Blood and Sand (1941)
Drama | Sport
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Sorry, Thanks / Living with the Animals / Dong-mool-gwa Ham-gge Sa-neun Se-sang / Mi-han-hae, Ko-ma-weo (2011)
Drama
"Sorry, Thanks" is an omnibus film containing four short films. The central theme is the relationship between pets and their owners. In Heung-Sik Park's "My Younger Brother" a 6-year-old girl gets separated from her dog when her mother gets pregnant with her second child and the family decides to give the dog away for adoption. Soon-rye Lim's "Catty Kiss" tells the story of an old maid who often takes in stray cats. This has caused a conflict with her father who doesn't understand why she devotes so much money and time into the cats. Jeom-gyoon Oh's "Chu Chu" shows the friendship between the homeless man Young-jin and the stray dog Chu Chu. In Il-gon Song's "Thank You, I'm Sorry" a hard-working mother inherits a dog after the death of her father. Taking care of her father's dog causes her to reflect on her life.
Starring: Seo-Hyeon Ahn, Ji-ho Kim, Young-min Kim, Tae-hwa Seo
Director: Soon-rye Lim, Jeom-gyoon Oh, Heung-Sik Park, Il-gon Song
Fierce People (2005)
Drama | Thriller
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Starring: Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart, Paz de la Huerta, Elizabeth Perkins
Director: Griffin Dunne
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Bloodsport (1988)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Inside a hidden Hong Kong arena, elite combatants clash in the Kumite, the little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact fighting. No Westerner had ever won this titanic tournament – until iron-willed American Frank Dux entered it.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Forest Whitaker, Bolo Yeung, Norman Burton, Leah Ayres, Donald Gibb
Director: Newt Arnold
Patlabor 2: The Movie / Patlabor 2 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: The Movie 2 (1993)
Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The date is 2002, three years after the events of Patlabor: The Movie. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia begins the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to send shockwaves throughout Japan's military. With evidence of an impending military takeover, the scattered members of the original SVD (Special Vehicle Division) must gather to defend the city against danger.
Starring: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata, Daisuke Gôri, Shigeru Chiba, Osamu Saka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Patlabor: The Movie / Patlabor 1 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (1989)
Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 1999. Japan has concentrated 45% of its entire labor force in the ambitious Babylon Project, designed to save the Tokyo Bay area from being submerged as an effect of the sea level increment. For this purpose, a 500-meter wide and 150-meter high multy-level platform, called the Ark, has been built on the sea. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the eventual destruction of Tokyo. What is the connection between the suicide, the new Mobile Police AV-X0 Zero Labor, and a military prototype Labor suddenly gone berserk?
Starring: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Duresori: The Voice of East / Du-re Sori Story (2012)
Drama | Music | Teen
Seul-Gi and Ah-Reum are 3rd year students at the National High School of the Traditional Arts. They are also best friends. Seul-Gi majors in pansori (Korean traditional music) and Ah-Reum majors in Gyeonggi Folk Music. During their summer break, the girls struggle with pressures and anxiety. They then take a special summer school class due to a lack of attendance. Meanwhile, the Education Burea informs their school that they will take part in a chorus contest. The school selects Teacher Ham, a composer, to make up the school's chorus team. The pool consists of students from the special summer school class. A conflict also ensues between Ms. Ham, who majored in western music, and the students, who are majors in traditional Korean music. Can the students compete in the chorus performance?
Starring: Jo Ah-Reum, Choi Eun-hye, Choi Eun-Yeong, Lim Ha-nee, Ham Hyeon-Sang, Kim Seul-gi
Director: Cho Jung-Rae
Over the Top (1987)
Action | Drama | Family | Sport
Big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk's (Sylvester Stallone) only chance for a better existence, which includes starting his own business and earning the love of his son, lies in his considerable talent for armwrestling.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall, Chris McCarty
Director: Menahem Golan
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt, a guy who's never been able to finish anything, decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever for 40 straight days. No touching. No kissing. No foreplay. No fooling around. No self-gratification. No nothing. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life. Sexy and spirited, Erica drives Matt wild. Now, with everyone betting he won't finish what he started, he's just trying to hold on, and hoping she's willing to hold out…
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Monet Mazur, Paulo Costanzo, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Trese
Director: Michael Lehmann
Knockaround Guys (2001)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Tom Noonan, Barry Pepper, Arthur J. Nascarella
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Orphan Black (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
"Orphan Black" follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the stranger's identity, who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth: she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers the chilling fact that there are more people like her out there – genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. With no idea who created the clones, she'll need to discover the reason in a hurry as an assassin is killing them one by one.
Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Creator: John Fawcett, Graeme Manson
Champion (1949)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Sport
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public…and a heel in private.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Luis Van Rooten
Director: Mark Robson
Where Do We Go Now? / Et maintenant on va où? (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
Starring: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily
Director: Nadine Labaki
Chichi yo haha yo! / The Young Rebels (1980)
Drama
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
Starring: Kaneko Iwasaki, Gô Katô, Kunitaro Kawarazaki, Junko Mihara, Hiroyuki Nagato
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Ghost / Gôsuto (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A man tries to solve his lover's murder by communicating with her spirit through the help of a medium.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Seung-heon Song, Kirin Kiki, Sawa Suzuki, Satoshi Hashimoto
Director: Tarô Ohtani
Aurangzeb (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A cop goes undercover into a gangster's family as his son. This sets in place a chain reaction of complications and increasingly uncontrollable events.
Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor, Sasha Aagha
Director: Atul Sabharwal
Tajemnica Westerplatte / 1939 Battle of Westerplatte (2013)
Drama | History | War
The film tells the story of the defense of Westerplatte Polish Embassy before the German army. Action includes seven days of September 1939.
Starring: Michal Zebrowski, Robert Zoledziewski, Jan Englert, Piotr Adamczyk, Borys Szyc, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz, Jakub Wesolowski, Andrzej Grabowski
Director: Pawel Chochlew
Simon of the Desert / Simón del desierto (1965)
Comedy | Drama
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. But Simon recognizes him everytime. So the Devil takes him to a nightclub in New York of the 1960s.
Starring: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña, Francisco Reiguera
Director: Luis Buñuel
Happily Never After (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Cole Killian is a professional photographer approaching middle age. After meeting an old high school flame and then seeing an advertisement for an orphanage with abandoned teenagers, Cole comes to the conclusion that he has a son there. Under the guise of being a mentor, Cole ingratiates himself into the life of 18 year-old Bo. He makes a skate-boarding film with Bo and his best friend, and he uses Bo's girlfriend as a model in a calendar. All the while Cole is trying to come up with the perfect present for his bratty 13 year-old daughter, and now he may have come up with the ultimate surprise.
Starring: Jason Carrougher, Katherine Bending, Carlos Francisco Morales, Ryan Wichert, Ben Rice, Cassie Pennington, Karen Owen, Tim Manning
Director: Jamie Heinrich
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Drinking Games (2012)
Drama | Thriller
DRINKING GAMES is a new psychological thriller from award-winning indie filmmaker Ryan Gielen, based on the off-Broadway play, "DORM", by Blake Merriman. Five friends are trapped in a dorm by a blizzard on the last night of the semester, while a psychopath attempts to manipulate them into killing each other.
Starring: Rob Bradford, Blake Merriman, Nick Vergara, Mike Pennacchio, Katy Wright-Mead, Joshua Sterling Bragg, Riccarda Natalie, Adriana DeGirolami, Regan Lutz
Director: Ryan Gielen
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