The Traffikers / Gong-mo-ja-deul (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A thriller about the passengers with different objectives on board a cruiser headed for China, being chased over and over again and unexpected happening of things.
Starring: Daniel Choi, Dal-hwan Jo, Yun-hie Jo, Chang Jung Lim, Dal-su Oh
Director: Hong-seon Kim
Politiki kouzina / A Touch of Spice (2003)
Comedy | Drama
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor; they both require… A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love; he travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
Starring: Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou, Tamer Karadagli, Basak Köklükaya
Director: Tassos Boulmetis
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young
Director: William Wyler
Funeral Kings (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Two altar boys decide to play hooky after serving at a series of funerals.
Starring: Dylan Hartigan, Alex Maizus, Jordan Puzzo, Charles Kwame Odei, Kevin Corrigan, Michaela McManus, Michael Delaney, PJ McCabe
Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus
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Reality / Big House (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day his family urge him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change.
Starring: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli, Nello Iorio, Nunzia Schiano
Director: Matteo Garrone
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Animation | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
A deformed bellringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancing girl.
Starring: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Oliver Twist (2005)
Crime | Drama | Family
Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin — the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is only the beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life.
Starring: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Jamie Foreman, Edward Hardwicke, Mark Strong
Director: Roman Polanski
Summertime (1955)
Drama | Romance
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Director: David Lean
Will (2011)
Drama | Family | Sport
An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.
Starring: Damian Lewis, Bob Hoskins, Rebekah Staton, Kieran Wallbanks, Perry Eggleton
Director: Ellen Perry
Friends with Money (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Four women friends: three are wealthy and married plus there's Olivia, a former teacher who's now a maid. The marriages are in various states of health: Franny and Matt are happy and very rich. Christine and David write screenplays together, are remodeling their house, and argue. Jane is angry all the time and Aaron, who's an attentive husband, strikes everyone as gay. Franny sets up Olivia with a friend of hers, Mike, a personal trainer, and Olivia takes him with her to a couple of housecleaning jobs. A benefit dinner for ALS, an awkward guy named Marty whose place Olivia cleans, and a French maid's outfit figure in the story. Is there more to life than its problems?
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Curfew (2012)
Drama | Short
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Starring: Fatima Ptacek, Shawn Christensen, Kim Allen, Dana Segal, Kirsten Holly Smith
Director: Shawn Christensen
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Wasted on the Young (2010)
Drama | Thriller
Set in an elite high school where social hierarchies are rigorously enforced, Zack is the ruler of cool and his half brother Darren is a geek-boy misfit tenuously connected to the clique through his position on the swim team. Trouble ensues when they both fall for Xandrie, a smart, literary girl with a healthy disregard for conformity and the hipster scene. Things get horribly out-of-hand when Zack throws a party and the imploding consequences threaten Xandrie's life.
Starring: Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell
Director: Ben C. Lucas
The Front Page (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
Director: Billy Wilder
Falling Uphill (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Robert asks Jenny, a girl he found on Craigslist, to be his new roommate. Now after a year of living together, he finds himself falling in love with her, but his ability to keep afloat in San Francisco is coming to an end. With a lame job and not enough income, he has no choice but to move back with his parents in Rochester, NY. With only three days until his flight home, Robert struggles to tell Jenny his true feelings and to determine what direction his life is headed.
Starring: Ari Kanamori, Jessiqa Pace, Jack McGee, Jena Hunt
Director: Richard J. Bosner
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Broken Roads (2012)
Drama
A teens life is shattered by a tragic car accident. Leaving his mother dead and him lost from the world. He's forced to move to a small town to live with his grandmother, whom he's never met. After living together they discover that they're unable to find peace with their own demons until they've found peace with each other. Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life; dealing with loss. A character driven journey of rediscovery and the hills climbed which forever change us.
Starring: Sally Kirkland, Aidan Bristow, Shoshana Bush, Rolonda Watts, Ross Marquand, Lisa Glass
Director: Justin Chambers
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Comedy | Drama
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.
Starring: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir
Director: Alan Clarke
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | War
A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular.
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life / Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
Biography | Drama | Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Caroline Tillette, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Joann Sfar
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama-bushi kô (1983)
Drama | Music
In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday – the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first.
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô, Shoichi Ozawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama bushiko (1958)
Drama
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
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