Possessed / The Secret (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad.
Starring: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Convict (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance. He has to learn how to navigate his way around the internal politics and turf wars that exist and find a way to make it through to see his fiance again.
Starring: George Basha, Richard Green, Brian Ellison, David Field, Frank Violi, Millie Rose Heywood
Director: David Field, George Basha
Eat (2013)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Novella McClure is like most struggling actresses in Los Angeles: she's in her early 30s, her fake name sounded cooler ten years ago, and she hasn't landed a role in three years. To top it all off, she's developed a disturbing habit of eating her own flesh. Novella desperately tries to hide her strange condition from her motherly landlord, Eesha, and somewhat psychopathic best friend, Candice, but her body and mind continue to deteriorate in the depressing world of failed auditions and sketchy night clubs. Can a romantic relationship with her psychiatrist prevent her from self destruction? Or will her fatal habit continue to eat away at her?
Starring: Meggie Maddock, Jeremy Make, Dakota Pike
Director: Jimmy Weber
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Billy Bates (2013)
Drama
From director Jennifer DeLia and producer Julie Pacino, Billy Bates is a fascinating portrait of a troubled artist. Billy seeks solace in lover, Kaia, a beautiful singer. As the two navigate his mind-bending reality, the film becomes a cacophony of voices, music, and memories. Throughout this kaleidoscopic journey of underground parties, a psychotic break, and true love, he creates a body of work and is coined 'the Warhol of his generation.' Starring James Wirt and Savannah Welch, featuring Margherita Missoni, Josephine de La Baume, Zoe Twitt, Sally Golan. Music by The Little Death (ft.Moby), the Trishas, Arthur Russell. Artwork by Burton Machen and Joel Bergner, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Starring: James Wirt, Savannah Welch, Joséphine de La Baume, Edwin Sean Patterson, Zoe Twitt
Director: Jennifer DeLia
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Beside Still Waters (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A young man struggles for closure after the death of his parents.
Starring: Beck Bennett, Will Brill, Brett Dalton, Erin Darke, Ryan Eggold, Jessy Hodges, Britt Lower, Reid Scott
Director: Chris Lowell
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The Playback Singer (2013)
Comedy | Drama
THE PLAYBACK SINGER tells the story of an aimless, would-be, jungle-gym architect who finds his existence disrupted – and his marriage upended – when his prickly, Indian, B-movie playback singer father-in-law comes to visit and overstays his welcome.
Starring: Ross Partridge, Navi Rawat, Piyush Mishra
Director: Suju Vijayan
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Grimm (TV Series 2011-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Those weren't stories — they were warnings. Nick Burkhardt thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain. When his ailing Aunt Marie arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as "Grimms," who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. As Nick digs deeper into her past, he realizes that he will have to shoulder the responsibility of his ancestors — and contend with a larger-than-life mythology of the Brothers Grimm that is now all too real.
Starring: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Elizabeth Tulloch, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee
Creator: Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf
Passion / Junan (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Erotica | Fantasy
Francesco (Mayuko Iwasa) grew up in a monastery. She is now an extremely lonely woman. Francesco is also curious about sex and relationships between men and women. One day, she notices a bump in her genital area that resembles a human face.
Starring: Mayuko Iwasa, Yasushi Fuchikami, Kumiko Ito, Kanji Furutachi
Director: Ryôko Yoshida
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Bruce Nolan is a local Eyewitness News TV reporter in Buffalo, New York, best known for doing human interest stories–which makes everyone happy but him. Bruce would much rather be replacing the soon-to-retire anchorman. Essentially, Bruce is disconnected with everything in his life and rarely misses an opportunity to complain about it. He has a loving girlfriend, Grace, who runs a day care center and adores Bruce in spite of his negativity. Bruce is handed a great opportunity when he's asked to do the 23rd anniversary of Niagra Falls' famed Maid of the Mist boat, which will air live during sweeps. But the mist hits the fan when it's announced on-air–just before Bruce goes live–that the co-anchor position, about to be vacated, is going to Bruce's superficial rival. In front of millions of viewers, Bruce has an on-camera meltdown, punctuated by a four-letter word not yet cleared for network television. On this worst day of Bruce's life, he's fired from the station, beaten up by a gang of toughs, and his car is vandalized. Furious, Bruce rails and rages against the Lord for his rotten luck–which is followed by a curious set of signs, one of which leads him to an old building called Omni Presents, Inc. There, Bruce meets a janitor who reveals himself to be who he really is–God! He's heard Bruce's complaints and now has an offer for the choleric newscaster–his job. By endowing Bruce with all his powers, God challenges him to take on the job and see if he can do any better!
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell, Lisa Ann Walter
Director: Tom Shadyac
Jimmy's Hall (2014)
Drama | History
Communist leader James "Jimmy" Gralton is deported from Ireland in the 1930s for operating a dance hall where he shares his political views, including criticism of the Catholic Church's restriction of free speech.
Starring: Jim Norton, Brian F. O'Byrne, Andrew Scott, Francis Magee, Karl Geary, Barry Ward
Director: Ken Loach
Desert Dancer (2014)
Biography | Drama
A film based on an incredible true story. Desert Dancer is a classic hero story about brave young people risking their lives to rebel against their government and fight for their dreams. Set in Iran, where it is currently forbidden to dance, the story follows Afshin Ghaffarian and his friends who despite the dangers form an underground dance company where, via hacking into YouTube, they learn from the very best – Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. Reveling in the freedom of expression that dance gives them, they set upon putting on a performance deep in the desert, away from the watchful eyes of the military police.
Starring: Freida Pinto, Reece Ritchie
Director: Richard Raymond
Imagine I'm Beautiful / Under Her Skin (2014)
Drama
After her mother's suicide, a young woman moves to New York to start afresh. After a rocky start with her new and troubled roommate, the two slowly forge a friendship, finding solace in each other's difficult pasts; until one of them makes a discovery that will alter their friendship for good.
Starring: Natalie Knepp, Lucas Salvagno, Naomi McDougall Jones, Katie Morrison
Director: Meredith Edwards
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Miss Meadows (2014)
Drama
Prim schoolteacher Miss Meadows is not entirely what she appears. Well-mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides the soul of a vigilante, taking it upon herself to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary. Things get complicated, however, when Miss Meadows gets romantically entangled with the town sheriff and her steadfast moral compass is thrown off, begging the question: "Who is the real Miss Meadows and what is she hiding?"
Starring: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey
Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins
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Bad Turn Worse / We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Three Texas teens hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Pellegrino, William Devane, Jon Gries, Ashley Adams
Director: Simon Hawkins, Zeke Hawkins
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Die Eleganz der Madame Michel / Le hérisson / The Hedgehog (2009)
Drama
Paloma is a serious, but deeply bored 11-year old, who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits, in her building's grumpy concierge, and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride
Director: Mona Achache
The Naked City (1948)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Hart
Narrator: Mark Hellinger
Director: Jules Dassin
Children of Paradise / Les enfants du paradis (1945)
Drama | Romance
This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste. Garance and Baptiste meet when Garance is falsely accused of stealing a man's watch. Garance is forced to enter the protection of Count Eduard when she is innocently implicated in a crime committed by Lacenaire. In the intervening years of separation, both Garance and Baptiste become involved in loveless relationships with the Count and Nathalie, respectively.
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot
Director: Marcel Carné
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth¹s dominant species.
Starring: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Judy Greer, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: Matt Reeves
If I Stay (2014)
Drama
Teenage musician Mia and her family are involved in a catastrophic car accident. She then has an out-of-body experience, watching as she is treated at the hospital. Reflecting on her life, friendships, and loves, she faces a profound choice: fight for life at any price or simply slip away and move on.
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Liana Liberato, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach
Director: R.J. Cutler
À bout de souffle / Breathless (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
