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
Go for Sisters (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice- her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice's son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
Starring: Edward James Olmos, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Harold Perrineau, Hector Elizondo, Isaiah Washington
Director: John Sayles
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Don't Know Yet (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Adrift in misery, a heartbroken man lets the hitchhikers he picks up determine his direction and destiny. Everything changes when he meets a free-spirited woman who guides him on a journey of healing and self-discovery while hiding a secret of her own.
Starring: James Kyson, Lisa Goldstein Kirsch, David Andrews, Shane Callahan, Cullen Moss, Jane McNeill
Director: Terry Linehan
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Horses of God / Les chevaux de Dieu (2012)
Drama
A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
Starring: Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek, Ahmed El Idrissi Amrani
Director: Nabil Ayouch
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Live East Die Young / L.E.D.Y. (2012)
Drama | Music
LIVE EAST DIE YOUNG is a meditation on the lifestyle of the Generation Naughties. Set in the East End's party scene featuring a cast of real-life East London hipsters, the film features a unique soundtrack from underground artists such Bo Ningen and Feral AKA MC Kinky.
Starring: Daisy Bates, Ed Cooper Clarke, Zoe Grisedale, Lewis Grolle, James Jeanette Main, George Mowlam, Jasmine Polak
Director: Laura Hypponen
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Home, James (2014)
Drama | Romance
Home, James is a romance that follows James, a local Tulsa photographer as he falls for Cooper, a party girl looking for a way out of town, who both inspires him to take a chance with his art and begins destroying his life with her drinking.
Starring: Jonathan Rossetti, Kerry Knuppe, Julie Gearheard, Rick Dacey, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Marshall Bell
Director: Jonathan Rossetti
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Biography | Drama
Frankie is a go-go dancer struggling with two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Starring: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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A Night in Nude: Salvation / Nûdo no yoru: Ai wa oshiminaku ubau (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jiro (Naoto Takenaka) is a man who can do anything for you for a price. Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items. That's what he's asked to do by a beautiful young woman (Hiroko Sato) who shows up at his warehouse living space one afternoon. This young woman asks Jiro to help her track down a lost Rolex watch that she says was accidentally thrown out of a helicopter while she was scattering the ashes of her late father. Jiro knows the story isn't true, but he needs the money so he and the young woman begin poking around miles of woodland in the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. Miraculously Jiro finds the wrist watch, but it looks to be caked in rotting meat. Needy but not stupid Jiro hands the watch over to a sympathetic police woman he knows for analysis. Little does Jiro know that the discovery of this Rolex will lead to another case, one filled with violence, sex and danger, one that will lead him directly into the heart of darkness.
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Hiroko Satô, Machiko Kochi, Harumi Inoue, Jô Shishido, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Takashi Ishii
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Drama
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963, travel back in time to witness the dramatic birth of Doctor Who. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of tough-guy roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry’s glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday afternoon drama, time travel and monsters! Allied with a brilliant creative team, they went on to introduce the world to the longest running science fiction series ever, currently in its 50th year and counting.
Starring: David Bradley, Jessica Raine, Brian Cox, Sacha Dhawan, Lesley Manville, Jamie Glover
Director: Terry McDonough
Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother (1999)
Drama
Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela.
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa Maria Sardà, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
The Little House / Chiisai ouchi (2014)
Drama
A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.
Starring: Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Takatarô Kataoka, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baishô, Isao Hashizume
Director: Yôji Yamada
The Box (2009)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An unhappily married couple receive a small wooden box on their doorstep. At the push of a button, the box brings its bearer instant wealth but also instantly kills someone the bearer doesn't know.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Gillian Jacobs, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne
Director: Richard Kelly
Twin Peaks (TV Series 1990-1991)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Joan Chen
Creator: Mark Frost, David Lynch
Starred Up (2013)
Drama
Prison drama about a troubled and explosively violent teenager who is transferred to adult prison, where he finally meets his match – a man who also happens to be his father. 19 year-old Eric Love is a violent, young offender, prematurely thrown into the dark world of an adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself against the prison officers and the other inmates, he has to confront his own father, Nev, a man who has spent most of his life in jail. As Eric forges allegiances with other prisoners, he learns that his rage can be overcome, and discovers the new rules of survival. But there are forces at work which threaten to destroy him….
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Sam Spruell, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala
Director: David Mackenzie
Rosemary's Baby (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
Rosemary and Guy are incredulous at their good fortune and find comfort in a strange city among their new friends and neighbors, the Castevets. This well-to-do successful older couple takes the newcomers under their wing and become very involved with the Woodhouses' lives. Things seem to be perfect as Rosemary becomes pregnant and Guy's career takes off. As their spirited best friend, Guy's co-worker Julie, spends quality time with Rosemary in the city, she finds Rosemary's health worrying and cautions both of them that something isn't right. Soon there are other signs warning Rosemary to be careful.
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Jason Isaacs, Carole Bouquet
Creator: Scott Abbott, Ira Levin, James Wong
The Double (2013)
Drama | Thriller
A comedy centered on a man who is driven insane by the appearance of his doppleganger.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Sally Hawkins, Jesse Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor
Director: Richard Ayoade
Black Robe (1991)
Adventure | Drama | History | Western
A 17th century Jesuit priest and his young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful daughter. Dread and death follows them upriver.
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal
Director: Bruce Beresford
