Such Good Friends (1971)
Comedy | Drama
While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.
Starring: Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill
Director: Otto Preminger
Justified (TV Series 2010-2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens is exiled to his hometown of Harlan County, Kentucky after the shooting of a Miami drug cartel hit man raises debate over his renegade style of law enforcement. Unfortunately it isn't long before the people he left behind begin to surface in the most unexpected ways. Raylan's new job pursuing prison escapees, fugitive con men and a corrupt local sheriff has never been more intense.
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Natalie Zea, Jere Burns, David Meunier, Jonathan Kowalsky
Creator: Graham Yost
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A story about two friends, a priest and a rabbi, who fall in love with the same woman.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach, Ron Rifkin
Director: Edward Norton
The Fourth Portrait / Di si zhang hua (2010)
Drama
Ten year-old Xiang faces a lonely future after his father dies. Just when he thinks he's going to spend his life in the orphanage, his estranged mother shows up. And his life changes forever… A loveless mother, a hateful stepfather, a chilly home. Where's Xiang heading to? He finds comfort in drawing and his work reveals his longing for care and affection. Life is full of hope again when he meets the old school janitor who doesn't show his kindness easily and a portly man who has crazy ideas and is haunted with nightmares of his brother. A scary truth is about to be unmasked. Will Xiang be able to depict his own image in the fourth portrait?
Starring: Leon Dai, Lei Hao, Terri Kwan, Bi Xiao-Hai
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
The Caretaker (2012)
Drama | Horror | Romance
As a wave of vampirism sweeps the world, a small but discordant group hole up in a country mansion in Victoria, Australia. A vampire, who has also occupied the mansion, offers them a deal: if they protect him from humans during the day, he'll protect them from other vampires at night. So begins an uneasy alliance which soon threatens to fall apart.
Starring: Anna Burgess, Clint Dowdell, Colin MacPherson, Lee Mason, Mark White
Director: Tom Conyers
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Boom Town (1940)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
Starring: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill
Director: Jack Conway
Grimm (TV Series 2011-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Those weren't stories — they were warnings. Nick Burkhardt thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain. When his ailing Aunt Marie arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as "Grimms," who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. As Nick digs deeper into her past, he realizes that he will have to shoulder the responsibility of his ancestors — and contend with a larger-than-life mythology of the Brothers Grimm that is now all too real.
Starring: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Elizabeth Tulloch, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee
Creator: Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf
End of Watch (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera, Frank Grillo, Michael Peña, Natalie Martinez
Director: David Ayer
When Love Comes / Dang Ai Lai De Shi Hou (2010)
Drama | Romance
Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue on the family name ends up taking two wives. His first wife also feels the same way, and so allows the second wife. Laichun feels the abyss between her and her parents and ends up getting pregnant, but hits a wall when her boyfriend does not take any responsibility. When her father is hospitalized, she begins to understand her father and two mothers. She is finally growing up.
Starring: Yijie Li, Mengjie Gao, Xuefeng Lu, Yushun Lin, Zihua He
Director: Tso-chi Chang
First Knight (1995)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
With no ties, no enemies and no fear, Lancelot is the perfect warrior. He comes to Camelot not for glory or knighthood, although he finds both, but for the love of the one woman he cannot have, the beautiful and honorable Lady Guinevere of Leonesse. Guinevere has promised to marry King Arthur not only because his army will protect her country, but because she truly loves him for his wise and gentle ways. As she prepares to enter Camelot as its new queen, a chance encounter with Lancelot awakens conflicting and powerful emotions within her. For Arthur, she represents a once-in-a-lifetime chance at true love and a beloved queen for his kingdom. Likewise, the king comes to see Lancelot as possessing the honor and bravery of a true Knight. He welcomes them both into his city and into his heart, never foreseeing how his great capacity for love and trust opens the doors for his betrayal.
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham, Ralph Ineson
Director: Jerry Zucker
The Dish (2000)
Comedy | Drama
It's the biggest event since sheep invented wool! Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon – and the 1,000-ton satellite dish in tiny, sheep-farming Parkes, Australia, will beam that historic first step around the globe. But as giddy citizens prepare for the moment when the entire world will depend on them, the dish flatlines. And its unconventional Aussie crew and its by-the-book NASA supervisor from the U.S. have very different ideas about how to fix it. A culture clash of cosmic proportions erupts in this fact-based tale of how the biggest televised event in history was almost not televised. The Dish, with Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld) and others in a skilled ensemble portraying a spirited array of techies and townies, "will send you to the moon and back laughing" (Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun).
Starring: Sam Neill, Patrick Warburton, Tom Long, Kevin Harrington
Director: Rob Sitch
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.
Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine
Director: George Roy Hill
About Cherry / Cherry (2012)
Drama
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
Starring: Heather Graham, James Franco, Lili Taylor, Dev Patel, Ashley Hinshaw, Jonny Weston
Director: Stephen Elliott
The Mamiya Brothers / Mamiya kyodai (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The main characters are the Mamiya brothers who are living together although they are over 30-years-old. Unconcerned with appearance and reputations, they enjoy their life in their own way. The only concern is the lack of girlfriends. One day, however, a change occurs to their mundane lives. The elder brother, Akinobu (Kuranosuke Sasaki), falls in love with a girl at a video shop. The younger brother, Tetsunobu (Muga Tsukaji), scrambles around to aid his brother achieve love and arranges various dates. The elder brother strives to return the effort, but gets the cold shoulder. The two brothers return to their original lives, continuing with their ordinary, but happy days.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Muga Tsukaji, Miyuki Nakajima, Takako Tokiwa, Erika Sawajiri, Keiko Kitagawa, Hiromi Iwasaki
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Godzilla vs. Biollante / Gojira vs. Biorante (1989)
Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Godzilla is freed from his prison in Mt. Mihara just in time to face a genetic experiment gone wrong in the form of Biollante, a huge hybrid monster made from plant, human, and Godzilla's DNA
Starring: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Kôji Takahashi, Tôru Minegishi, Megumi Odaka
Director: Kazuki Ohmori
Bass Ackwards (2010)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Starring: Linas Phillips, Davie-Blue, Sebastian Scandiuzzi
Director: Linas Phillips
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SubUrbia (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves… someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Jayce Bartok, Ajay Naidu, Parker Posey, Amie Carey, Nicky Katt, Samia Shoaib, Dina Waters
Director: Richard Linklater
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009)
Drama | Mystery
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Leslie Hope, Stephen McHattie
Director: Robert Harmon
Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
Crime | Drama
When Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, he fears he will relapse into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery. Meanwhile, Stone's investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council, which hopes to preserve Paradise's reputation as an ideal seaside resort.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sean Young
Director: Robert Harmon
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
When the body of a fourteen years old teenager is found in the margin of the river in Paradise, Massachusetts, the Chief of Police Jesse Stone and his officer Simpson seek clues in the spot. Through a graduation ring of a student that they find nearby the corpse, they identity the dead girl, the local slut Billy Bishop. Meanwhile, his department deals with a domestic violent situation with an aggressive and abusive husband that beats his wife. Along his investigation, Stone discloses that the famous writer Norman Shaw was too much close to the victim and intended to write the biography of the famous gangster Leo in his next book. Joining the pieces of evidences like a puzzle, Stone unravels the identity of the criminal.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Orla Brady, Gary Basaraba
Director: Robert Harmon
