Ragtime (1981)
Drama
A proud black musician rebels against racism in turn-of-the-century New York.
Starring: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien
Director: Milos Forman
ReGeneration (2010)
Action | Biography | Documentary | Drama
ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of today's youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture's apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students, parents, and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of today's struggling generation as some of the worlds leading scholars, activists, and media personalities provide their insight into the ideas and movements that can inspire change. /p>
Starring: Noam Chomsky, Ryan Gosling, Talib Kweli, Jay Walker, Howard Zinn
Director: Phillip Montgomery
Take / Crossing Paths (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The lives of two strangers – a struggling mother and a gambling addict – meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Starring: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, Adam Rodriguez, David Denman, Emily Harrison
Director: Charles Oliver
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Starring: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis, Brian Cox, Tom Felton
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
In the year 2670, an orangutan called the Lawgiver tells a story to a group of human and ape children about an early 21st century ape leader named Caesar.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Fleeing the nuclear destruction of Earth in the year 3955, chimp scientist Zira, her husband Cornelius, and their friend Doctor Milo launch a spacecraft and journey through a bend in time back to the year 1973.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, William Windom
Director: Don Taylor
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
After discovering that the planet ruled by apes which he had arrived on was really post-nuclear Earth in the future, US astronaut Taylor disappears while exploring the Forbidden Zone with his new mate Nova leaving her behind. Brent, another astronaut sent after Taylor, lands on the planet and is taken by Nova to the ape city, where he's hidden by the friendly chimp scientists Zira and Cornelius. Brent and Nova are eventually captured by a gorilla named Ursus, a military leader who wants to lead a holy war on the mysterious inhabitants of the Forbidden Zone.
Starring: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Charlton Heston
Director: Ted Post
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Three astronouts after a crash landing find themselves stranded in an upside-down planet–a place where talking apes are in charge and mute humans are hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Sudden Death (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A disgraced former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Gaston, Audra Lindley, Dorian Harewood
Director: Peter Hyams
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Drama | War
Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near the front line. Henderson gets so involved in kids' problems that he decides to take on the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic, Kerry Fox, Goran Visnjic, James Nesbitt, Emily Lloyd
Director: Michael Winterbottom
The Woman Next Door / La femme d'à côté (1981)
Drama | Romance
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives… A somber study of human feelings.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Véronique Silver
Director: François Truffaut
Me and You / Io e te (2012)
Drama | Family
Italian adolescent drama directed by legendary Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. Introverted oddball Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) enjoys nothing more than his own company and using the excuse of a week-long skiing trip to hide out in his basement seems like the perfect opportunity to spend some time alone. But when his heroin-addicted half-sister Olivia (Tea Falco) arrives at his sacred refuge, his dreams of isolation are quickly shattered.
Starring: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno, Pippo Delbono
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Medium Cool (1969)
Drama
The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National Convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John (Robert Forster), a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen (Verna Bloom), a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto.
Starring: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle, Peter Bonerz
Director: Haskell Wexler
The City of Violence / Jjakpae (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. At the funeral, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it each in his own way. Both of their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing and the two embark on a difficult battle.
Starring: Jae-mo Ahn, Kil-Kang Ahn, Seok-yong Jeong, Deok-hyeon Jo, Doo-hong Jung
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Radio Rebel (2012)
Drama | Family
High schooler Tara, a girl so painfully shy that she can't even write a single letter on the board in front of a class, has an awesome secret – she is "Radio Rebel". When Tara puts on that headset in her room and does her daily podcast, she becomes a confident, outspoken, inspiring, anonymous voice on the airwaves. When her stepfather, the owner/producer guy at SLAM radio, finds out that Tara is Radio Rebel, Tara gets to move from her bedroom to a sound studio to do live shows for SLAM. Everything is the perfect amount of chaos until Principal Moreno, whose only goal in life seems to be to destroy others, cancels Prom and all the students blame Rebel.
Starring: Debby Ryan, Sarena Parmar, Adam DiMarco, Atticus Dean Mitchell, Merritt Patterson
Director: Peter Howitt
Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood / Diaz (2012)
Drama | History
July 2001. 200,000 protesters, consisting mainly of anti-globalization activists and anarchists of the Black Bloc) try to prevent the G8 summit from taking place in Genoa. The authorities, determined not to let them achieve their aim, give a free hand to the anti-riot police in the matter of repression. The Police superintendent decides a nighttime raid upon the Diaz school, used as a sleeping quarter and a center for those providing media, medical, and legal support work. The film tells about the ordeal put through by all those who slept or worked there, courtesy of the barbarous Police forces, complete with furious baton attacks and shameless humiliation following arrests.
Starring: Claudio Santamaria, Jennifer Ulrich, Elio Germano, Davide Iacopini, Ralph Amoussou, Fabrizio Rongione
Director: Daniele Vicari
Daydream Nation (2010)
Drama | Romance
Caroline Wexler, a whip smart 17-year-old, has recently moved to a strange small town haunted by the presence of a serial killer. She starts an affair with her handsome young teacher, Mr. Anderson, and, later, begins a friendship a troubled boy, Thurston. When her teacher grows jealous of Caroline's new companion, the love triangle takes a violent turn.
Starring: Kat Dennings, Reece Daniel Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas, Rachel Blanchard, Ted Whittall
Director: Michael Goldbach
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Drama
A ménage à trois involving a homosexual man, a heterosexual woman, and the bisexual young man who alternates between them.
Starring: Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham
Director: John Schlesinger
Sisters on the Road / Jigeum, idaeroga joayo (2008)
Drama
The sudden death of her mother brings Myeong-eun back home to Jeju island. There she meets her sister Myeong-ju and her daughter Seung-a, still living at their old home, and Hyeon-a who has lived with them for over 20 years like a relative. With the absence of her father, and her complex about being an illegitimate child, Myeongeun tells Hyeon-a she will start looking for her father after the funeral. Myeong-ju accompanies her sister because of Hyeon-a’s persuasion and her sense of duty as an older sibling.
Starring: Hyo-jin Kong, Min-a Shin, Sang-hyun Kim, Kwi-Jung Chu, Jae-won Moon, Eun-jin Bae
Director: Ji-young Bu
Man Is Not a Bird / Covek nije tica (1965)
Drama | Romance
A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
Starring: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras, Stole Arandjelovic, Boris Dvornik
Director: Dusan Makavejev
