The Mission (1986)
Adventure | Drama | History
A man of the sword and a man of the cloth unite to shield a South American tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Roland Joffe
Smashed (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kyle Gallner
Director: James Ponsoldt
The Story of Luke (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Starring: Cary Elwes, Seth Green, Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Al Sapienza
Director: Alonso Mayo
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The Legends of Nethiah / Legends of Nethiah: The Nameless (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A young boy whose parents are going through a bitter divorce, is given hope and courage through the powerful stories embellished by his grandfather. The stories give the boy the inner strength and resolve to confront the inevitable challenges which lie ahead.
Starring: Jeremiah Sayys, Robert Picardo, Jared Young, Laura Covelli, Jilon VanOver, John Heard, Theresa Russell, Julie Michaels, Bryce Clyde Jenkins
Director: Russ Emanuel, Tomax Aponte
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Java Heat (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Story centers on the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Indonesia, where a reckless American posing as a grad student is bent on vengeance but quickly finds that the world's problems can't be solved with violence alone. A mysterious American Marine/FBI agent Jake Travers (Kellan Lutz) teams with a Muslim cop Hashim (Ario Bayu) to hunt down a dangerous international jewel thief Malik (Mickey Rourke) who kidnaps a Sultan's daughter Sultana (Atiqah Hasiholan) in a plot to steal the royal treasury: exotic intrigue amid ancient palaces, mosques, temples, subterranean labyrinths and stone pyramids in the heart of Java.
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Verdi Solaiman, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu
Director: Conor Allyn
Under Suspicion (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. When a client is murdered, Tony's ex-partner, Frank, still on the Brighton force, finds that the most likely suspects are Angeline, the client's mistress who is set to inherit all his property, and Tony himself, parts of whose story don't seem to add up.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill, Alan Talbot
Director: Simon Moore
Pan's Labyrinth / El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Drama | Fantasy | War
Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil.
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Inferno / Desert Heat (1999)
Action | Drama | Romance
Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a vetern soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddies motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. Helped by Mr. Early, and some other good fellows, Eddie is out for vengeance.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita, Danny Trejo, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Larry Drake, Vincent Schiavelli, David Fralick
Director: John G. Avildsen
W no higeki / W's Tragedy (1984)
Drama
Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Shizuka is willing to go to great lengths to master this role of a lifetime, but as the plot unfolds, she realizes that real life events are beginning to parallel events in the play.
Starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Yoshiko Mita, Masanori Sera
Director: Shin'ichirô Sawai
Downton Abbey (TV Series 2010-2015)
Drama | Romance
The Crawleys have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms and library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above. Some of them are loyal to the family and are committed to Downton as a way of life, others are moving through, on the look out for new opportunities or love or just adventure. The difference being that they know so many of the secrets of the family, while the family knows so few of theirs…
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Rob James-Collier, Kevin Doyle, Allen Leech, David Robb
Creator: Julian Fellowes
Broken City (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-cop finds himself in over his head when he agrees to help out the mayor of New York City in this tense political thriller from director Allen Hughes. Having had to sacrifice a promising career when he was involved in a controversial shooting, tough street cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is spared a prison stretch by the intervention of the city's popular Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe). Starting afresh as a private investigator, Billy is soon hired by Hostetler to find out if his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is being unfaithful. But when her suspected lover is later found dead, Billy realises too late that the mayor's motives run deeper than expected, and that if he's to stay alive, he needs to take the fight to his opponents, risking all to reveal the truth.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler, Barry Pepper, Justin Chambers
Director: Allen Hughes
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Promised Land (2012)
Drama
Corporate salesman Steve Butler arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man who counters Steve both personally and professionally.
Starring: Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Hal Holbrook, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucas Black
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Sexy Evil Genius (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancee, the morally challenged lawyer who'd been handling her case. She's mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences. By the night's end, revenge will be had, new romance will bloom, and Nikki will have delivered on her reputation as the sexy evil genius.
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Katee Sackhoff, Seth Green, Anthony Michael Hall, Harold Perrineau, William Baldwin
Director: Shawn Piller
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Eden (2012)
Drama
A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive.
Starring: Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Scott Mechlowicz, Matt O'Leary, Tantoo Cardinal, Grace Arends
Director: Megan Griffiths
Why Stop Now (2012)
Comedy | Drama
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Paul Calderon
Director: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner
Gangster Squad (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A chronicle of the Los Angeles Police Department's fight to keep East Coast Mafia out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Mój rower / My Father's Bike (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
Starring: Michal Urbaniak, Artur Zmijewski, Krzysztof Chodorowski, Witold Debicki, Anna Nehrebecka
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Defendor (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Bruined and beaten, arm in a sling, neck in a brace, Arthur Poppington sits in front of court-appointed psychologist Ellen Chum. After making her swear to secrecy, Poppington begins to tell the story of his secret life as "Defendor" – yes, that's an "OR" – spelling is not one of his super powers. By day, Poppington directs traffic around road construction sites, but at night he dons a pair of black tights, a black jersey with a crude "D" duct-taped to his chest, and trawls the streets as his alter ago. As Defendor, Poppington engages in what he believes is a super heroic fight against crime in an attempt to fulfull his unrealized dream of capturing his archrival, Captian Industry – a gun trafficking crime lord who Poppington mistankenly believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Defendor's problems with the law begin with his intervention in a trick gone bad. When coming to the aid of Katerina Debrofkowitz, an underage prostitute, Defendor tangles with her pimp, Chuck Dooney – a crooked undercover cop. By doing so, Defendor bumbles his way into a criminal underwold, and the stage is set for a showdown with Captain Industry.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh, Kat Dennings
Director: Peter Stebbings
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
Drama | Romance
After a rough break-up, Elizabeth sets out on a journey across the U.S., leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and a soulful new friend; a cafe owner–all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop and his estranged wife and a down-on-her luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Inseparable / Xing ying bu li (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A troubled young man, Li faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. Chuck, rescues Li from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor. But who is Chuck really?
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu, Beibi Gong, Ni Yan, Peter Stormare, Kenneth Tsang, Mo Zhang
Director: Dayyan Eng
