Category: Drama
Posted on October 6, 2014 |
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Home: The House Imp / Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi (2012)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife, two kids and mother with him. They settle down in a 100-year-old house. There in the countryside they meet Zasikiwarasi and begin to unite together as a family.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Narumi Yasuda, Ai Hashimoto, Tatsuomi Hamada, Mitsuko Kusabue
Director: Seiji Izumi
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Posted on October 6, 2014 |
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Toiretto / Toilet (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Ray is a 30 something engineer obsessed with Gundam toys. He has a motto not to become close to anyone. During his mother's funeral he showed no emotions. His life is further turned upside when he is forced to live with his older brother Maury and younger sister Lisa. Older brother Maury was a pianist but is now a recluse. Younger sister Lisa is a college student who tends to look down on those around her. Also in there home is their Japanese grandmother who doesn't speak English at all.
Starring: Masako Motai, Alex House, Tatiana Maslany, David Rendall, Sachi Parker
Director: Naoko Ogigami
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Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Into The Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Halbrook, Into The Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn
Director: Sean Penn
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Zerkalo / The Mirror (1975)
Biography | Drama
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on episodes from his own life in this story of a dying man reflecting on his relationships with his parents, wife and son. The film includes a number of reflections on the Russian people and their history, using the life of one man to consider the Russian experience from the Second World War through to the end of the Stalinist period. The film also features Tarkovsky's father reading his own poems and his mother (Larisa Tarkovskaya) playing the role of the on-screen matriarch.
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alla Demidova
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
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Tags: Alla Demidova, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Andrey Tarkovskiy, Margarita Terekhova, Nikolay Grinko, Oleg Yankovskiy
Posted on October 5, 2014 |
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The Chart of Love / In His Chart 2 / Kamisama no karute 2 (2014)
Drama
Dr. Ichito (Sho Sakurai) works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Tatsuya Shindo (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of the medical school". Ichito notices a difference in Tatsuya now, as he leaves work on time. Then, Ichito's senior colleague Dr. Nukita (Akira Emoto) collapses.
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Aoi Miyazaki, Tatsuya Fujiwara
Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
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Tags: Aoi Miyazaki, Shô Sakurai, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Posted on October 5, 2014 |
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Kundo: Age of the Rampant / Kundo: min-ran-eui si-dae (2014)
Action | Drama
A period action film centered on a militia group who turn against an unjust nobility.
Starring: Jung-woo Ha, Ye-ri Han, Man-shik Jeong, Dong-won Kang, Hae-suk Kim, Seong-gyoon Kim, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Director: Jong-bin Yun
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Tags: Dong-won Kang, Hae-suk Kim, Jong-bin Yun, Jung-woo Ha, Kyeong-yeong Lee, Man-shik Jeong, Seong-gyoon Kim, Ye-ri Han
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Across 110th Street (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Slicker than a Harlem shakedown, Across 110th Street "hits hard" (Cue) with a jacked-up, smacked-down thrill-ride through the hell-raisin' hoods of Harlem! Cooler-than-cool Anthony Quinn leads a hot cast, including Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto, in a "hair-raising" (Motion Picture Herald) cop thriller that packs a double barrel of "gory vengeance raw, ugly and unnervingly real" (Playboy)! When a crew of gun-totin' gangstas knocks over a mafia racket in Harlem, their plan gets blown to hell and the crib gets blown to bits! But as the bullets start flyin' and cops start dyin', a pair of New York's finest (Quinn and Kotto) are forced to work together to bring justice to the streets before the Mafia brings the ghetto to its knees! Now, wanted by the Man and hunted by the Mob, there ain't no way these homicidal homeboys are getting across 110th Street except in a body bag! Directed by Barry Shear (The Deadly Trackers).
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Bernard, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Richard Ward
Director: Barry Shear
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Posted on October 5, 2014 |
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Last Weekend (2014)
Comedy | Drama
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Alexia Rasmussen
Director: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
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Tags: Alexia Rasmussen, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Joseph Cross, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Dolby, Tom Williams, Zachary Booth
Posted on October 4, 2014 |
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Decoding Annie Parker (2013)
Drama
Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
Starring: Aaron Paul, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Rashida Jones, Corey Stoll, Helen Hunt, Marley Shelton
Director: Steven Bernstein
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Posted on October 4, 2014 |
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Beloe solntse pustyni / The White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | War
The film tells the tale of a Red Army soldier who has been bringing Communism to the region and has obviously gained the respect of the Army through various brave deeds. But now he has been discharged after many years away from home. He yearns to see his wife again but has been constantly diverted on his journey home to her. Suhkov (for that is his name) is now readying himself to finally put this desert behind him and make his way to his home, but he soon finds himself made the guardian of the 9 wives of an infamous bandit named Abdullah. He must escort them to a village and await assistance there, however he is soon to find that this will be his biggest and most dangerous diversion yet.
Starring: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Pavel Luspekayev, Raisa Kurkina, Tamara Fedotova, Nikolai Godovikov
Director: Vladimir Motyl
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Tags: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Kakhi Kavsadze, Nikolai Godovikov, Pavel Luspekayev, Raisa Kurkina, Spartak Mishulin, Tamara Fedotova, Vladimir Motyl
Posted on October 3, 2014 |
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Welcome to New York (2014)
Crime | Drama
Intense public fascination and life-changing personal crises ensue after a wealthy French lawyer and politician is charged with sexual assault by a hotel maid in the United States.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Calderon, Shanyn Leigh, Drena De Niro
Director: Abel Ferrara
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Posted on October 3, 2014 |
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Copenhagen / In Copenhagen (2014)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William (Gethin Anthony, GAME OF THRONES) finds himself at a crossroads in Copenhagen, the birthplace of his father. When William meets pretty local girl Effy (Frederikke Dahl Hansen), they set off on an adventure to find his grandfather. Effy's mix of youthful exuberance and wisdom challenges William like no woman ever has. As the attraction builds and William finds himself truly connecting with someone for the first time in his life, he comes to the realization: if the girl of your dreams is half your age, maybe it's time to grow up!
Starring: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen
Director: Mark Raso
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Posted on October 3, 2014 |
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The Little Tin Man (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Tired of being overlooked for bigger roles, a struggling dwarf actor sets out to be cast as the Tin Man in Martin Scorsese's remake of The Wizard of Oz.
Starring: Aaron Beelner, Kay Cannon, Jeff Hiller, Chris Henry Coffey, Emmanuel Maldonado
Director: Matthew Perkins
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Two Men in Town / Bill's Law (2014)
Drama
A Muslim ex-con forms a friendship with his parole officer.
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Brenda Blethyn, Luis Guzmán, Dolores Heredia, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Dust on the Tongue / Tierra en la Lengua (2014)
Drama
In his twilight years, Silvio Vega, a child of the destitution and violence of Columbia's countryside, takes a trip with his two grandchildren to force them to kill him instead of dying of old age.
Starring: Richard Córdoba, Gabriel Mejía, Alma Rodríguez, Jairo Salcedo
Director: Rubén Mendoza
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Songs for Amy (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
'Songs for Amy', directed by Konrad Begg is a feel good love story inspired by the music scene of the west of Ireland. Set against the stunning backdrop of County Galway and crossing the Atlantic to New York, the story follows Sean O'Malley (Sean Maguire), a struggling Irish musician who writes an album for Amy (Lorna Anderson), the love of his life, in an attempt to redeem himself. Through his music, Sean deals with love, loss, friendship, fate, hope and unexpected turns, all with the help and hindrance of his misfit band mates.
Starring: Sean Maguire, Lorna Anderson, James Cosmo, Kevin Ryan, Patrick Bergin, Alexandra Weaver, Ford Kiernan
Director: Konrad Begg
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Posted on October 1, 2014 |
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Murder, My Sweet / Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Posted on October 1, 2014 |
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Plastic (2014)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
British heist drama, based on a true story. Scam artists Sam and Fordy have long been successful at stealing money through elaborate credit card fraud schemes. However, when they steal from local criminal kingpin Tariq and he becomes aware of the theft, Sam and Fordy must use every trick in the book to pay back the money or face the consequences of their actions. With the help of their friends they fly to Miami where they plan on raising the funds through a number of targeted scams. Can they pay back the money before it's too late?
Starring: Ed Speleers, Alfie Allen, Will Poulter, Sebastian De Souza, Emma Rigby, Mem Ferda
Director: Julian Gilbey
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Biography | Drama
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Cuthbertson, Iain Glen, Maggie O'Neill
Director: Michael Apted
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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The Color of Rain (2014)
Drama
After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte. In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt's death, the Spehn's mom, Cathy, also suddenly succumbs to cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael, to care for their three kids on his own. Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship and close bond. Over the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during the at-times insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity and begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. As Gina and Michael realize their newfound friendship is so much more, they struggle against some surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.
Starring: Lacey Chabert, Warren Christie
Director: Anne Wheeler
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