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
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
During one man's unforgettable visit to liberal and socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love with a worldly and mysterious woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove irresistible, he finds himself courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion and desire!
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi, Estelle Eonnet, Thandie Newton, Seth Gilliam
Director: James Ivory
Enduring Love (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Bill Weston, Jeremy McCurdie, Lee Sheward
Director: Roger Michell
Purple Violets (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Patti Petalson (Blair) struggles with the pressure of becoming the next important American writer.
Starring: Selma Blair, Edward Burns, Debra Messing, Patrick Wilson
Director: Edward Burns
Hackers (1995)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago
Director: Iain Softley
Murmur of the Hearts / Nian nian (2015)
Drama
Three young men, three unexpected encounters- Nan, an honest tour guide from Taitung who is busy every day to make ends meet, Mei, an average painter who never thinks herself good enough for anything or anyone, and Hsiang, a passionate boxer who seems to be doomed on the bench list. Each is facing their own dilemma and obstacles in life, and is troubled to move forward to their future. However they each has some magical encounters, which made them think and came to realize that to marching on, sometimes they need to let go of some burden from the past.
Starring: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Lawrence Ko, Angelica Lee, Isabella Leong
Director: Sylvia Chang
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Ten Thousand Saints / 10,000 Saints (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Jude Keffy-Horn-named after a Beatles song by his hippie parents-spends his high school days in small-town Vermont getting high with his best friend, Teddy. Beneath Jude's mind-numbing activities lurks a desire to reconnect with his estranged father, Les, who abandoned the family when Jude was nine. When Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude's mother sends him to live with Les in New York City's roiling and raw East Village. As Jude struggles to establish an identity within the cultural upheaval downtown, he forms an unlikely surrogate family with Teddy's straight-edge brother and a troubled, rich uptown girl.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch
Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
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Big Sky (2015)
Drama | Thriller
A teen traveling with her mother to a treatment center for her agoraphobia has to fight for their lives against a gunman who attacks them.
Starring: Bella Thorne, Kyra Sedgwick, Frank Grillo, Aaron Tveit, François Arnaud, Beth Bailey
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
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Amnesiac (2015)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.
Starring: Kate Bosworth, Wes Bentley
Director: Michael Polish
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Garden Party (2008)
Drama
15-year-old April is running from one bad situation to another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve getting undressed. As April navigates LA, she finds a group of confused kids struggling to chase their dreams.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Richard Gunn, Willa Holland, Vinessa Shaw, Alexander Cendese
Director: Jason Freeland
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True Detective (TV Series 2014- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Dramatic reenactments of true stories of professional and amateur detectives solving real-life mysteries. Segments also include interviews with the actual participants.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, Chris Kerson
Creator: Nic Pizzolatto
Felices 140 (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Elia cumple 40 años y, para celebrarlo, reúne en una lujosa casa rural a amigos y familiares. Tiene que decirles algo muy importante: es la ganadora del bote de 140 millones que el Euromillón sorteaba esa semana. A partir de ese momento, el ambiente empieza a enrarecerse y lo que, al principio, parecía alegría compartida da paso enseguida a toda clase de argucias para intentar quedarse con el dinero de la afortunada.
Starring: Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre, Marian Álvar, Eduard Fernández, Nora Navas, Ginés García Millán, Paula Canci, Alex O'Dogherty, Marcos Ruiz
Director: Gracia Querejeta
The White Countess (2005)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Todd is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late 1930s. Once an idealistic diplomat, politic conflict and military violence has left him disillusioned. He has also lost most of his sight and retreated into Shanghai's decadent underworld of bars and brothels. His heart softens, however, as he becomes acquainted with Sofia, a Russian countess who fled her home during the revolution and now lives in Shanghai, supporting her family as a dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
The Winslow Boy (1999)
Drama | Romance
When a young boy claims he was expelled for something he didn't do, his father sacrifices everything to defend his family's honor.
Starring: Gemma Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sarah Flind, Aden Gillett
Director: David Mamet
