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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Plague (2014)
Drama | Horror
A small group of survivors in post-apocalyptic Australia seek shelter from an infection that has spread like a plague among the human populace. Evie (Tegan Crowley) and her fellow survivors become separated from her husband John (Scott Marcus). Evie refuses to leave John behind against the wishes of the group. The survivors revolt and abandon Evie to an uncertain fate. With the unexpected arrival of Charlie (Steven Kennedy) what appears to be an opportunity at a new beginning quickly turns to horror as menacing as the infected that pursue them.
Starring: Don Bridges, Benjamin Rigby, Tegan Crowley, Liza Dennis, Nicholas Stribakos
Director: Nick Kozakis, Kosta Ouzas
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An Irish Exorcism (2013)
Drama | Horror
In her final year at school, Anthropology student Lorraine decides to film her final project – the subject of exorcism within the Catholic Church. Recording interviews with priests from the local diocese, she stumbles upon Fr. Byrne, an older priest who is currently helping a young mother whose daughter is apparently possessed by a demonic force. The curiosity of Lorraine, along with her camera operator, Cathal, leads them down a dark path of discovering the terrifying truth, and things go from strange to worse as all involved become entangled into a frightful journey to save a little girl's life.
Starring: Paddy C. Courtney, Anna Davis, Brian Fortune, Elaine Hearty, Aislinn Ní Uallacháin, Dillon White
Director: Eric Courtney
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White God / Fehér isten (2014)
Drama
Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
Starring: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Lili Monori, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Gergely Bánki
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Outsourced (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker
Director: John Jeffcoat
The Center of the World (2001)
Drama | Romance
What should have been a simple cash-for-sex arrangement sends a young computer genius and a beautiful stripper on an emotionally shattering journey into their deepest erotic fantasies.
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Pat Morita, Balthazar Getty
Director: Wayne Wang
Finding Forrester (2000)
Drama
A young African-American who is an aspiring writer, discovers that a reclusive Pulitzer Prize winning author lives down the street in the Bronx from him. An unlikely friendship grow between the two, and while the student learns about writing and wisdom, the author learns to appreciate life again.
Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, Michael Pitt
Director: Gus Van Sant
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
When a publicity stunt brings the New York Rangers and the national spotlight to Mystery, Alaska for a game with the local team of weekend warriors, the town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime!
Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich
Director: Jay Roach
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Comedy | Drama
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. To keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart.
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford
Director: Ken Kwapis
