Night on Earth (1991)
Comedy | Drama
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Rosie Perez, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Isaach De Bankolé
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Plunder Road (1957)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
On a dark rainy night, five men stage a well-planned U.S. Mint train robbery and walk away with ten million in gold bullion. To throw the cops off the track, the gang split up the massive haul into three concealed truckloads and go off to three different directions hoping for a perfect getaway.
Starring: Gene Raymond, Elisha Cook Jr., Wayne Morris, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Jeanne Cooper
Director: Hubert Cornfield
Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
Drama | Thriller
In a wintry small town, the body of a teenager named Jamie Marks is found by the river. Adam, the star of his cross-country team, becomes fascinated with Jamie-a boy nobody really knew or interacted with, except occasionally to bully him. When Jamie's ghost begins to appear both to Adam and Gracie, the classmate who discovered the body, Adam is caught between two worlds. He has a budding romance with Gracie, but he also feels a deep connection to Jamie, who brings him closer to the world of the undead.
Starring: Judy Greer, Liv Tyler, Cameron Monaghan, Morgan Saylor, Noah Silver, Madisen Beaty
Director: Carter Smith
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Out of the Past / Build My Gallows High (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Dickie Moore, Richard Webb
Director: Jacques Tourneur
The Kung Fu Instructor / Instructor / Jiao tou (1979)
Action | Drama
Huang is a famous martial artist trapped into teaching kung-fu to the wrong clan while the opposing `good` clan tries to save him so he can instruct their members. Besides kung-fu comedienne Wang Yu starring in one of his few serious roles, Sun became the first Shaw Brothers' director to use a Steadicam which gives the film‘s action and editing style a unique brand of tension and rhythm. The pole fights are also out of this world.
Starring: Lung Ti, Yue Wong, Feng Ku, Angie Chiu, Lung Wei Wang
Director: Chung Sun
The North Star / Armored Attack! (1943)
Drama | Musical | Romance | War
When the school year ends, five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev. Their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation. While many escape to the hills to form an anti-Nazi resistance group, a German doctor, Dr. Otto Von Harden (Erich von Stroheim), begins to use the children for medical experiments and as sources of blood transfusions for wounded German soldiers. Directed by Lewis Milestone, this story of valiant resistance stars Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter and Walter Huston as the Russian doctor who discovers the nefarious German plot. THE NORTH STAR was re-released in the midst of the Cold War as ARMORED ATTACK! The original references to the allied Russian military were excised and an overtly anti-Communist narration track was added.
Starring: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Jane Withers
Director: Lewis Milestone
Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage / Faust (1926)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
Starring: Emil Jannings, William Dieterle, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Director: F.W. Murnau
Greencard Warriors / Crosstown (2013)
Action | Drama | Romance
When 14 year-old Angel, an undocumented Latino, loses his older brother to the US Military in order to gain naturalization for the family, he turns to a local street gang for brotherhood and guidance through life in the ghetto. As his world becomes increasingly violent, life-altering lies are exposed ensuring that his family will never be the same.
Starring: Manny Perez, Angel Amaral, Vivica A. Fox, Richard Cabral, Paige Hurd
Director: Miriam Kruishoop
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See You Next Tuesday (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Mona (Eleanore Pienta) is a mentally unbalanced and very pregnant young woman in a hideous orange coat. Without any friends to speak of and alienated from her hoochie mama coworkers at a crummy Brooklyn supermarket, Mona maintains a strangely close relationship with her campy, recovering alcoholic mother May (Dana Eskelson). Mona's sister Jordan (Molly Plunk) is an unemployable party girl, estranged from May and making life hell for her increasingly fed up girlfriend Sylve (Keisha Zollar). In the final days of her pregnancy, Mona draws her mother, sister, and anybody who happens to get caught in her wake into her hectic life as she drifts further from reality. Featuring a tapestry of diverse characters with varying levels of sanity and awful taste in wardrobe, ""See You Next Tuesday"" is a dark comedy the whole family can enjoy cutting themselves to.
Starring: Eleanore Pienta, Dana Eskelson, Molly Plunk , Keisha Zollar
Director: Drew Tobia
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The Paddy Lincoln Gang (2012)
Drama
The Paddy Lincoln Gang are a rock band with everything – as well as total immersion in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But their charismatic lead singer holds a dark secret from his past, a secret that is about to explode.
Starring: Dean S. Jagger, Joseph DiMasso, Richard Wagner, Demetri Watkins, Stephen Bridgewater, Amy Lawhorn, Glen Matlock
Director: Ben Jagger
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A River of Skulls (2010)
Drama | Western
Left to fend for herself after the tragic death of her mother, Eula is forced to take action in order to survive. In the midst of the 1870s gold rush, there are few she can trust, and she soon finds herself tagging along with an outcast on a mission to find his bandit father. Far from the comforts of home, Eula begins to realize that there is a whole world out there, and it's far more dangerous than she ever imagined.
Starring: Trent Anderson, Aleph Ayin, Bruce D. Cole, Donald Forrest, Paul Henry, Erik MacRay, Kelly Nixon
Director: Suza Lambert Bowser
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The Devil's Playground (1976)
Drama
In August 1953, the 13-year old Tom Allan attends a Catholic seminary in Melbourne, Australia. Students and brothers face individual challenges of faith and self-restraint.
Starring: Arthur Dignam, Simon Burke
Director: Fred Schepisi
The Rover (2014)
Crime | Drama
In the Australian desert in the dangerous and dysfunctional near future, Eric is a withdrawn lone-wolf drifter who is sent into a rage when his only important possession, his car, is stolen by a sadistic band of thieves. During their escape, the thieves leave behind one of their own, Rey, and Eric uses him to hunt the others.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, David Field, Anthony Hayes, Gillian Jones, Susan Prior
Director: David Michôd
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A Promise (2013)
Drama | Romance
In Germany in 1912, Frederic, a recent graduate, finds a clerical post in a steel factory. Impressed by him, the elderly owner, Karl Hoffmeister, hires him as his private secretary. His health declining, Karl is confined to his home, into which Frederic moves. There he meets Karl's wife, a much younger woman, the beautiful and reserved Lotte. Over time, Frederic falls deeply in love with her, but does not dare reveal his feelings, and a romantic intrigue develops within the stifling bourgeois home.
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray, Maggie Steed
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Cinemanovels (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In this slyly humorous family drama about what we inherit (and don't inherit) from our parents, Grace (Lauren Lee Smith) has not spoken to her recently deceased father, a fabled filmmaker, in years. She surprises her confidant (Jennifer Beals) and herself when, on a trip to pick up some of his belongings, she offers to help put together a retrospective of his work and finds herself influenced in strange and significant ways.
Starring: Lauren Lee Smith, Jennifer Beals, Ben Cotton, Kett Turton, Katharine Isabelle
Director: Terry Miles
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Tooth and Nail (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals. As the Rovers take out the Foragers one by one, the Foragers must draw on all their resources to stay alive.
Starring: Nicole DuPort, Rider Strong, Michael Kelly, Alexandra Barreto, Robert Carradine, Emily Catherine Young
Director: Mark Young
One Third / Sanbun no ichi (2014)
Drama
The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shuu (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a worker at the club named Koji (Koki Tanaka) and one of the patrons named Ken (Ryuichi Kosugi) succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into 3, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their share. In addition, a renown figure is after their money.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Mika Nakashima, Kôki Tanaka, Ryûichi Kosugi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Pîtâ
Director: Hiroshi Shinagawa
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter / Magnificent Pole Fighters / Wu Lang ba gua gun (1984)
Action | Drama
The Yang family was the loyal strong-arm of the Imperial army. But a jealous General betrays the Eilte Spearman and their father to the opposing Mongol army. After an ambush of a battle, only two of the seven sons survive. One remains hidden by the family while the other lives on the run. The traitorous general must find them and silence them before either of them can testify to the Emperor of his treachery.
Starring: Chia-Hui Liu, Sheng Fu, Lily Li, Kara Hui, Ching-Ching Yeung, Lung Wei Wang
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
The Sentimental Swordsman / To ching chien ko wu ching chien (1977)
Action | Drama
Due to his own extreme ideals, famed swordsman Li has lost everyone dear to him. After his life is saved by a rival swordsman, Li's overwhelming pride means he forsakes the woman he loves and lets her marry his saviour. Li's only comfort is alcohol and the simple life he has now accepted. On one such journey, the lonely swordsman befriends the exceptionally skilled, yet secretive Fei who has his own pressures to contend with. The person behind Li's troubles proves to be elusive, though all the clues seem to point to the legendary 'Plum Blossom Bandit', a disguised figure whose identity has long proved elusive to the martial world.
Starring: Lung Ti, Li Ching, Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Hua Yueh
Director: Yuen Chor
The Flying Guillotine / Xue di zi (1975)
Action | Drama
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.
Starring: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Ti Ai, Wei Tu Lin, Yue Wong, Yang Chiang
Director: Meng Hua Ho
