A Late Quartet (2012)
Drama
Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Mark Ivanir, Imogen Poots, Wallace Shawn
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Won't Back Down (2012)
Drama
Two determined mothers-, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac, Holly Hunter, Rosie Pérez, Emily Alyn Lind
Director: Daniel Barnz
Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum (1979)
Drama | War
In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing–and succeeds–then finds playing his favorite toy, a tin drum, useful for tuning out things that annoy him, like his mother's dallying with their Polish boarder, the Nazi rallies his father attends, or even the advent of war itself.
Starring: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Pursued (1947)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | Western
In the 1880s orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their horse ranch after his own family is killed. Jeb is haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is murdered. Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting the colt that he was riding. Although Mrs. Callum blames the incident on deer hunters, she is aware that the shooting was actually the attempted murder of the youngster by her brother-in-law Grant, a shadowy figure who, for vague reasons, is determined to hurt Jeb.
Starring: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, John Rodney
Director: Raoul Walsh
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery
Hard-hitting film noir where Joe Rolfe s an ex-con who's trying to go straight with a job as a deliveryman for a florist company. Unfortunately, a gang of thugs led by a criminal mastermind have arranged a bank robbery using a van that looks just like the one driven by Rolfe–and the deliveryman takes the fall for the heist. This leads to Rolfe's search for the real thieves, a trail that leads to Mexico and an unexpected love affair with the gang leader's daughter.
Starring: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand
Director: Phil Karlson
Sex and Breakfast (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Young couples experiment with anonymous group sex as a way to revitalize their troubled relationships. Through the experience they are forced to rethink the rudiments of a successful relationship: sex, love, and communication. Meet James and Heather. Their relationship isn't working. A cold distance has grown between them and their intimate moments feel forced. Heather is a take-charge problem solver who sometimes gets too carried away for her own good. She's determined to make her relationship with James work, even if it means being overbearing or making questionable decisions. James has recently started to discover that he's easily manipulated. He can't remember if this is the way he's always been, but he's going to do something about it in this relationship, that's for damn sure. Meet Ellis and Renee. Their relationship isn't working. The spark…
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Kuno Becker, Eliza Dushku, Alexis Dziena, Joanna Miles
Director: Miles Brandman
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Love & Sex (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Starring: Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Cheri Oteri
Director: Valerie Breiman
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Candleshoe (1977)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Small time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
Starring: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan
Director: Norman Tokar
Battleground (1949)
Action | Drama | War
A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore
Director: William A. Wellman
The Island (1980)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across the band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Starring: Michael Caine, David Warner
Director: Michael Ritchie
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Drama | Romance | War
The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs, the Miniver's son courts Lady Beldon's granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and entered in the competition against Lady Beldon's rose.
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers
Director: William Wyler
Sex & Lies in Sin City (2008)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
A shockingly true tale of love gone sour and greed gone wild on the dark side of Las Vegas. Reckless casino executive Ted Binion had it all: money, power and a beautiful girlfriend, Sandy Murphy. That all changed when Sandy found him dead in his Las Vegas home in 1998, seemingly of an apparent drug overdose. But when Ted's estranged sister, Becky, informs police she believes Ted was murdered, a closer investigation reveals Binion's death was no accident at all. "Sex & Lies In Sin City" is the gritty portrayal of the investigation and trial of Murphy and her ex-con boyfriend who attempted to steal Binion's fortune by any means necessary. The film captures the unbelievably dark and twisted crimes – and subsequent shock – that swept through Las Vegas as the truth about Binion's last days became disturbingly clear.
Starring: Mena Suvari, Marcia Gay Harden, Johnathon Schaech, Matthew Modine
Director: Peter Medak
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Good Dick (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
They're in their 20s. He works in a video store; he's eager, chatty, sleeps in his car. She rents adult films, looks disheveled, rarely speaks. He chats her up, she brushes him off. He takes her address from store records and contrives to run into her. He rings her doorbell; she tells him to go away. He invents a story of a great-aunt who's died; she lets him in but holds a butcher knife between them. So it goes. He presses for a relationship; she ignores him, insults him, or yells. He's persistent, inviting her out, cooking, washing her hair. Both have demons and, as their natures become more clear, his addictive personality and her sex nausea may be on a collision course.
Starring: Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, Tom Arnold, Charles Durning
Director: Marianna Palka
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Waitress (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?
Starring: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Sisto, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly
Director: Adrienne Shelly
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Straight Time (1978)
Crime | Drama
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer. When he is released again, he assaults the parole officer, steals his car, and returns to a life of crime.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh
Director: Ulu Grosbard
The Vikings (1958)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives – both involving the princess Morgana, however.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Director: Richard Fleischer
The Enemy Below (1957)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
During World War II, the USS Haynes, an American destroyer escort discovers a German U-boat in the South Atlantic. A deadly duel between the two ships ensues, and Captain Murrell must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel
Director: Dick Powell
The Mighty (1998)
Comedy | Drama
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not allowed out unauthorized. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gillian Anderson, Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Meat Loaf
Director: Peter Chelsom
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Felicity Jones stars in this 1930s-set comedy drama as a vacillating bride-to-be, unable to make her mind up between her dull but worthy future husband and the handsome, charming boy who had previously swept her off her feet. As the guests begin arriving at the English country manse where she is to be wed, Dolly (Jones) hides out in an upstairs room, mulling over the day ahead with the help of a bottle of rum. While her agitated mother, Hetty (Elizabeth McGovern), tries to hide her panic and reassure her relatives that all is well, the arrival on the scene of Dolly's former flame, Joseph (Luke Treadaway), threatens to upset the well-laid plans.
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Ellie Kendrick, Barbara Flynn, John Standing, Luke Treadaway
Director: Donald Rice
The Hypnotist / Hypnotisören (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
Starring: Tobias Zilliacus, Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Helena af Sandeberg
Director: Lasse Hallström
