The Canyons (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Documents five twenty-somethings' quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant, Amanda Brooks
Director: Paul Schrader
Frances Ha (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Esper
Director: Noah Baumbach
The Yearling (1946)
Drama | Family
After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their son Jody is 11 years old; he gets along well with his warm and affectionate pa, but his ma is haunted by the death of her other children, so she's somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe to use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody begs to keep the doe's fawn as a pet. The parents agree, and the boy and the deer are soon inseparable. The fawn grows quickly, and as a yearling tramples tobacco shoots and eats the newly-sprouted corn. This is too much for ma, and Jody has to face harsh, adult realities.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Henry Travers, Forrest Tucker, Donn Gift
Director: Clarence Brown
La fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
Drama | Romance
A father in pre-WWII France is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Slap Shot (1977)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.
Starring: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser
Director: George Roy Hill
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne, Gina Grande
Director: David Gordon Green
Death Wish V: The Face of Death / Death Wish 5: The Face of Death (1994)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
The Motel Life (2012)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Dakota Fanning
Director: Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky
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Kodoku no gurume / Kodoku no Gourmet / Lonely Gourmet (TV Series 2012- )
Drama
The story follows a man named Inogashira Goro (played by Matsushige), who privately runs an imported dry goods business. In his spare time between work, he visits various shops and tastes their cuisine. One of the highlights of the manga is that the shops that appear in it are all real shops geared towards a general public. The drama will preserve the spirit of the manga, in which the solitary protagonist speaks very little and the focus is on his character as he eats various dishes.
Starring: Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoki Uekusa,Masayuki Kusumi
Creator: Yoshihiro Taguchi
Scandal Makers / Speed Scandal / Kwasok scandle (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A pop star turned radio talk show host with a squeaky clean image has his life altered when a young woman shows up claiming to be his daughter, along with a toddler she says is his grandson.
Starring: Tae-hyun Cha, Bo-yeong Park, Seok-hyeon Hwang, Woo-seul-hye Hwang, Ji-Gyu Lim
Director: Hyeong-Cheol Kang
War and Peace (1956)
Drama | Romance | War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Herbert Lom, Anita Ekberg, Vittorio Gassman
Director: King Vidor
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Drama | Romance
In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, William Schallert, Troy Donahue
Director: Douglas Sirk
I Saw the Sun / Günesi gördüm (2009)
Drama
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul. While Haydar and Isa Altun decide to stay in Turkey with their young children, Davut Altun and his family migrate north to Norway, enlisting the help of smugglers. They eventually reach their destination and find work in a supermarket, but life as refugees proves relentless. Back in Istanbul, Haydar watches over the family as his wife undergoes an operation due to pregnancy complications. Their son makes friends with a group of transvestites, helping him to understand why he has felt different all of his life. While liberating, his newfound identity is seen as a disgrace to the rest of his family, leading him to flee from the abuse it produces.
Starring: Mahsun Kirmizigül, Demet Evgar, Murat Ünalmis, Cemal Toktas, Erol Demiröz, Altan Erkekli, Emre Kinay, Menderes Samancilar, Serif Sezer
Director: Mahsun Kirmizigül
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Camille Claudel (1988)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow…
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill, Philippe Clévenot, Katrine Boorman, Maxime Leroux
Director: Bruno Nuytten
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The Puffy Chair (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After finding a vintage recliner online just like the one from his childhood living room, Josh decides to deliver it to his father as a surprise birthday gift.
Starring: Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton, Rhett Wilkins, Julie Fischer
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
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Double Down / Zigs (2001)
Comedy | Drama
Four young compulsive gamblers come up with a radical plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.
Starring: Jason Priestley, Peter Dobson, Kane Picoy, Orien Richman
Director: Mars Callahan
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Track Down / Takedown (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cybertrophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one – and much more than that…
Starring: Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone, Donal Logue, Tom Berenger, Jeremy Sisto, Amanda Peet, Ethan Suplee
Director: Joe Chappelle
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Nothing Special (2010)
Comedy | Drama
In her debut feature film, writer/director Angela Garcia Combs spins a dark and funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career and her relationship with her bi-polar mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an insurance underwriter living in Los Angeles with her mother, May (Karen Black), who has recently been evicted from her Section 8 apartment after the building was condemned. May's shaky grip on reality begins to loosen when she becomes aware of the close relationship between Louise and her trailblazing boss, Catherine (Barbara Bain), whom Louise admires and adores. Catherine is secretly fighting cancer and has an estranged relationship with her own daughter, and reaches out to Louise as a surrogate. At the same time, Catherine is pushing Louise to accept a big promotion, which will compel Louise to relocate to New York. Things heat up when May and Catherine meet by chance on Mother's Day and an alarming confrontation ensues. Throw into the mix a budding romance between Louise and the local bartender, and we find ourselves in the midst of a gripping story of the joys and heartaches of mother-daughter relationships, and the intense emotional lives of three remarkable women living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.
Starring: Julia Garcia Combs, Karen Black, Barbara Bain
Director: Angela Garcia Combs
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Comedy | Drama
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains, but only if Thomas will also go with him. Thomas and Victor hit the road.
Starring: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal
Director: Chris Eyre
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Musicwood (2012)
Adventure | Documentary | Drama | Music
Musicwood is a modern twist on a classic story; an urgent battle between the white man and Native Americans, where age-old land disputes upend our simplistic view of the past. The Musicwood documentary follows Bob Taylor (Taylor Guitars), Chris Martin (Martin Guitars), and Dave Berryman of Gibson Guitars – as they unite as a group, drop their competitive differences and travel together into the heart of the largest coastal temperate rain forest in the world. They have to negotiate with Native American loggers to save the centuries old Sitka Spruce trees, before it's too late. The film documents the guitar-makers' struggle to build a relationship with the Native Americans that acknowledges the injustices of their past but fights to preserve the forest for our future. Featuring The Antlers, Steve Earle, Kaki King, Lambchop, Turin Brakes, and Yo La Tengo.
Starring: The Antlers, Dave Berryman, Turin Brakes, Kaki King, Chris Martin, Bob Taylor, Yo La Tengo
Director: Maxine Trump
