Daybreakers (2009)
Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With the world overrun by vampires, humanity is dying out and the blood supply is nearly depleted.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
The Zero Theorem (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry
Director: Terry Gilliam
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper- middle-class Indian family's only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches-Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she's never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father's hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck-as well as buried family secrets. But Nair's celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Roshan Seth
Director: Mira Nair
Les choristes / The Chorus (2004)
Drama | Music
Fond de l'Etang is a boarding school for troubled boys located in the French countryside. In the mid-twentieth century, it is run by the principal M. Rachin, an egotistical disciplinarian whose official unofficial mantra for the school is "action – reaction", meaning that there will be severe consequences for any boy out of line. This approach does not seem to be working as the boys as a collective are an unruly bunch. In turn, the teachers don't teach, but are always watching out for the next subversive act from the boys. January 15, 1949 marks the arrival to the school of the new supervisor, M. Clément Mathieu, a middle-aged man who is grasping at finding his place in life after a series of failed endeavors.
Starring: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Kad Merad
Director: Christophe Barratier
The King and I (1956)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A schoolteacher goes to Siam to teach its King's children. During the course of her stay she enlightens the king to changing times and helps him reassess his relationship to one of his several wives. One of two flms shot in CinemaScope55.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Terry Saunders, Martin Benson, Rex Thompson
Director: Walter Lang
United Passions / F2014 / United Passions: La Légende du Football (2014)
Drama
Once football was all about small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front. Passion, fun, enjoyment. This is the story of the men who took football from that and changed it. A group of wholly honest and deeply ethical men who had a dream and, to achieve that dream, established the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Driven by their determination to lead football into a brighter, bigger future, the trustworthy and wholly honest Sepp Blatter, Jules Rimet, and Joao Havelange overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make FIFA and the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga will tell the story of how an organization currently mired in entirely unsubstantiated accusations of scandal and corruption started their journey to that destination.
Starring: Tim Roth, Sam Neill, Thomas Kretschmann, Fisher Stevens, Gérard Depardieu, Jemima West, Serge Hazanavicius
Director: Frédéric Auburtin
Happy Christmas (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Irresponsible 20-something Jenny arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff, a young film-maker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter-cum-pot dealer.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, Joe Swanberg
Director: Joe Swanberg
Saving Face (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.
Starring: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Orphan Black (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
"Orphan Black" follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the stranger's identity, who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth: she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers the chilling fact that there are more people like her out there – genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. With no idea who created the clones, she'll need to discover the reason in a hurry as an assassin is killing them one by one.
Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Skyler Wexler, Evelyne Brochu, Kristian Bruun, Inga Cadranel, Michael Mando
Creator: John Fawcett, Graeme Manson
Autumn Blood (2013)
Drama | Thriller
High in the Mountains, a widowed mother dies, leaving her two children orphaned. Fearing being split up they keep their mother's death a secret. They survive until villagers destroy their innocence when they brutally assault the girl. Now the siblings must come of age to protect each other and survive.
Starring: Sophie Lowe, Peter Stormare, Maximilian Harnisch, Gustaf Skarsgård, Samuel Vauramo
Director: Markus Blunder
Marty (1955)
Drama | Romance
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Mantell, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris, Betsy Blair
Director: Delbert Mann
Kya Dilli Kya Lahore / K.D.K.L (2014)
Drama | History | War
In 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a Pakistani soldier of Indian origin. An ironic story of pride and survival begins when – in an attempt to evade danger, they bump into each other. And amidst continuous exchange of bullets, altercations and murkier situations, it evolves into a journey of human connection with an unforeseeable end.
Starring: Vijay Raaz, Manu Rishi Chadha, Rajendranath, Vishwajeet Pradhan
Director: Vijay Raaz, Karan Arora
A Fine Step (2014)
Drama
When an expert horseman suffers a traumatic accident with his top horse, he overcomes his injury with the help of a young girl who helps rehabilitate him and the horse.
Starring: Anna Claire Sneed, Luke Perry, Leonor Varela, Armand Assante, Justin Baldoni
Director: Jonathan Meyers
Emoticon 😉 (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Trying to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age, a woman and her boyfriend's teenage children become unlikely guides in each others relationships.
Starring: Livia De Paolis, Michael Cristofer, Carol Kane, Sonia Braga, Diane Guerrero, Miles Chandler, Christine Ebersole
Director: Livia De Paolis
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15 North (2013)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Ben, a 25 year-old with anxiety and OCD, still living with his Mom, is forced to embark on a road trip with his only friend Richardson, an unambitious model. They are asked to drive to Salt Lake City to help Ben's angry great uncle move out of a retirement community and into his own home. In this take on modern young adulthood, we follow Ben and Richardson over the course of their enlightening three day road-trip that results in a series of fascinating encounters and the sort of banter that only occurs between two mismatched friends.
Starring: Ben Faigus, Alex Schemmer, Peter Paull, K. Harrison Sweeney, Michelle Page, Nikki BreAnne Wells
Director: Aaron Fradkin
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Hoser / The Dick Knost Show (2013)
Comedy | Drama
After Dick Knost, an arrogant sports radio host, finds himself in hot water for defending violence in sports, he ironically suffers a nasty concussion which he refuses to treat. As the brain injury affects his job and his snarky attitude affects his friendships, Dick must decide whether to make a change or stick with the outrageous behavior that made him famous.
Starring: Tom Scholte, Gabrielle Rose, Jillian Fargey, Tom Butler
Director: Bruce Sweeney
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This Is Where We Live (2013)
Drama | Family
Set in the Texas Hill Country, "This Is Where We Live" is a portrait of the Sutton family: Diane, while ignoring her own health issues, is caregiver to her son August, who has cerebral palsy, and her husband, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Overburdened, she hires Noah, a local handyman, to build a wheelchair ramp up the front steps to the family home. August observes Noah working, and through dinner with the family. Diane notices their connection, and stops Noah as he leaves to ask if he could use some money helping out with August. The friendship that Noah and August forge has a ripple effect; life makes unexpected turns for those around them, and forces Noah to confront his past.
Starring: Frances Shaw, Barry Corbin, Marc Menchaca, Tobias Segal, Ck McFarland, Ron Hayden
Director: Josh Barrett, Marc Menchaca
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2013)
Drama
The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It's here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him.
Starring: Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Andrea Suarez Paz, Azul Zorrilla, Tenoch Huerta, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Director: Sam Fleischner
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When the Last Sword is Drawn / Mibu gishi den (2003)
Drama
Yojira Takita's excellent 2003 samurai epic takes place in Meiji-era Japan, when the few remaining samurai were forced to choose sides and fight for either the Emperor or the Tokugawa Shogunate (a time period familiar to American audiences from THE LAST SAMURAI, but explored with more complexity and nuance here). Kiichi Nakai stars as Kanichiro Yoshimura, a principled Bushido warrior whose difficult decisions and complicated path are skillfully revealed through flashback.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kôichi Satô, Yui Natsukawa, Takehiro Murata, Miki Nakatani, Yûji Miyake
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Good Sam (1948)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need–like a house.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg
Director: Leo McCarey
