Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Zodiac (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch
Director: David Fincher
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
After their plane crashes on an isolated island, a group of grade-school boys revert to savagery despite the attempts of a few to prevent it. (A film adaptation of William Golding's novel.)
Starring: Nicholas Hammond
Director: Peter Brook
A Man Escaped / Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
Drama | Thriller | War
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Director: Robert Bresson
Saat po long / Sha po lang / SPL: Kill Zone (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ailing veteran cop whose relentless determination to do away with an untouchable gangster has led him to employ a series of unethical tactics finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of principled new inspector and the death of a fellow cop in this explosive underworld tale.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Jacky Wu, Sammo Hung
Director: Wilson Yip
Hotel Noir (2012)
Crime | Drama
Holed up in a hotel room with a case of money he has stolen from the mob a gumshoe awaits his fate. A shower door installation guy checks in to write a memoir on his experiences moonlighting as a portrait painter for pets owned by desperate housewives. Another resident is a lounge singer being stalked by a mobster who in turn has a fling with a call girl who does the rounds of the hotel dressed as a superhero. As the assortment of characters intertwine Hotel Noir materialises as a stylish period homage to hardboiled Hollywood and the unreliable nature of storytelling. The tapestry of conflicting inner monologues adds to a web of intrigue and the heavy atmosphere both sexy and fatalistic occasions a parade of star performers smouldering at their best.
Starring: Malin Akerman, Aaron Behr, Kevin Connolly, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Robert Forster, Carla Gugino, Rufus Sewell
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Kawasakiho růže / Kawasaki's Rose (2009)
Drama
Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a "Memory of the Nation" medal, however, it transpires that this reputedly morally irreproachable dissident once collaborated with state security agencies, informing on a former friend of his wife, Borek, and ultimately being responsible for the latter's forced emigration. Josek's family and close friends try to come to terms with these new facts.
Starring: Lenka Vlasáková, Milan Mikulcík, Martin Huba, Daniela Kolárová, Antonin Kratochvil
Director: Jan Hrebejk
The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A young boy whose dog has just died moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him,fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa,who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him.
Director: Hilary Audus
Cut to Black (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A disgraced cop is hired by a wealthy former friend to rid his estranged daughter of a petty stalker.
Starring: Dan Eberle, Jillaine Gill, Beau Allulli, Joe Stipek, James Alba, Alexandra Mingione, Leah Rudick, David Vega
Director: Dan Eberle
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The Future / Il futuro (2013)
Drama
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Starring: Luigi Ciardo, Manuela Martelli, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Vaporidis, Alessandro Giallocosta, Pino Calabrese, Sara Manni
Director: Alicia Scherson
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Justified (TV Series 2010-2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens is exiled to his hometown of Harlan County, Kentucky after the shooting of a Miami drug cartel hit man raises debate over his renegade style of law enforcement. Unfortunately it isn't long before the people he left behind begin to surface in the most unexpected ways. Raylan's new job pursuing prison escapees, fugitive con men and a corrupt local sheriff has never been more intense.
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Natalie Zea, Jere Burns, David Meunier, Jonathan Kowalsky
Creator: Graham Yost
Eight Below / 8 Below (2006)
Adventure | Drama | Family
'Eight Below' is the thrilling tale of friendship between eight amazing sled dogs and their guide Jerry. Stranded in Antarctica during the most unforgiving winter on the planet, Jerry's beloved sled dogs must learn to survive together until Jerry — who will stop at nothing — rescues them. Driven by unwavering bonds of friendship, enormous belief in one another and tremendous courage, Jerry and the dogs make an incredible journey to reunite in this triumphant and inspiring action-adventure the whole family will treasure.
Starring: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett
Director: Frank Marshall
1er amour / 1st Love (2013)
Drama
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
Starring: Macha Grenon, Marianne Fortier, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Loïc Esteves, Sylvie Boucher, Benoît Gouin
Director: Guillaume Sylvestre
Blackbird (2012)
Drama
This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). Deanna's boyfriend is deeply threatened by Sean and Deanna's friendship, resulting in a violent confrontation. Seeking to protect himself, Sean issues a death threat online – and is swiftly arrested. When the police raid Sean's home, they find rifles, shotguns, knives and ammunition – all property of Sean's father Ricky (Michael Buie), an avid hunter. They also find a supposed "hit list" with twenty names of people who have tormented Sean. The authorities and the media proclaim another Columbine has been narrowly averted, and soon Sean faces a terrifying imprisonment in a youth detention facility. Sean's only hope is to overcome his dark image, and prove his innocence to Deanna and to his community.
Starring: Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Michael Buie, Alex Ozerov, Craig Arnold, Tanya Clarke
Director: Jason Buxton
The Tale of Zatoichi / Zatôichi monogatari / Zatôichi 1 (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama
This is the movie that introduced the legend of Zatoichi and its star Shintaro Katsu, ushering in a new era of the Japanese samurai film. Practicing his trade as a masseur in a small province, Zatoichi finds himself caught in a turf war between rival yakuza gangs. Aware of Zatoichi's reputation as an undefeatable swordsman, yakuza leader Sukejoro tries to hire him-unsuccessfully-as a mercenary. But it's too late. The other gang leader, Shigezo, hires a warrior with an equally fierce reputation to challenge Zatoichi. Thus the legend of Zatoichi begins with intensely choreographed battle scenes and an expertly crafted story.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
Cavalcade (1933)
Drama | Romance | War
English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot.
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Frank Lloyd
The United States of Leland (2003)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After stabbing an autistic boy, the sixteen year old troubled and pessimist Leland P. Fitzgerald is sent to a juvenile detention. His teacher and aspirant writer Pearl Madison gets close and tries to understand him, first with intention of writing a book, and later becoming his friend. Leland slowly discloses his sad vision of world.
Starring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams
Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Feu Mathias Pascal / The Living Dead Man (1926)
Drama | Horror
Mathias, an eccentric dreamer, is trapped in the undertakings of daily life as he suffers his days in a loveless marriage, a dead end job and tyrannized by his ungrateful mother-in-law. Grief-stricken by the death of his mother and infant daughter, Mathias flees to Monte Carlo, where a run of luck at roulette wins him a fortune. After his death is falsely reported, Mathias leaps at the chance of a second and adventurous life in Rome.
Starring: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Marcelle Pradot, Lois Moran, Marthe Mellot, Pauline Carton
Director: Marcel L'Herbier
Best Kept Secret (2013)
Documentary | Drama
JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate in the spring of 2012, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world – a job or rare placement in a recreational center – so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.
Director: Samantha Buck
The Carpenter's Miracle (2013)
Drama
Josh Carey is just your average small town carpenter, but when his touch miraculously brings a dead boy back to life, he is thrust into the media spotlight and things spin out of control. Now it's only through humor, faith and a budding romance that Josh can hope to return to a normal life.
Starring: Cameron Mathison, Michelle Harrison, Ryan Grantham, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Aaron Pearl
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
