Joshua Tree / Army of One (1993)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A former race-car driver turned trucker is framed for a murder he didn't commit and escapes from custody to find the real killer.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, George Segal, Geoffrey Lewis, Michelle Phillips, Beau Starr, Ken Foree
Director: Vic Armstrong
Sleepwalking (2008)
Drama
Jolene Reedy (Charlize Theron) is a disillusioned single mother prone to bad men and reckless behavior. Her younger brother James (Nick Stahl) is a weak-willed underachiever who can't hold a job. When Jolene abandons her 12-year-old daughter (AnnaSophia Robb) with James, uncle and niece make a fateful decision to flee to the farm of James and Jolene's abusive father (Academy Award nominee Dennis Hopper). In a past plagued by dark secrets, can family prove to be the most desperate bond of all? Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson co-stars in this acclaimed Sundance Festival Premiere Selection about the cycles of love, loss and waking up to the first day of the rest of your life.
Starring: Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Deborrah-Lee Furness, Mathew St. Patrick, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper
Director: William Maher
Lincoln (2012)
Biography | Drama | History | War
In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Sally Field
Director: Steven Spielberg
Argo (2012)
Drama | History | Thriller
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Clea DuVall, Chris Messina
Director: Ben Affleck
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Drama | Romance | War
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
Starring: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Charles McGraw
Director: Mark Robson
Mogambo (1953)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Starring: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea
Director: John Ford
Réfractaire / Draft Dodgers (2009)
Drama
May 1944. A young man just out of college returns to his hometown in Luxembourg. Refusing to fight on the German side, he chooses a clandestine life and joins other deserters in an abandoned mine.
Starring: Guillaume Gouix, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Arthur Dupont, Pierre Niney, Michel Voïta, Marianne Basler, Carlo Brandt, Thierry van Werveke
Director: Nicolas Steil
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Committed (2000)
Comedy | Drama
The plot of "Committed" is centered around the story of an intense young woman, played by Graham, whose husband leaves her in order to find himself. She then follows him cross-country and when she catches up with him, complications arise.
Starring: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic, Patricia Velasquez
Director: Lisa Krueger
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Miss Bala (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Miss Bala tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang that's terrorizing northern Mexico. Although Laura succeeds in winning the beauty queen crown, her experiences as an unwilling participant in Mexico's violent war leave her shaken and transformed.
Starring: Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier
Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Les Misérables / Los miserables (2012)
Drama | Musical | Romance
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
The Gift (2000)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear, John Beasley
Director: Sam Raimi
Shanghai Triad / Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao (1995)
Crime | Drama
Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Jinbao, the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai. Fourteen-year-old Tang Shuisheng has been recruited by his uncle to watch Xiao Jinbao. Ultimately, Shuisheng becomes the only person to whom she can talk openly and whose relationship with her is not motivated by power or greed. In secret, Xiao Jinbao has become the mistress of Song, the Greens' number two man, and together they conspire against Mr. Tang.
Starring: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wang Xiaoxiao, Xuejian Li, Chun Sun, Biao Fu, Shu Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Gangs of Wasseypur / G.O.W. (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Shahid Khan's vow to get his father's honor back turns him into the most feared man in the Indian town of Wasseypur.
Starring: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jameel Khan
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Tristana (1970)
Drama
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope…
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Buñuel
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Drama
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
Starring: Ariyan A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Chequita Jackson, Jerard Washington
Director: Leslie Harris
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Marie Kroeyer / Marie Krøyer (2012)
Biography | Drama
The story of the marriage between the painters Marie and P.S. Krøyer.
Starring: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Sverrir Gudnason, Lene Maria Christensen, Tommy Kenter
Director: Bille August
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
While flying from Los Angeles to New York, the "good boy" Oliver Martin meets the "bad girl" Emily Friehl and they have sex in the restroom. They stay together along the day in New York, when Oliver discloses the planning of his life – his future career, successful job and then raising a family. He gives the phone number of his mother to Emily and asks her to call six years later to check. For seven years, they occasionally meet each other, and in the end, their relationship becomes love.
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Taryn Manning
Director: Nigel Cole
The Last Tycoon / Da Shang Hai (2012)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
It was 1917, China. CHENG is an innocent young man who works in a grocery store and has no ambition, other than to be with his lovely neighbor, the Peking Opera student QIU. One fateful night changes Cheng's life forever, as he walks in on the affair that is happening between his female boss and the chief of police. To hide this secret, the chief decides to throw Cheng into prison, accusing him of raping his boss. Desolate, Cheng bonds with his cellmate MAO, who has an escape plan. The duo breaks out, and Cheng has no choice but to leave his life and his dream girl behind.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng, Quan Yuan, Li Yuan, Monica Mok
Director: Jing Wong
City Without Baseball / Mou ye chi sing (2008)
Drama | Sport
The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality. It also enables them to find the will to live in the face of death and the strength to conquer losing in a spectatorless sport.
Starring: Yu Chung Leung, Ron Heung, John Tai, Jason Tsang, Jose Au, Yu Hong Lau, Peter Mak
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon, Scud
Windwalker (1981)
Adventure | Drama | Western
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.'
Starring: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar
Director: Kieth Merrill
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