Tracers (2015)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Wanted by the mafia, a new York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger.
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Marie Avgeropoulos, Adam Rayner, Rafi Gavron, Sam Medina, Josh Yadon
Director: Daniel Benmayor
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990)
Action | Drama
The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, David Bradley, James Booth, Dwayne Alexandre, Ken Gampu
Director: Cedric Sundstrom
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
Action | Drama
Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ninjas.
Starring: David Bradley, Steve James, Marjoe Gortner, Michele B. Chan, Yehuda Efroni
Director: Cedric Sundstrom
Zero Bridge (2008)
Drama
A chance encounter between a teen pickpocket and one of his victims changes his plans to escape his dreary life.
Starring: Mohamad Imran Tapa, Taniya Khan, Ali Mohammad Dar
Director: Tariq Tapa
On a Clear Day (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
After 40 years of working as a shipbuilder, the somewhat taciturn Frank has been "made redundant" and let go from his job. He finds himself utterly unmoored without the routine and trappings that have defined his existence for so long, and suffers a loss of self-respect that he is unable to talk about with his loving wife, Joan, and son, Rob. Floundering, Frank becomes obsessed with the idea of swimming the Channel, and undertakes the project with the help of Chan, the owner of the local fish-and-chips shop, who becomes Frank's personal trainer.
Starring: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Billy Boyd, Ron Cook, Jodhi May, Benedict Wong
Director: Gaby Dellal
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Comedy | Drama
In India gangsters are called Bhai (brothers). One such Bhai is Munna, who is feared by everyone in Mumbai, a big city in India. He cons his village-based parents into believing that he is a doctor. He gets a shock when he finds out that they are coming to verify for themselves. So he transforms a rooming shanty house into a makeshift hospital, populated by patients, people he beats up. His parents arrive, are pleased, and happy that their son is well settled. They would like him to get married to a doctor's daughter. The marriage is arranged, but before the engagement, the bride's father finds out the truth about Munna, and cancels the marriage. Munna's humiliated parents see the truth for themselves, and hurt, they return home, leaving Munna with a strong desire to hurt the doctor – and force him to let his daughter get married to him – even if it means getting admitted in the medical college – with forged documents!!!
Starring: Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Gracy Singh, Boman Irani
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
The Wizard (1989)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
Starring: Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Luke Edwards, Wendy Phillips, Sam McMurray
Director: Todd Holland
The Crucible (1996)
Drama | History
The setting is 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax!
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Nicholas Hytner
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Drama
Dark melodrama about an amateur butterfly expert whose wayward desires test her lover's tolerance.
Starring: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Zita Kraszkó, Monica Swinn, Eszter Tompa
Director: Peter Strickland
I Am Big Bird / I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014)
Biography | Documentary | Drama
Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
Starring: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Roscoe Orman, Jerry Nelson
Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Love Me (2014)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama | Romance
Love Me is a character-drive narrative that follows desperate men on their quest for love through the modern 'mail-order bride' industry in Ukraine. The film highlights the complete process of finding a partner in a foreign land, showing the Western male and Ukrainian female perspectives.
Director: Jonathon Narducci
Martian Child (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Starring: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt
Director: Menno Meyjes
Against the Ropes (2004)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S. Dutton, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington
Director: Charles S. Dutton
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Western
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin
Director: Clint Eastwood
Revenge (TV Series 2011- )
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Emily Thorne rents a house in the Hamptons for the summer, seemingly intent on nothing more than enjoying a break in the popular resort. But it soon becomes clear that there's more to her visit. Her real name is Amanda Clarke and her father was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison for life and she has come to the Hamptons to seek revenge against the people who betrayed him and saw him sent to jail.
Starring: Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Nick Wechsler, Joshua Bowman, Christa B. Allen, Henry Czerny, Ashley Madekwe, Barry Sloane, Connor Paolo, James Tupper, Karine Vanasse
Creator: Mike Kelley
Once Upon a Time (TV Series 2011- )
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Emma Swan, a 28-year-old bail bonds collector, has always been a fiercely independent person since being abandoned as a baby. Her son Henry, who she gave up for adoption years ago, finds and tries to convince Emma that she is Snow White's missing daughter. Henry shows Emma that in the fairytale, Prince Charming and Snow White sent her away to protect her. Emma doesn't believe him and takes Henry back to Storybrooke…
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Jared Gilmore, Robert Carlyle, Emilie de Ravin, Colin O'Donoghue, Meghan Ory, Beverley Elliott, Lee Arenberg, Raphael Sbarge
Creator: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
A Samurai Chronicle / Higurashi no ki (2014)
Drama
Towards the end of the Edo period, Shozaburo Danno (Junichi Okada) receives an order from Nakane, the prime minister at the han. The order is to keep watch over Akiya Toda (Koji Yakusho), who has been in confinement for killing a boy servant who had an affair with his concubine 7 years ago. Akiya Toda is expected to commit hara-kiri within 3 years. In the meantime, Akiya Toda works on an order from the previous daimyo to write the daimyo's family tree into a book. Soon, Shozaburo Danno becomes touched by Akiya Toda, Akiya Toda's wife Orie (Mieko Harada) and his daughter Kaoru (Maki Horikita). Specifically, Shozaburo Danno is moved by Akiya Toda's enthusiasm for making the daimyo's family tree book and Orie's love and trust for her husband and daughter. He finds it difficult to believe that Akiya Toda killed a boy servant. Shozaburo Danno decides to investigate the case which occurred 7 years ago.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Jun'ichi Okada, Maki Horikita, Mieko Harada, Haruto Yoshida
Director: Takashi Koizumi
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
At the height of his career, renowned author and social critic Charles Dickens meets an 18-year-old actress, Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, who becomes his secret lover until his death in 1870.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Michelle Fairley, John Kavanagh
Director: Ralph Fiennes
The A-List (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Alyson Stoner (Step Up films, "Phinneas & Ferb"), Hal Sparks ("Lab Rats" "Queer as Folk") and Skyler Vallo ("True Blood") costar in this hilarious comedy. Eric Schultz (Hudson Thames, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager") is the coolest student at Lake Odell High School. He has the looks, the girl, and the popularity. Even the school newspaper has turned into a gossip blog about his personal life. His guidance counselor, Sylvia Martin (Elizabeth Bond), is just as in awe of him as everyone else is. Being a nerd back in her day, Sylvia has always wished she could have done the things that come so easily to Eric. When she discovers he is missing one class to graduate, she makes a deal with him. If Eric completes a list of 5 things she always wanted to do in High School (like date the quarterback and be a cheerleader) she will fudge his transcript and allow him to graduate!
Starring: Alyson Stoner, Hal Sparks, Skyler Vallo, Elizabeth Bond, Hudson Thames
Director: Will Bigham
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The Sleepwalker (2014)
Drama | Thriller
A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira. Prior tensions and jealousies burgeon as new alliances form and childhood patterns resurface. As the days grow darker and the nights more disturbing, Kaia is forced to confront Christine's increasingly tangled perception of reality, which in turn may have begun to alter her own. When one of the four characters goes missing, the three left behind are flung into upheaval trying to fill in the blanks.
Starring: Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Stephanie Ellis, Brady Corbet
Director: Mona Fastvold
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