The Last Chushingura / The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010)
Drama
An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba, Kôji Yamamoto, Jun Fubuki, Kunie Tanaka, Masatô Ibu, Yoshi Oida, Narumi Yasuda, Nizaemon Kataoka
Director: Shigemichi Sugita
Wasteland / The Rise (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Luke Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Timothy Spall) has no doubt in Harvey's part in a foiled robbery, and his subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper. Denying everything, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his release from prison a month earlier, and the malevolent, unjust act that put him in there. We see his emotional reunion with his sibling-like best friends, and the immovable loyalty they have for one another. We see the rekindling of a lost love, a second chance for two people meant for each other. We see the ingenious planning of the ill-fated robbery, the amazing twist, the shocking outcome and the real driving force behind it – retribution. What unfolds is an exhilarating, moving and hilarious story of loyalty, jealousy, friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
Starring: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Timothy Spall, Luke Treadaway, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell, Gerard Kearns
Director: Rowan Athale
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Nor'easter (2012)
Drama | Thriller
After another poorly attended mass, Erik Angstrom, a young priest, is visited by Ellen Greene, the mother of Josh, a child who has been missing for five years. Josh's absence has pushed Ellen's marriage to the breaking point, and though her husband strenuously objects, she and the priest decide to hold a symbolic funeral to help the family move on. But when their decision becomes public, Josh inexplicably returns to the island, alive and well. Now sixteen years old, Josh appears unharmed but refuses to answer questions about where he has been. Erik proves to be the only one able to uncover Josh’s secrets, but in doing so, causes more problems than he could have ever imagined, threatening his relationship to the family, the church, and the law.
Starring: David Call, Richard Bekins, Liam Aiken, Haviland Morris, Rachel Brosnahan, Danny Burstein, Geary Smith, Emory Cohen
Director: Andrew Brotzman
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Trash and Progress (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Western
A rookie journalist has returned to the abandoned frontier of Earth with the dream of writing a career-making story about the descendants of those who were left behind. There she finds a decaying society ruled through fear by a mysterious, ageless despot.
Starring: Maryssa Wanlass, Remi Barron, James Camblin, Lindsay Cookson, Jesse Filipko, Conor Hamill, Daniel Korth
Director: Abraham Dieckman
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Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
Kai po che! (2013)
Drama
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Starring: Amrita Puri, Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Raj Kumar Yadav
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Abandoned (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to a staff psychiatrist, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Michael Feifer
A Civil Action (1998)
Drama
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste.
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek
Director: Steven Zaillian
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of the King / Beruseruku: Ougon jidaihen I – Haou no tamago (2012)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | War
This arc is a flashback showing Guts' youth and what led him to become the "Black Swordsman". Guts grows up as a young mercenary until his enrollment in the Band of the Hawk. He develops complex relationships with Casca and Griffith, the Band's charismatic leader and holder of the Crimson Behelit, who leads the Band to its rise to prominence within the Midland army. Griffith is elevated from his commoner status to the nobility, causing some resentment, and after sleeping with the King's daughter, Griffith is imprisoned, and the Hawks are declared outlaws. The Hawks manage to rescue Griffith, only to find him broken mentally and physically. From a conventional medieval European background, the story shifts to fantasy and horror, with the apparition of the Eclipse ceremony that ends with the destruction of the Band, as per Griffith's sacrifice in order to become Femto, the fifth member of the God Hand, and reclaim his path towards his dream. Only with help from the enigmatic Skull…
Starring: Kevin T. Collins, Jesse Corti, Colin DePaula, Marc Diraison, Shingo Egami
Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Drama | Sci-Fi
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg's visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances. The film's hallucinatory vision was obscured in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Roeg's full uncut version, in this exclusive new director-approved high-definition widescreen transfer
Starring: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Flyboys (2006)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, this action-packed epic tells the tale of America's first fighter pilots. These courageous young men distinguish themselves in a manner that none before them had dared, becoming true heroes who experience triumph, tragedy, love, and loss amid the chaos of World War I. Hang on for the ride of your life!
Starring: James Franco, Martin Henderson, David Ellison, Jennifer Decker, Jean Reno, Ruth Bradley
Director: Tony Bill
Play it, Boogie-Woogie / Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981)
Drama
Slow na boogie ni shitekure (also known as "Play it, Boogie-Woogie") is 1981 Drama film directed by Toshiya Fujita, and written by Yoshio Kataoka and Eiichi Uchida , starring Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yûko Asano, Renji Ishibashi and Kahori Takeda.
Starring: Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Hiroko Asano
Director: Toshiya Fujita
The Wee Man (2013)
Drama
Crime drama based on the life of Scottish gangster Paul Ferris. Martin Compston stars as Ferris, who was brought up on Glasgow's notorious Black Hill estate in the 1960s. As a young man Ferris starts out working for two rival gang bosses, The Godfather and The Snake, but after a brutal betrayal he decides to go it alone. Carving out a dangerous and bloody career defined by violence, corruption and murder, Paul 'The Wee Man' Ferris ends up becoming the most feared man in Glasgow.
Starring: Martin Compston, John Hannah, Stephen McCole, Patrick Bergin, Denis Lawson
Director: Ray Burdis
Solanin / Soranin (2010)
Drama
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They ultimately fail when their CDs are rejected by the record companies. Realizing he has to return to his menial profession and have failed in his dream, Taneda speeds through a red light on his motorcycle and dies in a traffic accident. After his death, Meiko takes over Taneda's position in the band to find the meaning of life. After performing a small gig, the plot concludes with Meiko taking up a new job and the other band members returning to their daily regimen.
Starring: Takao Handa, Arata Iura, Kenta Kiritani, Yoichi Kondo, Kengo Kôra, Aoi Miyazaki, Natsuki Okamoto
Director: Takahiro Miki
In Love and the War / Jeok-gwa-eui dong-chim (2011)
Comedy | Drama | War
Young Park Seol-Hee is eagerly planning her wedding to a young anti-Communist activist when the North Koreans invade. Her fiancé is forced to flee, leaving her behind with her family in their tiny, rural South Korean village. Rather than resist the North Korean regiment that comes to occupy the area, the townspeople (to Seol-Hee's dismay) decide to cooperate with them in order to ensure their own survival. The North Koreans, however, turn out not to be all that Seol-Hee expected. She soon realizes that there is a history between her family and that of the regiment's leader, Lieutenant Kim Jeong-woong. In between the hilarious day to day antics of Seol-Hee's eccentric family and the hard realities of war, the attachment between Seol-Hee and Jeong-woong grows. As the occupation continues, Jeong-woong becomes torn between trying to follow the increasingly harsh orders from his general and protecting the people that he has come to love and care for so much.
Starring: Ryeowon Jung, Ju-hyuk Kim
Director: Geon-yong Park
Just Like a Woman (2012)
Drama
The tale of two women, barely more than casual acquaintances, who, upon escaping the prisons of their unhappy marriages, embark on a revealing journey of self discovery which leads them to the importance – and true meaning – of friendship.
Starring: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee, Roschdy Zem, Chafia Boudraa, Jesse Bob Harper, Sayed Badreya
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Sweet Movie (1974)
Comedy | Drama
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by reminders that "it's just a movie."
Starring: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallett, Roy Callender, John Vernon
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Love in Between / Du yeoja (2010)
Drama | Romance
When the wife of a university professor discovered her husband having affair with his student and meet his lover they become friends and relationship between two women become closer.
Starring: Jun-ho Jeong, Yi-yeong Shim, Jae-Won Choi, Eun-Kyung Shin
Director: Chong Yun-Su
Paulette (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business.
Starring: Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin, André Penvern, Jean-Baptiste Anoumon, Axelle Laffont
Director: Jérôme Enrico
Dances with the Dragon / Yu long gong wu (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts onto a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?
Starring: Andy Lau, Sharla Cheung, Deannie Yip, Man Tat Ng, Alfred Cheung, May Lo, Yvonne Yung
Director: Jing Wong
