Draft Day (2014)
Drama | Sport
The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Ivan Reitman
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The Walking Dead (TV Series 2010- )
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Based on the comic book series of the same name, The Walking Dead tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Emily Kinney, Scott Wilson, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Danai Gurira, Sonequa Martin-Green
Creator: Frank Darabont
Mourning Recipe / Shijuukunichi no reshipi (2013)
Drama
Through the mother's recipe for living happily, a family is able to overcome their personal wounds and move on with their lives. Ryohei's (Renji Ishibashi ) wife suddenly passes away, leaving Ryohei without the strength to live. Two weeks after her death, a woman visits Ryohei and gives him a recipe which was left by his late wife. Meanwhile, Ryohei's daughter Yuriko comes to visit him. Yuriko's own marriage is about to end.
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Renji Ishibashi, Fumi Nikaidô, Masaki Okada, Taizô Harada
Director: Yuki Tanada
Immediate Family (1989)
Drama
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby.
Starring: Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Deep Red Love / Sekiseki renren (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
High school student Juri (Tao Tsuchiya) leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother & classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
Starring: Tao Tsuchiya, Fumika Shimizu, Ryô Yoshizawa, Yô Yoshida, Narimi Arimori, Ren Ohsugi, Naomi Akimoto
Director: Kazuya Konaka
La reine Margot / Queen Margot (1994)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Pascal Greggory
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Fedora (1978)
Drama | Romance
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress out of retirement.
Starring: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Gottfried John, Arlene Francis
Director: Billy Wilder
Boardwalk Empire (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | History
Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Stephen Graham, Vincent Piazza, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Michael Kenneth Williams, Paul Sparks, Gretchen Mol, Michael Stuhlbarg, Anthony Laciura, Jack Huston, Anatol Yusef
Creator: Terence Winter
Jake Squared (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Jake Klein, 50, sets out to make a movie. He hires an actor to play himself and throws a big party. His idea is to shoot the heck out of it and see what he gets. But, everything spins out of control as different, unexpected people show up. Old loves are there. New loves are there. His dead father, his mother when she was young, his kids, his ex-wife. Even his younger selves, Jake at 40, Jake at 30 and Jake at 17, are there, too! And every one of them has tons of advice on how to fix his screwed up life. Jake's head reels as he staggers through what's either a mystical experience, a nervous breakdown… or both!
Starring: Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen, Jane Seymour, Mike Vogel
Director: Howard Goldberg
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Coldwater (2013)
Drama | Thriller
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, the counselors, and with the retired war colonel in charge.
Starring: P.J. Boudousqué, James C. Burns, Chris Petrovski, Octavius J. Johnson
Director: Vincent Grashaw
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Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Biography | Drama
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – The true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828. He had been held captive in a dungeon for his entire life that he could remember, and had only just been released, for reasons unknown. Who is this man, and who would want him dead?
Starring: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Volker Prechtel
Director: Werner Herzog
Wake in Fright / Outback (1971)
Drama
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a teacher who arrives in the outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But a long detour of gambling, alcohol and brutality change Grant's plans.
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Allacciate le cinture / Fasten Your Seatbelts (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to. This dramedy on relationships also gets a very credible performance from Paola Miraccione, who plays the tragic, albeit funny, character Egle.
Starring: Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arca, Filippo Scicchitano, Carolina Crescentini, Paola Minaccioni
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Toy Soldiers (1991)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious boys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis School to put the son of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis School would be an even better bargaining chip.
Starring: Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R. Lee Ermey, Louis Gossett Jr., George Perez
Director: Daniel Petrie Jr.
An Autumn Afternoon / Sanma no aji (1962)
Drama
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Late Autumn / Akibiyori (1960)
Drama
A widow try to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Mariko Okada
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Good Morning / Ohayô (1959)
Comedy | Drama
Two young boys in Tokyo take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a TV set.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Equinox Flower / Higanbana (1958)
Comedy | Drama
Wataru Hirayama is an old-fashioned father, whose outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter tells him she wants a love-match.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Floating Weeds / Ukikusa (1959)
Drama
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
Starring: Chishû Ryû
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
Drama
Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. The people around her tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
