The Crossing / The Crossing: Part I / Tai ping lun (2014)
Drama
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ziyi Zhang, Hye-kyo Song, Xiaoming Huang, Dawei Tong, Masami Nagasawa
Director: John Woo
All Is by My Side (2013)
Biography | Drama | Music
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame years.
Starring: André Benjamin, Imogen Poots, Burn Gorman, Hayley Atwell, Ruth Negga, Clare-Hope Ashitey
Director: John Ridley
The Stranger (2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
Starring: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Cristobal Tapia Montt
Director: Guillermo Amoedo
Madame Bovary (2014)
Drama
Coveting sensuality and sophistication and bored with her husband, a simple country doctor, Emma Bovary pursues several extramarital relationships, including one with her long-term friend Leon, a man she perceives to be cosmopolitan. Her actions have destructive and tragic consequences.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller, Laura Carmichael, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans, Logan Marshall-Green
Director: Sophie Barthes
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Linewatch (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former gang member discovers that escaping the past isn't as easy as getting a new job and leaving the old neighborhood behind in this thriller starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Omari Hardwick, and Chris Browning. Michael Dixon used to be a hardcore Los Angeles gang-banger, but these days he wears a badge rather than sporting colors. A respected U.S. border patrol officer in New Mexico, Dixon has somehow managed the rare feat of leaving the thug life behind and starting a family. But Dixon's psychotic former gang leader Drake is none to happy at having lost one of his best men, and when a chance encounter leads him right to Dixon's door the stage is set for an explosive confrontation. Now, in order to protect his family, Dixon will be forced to put down his badge, and once again operate outside of the law.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Omari Hardwick, Evan Ross, Dean Norris
Director: Kevin Bray
Bee Season (2005)
Drama
A father is obsessed with training his talented daughter for the National Spelling Bee.
Starring: Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella, Kate Bosworth, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Flora Cross
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Children's television star Rainbow Randolph is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by Smoochy, an idealistic purple rhinoceros. When Randolph discovers that Smoochy is also having an affair with Randolph's ex-lover Nora, a top programming executive at the network, he plots his revenge.
Starring: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart, Pam Ferris
Director: Danny DeVito
Other People's Money (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Larry's never met a debt-free corporation he didn't want to devour but he may think twice about New England Wire & Cable. Its ramrod like patriarch (Gregory Peck) has been a fighter all his long life. And to arm against takeover, he's hired a lawyer (Penelope Ann Miller) whose style and cunning rival Larry's.
Starring: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones, R.D. Call
Director: Norman Jewison
Two Thumbs Up / Chung fung che (2015)
Action | Drama
Big F, who's just gotten out of prison, wastes no time in tracking down his old comrades, picking up bowling alley employee Crazy B, back-alley hairstylist Johnny T and mechanic East L in quick succession. As it turns out, Big F wants to rob a truck transporting dirty money across the Mainland-Hong Kong border, and to do that, the gang's got to pose as police officers. On the day of the heist, the men set off in their minibus-turned-police-vehicle dressed as cops and armed with BB guns. What they don't know is that another group of criminals also has its sights set on the truck – and those people have AK-47s.
Starring: Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark Cheng, Sixuan Chen, Philip Keung
Director: Ho Leung Lau
Taksu / Yokudô (2014)
Drama
Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
Starring: Yôko Mitsuya, Takumi Saitô, Kiki Sugino
Director: Kiki Sugino
En chance til / A Second Chance (2014)
Drama | Thriller
How far would decent human beings be willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? With "A Second Chance", Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted another startling yet moving drama about how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when confronted with the unthinkable, and life as we know it is hanging by a thread.
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Thomas Bo Larsen, Maria Bonnevie, Peter Haber, May Andersen, Molly Blixt Egelind
Director: Susanne Bier
5 to 7 (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An aspiring novelist has an extramarital affair with a French diplomat's wife.
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Olivia Thirlby, Bérénice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, Glenn Close
Director: Victor Levin
The Last Time (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A cynical New York salesman finds his scornful ways unexpectedly softened upon falling for the fiancée of his new business partner, a Midwest transplant attempting to find his footing in the city, in screenwriter-turned-director Michael Caleo's feature directorial debut. The Bindview Company is a firm comfortably nestled in a corporate park that specializes in a highly profitable product. Ted is a former Northwestern University literature professor who has since found his calling in sales. When fresh-faced Ohio native Jamie arrives at Bindview eager to acclimate to life in the big city, cynical Ted greets the cub salesman with a palpable sense of scorn. Though Jamie is currently engaged to be married to the pretty Belisa, the bride-to-be is beginning to view her prospective spouse as something of a loser, and soon sets her sights on his reluctant mentor Ted.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, Amber Valletta, Daniel Stern, Richard Kuhlman, Alexis Cruz
Director: Michael Caleo
The Big Kahuna (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Three salesmen wait in the company's hospitality suite at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli
Director: John Swanbeck
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Drama | Romance
Stanley Cox is a shy, illiterate short-order cook who has never taken a chance at love. Iris King is a newly widowed factory worker who has vowed never to love again. But as their friendship slowly blossoms and Iris helps Stanley learn to read, his strong yet gentle kindness helps mend her broken heart. And where two lonely strangers stood trapped within the past, Stanley and Iris can now begin a new chapter of their lives – together.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan
Director: Martin Ritt
School Ties (1992)
Drama
A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser
Director: Robert Mandel
Punchline / Punch Line (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Field plays a housewife and mother who suddenly develops the urge to be a comedienne. Her comic instincts are on target, but her timing and delivery stinks. Tom Hanks, a stand-up comic with a few years' experience under his belt, offers to teach Field the ropes.
Starring: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky
Director: David Seltzer
Neverwas (2005)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
My Life (1993)
Drama
Bob and Gail Jones are expecting their first child, but Bob has been diagnosed with kidney cancer which will possibly take his life before his child is born. Heartbroken at the prospect of not ever getting to know his child, he decides to make a video about himself and his life so that his child will know him.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah, Michael Constantine, Haing S. Ngor
Director: Bruce Joel Rubin
Murder at 1600 (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
D.C. detective Harlan Regis is called to the White House after a young woman is murdered in the White House. Regis realizes this won't be a typical investigation as he keeps running into a brick wall with the Secret Service.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda, Ronny Cox, Tate Donovan
Director: Dwight H. Little
