The Best Offer / La migliore offerta (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A story centered on an eccentric art auctioneer and his obsession with an heiress/collector.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Jackson
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Swing Vote (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Bud Johnson, an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, is coasting through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, over-achieving twelve year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally sets off a chain of events which culminates in the election coming down to one vote… her dad's.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When Duke Anderson gets out of the cooler, he discovers the mother lode in his rich girlfriend's ritzy apartment building. With help from a safecracker, a decorator, and a thug, Duke might be able to pull off the greatest heist yet.
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
Director: Sidney Lumet
Bates Motel (TV Series 2013-2017)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
After the death of her husband, Norma Bates buys a motel in the picturesque coastal town of White Pine Bay, giving herself and teenage son Norman a chance to begin anew. Shy Norman is reluctant at first, but with the help of his mother — with whom he shares an intensely close relationship — the boy begins to open up to others and make new friends. Some locals, however, aren't as friendly and welcoming to the Bates, who discover that because White Pine Bay isn't as peaceful as it appears, they are forced to do whatever it takes to survive.
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell
Creator: Anthony Cipriano, Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin
How to Make It in America (TV Series 2010-2011)
Comedy | Drama
Entourage masterminds Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg are behind this HBO project about two up-and-comers in their 20's living in New York City. This pair of industrious friends hustle their way to success, striving to achieve the American dream.
Starring: Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Lake Bell, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Kid Cudi, Luis Guzmán, Edgar Garcia, Michael Imperiale, Tuffy Questell
Creator: Ian Edelman
Abacus and Sword / Bushi no Kakeibo (2010)
Drama
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai) belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama) suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Yukie Nakama, Keiko Matsuzaka, Masahiko Nishimura, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yuki Ito, Mina Fujii, Kaito Ohyagi, Masatoshi Nakamura
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Raanjhanaa (2013)
Drama | Romance
A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.
Starring: Dhanush, Sonam Kapoor, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar, Abhay Deol, Shilpi Marwaha, Suraj Singh
Director: Aanand Rai
Fukrey (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The paths of four dream-chasing college friends cross with an array of colourful characters, from a tough-talking Punjabi female don to a Jugaad Baaz college watchman. Mayhem ensues.
Starring: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathy
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
Trust (1990)
Comedy | Drama
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor…
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson, John MacKay, Edie Falco
Director: Hal Hartley
Black Web / Easton's Article (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After receiving his future obituary via a cryptic Internet file, Easton Denning is forced to confront his troubled past in order to prevent his predicted demise.
Starring: Chad Meyer, Kristina Johnson, Dan Flannery
Director: Tim Connery
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Rubberneck (2012)
Drama | Thriller
Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an acute infatuation. When Danielle takes interest in a new scientist at the laboratory, Paul's suppressed resentments and perverse delusions finally become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a tortured past and fugitive present.
Starring: Alex Karpovsky, Jaime Ray Newman, Dennis Staroselsky, Amanda Good Hennessey, Dakota Shepard
Director: Alex Karpovsky
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Dark Tourist / The Grief Tourist (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger – the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul – always scanning to devour something – anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism – the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale…
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Cudlitz, Suzanne Quast, Eddie J. Fernandez
Director: Suri Krishnamma
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Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
Disconnect (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this compelling drama about ordinary people desperate for a human connection.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship / Sû-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san (2013)
Comedy | Drama
"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.
Starring: Kô Shibasaki, Yôko Maki, Shinobu Terajima
Director: Osamu Minorikawa
Flashdance (1983)
Drama | Music | Romance
Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling!
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Belinda Bauer, Kyle T. Heffner
Director: Adrian Lyne
Savannah (2013)
Drama | Family | History
SAVANNAH is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his loyal friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.
Starring: Jaimie Alexander, Jim Caviezel, Sam Shepard , Bradley Whitford, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jack McBrayer, Hal Holbrook
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter
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Hell on Wheels (TV Series 2011- )
Drama | Western
Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier (Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
Starring: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Ben Esler, Phil Burke, Robin McLeavy, Kasha Kropinski, Dohn Norwood, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dominique McElligott, Eddie Spears, Tom Noonan, Duncan Ollerenshaw
Creator: Joe Gayton, Tony Gayton
The Walking Dead (TV Series 2010- )
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Based on the comic book series of the same name, The Walking Dead tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Jeffrey DeMunn, Norman Reedus, IronE Singleton, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Jon Bernthal, Emily Kinney, Scott Wilson, Michael Rooker, Jane McNeill
Creator: Frank Darabont
Liar Game: Reborn / Raiâ gêmu: Saisei (2012)
Drama
College graduate Yu Shinomiya is invited to the Liar Game, which has been restarted by funding from new investors. She turns to her psychology professor for help, who is none other than Shinichi Akiyama, former Liar Game champion. He advises her to ignore the invitation, but afraid of the penalty fee should she do so, she decides to participate. Soon, Akiyama is issued an invitation of his own by Fukunaga, who now works for the game. Playing on Akiyama's sympathy for the naive student, Fukunaga manages to get Akiyama to participate as well. The game this time is a diabolical version of Musical Chairs. Once again, Akiyama's cunning and ingenuity is put to the ultimate test.
Starring: Shôta Matsuda, Mikako Tabe, Hirofumi Arai, Mana Ashida, Makiko Esumi
Director: Hiroaki Matsuyama
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