Q / Desire (2011)
Drama
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Starring: Déborah Révy, Helene Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro, Christelle Benoit
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Once Were Warriors (1994)
Crime | Drama
Drama, based on the bestselling novel by Alan Duff, about a family in a state of perpetual crisis due to the husband's uncontrollable violence.
Starring: Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Rena Owen, Julian Arahanga
Director: Lee Tamahori
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals. Originally intended to be the first in a series of "Last American…" movies (based on the popular Israeli "Lemon Popsicle" series which began with Lemon Popsicle).
Starring: Steve Antin, Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Joe Rubbo, Louisa Moritz
Director: Boaz Davidson
$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story (2014)
Drama
When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to join the group and Seth's uptight fiancé insists on tagging along. This raucous road trip comedy features hip-hop star Asher Roth.
Starring: Ross Patterson, Jessie Wiseman, Seth Grossman, Lauren Aboulafia, Asher Roth
Director: Seth Grossman
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Voodoo Possession (2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
Imagine an insatiable demon that feeds on blood, thrives on pain, and reaches from beyond the grave to torment the living…and the dead. For believers and skeptics alike, there is nothing in this world or the next to rival the relentless evil of a Voodoo Possession. Burdened since childhood with a gnawing sense of guilt, cynical Aiden Chase journeys to a Haitian insane asylum in search of his missing brother. Upon arriving, he discovers all the inmates and the hospital administrator (Danny Trejo, Machete) are seemingly possessed by a bloodthirsty voodoo spirit. Now, Aiden must abandon reality and descend into a terrifying spirit world to try to rescue his brother – or they will both be damned for eternity.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Ryan Caltagirone, Kerry Knuppe, David Thomas Jenkins, Treva Etienne, Tomas Boykin, Nancy La Scala, Abe Spigner
Director: Walter Boholst
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Towheads (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Adventurous and bold mother of two, PENELOPE, struggles to strike the balance between her artistic aspirations and motherly responsibilities in this playful look at modern-day motherhood and the difficulties families face everyday.
Starring: Shannon Plumb, Derek Cianfrance, Cody Cianfrance, Walker Cianfrance, Lora Lee Gayer
Director: Shannon Plumb
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The Happy Sad (2013)
Drama
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.
Starring: Leroy McClain, Sorel Carradine, Charlie Barnett, Cameron Scoggins, Maria Dizzia
Director: Rodney Evans
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Pokémon the Movie: White – Victini and Zekrom / Gekijoban Poketto Monsuta besuto uisshu bikutini to kuroki eiyu zekuromu (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
During their travels through the Unova region, Ash and his friends Iris and Cilan arrive in Eindoak Town, built around a castle called the Sword of the Vale. The three Trainers have come to compete in the town's annual battle competition, and Ash manages to win with some unexpected help from the Mythical Pokémon Victini. It turns out Victini has a special bond with this place. Long ago, the castle watched over the Kingdom of the Vale, and the partnership between Victini and the king protected its people who lived there. But that kingdom has since vanished into memory, leaving behind powerful relics and ancient Pokémon. Damon, a descendant of the People of the Vale, is trying to restore the lost kingdom with the help of his Reuniclus. His quest has taken him to the far reaches of the barren desert, and he has convinced the Legendary Pokémon Reshiram to join him in the search for truth. Damon plans to trap Victini and harness its power, and as that plan gets under way, the entire town of Eindoak faces disaster. Can Ash awaken the Legendary Pokémon Zekrom to help him stop Damon and save Victini?
Starring: Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ôtani, Hideki Takahashi, Takeshi Tsuruno, Satomi Ishihara
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Bonnie and Clyde: Dead and Alive / Bonnie and Clyde (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Dale Dickey, Austin Hébert, Jack Thompson, Holly Hunter, William Hurt
Director: Bruce Beresford
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well / Daijiga umule pajinnal (1996)
Drama
Can you imagine how people react when they see a pig falling into the well? Naturally, they will gather around to witness this peculiar accident. After a while, the pig disappears into the water, and all that is left is just the reflection of people's faces on the surface of the water. Feeling embarrassed and awkward, they quickly return to the routine of their daily lives. The movie is the very portrait of people gathering around the well. The well in which the pig drowns is a metaphor for the city of Seoul in 1996, says director Hong Sang-soo. The characters of the film represent a sampling of several types of individuals seeking fulfillment in the mid-1990s after undergoing the tumultuous period of the 1980s. He asked four screenplay writers to write a day in the life of the four major characters in the film. Acting as detective, each writer imagined following a character through Seoul. Hong them brought together the separate stories and wove them into a cohesive narrative structure. The movie intermingles the episodes revolving around the four major characters: novelist Hyo-sup, housewife Bo-kyung, salesman Dong-woo and box office girl Min-jae.
Starring: Eun-hee Bang, Eun-sook Cho, Eui-sung Kim, Eung-kyung Lee, Sun-mi Myeong, Jin-seong Park, Kang-ho Song
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Five Shaolin Masters / Shao Lin wu zu (1974)
Action | Drama
Hu Te escapes the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi (the traitor, played by Wang Lung Wei), joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots. Suffering continuous defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, the 5 Shaolin patriots return to the temple ruins to perfect their kung fu and take revenge for their destroyed temple and dead comrades.
Starring: David Chiang, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Fei Meng, Lung Wei Wang, Ka-Yan Leung
Director: Cheh Chang
Zatoichi's Conspiracy / Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri / Zatôichi 25 (1973)
Action | Drama
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Convoy (1978)
Action | Drama
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family's disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
Starring: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Silvia Fenz
Director: Michael Haneke
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Woody Allen writes and directs this comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine (Blanchett) travels from New York to San Fransisco to stay with her sister Ginger (Hawkins). The ensemble cast also features Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Woody Allen
Gone Missing (2013)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may have led to the disappearances. Loving but overprotective mom Rene's worst fears come true when her 18-year-old daughter Kaitlin and her best friend Matty go missing from a San Diego resort during Spring Break. Rene will stop at nothing to find her daughter, even if it means starting her own investigation into the night her daughter went missing. With the help of her son Kennedy and Matty's mom Lisa, Rene navigates the San Diego Spring Break scene, digging into her daughter's night of partying, and discovering some unsettling facts about Kaitlin's secret life. With the clock ticking, Rene gets closer and closer to the truth about her daughter's disappearance. But will she make it to her daughter in time or is she already too late?
Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Lauren Bowles, Brigette Davidovici, Gage Golightly
Director: Tara Miele
JIN / Time Slip Dr. Jin (TV Series 2009- )
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The story follows a brain surgeon named, Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period. He is soon attacked by a samurai, but he escapes with the help of a man named Kyotaro. Kyotaro suffers a serious injury to the head while trying to protect him, but Jin manages to save his life despite a lack of proper medical equipment. Because of that, Kyotaro's sister Saki begins taking an interest in Jin and becomes his assistant. Meanwhile, Jin is determined to find a way back to the present.
Starring: Takao Ohsawa, Miki Nakatani, Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Kenta Kiritani, Masaaki Uchino, Hiromasa Taguchi, Tetsu Saiki, Daiki Nakae, Yumi Asô, Erena Mizusawa, Takahiro Fujimoto, Aki Mizusawa, Saki Takaoka
Creator: Yoshiko Morishita, Motoka Murakami
Hostages (TV Series 2013- )
Drama | Thriller
A high-octane suspense drama that centers on Dr. Ellen Sanders, a premier surgeon thrust into a chilling political conspiracy when she and her family are held captive in their home by rogue FBI Agent Duncan Carlisle, a desperate man doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, who orders Dr. Sanders to assassinate the President when she operates on him. Carlisle's highly skilled accomplices include his brother-in-law Kramer, whose loyalty to Carlisle will be tested; quick-tempered and intimidating Archer, an ex-military man with a razor-sharp tongue; and the only woman involved, Sandrine, a mysterious last-minute replacement to the team. With her family’s life in peril, Ellen faces an incomprehensible moral dilemma in order to save her overbearing husband Brian, her secretive daughter Morgan and her not-so-innocent son Jake.
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Toni Collette, Mateus Ward, Quinn Shephard, Tate Donovan, Rhys Coiro, Sandrine Holt, Billy Brown, James Naughton
Creator: Rotem Shamir
Free Ride (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Cam Gigandet, Drea de Matteo, Liana Liberato, Yvette Yates
Director: Shana Betz
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, Masam Holden, Dayo Okeniyi
Director: James Ponsoldt
