American people and announces that he will not seek the nomination of the Democratic party for the the 1968 election.
Starring: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill
Director: John Frankenheimer
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Action | Drama | War
Pvt. David Manning, shell-shocked after serving on the front line, requests a dismissal but is instead promoted to sergeant. Leading a team of newbie soldiers, he finds further devastation when his troops become involved in the battle of Hurgen Forest.
Starring: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno, Devon Gummersall, Dan Futterman
Director: John Irvin
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi
Urban thugs run wild and new methods of crime deterrence are being explored. Career gang member Alex is nabbed by the police and offered the chance to a commuted sentence if he undergoes a kind of surgical therapy. One where his brain does not allow him to execute his violent urges.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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
The Complete Metropolis / Metropolis (1927)
Drama | Sci-Fi
A futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. People are divided into two groups: the thinkers–who make plans, yet don't know how to operate machinery, and the workers–who forward production without having any overview vision. Completely separate, neither group is complete; however, together they make a whole. When one man, a "thinker," dares to journey to the underground, where the workers 'slave away,' he's surprised at what he sees.
Starring: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Theodor Loos, Erwin Biswanger
Director: Fritz Lang
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
Comedy | Drama
Ben is a writer who is enjoying a quiet evening at home with his wife, Rachel, when they receive an unexpected visitor, Ben's father, Sam. As it happens, Sam has some surprising news — his wife, Muriel, has left him, leaving behind a note saying she wants some time alone. While Ben gets in touch with his sisters, who immediately set out to track down Muriel, he is left to deal with Sam while he tries to figure out what has gone wrong. Eager to spend some time with his dad to talk things out, Ben invites Sam along for a trip upstate to look at some property he's interested in buying, and as the two men hit the road, they get a chance to get to know one another in a way Sam, a busy salesman, was unable to do when Ben was a boy.
Starring: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins, Ann Dowd
Director: Raymond De Felitta
The Runner (2015)
Drama
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Bryan Batt
Director: Austin Stark
Zipper (2015)
Drama | Thriller
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise – a federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with a high-end escort instead turns into a growing addiction. His moral compass unraveling, his new demon threatens to destroy his life, family and career.
Starring: Lena Headey, Richard Dreyfuss, Ray Winstone, John Cho, Dianna Agron, Patrick Wilson
Director: Mora Stephens
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In My Country / Country of My Skull (2004)
Drama | Romance
A cynical American journalist's affair with a beautiful Afrikaans reporter opens his eyes to the healing powers of forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson
Director: John Boorman
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Drama
An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back.
Starring: Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daisy Eagan
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
It's My Turn / A Perfect Circle (1980)
Comedy | Drama
Jill Clayburgh has everything the modern woman is supposed to want, but somehow it's not enough. She meets and falls in love with her new stepmother's son and must find a way to deal with her father's new wife; her old boyfriend; and her new relationship with her stepbrother.
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill, Dianne Wiest
Director: Eleanor Bergstein
Boulevard (2014)
Drama
A devoted husband in a marriage of convenience is forced to confront his secret life.
Starring: Robin Williams, Bob Odenkirk, Kathy Baker, Giles Matthey, Eleonore Hendricks
Director: Dito Montiel
