Frankenstein (2004)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Starring: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir
Director: Kevin Connor
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
Gloria (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Starring: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Sexy Beast (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ex-con Gary "Gal" Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking and explosive battle of wills with Logan, a battle that redefines his notions of love, honor and commitment.
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Lootera (2013)
Drama | Romance
The year is 1953. A visiting archaeologist called Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal to excavate the temple grounds of the local Zamindar. With knowledge and experience beyond his young demeanour, Varun greatly impresses the Zamindar and his family.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Adil Hussain, Vikrant Massey, Arif Zakaria
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Unforgiven / Yurusarezaru mono (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880's. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kôichi Satô, Akira Emoto, Yûya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Takahiro Miura, Ken'ichi Takitô, Yoshimasa Kondô
Director: Sang-il Lee
Very Ordinary Couple / Yeonaeui Wondo (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Young and Dong-Hee work at the same bank. They secretly dated for the past 3 years, but recently decided to end their relationship. Both tell the other that they are fine, but inside they are not. Can they live without each other? Can they live with each other?
Starring: Min-ki Lee, Min-hee Kim, Yeon-soo Ha, Mi-ran Ra, Moo-Seong Choi
Director: Deok Noh
Heli (2013)
Drama
Love story between a young girl and a police man, both of them had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This will create a conflict that love will try to overcome.
Starring: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios, Kenny Johnston
Director: Amat Escalante
A Zed & Two Noughts / Zoo (1985)
Comedy | Drama
The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Preoccupied with death and decomposition, the brothers organise elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals, making time-lapse films of dalmatians and zebras to chart the decay. Cue the scurrying hoards of snails and Michael Nyman's thrilling frenetic score. When Alba herself dies, the twins decide to join her in death, and set about filming their own decaying human bodies. Greenaway's fascination with the Dutch painter Vermeer, is evident in A Zed And Two Noughts, particularly in the lighting.
Starring: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Millionairess (1960)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
London-based Millionairess Epifania (Sophia Loren) is attracted to Dr. Kabir (MD from Delhi and PhD from Calcutta), who is more intent on treating patients. When she persists, he confides in her that he had made a commitment to his late widowed seamstress mother that he will wed any woman who will manage to survive on just Rs.500/-, for 90 days. She finds out that this sum is equivalent to just 35 shillings but readily accepts this challenge. She also informs him that her late father had also imposed a condition that she must wed a male who will turn £500 into £15000 within the same period. Epifania then finds employment with an Italian firm, ends up re-organizing, and turning up the firm's profits. At the end of 90 days, she goes to meet Kabir and discovers that he has not only given all the money away but also has no interest whatsoever in marrying her.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Asquith
For Ever Mozart (1996)
Comedy | Drama | War
Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director's efforts to complete his film.
Starring: Frédéric Pierrot
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Comedy | Drama
An opthamologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Starring: Caroline Aaron, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom, Mia Farrow, Joanna Gleason, Anjelica Huston, Martin Landau, Jenny Nichols, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston
Director: Woody Allen
Witness (1985)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are in jeopardy. He hides out in Amish country, living amongst the community and having to abide by their peaceful customs. Things get more complicated when he falls in love with the young widow. But, soon the idyllic life is shattered when the villains discover his whereabouts.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, josef Sommer, Danny Glover, Alexander Godunov
Director: Peter Weir
Black Plague / Anazapta (2002)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In 1348, with the horrors of the Black Death haunting Europe, English soldiers return home from war with a French nobleman as hostage. When people in their home village soon after begin to die, it is believed that the Black Death has struck once more. However, there are other dark reasons behind the sudden deaths.
Starring: Lena Headey, David La Haye, Jason Flemyng, Christopher Fairbank
Director: Alberto Sciamma
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Fortune Cookie Prophecies (2011)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
At an isolated cottage, two couples crack open fortune cookies that prophesize their imminent death. After one of them dies suddenly, all hell breaks loose. Armed with only one Buddha Chain, that can protect only the person wearing it, the remaining three people must now solve the mystery of the fortune cookies. Can they stop the prophecies before it's too late???
Starring: Emily Alatalo, John David Edwards, Adam Kolozsvari, Amanda Strachan, Vivian Cheung, Kwan Ho Tse
Director: Henry Li
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Lan Kwai Fong 3 / Xi ai ye pu 3 (2014)
Drama | Romance
Shin and Sara have been engaged for two years but after an argument they agree to have a break and have some fun individually. It doesn't take long for Sara's best friend Jeana, who always has a soft spot on Shin, to try all means to seduce him. Meanwhile, Jeana's boyfriend Jacky is also getting close with Jolie and her fun and wild attitude to life. So comes the wekeend and Lan Kwai Fong is as bustling as usual. The girls prepare to rock the club when Sara meets hot Korean Kim. Now the relationship between all of them starts to change… and things really hot up!
Starring: Whitney Hui, Chi-Sing Lam, Ava Liu, Jeana Ho, Celia Kwok
Director: Wilson Chin
Jailbait / 17 & Life: Jailbait (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.
Starring: Samantha Cardona, Sara Malakul Lane, Erin O'Brien, Steve Hanks, David Brite, Shannon Walters
Director: Jared Cohn
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Holy Ghost People (2013)
Drama | Thriller
In this psychological thriller, nineteen-year old Charlotte enlists the help of alcoholic ex-Marine Wayne to find her estranged sister who has gone missing deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Their search leads them to the Church of One Accord and an enigmatic snake-handling preacher named Brother Billy, who's devoted congregation of outcasts knowingly risk injury or death seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost. What Wayne and Charlotte uncover during their time on the mountain – about themselves and the nature of faith – will shake them to their core, as the mystery of Charlotte's sister and her fate unravels…
Starring: Emma Greenwell, Joe Egender, Brendan McCarthy
Director: Mitchell Altieri
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12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
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The Shipping News (2001)
Drama | Romance
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn
Director: Lasse Hallström
