Welcome to the Quiet Room / Quiet room ni yôkoso (2007)
Drama
Asuka Sakura wakes up in the mental asylums quiet room, with no recollection of how she got there.
Starring: Yuki Uchida, Kankurô Kudô, Yû Aoi, Ryô, Yûko Nakamura, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Suzuki Matsuo
Absolute Giganten / Gigantics (1999)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can't comprehend their thoughtful friend's willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic.
Starring: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Numb (2007)
Drama
Hudson Milbank is convinced that he's going insane. But he's just met the perfect girl and struggles to be his most charming self. Meanwhile, he frantically seeks a cure for his anxieties and goes through a string of therapists who turn out to be crazier than him.
Starring: Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins, Kevin Pollak, Mary Steenburgen, Barry W. Levy, Burkely Duffield
Director: Harris Goldberg
Jack et la mécanique du coeur / Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart / The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point.
Starring: Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, Grand Corps Malade, Jean Rochefort, Rossy de Palma, Babet
Director: Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick / Everlasting Moments (2008)
Biography | Drama
Swedish master Jan Troell ('The Emigrants', 'The New Land') returns triumphantly with 'Everlasting Moments', a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time. With a burnished bronze tint that evokes faded photographs, and a broad empathetic palette, Everlasting Moments-based on a true story-is a miraculous tribute to the power of image making.
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall, Ghita Nørby, Amanda Ooms
Director: Jan Troell
Ida / Sister of Mercy (2013)
Drama
In Poland in 1962, Anna is a novice, an orphan raised by nuns in the convent. She has to see Wanda, her only living relative, before her vows. Anna is told she is Jewish by Wanda. Both women start a journey not only to uncover their tragic family story, but who they are and where they belong. They question their religions and the ideas they previously believed in.
Starring: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Lilith (1964)
Drama
A veteran returns to his bleak Maryland hometown and takes a job as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private mental institution for the wealthy.
Starring: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jessica Walter, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Rossen
Mystery Train / One Night in Memphis (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in Memphis, the city of dreams. Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King himself, who presides over the film like a spirit.
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Steve Buscemi, Tom Noonan, Rick Aviles
Director: Tom Waits
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A sweltering hot summer day in Massachusetts, 1892, is pierced by the brutal double murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden that would stun the nation. Lizzie (Christina Ricci), a wholesome Sunday school teacher and Mr. Borden's youngest daughter, quickly becomes the prime suspect. Now, as her lawyer Andrew Jennings (Billy Campbell) proclaims her innocence, the original good-girl-gone-bad will stand trial in one of the most gripping, gruesome mysteries of all time. Her name will forever live in infamy and the eerie children's rhyme will continue to haunt those that know the story, but the truth is anything but clear.
Starring: Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Gregg Henry, Stephen McHattie, Shawn Doyle, Billy Campbell
Director: Nick Gomez
Among Ravens (2014)
Comedy | Drama
The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.
Starring: Amy Smart, Joshua Leonard, Christian Campbell, Russell Friedenberg, Victoria Smurfit, Natalie Imbruglia, Will McCormack, Johnny Sequoyah
Director: Russell Friedenberg, Randy Redroad
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Aberdeen / Heung gong jai / Xiang gang zai (2014)
Drama | Family
The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor's Chinese namesake, represents today's "Little Hong Kong" and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
Starring: Louis Koo, Eric Tsang, Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Man Tat Ng, Carrie Ng, Shawn Yue, Chapman To, Dada Chan
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Devious Maids (TV Series 2013- )
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
Murder and mayhem collide in the mansions of Beverly Hills' wealthiest and most powerful families. Class warfare has never been as fun and dirty as it is in the tony enclave where the staff is as clever, witty, outrageous and downright devilish as their employers. Whoever holds the dirt holds the power-illicit affairs will be revealed and deep dark secrets exposed as we learn the sordid details behind a shocking murder of a beloved housemaid. The series centers on a close-knit group of maids who are bonded together by their jobs, life struggles and the melodramatic “upstairs-downstairs” universe that engulfs their employers.
Starring: Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez, Judy Reyes, Edy Ganem, Rebecca Wisocky, Tom Irwin, Grant Show, Drew Van Acker, Susan Lucci, Mariana Klaveno, Brianna Brown
Creator: Marc Cherry
Genome Hazard / Genom Hazard: aru tensai kagakusha no itsukakan (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hyo-jin Kim, Yôko Maki, Yuri Nakamura, Manabu Hamada. Masatô Ibu, Lee Kyoung-Young, Nahana
Director: Seong-soo Kim
Le hussard sur le toit / The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
In 1832, cholera ravages Provence (South of France). After several misadventures, Angelo, young Italian officer hunted by the Austrian secret police, meets Pauline de Theus, a young lady. After a second accidental meeting, both will start the search of Pauline's husband in a chaotic country.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Love Is the Perfect Crime / L'amour est un crime parfait (2013)
Drama | Thriller
A literature professor at the University of Lausanne, Marc has a reputation for having love affairs with his female students. A few days after the disappearance of one of the most brillant of these, who was his latest conquest, he encounters Anna who is trying to find out more about this beautiful young woman who has disappeared.
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn, Sara Forestier, Denis Podalydès, Marion Duval
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Sir Wilfrid Robarts is an ailing barrister who has been told that he should accept fewer legal cases for the sake of his health. However, he cannot resist defending Leonard Stephen Vole, a man accused of murder whose only alibi is provided by his devoted wife, Christine. The police are convinced of Vole's guilt as he stands to benefit financially from the murder, but Robarts believes that he can prove the man's innocence in court.
Starring: Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Elsa Lanchester, Henry Daniell, John Williams
Director: Billy Wilder
Need for Speed (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins.
Starring: Aaron Paul, Dakota Johnson, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, Sir Maejor
Director: Scott Waugh
Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
After his life is saved by a lonely cop, a mobster who moonlights as a standup comic, provides the cop with a friend: a beautiful woman.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Mike Starr
Director: John McNaughton
In God's Hands (2014)
Drama | Musical
Angie Cartwright was always blessed with a gift for song, but hard times have forced her to give up her dreams of a music career. Now, this single mother is hoping to turn her life around. With a teenage son struggling to become a man and a good-for-nothing fiancé, Angie moves back home to the family she left behind. She will need all the help she can get to face some shocking truths from her past and all the drama that can fit under one roof. Platinum recording artist KeKe Wyatt, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Omar Gooding and Thomas Mikal Ford star in this soulful reminder that faith and family is all that matters.
Starring: Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Omar Gooding, Thomas Mikal Ford, Keke Wyatt, Alvin Moore Jr.
Director: Alvin Moore Jr.
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Window of Opportunity (2012)
Drama
A suspenseful dark comedy/thriller about greed and the corporate world. CEO – Roger Sizemore and his toady CFO, Carl Everett, invite a young hotshot executive, Peter Miller, up to a remote cabin for a weekend of drinking and debauchery, but it is clear that Roger and Carl are setting Peter up to take the fall for their own financial shenanigans. When a couple of call girls come up to add spice to the weekend, things get hairy and way out of hand. Roger may have killed one of them and now enlists Carl and Peter to help cover up the matter. When the girls' pimp, Byron, arrives, the price of life gets quite clear…and outrageous.
Starring: Oliver Muirhead, Jack Maxwell, Phil Proctor, Kym Jackson, Ty Granderson Jones, Rayna Tharani
Director: Samuel Warren Joseph
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