Recount (2008)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, Tom Wilkinson, Bruce Altman
Director: Jay Roach
An Officer and a Murderer (2012)
Crime | Drama
The riveting film is based on the true story of a powerful and respected military officer who committed numerous brutal crimes and was eventually brought down by a tenacious small town police detective.
Starring: Gary Cole, Laura Harris, Rossif Sutherland, Nahanni Johnstone, Catherine Disher
Director: Norma Bailey
Gimme Shelter (2013)
Drama
16 year old street-wise Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey, is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, to take her in.
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Stephanie Szostak, Ann Dowd
Director: Ron Krauss
Kid Cannabis (2014)
Drama
KID CANNABIS is the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life – complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords – may leave this ex-pizza boy in way over his head.
Starring: Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kenny Wormald, Ron Perlman, Aaron Yoo, John C. McGinley
Director: John Stockwell
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Small Time (2014)
Comedy | Drama
comes to selling cars. Martini is a good-time charley, who never settled down. Klein, however, still pines for his ex-wife Barbara who left him years ago for a more successful man. After their son, Freddy graduates high school, he decides to forego college in favor of selling cars with his old man. But what's good for Klein might not be the best thing for Freddy, as Freddy quickly transforms from innocent young man into a jaded car salesman… leaving Al with a tough decision to make.
Starring: Christopher Meloni, Devon Bostick, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Norris
Director: Joel Surnow
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Son of Batman (2014)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Hidden atop a secret mountain stronghold lies the League of Shadows and its fearless leader, Ra's al Ghul. Together with his equally dangerous daughter Talia, he oversees a trained army of assassins with plans for global domination. But an uprising from within the league now threatens to shift the balance of power and sends Talia and her young son, Damian, fleeing to Gotham City. With assassins on their trail, Talia seeks the protection of Batman, who, unbeknownst to him, is the boy's father. With his son in tow, Batman wages war against the villain Deathstroke and the League of Shadows, all while teaching his headstrong boy that one can't fight crime by becoming a criminal. With help from Gotham's finest, including Commissioner Gordon and Nightwing, Batman will soon discover that his son and most trusted ally are one and the same!
Starring: Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan, Thomas Gibson, Morena Baccarin, Xander Berkeley, Giancarlo Esposito, David McCallum
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Summer in February (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
British drama based on the lives and loves of the Newlyn School of artists, influential at the beginning of the 20th century. Arguably the wildest and most free-spirited sect of the school is the Lamorna Group, who live together at the Lamorna Valley Estate on the Cornish coast. Alfred Munnings is one of the foremost artists based at Lamorna, a strident opponent of modernism particularly famous for his skill at depicting horses. However, Alfred faces stern competition for the love of fellow artist Florence Carter-Wood in the form of the estate's land agent Gilbert Evans.
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Mia Austen, Shaun Dingwall
Director: Christopher Menaul
The Damned United (2009)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
From the best-selling and critically acclaimed novel by David Peace, 'The Damned United' is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Michael Sheen as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough. Timothy Spall stars as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Set in 1960's and 1970's England, 'The Damned United' tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football, Leeds United.
Starring: Michael Sheen, Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, Ralph Ineson, Joe Dempsie, Stephen Graham
Director: Tom Hooper
Golden Chickensss / Gam Gai SSS (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Working as a call girl since she was sixteen, Kam (Sandra Ng) is now a madam with many young girls under her wings. A regular face among the rich and powerful, Kam is fonder of the past when Hong Kong was still under British rule. Gordon (Nick Cheung), the mafia boss whom Kam had a crush on, is released from jail almost two decades after Hong Kong's Handover back to China, and has a hard time coming to terms with the new face of the city. Kam, with nothing but pure intentions, helps Gordon get back on his feet towards a normal life because that's what Hong Kong people do.
Starring: Sandra Ng, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ronald Cheng, Eason Chan, Anthony Wong, Wyman Wong
Director: Matt Chow
Police Story 2013 / Ging chaat goo si 2013 (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Ye Liu, Tian Jing, Wei Na, Rongguang Yu
Director: Sheng Ding
The Doors (1991)
Biography | Drama | Music
Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, from his days as a UCLA film student in the early 1960s to his death in a Paris hotel in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But as the Doors' fame begins to spread-with Morrison as the focus of attention-his drug consumption and erratic behavior increase exponentially. The rest of the band-Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger-begins to grow tired of his late arrivals, the increasing number of cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott
Director: Oliver Stone
The Commitments (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Music
The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
Starring: Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Bronagh Gallagher, Angeline Ball
Director: Alan Parker
A Farewell to Fools (2013)
Comedy | Drama | War
Set during World War II, somewhere in Romania. A German soldier is found dead near a village, and the local authorities must finger the culprit or they will all be shot by Nazis the following morning. There's no way to identify the guilty party, but there is Ipu, the madman of the village, who the town leaders, led by Father Johanis, pressure to claim responsibility for the soldier's death and die to save their skins. A farce seen through the eyes of a young village boy, we witness the comedy and horror of human nature as the villagers manipulate one another-even the ones you'd least expect…
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Laura Morante, Bogdan Iancu, Alexandru Bindea
Director: Bogdan Dreyer
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Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)
Drama | Thriller
The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former pilot of the same company, this film reveals a complex web of complicity between the Air Force and the company to circumvent security controls in order to obtain greater economic benefit in operations.
Starring: Enrique Piñeyro, Mercedes Morán, Alejandro Awada, Adolfo Yanelli, Carlos Portaluppi, Martin Slipak
Director: Enrique Piñeyro
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Secret / Himitsu (1999)
Drama | Fantasy
Yojiro Takita directs this witty, understated comedy about the clash between generations and the different facets of love. Naoko (Kayoko Kishimoto) and her 17-year-old daughter Monami are hospitalized after their bus plunges off the edge of a cliff. Just as Naoko is about to die, she manages to transfer her soul to her daughter's body so as not to be separated from her husband Heisuke (Kaoru Kobayashi).
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida, Hideaki Itô, Tomoe Shinohara, Kayoko Kishimoto, Rie Shibata, Ren Ohsugi, Hatsuo Yamaya
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Time of First Love / Hana no kō ni torio – Hatsukoi jidai (1975)
Drama | Romance
3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Starring: Masako Mori, Junko Sakurada, Momoe Yamaguchi
Director: Kenjiro Morinaga
The Sound of the Waves / Shiosai (1975)
Drama | Romance
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Keiko Tsushima
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Our Children / À perdre la raison (2012)
Drama
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Young and full of life, Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim). A wedding soon follows and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Redouane Behache
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Appaloosa (2008)
Crime | Drama | Western
When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses, and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen
Director: Ed Harris
Ben X (2007)
Drama | Thriller
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Starring: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schrijver, Bavo Smets
Director: Nic Balthazar
