Dazed and Confused (1993)
Comedy | Drama | Teen
The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.
Starring: Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Burke
Director: Richard Linklater
Ogni pritona / Brothel Lights (2011)
Drama
In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
Starring: Oksana Fandera, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Bogdan Stupka, Katerina Shpitsa
Director: Aleksandr Gordon
Jersey Girl (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Ollie Trinkie is a publicist, who has a great girlfriend, Gertrude, whom he marries and they are expecting a baby but while he is looking forward to being a father, he doesn't lighten his workload. Gertrude gives birth but dies in the process. Ollie doesn't live up to his responsibilities as a father. Eventually the strain and pressure of losing his wife and being a father gets to him and he has breakdown, which leads to his termination. So with nothing much to do he tries to be good father to his daughter, Gertie. He also meets a young woman name Maya, who likes him but he is still not over his wife.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin, Jason Biggs
Director: Kevin Smith
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
Starring: Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Billy Green Bush, Royal Dano, Peter Cetera
Director: James William Guercio
Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna (1964)
Drama | Thriller
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone – he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit – meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Senjô no merî Kurisumasu (1983)
Drama | War
Celliers, a high-ranking British officer, is interned by the Japanese as a POW. The camp commander becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major. Meanwhile, lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners.
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
De zaak Alzheimer / The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal struggles to perform an act of street justice as he loses control of his faculties in this thriller from Belgium
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Laurien Van den Broeck, Dirk Roofthooft
Director: Erik Van Looy
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960)
Drama
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island…
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Bones (2010)
Drama
The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Starring: Jimmy Bennett, Zakk Wylde, Melissa Ordway, Jonna Walsh, Jesse James, Robin Thomas, Andrew Lawrence
Director: Frank Pestarino
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The Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
Starring: David Faustino, Andrew Divoff, Kostas Sommer, Joe Torry, Corin Nemec, Jen Nikolaisen, Tara Shayne, Beth Shea
Director: Michael Feifer
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Charley Varrick (1973)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Norman Fell
Director: Don Siegel
Room at the Top (1959)
Drama | Romance
The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.
Starring: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson
Director: Jack Clayton
Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Michael Imperioli, Adrian Grenier, Rosario Dawson, Jill Hennessy, Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets
Director: Peter Mattei
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Rasskazy / Short Stories (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Daria Nosik, Andrey Petrov, Igor Ugolnikov, Sergei Fetisov
Director: Mikhail Segal
Foxy Brown (1974)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder, Terry Carter
Director: Jack Hill
The Narrows (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Mike Manadoro, a 19 year old from Brooklyn, will do almost anything to get out of his neighborhood and to study photography at a Manhattan university. The problem is Mike's father Vinny, a retired sanitation worker, does not have the financial means to support his son's dream. So when local mob boss Tony offers Mike a high paying job, he takes it. Mike enters college at the same time as he begins delivering mysterious packages for Tony. Juggling new friendships, old loyalties, a new romance and the world of small-time crime, Mike's choices begin to result in dangerous and potentially fatal consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Starring: Sophia Bush, Kevin Zegers, Vincent D'Onofrio, Eddie Cahill
Director: François Velle
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi
Director: Frank Capra
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl / An American Girl Mystery (2008)
Drama | Family
Aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge can't resist bringing home strays, whether it's Grace, an abandoned basset hound, or Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos willing to trade work for meals. Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati, all signs point to the local hobo jungle, where Will and Countee live with a group of their impoverished companions. Kit, who always has her antennae out for a good news story, convinces her new friends to take her to see the hobo camp for herself and writes an article that creates a sympathetic portrait of the camp's residents. But when Kit's mother and their boarders become the latest victims in a string of robberies, Kit's loyalties are tested. Will is accused of the crimes and, with all of their savings gone, the Kittredges face losing their house to foreclosure. Determined to recover the stolen money and believing Will is innocent, Kit recruits her friends Ruthie and Stirling to help her track down the real culprit. Together they uncover a plot that goes far beyond Cincinnati!
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Joan Cusack
Director: Patricia Rozema
Nine Days of One Year / 9 dney odnogo goda (1962)
Drama
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Starring: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Sergei Blinnikov
Director: Mikhail Romm
