Safelight (2015)
Drama
A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
Starring: Evan Peters, Juno Temple, Kevin Alejandro, Meaghan Martin, Jason Beghe, Ariel Winter
Director: Tony Aloupis
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Drama | Romance
The beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene is a penniless girl who inherits a fortune and an expansive farm in Weatherbury. As she learns to run the farm, two distinct suitors vie for her hand: one is Sergeant Frank Troy, a vain and volatile soldier, and the other is William Boldwood, a terse gentleman and the owner of a nearby farm. Meanwhile, she is aided by Gabriel Oak, an honest farmhand and shepherd who knew Bathsheba before she became a wealthy landowner and holds her in fond regard.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple, Jessica Barden
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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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
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H8RZ (2015)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In the aftermath of a mysterious High School 'incident', The school's attorney questions the only witness, a student, in hopes of protecting the school from any lawsuits. But as this student weaves his tale, it becomes clear that there is much more to this story than meets the eye. H8RZ has the intrigue of a crime thriller, while cleverly dealing with issues of H8RZ bullying, school corruption, and the darker side of teen interactions.
Starring: Sophie Curtis, Jeremy Sisto, Abigail Spencer, Cary Elwes
Director: Derrick Borte
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You've Got Mail (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly are rivals in business: he working for Fox Sons, a chain of discount bookstores; she owning a tiny bookshop of her own. However, unaware of their true identities, Kathleen and Joe have begun communicating anonymously via an e-mail chat room, building a strong and caring relationship without ever revealing their names.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle
Director: Nora Ephron
Final Girl (2015)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A psychological thriller about a beautiful teen girl new to town who is lured out to the woods by a group of senior boys to be the victim in their final initiation. Taught by her trainer, William, to be a lethal weapon, she turns the hunters into the hunted with a level of perversity far beyond anything they could have ever imagined.
Starring: Alexander Ludwig, Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley, Cameron Bright, Francesca Eastwood, Reece Thompson
Director: Tyler Shields
The Humbling (2014)
Comedy | Drama
The story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut. Based on Philip Roth’s final novel, it is a tragic comedy about a man who has lived inside his own imagination for too long.
Starring: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Nina Arianda, Dylan Baker, Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya
Director: Barry Levinson
Eva Braun (2015)
Drama
Eva Braun takes inspiration from the actual sex scandals in the Italian Parliament and the 120 Days of Sodoma by Marquis De Sade. This mix create a grotesque journey through power, sex and will of people who does everything to be successful. Pier is a powerful and important Mogul who keeps the power in his country. Elegant, ironical and well educated, he has a bizarre sexual instinct which is satisfied by her mistress, Romy, who collect people, men and women (musicians, directors, writers and businessmen) which agree to satisfy his weird fantasies for getting his help to the way to success. Like a Decameron, a group of people in a house meet their pride and greed for power and sex.
Starring: Andrea Riva, Susanna Giaroli, Federica Fracassi
Director: Simone Scafidi
Titus (1999)
Drama | History | Thriller
Director Julie Taymor brings her unique vision to Shakespeare's early, famously violent revenge tragedy. Titus Andronicus, the great Roman general, returns home victorious from a long war with the northern Goths during which all but his four remaining sons have died. Lucius, the eldest son, reminds Titus that part of the victory ritual is the human sacrifice of an enemy prisoner. Titus chooses the eldest son of Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, who has been brought back to Rome as a captive with her three sons and the Moor, Aaron. Though Tamora pleads for her son's life, Titus carries out the ritual, not out of cruelty but out of what he conceives to be religious devotion. Tamora and her two remaining sons, Chiron and Demetrius, vow revenge. With that, the tale of double revenge begins–first Tamora's and then Titus's.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, James Frain, Laura Fraser
Director: Julie Taymor
Picture Day (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A rebellious teenager forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood – and between two very different male admirers.
Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy, Susan Coyne, Fiona Highet, Mark DeBonis
Director: Kate Melville
Good Kill (2014)
Drama | Thriller
A Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his wife and kids for the other 12. But the pilot is starting to question the mission. Is he creating more terrorists than he's killing? Is he fighting a war without end.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Coyote, Jake Abel
Director: Andrew Niccol
Love Streams (1984)
Comedy | Drama
The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 12-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little…
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel
Director: John Cassavetes
Opening Night (1977)
Drama
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Crime | Drama
Gentlemen's club owner Cosmo Vitelli is a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Al Ruban, Morgan Woodward
Director: John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Drama
The emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. A married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil.
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Mario Gallo
Director: John Cassavetes
Faces (1968)
Drama
Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit… A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery
Director: John Cassavetes
Shadows (1959)
Drama
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person with faith in his talent. The story moves back and forth, like jazz, among the three of them and what seems at first to be separate lives. Lelia meets Tony, and lets herself hope this is true love. Then he meets Hugh and prejudice gives Tony an excuse to cut and run. Can family and friendship bring solace for her hurt, purpose for Benny, and belief in Hugh? Is life more than shadows?
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd
Director: John Cassavetes
The Vancouver Asahi / Bankûbâ no asahi (2014)
Drama | Sport
The Vancouver Asahi baseball team consists of 2nd generation Japanese immigrants living in Canada. They play within a local amateur baseball league. The team got popular due to their fair play spirit, while struggling to fight against discrimination and poverty in their everyday lives. Reggie is a 2nd generation Japanese immigrant who works at a sawmill in Vancouver. He is the leader of the team and plays shortstop. Roy is the team's ace pitcher and works at a fishery field. Kaye is the team's 2nd baseman and co-worker of Reggie. Tom is the catcher and works at a tofu shop. Frank works at a hotel and plays baseball with the team.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yûsuke Kamiji, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kôichi Satô
Director: Yûya Ishii
Wild Horses (2015)
Crime | Drama
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered – and that a local rancher was involved.
Starring: Robert Duvall, James Franco, Josh Hartnett, Luciana Pedraza, Angie Cepeda, Jim Parrack
Director: Robert Duvall
Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Things just aren't going well for Holly Parker. In addition to her cheating boyfriend, a scheming co-worker keeps undermining every shot Holly has at a promotion, and on top of it all, her rent is simply too much to handle alone. When her search for a roommate leads Holly to shy but sweet Tess Kostitch, the troubled renter thinks she may have finally solved at least one of her woes — but this roommate has a big secret. It doesn't take long for Holly and Tess to become friends, but in Tess' warped view of friendship, there is no kinder act than putting a friend in pain out of their misery. When Tess learns about Holly's unfaithful boyfriend and the trouble that Holly has run into attempting to land a big promotion, Tess prepares to do her new best friend a favor and make all of her troubles go away in the flash of a blade.
Starring: Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Todd Babcock, Brooke Burns, François Giroday, Tracey McCall, Rif Hutton
Director: Keith Samples
