Mr. India (1987)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Sci-Fi
A poor, but bighearted, man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device; he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
Starring: Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Sridevi
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Out of Africa (1985)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance
The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the screen's great epic romances. Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer), runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people, and a mysterious white hunter (Redford). The masterfully crafted, breathtakingly produced story of love and loss earned Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (based on material from another medium), cinematography, Original Score, Art Direction (Set Decoration) and Sound.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gough, Michael Kitchen, Leslie Phillips
Director: Sydney Pollack
La gloire de mon père / My Father's Glory (1990)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence.
Starring: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Julien Ciamaca
Director: Yves Robert
Silver Bullet / Stephen King's Silver Bullet (1985)
Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The small town of Tarker's Mill was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing ever happened. Until one night, murders begin. The town people believe its some maniac killer on the loose and intend to hunt the man down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes that the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf. After a run in with the werewolf Marty and his sister, Jane hunt all over town for the man who is the werewolf.
Starring: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Terry O'Quinn
Director: Daniel Attias
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Primer (2004)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Crawford
Director: Shane Carruth
The Invisible (2007)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Nick, is a high school senior with a bright future until, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, he is brutally attacked by a troubled girl, Annie, and his body is left for dead. Now in limbo, not quite dead but invisible to the living, his spirit can only watch as his mother and the police search frantically for him, unaware that he is only hours away from truly perishing.
Starring: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Marquette, Alex O'Loughlin
Director: David S. Goyer
Rising Sun (1993)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An L.A. cop and a Japan expert investigate the murder of an American call girl at a Japanese
corporation, and the investigation exposes much more than was expected.
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Tia Carrere
Director: Philip Kaufman
Punishment Park (1971)
Drama | Thriller | War
Radical youths, arrested for their political activities, are given a choice between incarceration and participation in a potentially deadly game which finds them racing across a punishing desert landscape with armed law enforcement officers in pursuit. The scenario presented is intended to reflect the profound tensions and frustrations fracturing American society in the late 1960s.
Starring: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson, Katherine Quittner, Scott Turner
Director: Peter Watkins
Ordinary People (1980)
Drama
Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff
Director: Robert Redford
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Biography | Drama
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellor's life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henry's determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More's inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
Adventure | Animation | Biography | Drama | Family | History | Musical
When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents, his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually, the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by dreams and sends for Joseph, who interprets them and saves Egypt in the process. He is made second in command to Pharaoh, and has most of Egypt's grain stored. Eventually his brothers arrive in Egypt to buy food because of famine, and he must forgive them. Then the dreams that had angered his brothers were in reality prophecies that had come from God.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Richard Herd, Maureen McGovern, Jodi Benson, Judith Light, James Eckhouse, Richard McGonagle
Director: Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez
Barbara (2012)
Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler
Director: Christian Petzold
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Based on a true story, Frank W. Abagnale was employed as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline company-all before reaching his 21st birthday. A successful con artist and master of deception, Frank is also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud has netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds–much to the chagrin of the authorities. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty has made it his prime mission to capture him and bring him to justice, however Frank is always one step ahead of Carl, baiting him to continue the chase.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams
Director: Steven Spielberg
The Sheltering Sky / Il tè nel deserto (1990)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.
Starring: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Brother (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Katô, Susumu Terajima, Royale Watkins, Lombardo Boyar
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Fifty Shades of Grey / 50 Shades of Grey (2012)
Adult | Drama | Erotica | Romance
A literature student Anastasia Steele meets a handsome, yet tormented, billionaire named Christian Grey.
Starring: Allie Haze, Jeremy Bilding, Julia Ann, Alexis Ford, Jaslene Jade, Johnny Castle, Logan Pierce, Ryan Driller
Director: Jim Powers
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Drama | Horror
Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.
Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss
Director: John Fawcett
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The Proposal (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) terrorizes her publishing house co-workers with her abrasive, take-no-prisoners management style, especially her overworked assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds). But when Margaret is threatened with deportation to her native Canada because of an immigration technicality, the quick-thinking exec announces that she and Andrew are engaged to be married. Ambitious Andrew agrees to go along with her scheme – if there's a long-awaited promotion in it for him. Everything is going according to Margaret's plan, until an overzealous immigration official makes it his business to prove that the couple's engagement is bogus. To demonstrate her commitment to her new fiancé, Margaret agrees to celebrate the 90th birthday of his colorful grandmother (Betty White) – in Alaska. The editrix's type – A ways put her at odds with her eccentric future in-laws with hilarious consequences, until the Paxtons teach Margaret a thing or two about family.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Anne Fletcher
Nordwand / North Face (2008)
Adventure | Drama | History | Sport
Set in 1936, centers around four mountain climbers who attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland and the tragic events that follow.
Starring: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Touching the Void (2003)
Adventure | Documentary | Drama | Sport
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a successful three-and-a- half-day ascent, disaster struck. Simpson fell a short distance and broke several bones in his leg. With no hope of rescue, the men decided to attempt descent together with Yates lowering Simpson 300 feet at a time in a slow, painful process that could have potentially been deadly for both. One further misstep led to Yates unknowingly lowering his injured partner over the lip of a crevasse. With the gradient having gone from steep to vertical, he was no longer able to hold on. Certain they were about to be pulled jointly to their deaths, the only choice was to cut the rope. How Simpson survived the fall, and made it back to base camp is a story that will astound and inspire. In 'Touching the Void', Yates and Simpson return to the Siula Grande for the first time to retell their story.
Starring: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Ollie Ryall
Director: Kevin Macdonald
