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Educazione siberiana / Siberian Education / Deadly Code (2013)

Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.

Starring: Eleanor Tomlinson, John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Arnas Fedaravicius, Mindaugas Papinigis
Director: Gabriele Salvatores

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Gangster / Gangster: A Love Story (2006)

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya – who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed – a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.

Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Vicky Ahuja
Director: Anurag Basu

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Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)

Action | Crime | Drama

Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.

Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki

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Tags: Anne Mari, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Tamagawa, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Mariko Ogawa, Seijun Suzuki

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Man of La Mancha / L'uomo della Mancha (1972)

Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance

This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle
Director: Arthur Hiller

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Bus Stop (1956)

Comedy | Drama | Romance

A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange
Director: Joshua Logan

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Tags: Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Don Murray, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange, Joshua Logan, Marilyn Monroe

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A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)

Comedy | Drama

Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin

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Tags: Anne Consigny, Arnaud Desplechin, Catherine Deneuve, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud

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Antapal / The Gangster (2012)

Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller

Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this violent lifestyle is more and more difficult for Jod. He tries to avoid violence when he can but is soon put aside by more violent youngsters. When some of his friends die in internal wars, he decides to take his revenge on the gang.

Starring: Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Supapprom, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Wasu Sangsingkaew, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nantharat Chaowarat
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri

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Tags: Boonsong Nakphoo, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Krisada Supapprom, Nantharat Chaowarat, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Somchai Kemglad, Wasu Sangsingkaew

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Touchy Feely (2013)

Comedy | Drama

A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Scoot McNairy, Ellen Page, Josh Pais
Director: Lynn Shelton

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Rails & Ties (2007)

Drama

Train fanatic Tom Stark's job enjoyment stops shielding him from grief over his wife Megan's now terminal cancer when Laura Danner commits suicide by planting her car on the railway just before Tom's train arrives. Tom's colleague Otis, who never got over a hobo doing the same on foot, resigns, Tom is suspended. It's even worse for Laura's fatherless son Davey, who loses his home too. He escapes from a monstrous foster-ma's home and tracks down Tom's home. Megan, who was about to leave without allowing him to get closer again during her last weeks, promises to stay if they take on Davey. Boy and childless couple soon grow on each-other, but a social worker is on Davey's trail.

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer, Marin Hinkle, Eugene Byrd
Director: Alison Eastwood

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Joe the King (1999)

Crime | Drama

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.

Starring: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Camryn Manheim, Austin Pendleton, Val Kilmer
Director: Frank Whaley

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Flipper (1963)

Adventure | Drama | Family

The Florida Keys have been hit by hard times of late. First, a red plague kills off much of the fish in the area. And second, Hurricane Hazel unexpectedly changes course to hit the Keys. Regardless, the Ricks family – fisherman father Po (short for Porter), wife Martha, their preteen son Sandy, and Sandy's pet pelican Pete – live in all its aspects by the sea, even during these hard times. When Sandy witnesses the accidental spearing of a dolphin, he, on his own, decides to find the dolphin to put it out of its misery. Upon finding the injured dolphin, Sandy, not having the heart to shoot him, decides instead to tow the dolphin home. With some care and love, Sandy and Martha nurse the dolphin back to health. Sandy wants to keep the dolphin, who he's named Flipper, but Po ultimately releases Flipper, who he sees as "the enemy": a creature who is on the hunt for whatever short supply of fish there are around the Keys. But Po learns that friends – what Flipper and Sandy are to each other – help each other unconditionally.

Starring: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins, Robertson White, George Applewhite, Kathleen Maguire
Director: James B. Clark

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Tags: Chuck Connors, Connie Scott, George Applewhite, James B. Clark, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins, Kathleen Maguire, Luke Halpin, Robertson White

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The Paper (1994)

Comedy | Drama

Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability…but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.

Starring: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Director: Ron Howard

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Rescue Dawn (2006)

Adventure | Biography | Drama | War

American pilot Dieter Dengler is shot down during a top secret mission to destroy Viet Cong strongholds in Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Taken hostage, he endures unimaginable conditions at the hands of cruel captors in a makeshift POW camp. Dengler's iron will to survive guides him and his fellow prisoners in a meticulously-planned, death-defying escape, only to discover the harsh realities of an unforgiving jungle beyond the camp's walls.

Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Pat Healy
Director: Werner Herzog

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Chungking Express / Chung Hing sam lam (1994)

Drama | Mystery | Romance

Acclaimed Hong Kong New Wave director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at his city in these two stories. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her budding romance with a lovelorn cop. The second deals with another officer whose girlfriend has left him and the young waitress who tries to help him without his knowledge.

Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Director: Kar Wai Wong

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How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Drama | Family

Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgan's, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.

Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
Narrator: Irving Pichel

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Tags: Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Irving Pichel, John Loder, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon

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Runaway Train (1985)

Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Manny is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck, makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head full steam for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves trapped, alone and speeding towards certain disaster.

Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

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Mr.Lee vs Mr.Lee / Lee Dae-geun's Family / Yi daegeun, Yi daikeun (2007)

Drama | Family

An old widower Mr. Lee plans a family reunion on the three-year anniversary of his wife’s death, but faces a series of adversities in the way. His eldest son goes through a scandalous divorce, his daughter is tied up in a car accident, and the youngest son has been missing for years after declaring bankruptcy. Finally the big day arrives and as the clock strikes midnight, the secrets of the troubled Lees begin to unfold.

Starring: Dae-geun Lee, Lee Doo Il, Kyung Soon Jung, Sun-young Ahn, Cheol-min Park
Director: Kwang-jin Shim

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Least Among Saints (2012)

Drama

Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian's debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man's hard-fought road towards reconciling with his better self. Coming home to a broken marriage and uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Papazian) thinks he's at the end of his rope. But when his troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony can't seem to turn away. To the dismay of the boy's embattled social worker (Laura San Giacomo), Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken but hard to reach child find his long-lost father, who might not even exist. Yet in the midst of this new mission – the first that seems to matter since his return — Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. As the film builds to an emotional climax, Papazian finds both the gravity and the grace in ordinary, flawed characters pushed to extraordinary acts of compassion and decency.

Starring: Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, A.J. Cook, Charles S. Dutton, Taylor Kinney
Director: Martin Papazian

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Emperor / Shûsen no enperâ (2012)

Drama | History | War

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!

Starring: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda, Takatarô Kataoka
Director: Peter Webber

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Behind the Yellow Line / Yuen fan (1984)

Comedy | Drama | Romance

The Chinese title for this entertaining romantic drama is 'Destiny', which is fitting because it features remarkable new talent whose destiny was to become some of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. There then 20-year-old Miss Hong Kong Pageant first runner-up Maggie Cheung. There's Leslie Cheung, before he became an award-winning singer/actor icon. There's Anita Mui ('The Chinese Madonna'), who won the Hong Kong Film Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance. And there's co-scripter Gordon Chan, destined to become a top writer/director.

Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anthony Chan
Director: Taylor Wong

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Tags: Anita Mui, Anthony Chan, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Taylor Wong