Any Day Now (2012)
Drama
In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.
Starring: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, Chris Mulkey, Alan Rachins
Director: Travis Fine
Fringe (TV Series 2008-2013)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston. The team uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe.
Starring: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole
Creator: J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Bedevilled / Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter's death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames.
Starring: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang, Min Je, Ji-Eun Lee, Jeong-hak Park
Director: Chul-soo Jang
Pokrov Gates / Pokrovskiye vorota (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Stories from the lives of the tennants of the Moscow's communal apatment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiance. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
Starring: Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy
Director: Mikhail Kozakov
Gnade / Mercy (2012)
Drama
Story is about a husband, his wife and son who emigrate to the extreme weathers of North of Norway. Their family soon gets into troubles as the husband starts an affair and the wife crashes her car into something at night. This is a slow-paced story of guilt and redemption.
Starring: Birgit Minichmayr, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Stange, Ane Dahl Torp, Maria Bock
Director: Matthias Glasner
What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)
Biography | Drama | Music
The filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her efforts to break away from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne).
Starring: Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Virginia Capers, Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander
Director: Brian Gibson
Strange Days (1995)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the eve of the new millennium, Lenny and his street-savvy friend and conscience, Mace, are suddenly caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal–plunging them into the bleak heart of the nightworld he has always inhabited.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Sean McGinley, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Angeline Ball
Director: John Boorman
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Drama | Romance
Emma Thompson stars in and provides the screenplay for this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Thompson plays Elinor, the eldest of sisters who are reduced in means when their father dies and his estate passes on to his son from his first marriage. They are soon accepted into their new society, each finding romance, but with some pain along the way. Also starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, the film won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as three BAFTAs.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise
Director: Ang Lee
Willow (1988)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
When young Willow Ufgood finds an abandoned baby, he is suddenly thrust into an adventure filled with magic and danger. According to an ancient prophecy, the sacred child is destined to end the reign of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Now, with only a single swordsman at his side, Willow must overcome the forces of darkness that threaten to destroy anyone who stands in the Queen's way!
Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh, Patricia Hayes, Billy Barty
Director: Ron Howard
Rurouni Kenshin / Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)
Action | Drama | History
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those who need without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When the cruel Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, and Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.
Starring: Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Kôji Kikkawa, Taketo Tanaka
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Unfaithful / Infidèle (2002)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Edward and Connie Sumner are a wonderfully maintained middle-aged couple living the American dream. Together with their eight year-old son, a dog and a housekeeper, they share an enviable life in the suburbs of New York City. But no life goes unchallenged: This happy marriage, dampened by the routines of affluence, falls prey to an outsider when Connie has a fateful collision with a stranger on a Soho street. It's an encounter which assaults her with mystery, spontaneity, charm and risk. It will pull Connie into an affair which will become her obsession. When Edward innocently learns that his wife has lied to him, suspicion propels him to to uncover the devastating details of her infidelity. Tormented by the knowledge, he confronts her lover, only to discover a level of rage within himself that he could never have imagined.
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, John H. Tobin
Director: Adrian Lyne
Jûryoku piero / A Pierrot / Gravity's Clowns (2009)
Drama
Directed by Mori Junichi (Laundry), A Pierrot (a.k.a. Gravity's Clowns) breaks down the modern family through an emotionally haunting suspense drama. Based on a novel by Isaka Kotaro whose Accuracy of Death was also recently adapted for the big screen, A Pierrot revolves around a family of four with a complicated past that brews mystery and trouble in the present. Kase Ryo (I Just Didn't Do It) and Okada Masaki (Halfway) form the core of the film as brothers who may be more different than anyone expected, while Kohinata Fumiyo and Suzuki Kyoka play the parents. Also co-starring Yoshitaka Yuriko (Snakes and Earrings) and Okada Yoshinori (Kisarazu Cat's Eye), A Pierrot explores the role of genetics in determining families and individuals as well as the nature versus nurture debate, giving the film's unsettling mystery an intriguing and affecting spin. On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi (Kohinata Fumiyo), mother Rieko (Suzuki Kyoka), and their two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi (Kase Ryo) and artsy Haru (Okada Masaki). When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes all seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi tries to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.
Starring: Ryo Kase, Masaki Okada, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Yoshinori Okada, Izumi's friend
Atsurô Watabe, Kyôka Suzuki
Director: Junichi Mori
666 Park Avenue (TV Series 2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
666 Park Avenue tells the story of a young couple who accept an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City, but soon begin to witness supernatural events.
Starring: Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Robert Buckley, Samantha Logan, Mercedes Masöhn, Erik Palladino, Helena Mattsson, Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn, Misha Kuznetsov
Creator: Gabriella Pierce
The Return (2006)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Joanna Mills is a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. She has made a successful career for herself, as a sales representative for a trucking company; but her private life has been difficult. Estranged from her father, stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, and with few friends in her life, Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she's never met, at the hands of a heartless killer–a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. Once there, she will discover that some secrets can't be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sam Shepard, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, J.C. MacKenzie, Erinn Allison
Director: Asif Kapadia
Bokukyû: A ressha de iko / Train Brain Express (2012)
Drama
Kei Komachi (Kenichi Matsuyama) works for a big company in a densely populated area. Kenta Kotama (Eita) works for his family iron foundry business, which is in crisis. Both men are railroad otaku (avid fans of trains) and meet while riding on the same train…
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Eita, Shihori Kanjiya, Pierre Taki, Eri Murakawa, Yukari Itô, Masatô Ibu, Tomoko Hoshino, Takashi Sasano, Tokuma Nishioka, Keiko Matsuzaka
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
The Protector / Wai lung mang tam (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate. Once in Hong Kong, the pair causes no end of trouble for both Mr. Ko and the local authorities.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Sandy Alexander, Victor Arnold, Kim Bass
Director: James Glickenhaus
Swallowtail Butterfly / Suwarôteiru (1996)
Crime | Drama
After a young girl's mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name "Ageha" (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business.
Starring: Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito, Yôsuke Eguchi, Andy Hui Chi-On, Atsurô Watabe, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Director: Shunji Iwai
Picnic / Pikunikku (1996)
Drama | Fantasy
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.
Starring: Chara, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Hashizume, Naomasa Musaka, Fujiko Yamamoto, Shifumi Yamaguichi, Takaaki Kabuto, Kazue Itô, Keiichi Suzuki
Director: Shunji Iwai
Salon Kitty / Madam Kitty (1976)
Drama
Berlin, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, power-mad SS Officer Wallenberg is ordered to find and train Germany's most beautiful women to work in the opulent brothel of Madam Kitty. Here these Nazi nymphs will submit to the bizarre passions and carnal degradations of the Reich's highest-ranking men and women while Wallenberg secretly records their acts for blackmail. But when an innocent young prostitute uncovers the conspiracy, her revenge will ignite a holocaust of pain, pleasure and shocking sexual perversion. The story is true. The depravity is real.
Starring: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner, Sara Sperati
Director: Tinto Brass
