The Unbroken / The Sun That Doesn't Set / Shizumanu taiyô (2009)
Drama
A drama based on the 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the worst aviation event in Japanese history.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Erika Toda, Teruyuki Kagawa, Shun Sugata, Tomokazu Miuram, Misa Shimizu
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
Chocolat (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Leslie Caron
Director: Lasse Hallström
New Police Story / Xin jing cha gu shi (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Massive explosions and incredible stunts abound as Jackie Chan makes what many refer to as a comeback with this Chinese release. He plays the burned-out Inspector Wing, whose motivation died when the rest of his police team was wiped out at the hands of a wily and brutal new gang. When, against the odds, a rookie cop rouses the weathered Inspector to go after the gang, however, there is no stopping him until justice has been served.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Dave Wong, Andy On, Terence Yin, Rongguang Yu, Coco Chiang, Tony Leung
Director: Benny Chan
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden (2009)
Drama | Music | Musical
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood perform live at New York's Madison Square Garden in February 2008. Songs include the Blind Faith numbers 'Had To Cry Today', 'Presence of the Lord', 'Sleeping in the Ground' and 'Well All Right', songs from Clapton's solo career, including 'Forever Man', 'Cocaine', 'Double Trouble' and 'After Midnight', and Winwood/Traffic tracks 'Georgia On My Mind', 'Dear Mr Fantasy', 'Glad' and 'Pearly Queen', as well as renditions of 'Them Changes' and 'Voodoo Chile'. Two documentaries, 'The Road to Madison Square Garden' and 'Rambling On My Mind', are also included.
Starring: Eric Clapton, Chris Stainton, Ian Thomas, Willie Weeks, Steve Winwood
Director: Martyn Atkins
Only God Forgives (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this violent, Thai-set revenge thriller directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian (Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local prostitute, and is then slain in retribution, Julian's mother Jenna (Scott Thomas) arrives in the city demanding that he track down the killer and mete out revenge. After learning that the man responsible is a retired police officer and lone dispenser of justice known as 'The Angel of Vengeance' (Vithaya Pansringarm), Julian, confident of success, sets out to find him, little realising what he has taken on.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stuck in Love / Writers (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A successful writer tries to reconnect with his two children following his divorce.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Kristen Bell, Nat Wolff, Greg Kinnear
Director: Josh Boone
A Legend or Was It? / Legend of a Duel to the Death / Shito no densetsu (1963)
Action | Drama
A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts during the war. She and her family are ousted from the village, but her suitor refuses to give up…
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mariko Kaga, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsutomu Matsukawa, Bunta Sugawara, Yoshi Katô, Kikue Môri, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Stunning new vision of Shakespeare's classic comedy. When Leonato, the Governor of Messina is visited by his friend Don Pedro, he is accompanied by two of his officers: Benedick and Claudio. Claudio falls for Leonato's daughter Hero, while Benedick verbally spars with Beatrice, the governor's niece. A series of comic and tragic events help keep the two couples from truly finding happiness – but then again, perhaps love may prevail in the end!
Starring: Amy Acker, Emma Bates, Sara Blindauer, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Reed Diamond, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Jillian Morgese
Director: Joss Whedon
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Fill the Void / Lemale et ha'halal (2012)
Drama
A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.
Starring: Yiftach Klein, Razia Israeli, Hila Feldman, Renana Raz, Ido Samuel
Director: Rama Burshtein
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Nordvest / Northwest (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
18-year-old Caspar wants to reach the top, no matter what. He carries out small-time break-ins for Jamal, before moving on to work for big player Björn. All goes well, until Jamal's gang decide they want revenge. What starts with pushing and shoving soon escalates into armed conflict. This is a big test for Caspar: is he ruthless enough for this battle? And will he drag his younger brother into it?
Starring: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen, Annemieke Bredahl Peppink, Nicholas Westwood Kidd, Roland Møller, Dulfi Al-Jabouri
Director: Michael Noer
She's So Lovely (1997)
Drama
Eddie and Maureen know how to love each other and have a good time, but not how to live in the world. Joey loves Maureen and knows how to take care of her. It's complicated.
Starring: Sean Penn, James Gandolfini, Robin Wright, John Travolta, Susan Traylor, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Home Run (2013)
Drama | Sport
Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. Hoping to save her client's career and reputation after a DUI and a team suspension, Cory's agent sends him back to the small town where he grew up to start a 12-step recovery program that focuses on Jesus.
Starring: Scott Elrod, Dorian Brown, Charles Henry Wyson, James Devoti, Nicole Leigh, Drew Waters
Director: David Boyd
Breathing / Atmen (2011)
Drama
A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life but he can't deal with his guilt.
Starring: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Georg Friedrich, Gerhard Liebmann, Stefan Matousch, Luna Mijovic, Georg Veitl, Klaus Rott
Director: Karl Markovics
Slacker (1991)
Comedy | Drama
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
Starring: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey
Director: Richard Linklater
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Drama | Romance | War | Western
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the REvolutinary War begins.
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields
Director: John Ford
Boy / Shônen (1969)
Drama
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Starring: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Byzantium (2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
In director Neil Jordan's vampire thriller a mother and daughter struggle to hide their bloody secret from their adopted community. Having survived for over 200 years, itinerant single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are offered shelter at the down-at-heel Byzantium guest house when they arrive at a rundown seaside resort. Whilst her cold-hearted mother plies her trade as a prostitute to keep their heads above water and indulges her bloodletting at any opportunity, Eleanor wrestles with keeping her secret from her latest love, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones). But when the truth finally spreads its way through the local population, the arrival of two strangers belonging to an all-male vampire sect known as 'The Brotherhood' heralds a reckoning neither woman is prepared for.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Barry Cassin, Tom Hollander, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Joness
Director: Neil Jordan
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Drama | Thriller
Richard Burton stars as Alec Leamas, a bitter, world-weary secret agent who is taken out of his everyday field operations after a mission goes wrong, and after a bleak spell on Civvy Street finds himself going undercover into East Germany. Subterfuge and double-crossings ensue as Leamas battles to discover the truth behind his mission. Based on the novel by John Le Carre.
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec, Rupert Davies
Director: Martin Ritt
Blaze (1989)
Biography | Drama
Newman stars as a fiery, eccentric governor who falls head over heels in love with dazzling Blaze Star (Lolita Davidovich), an innocent New Orleans stripper with a heart of gold.
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Jenkins, Robert Wuhl
Director: Ron Shelton
Městem chodí Mikuláš / St. Nicholas Is in Town (1992)
Drama
During the evening when St. Nicholas arrives to hand out gifts to good children, when human hearts and souls are yielding to the good deeds of the Christmas season, events in the lives of four people become interlinked. A 12-year-old boy spent months at a hospital, out of sight and mind of his uncaring mother. Finally it is a gesture of human love and sympathy that becomes the nicest gift – one that not even St. Nicholas can bring a child.
Starring: Daniel Douda, Eliska Balzerová, Josef Abrhám, Alena Mihulová, Katerina Hrachovcová
Director: Karel Kachyna
