Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Drama
"A teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar" directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937."
Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
Director: Richard Linklater
Deserter / Simon: An English Legionnaire (2002)
Drama | War
Driven by romantic illusion to join the French Foreign Legion, Simon Murray undertakes a physical and spiritual journey during Algeria's battle for independence from France.
Starring: Paul Fox, Tom Hardy
Director: Martin Huberty
On the Road (2012)
Adventure | Drama
Brazilian director Walter Salles helms this adaptation of the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that defined the Beat Generation. Sam Riley stars as Kerouac's self-styled protagonist, down-and-out intellectual Sal Paradise, who takes to the backroads of America with his free-spirited friend Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) in a frantic odyssey fuelled by jazz, poetry and drugs in search of the 'it' at the heart of life. Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Amy Adams co-star.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard, Tom Sturridge, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Walter Salles
Due West: Our Sex Journey / Dong Guan Wood / Yi Lu Xiang Xi (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Frankie is brought up in a strict middle class family, but like any other adolescent, he is curious about sex during puberty, so he turns to his "sex mentor" – porn magazines and his mate Jing. With the help of Jing, Frankie has the opportunity of camping with his crush Zoey, and spending time alone with her, during which he loses his virginity to her… not quite! He turns out to be doing the well-known ugly she-boy from school! The episode devastates Frankie, and he decides to leave Hong Kong for the U.K. to continue his study, where he acquaints with lecherous senior James. Frankie is in a stable relationship with Zeta after graduating. Their only problem is their sex life: Zeta is sexually anxious and sets certain restrictions. Not only does that prevent Frankie from being sexually satisfied, it also indirectly leads to their breakup. Frankie then begins his journey back to the mainland with Jing to pick up chicks in clubs…
Starring: Justin Cheung, Gregory Wong, Mark Wu, Mo Qi Wen, Jessica Kizaki, Daniella Wang, Angelina Zhang, Celia Kwok, Jeana Ho, Eva Li, Oi Ming Wong, Tony Ho, Lai-Chu Ng, Wylie Chiu, Polly Leung
Director: Mark Wu
The Crown Jewels / Kronjuvelerna (2011)
Drama
Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence where she meets the great love of her life, ice hockey star Petterson-Jonsson and the lead up to the fatal night where the story begins.
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Bill Skarsgård, Björn Gustafsson
Director: Ella Lemhagen
Viva Baseball / Qiu Lai Jiu Da (2012)
Drama | Sport
Umi was a professional baseball player whose career ended due to a fixed-game scandal more than a decade ago. After he decides to take a job to coach a high school baseball team, his life suddenly turns complicated: a mysterious woman arrives to become his manager, and the secret sponsor behind his team is actually the same mob boss who had once ruined his life. Months later, as his team grows strong and advances to the finals, Umi sees a chance for redemption of his life…
Starring: Han Chang, Xinyu Chang, Danny Deng, Honduras, Shao-qi Huang, Lea Yang, Tracy Zhou
Director: Chi Yin
Medea (1969)
Drama
To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where human sacrifice helps crops to grow. Medea sees Jason and swoons, then enlists her brother's aid to take the fleece. She then murders her brother and becomes Jason's lover. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by Jason. When she learns he's to marry the king's daughter, Medea tames her emotions and sends gifts via her sons; then, loss overwhelms her and she unleashes a fire storm on the king, the bride, and Jason.
Starring: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Burn Notice (TV Series 2007-2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay! When Michael receives a "burn notice", blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in order to survive. Fully loaded with sly humor, Burn Notice is a fresh spin on the spy genre with plenty of precarious twists to keep you guessing and enough explosive action to keep you riveted!
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Coby Bell
Creator: Matt Nix
Love Actually… Sucks! / Ai Hen Lan (2012)
Drama
Love is life, life as it is. Not every love story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding feast, unusual love stories unfold towards unexpected endings: a brother and sister in love caught by the mother, a married painter falls for his young life drawing model of same sex, an intimacy between a dance school teacher and his wealthy but senior student, a lesbian couple of which one has role-play paranoid, a dreadful love triangle ending with the girl being beheaded… "Love Actually…Sucks!" celebrates love that no one care but real, for life is love, love as it is.
Starring: Osman Hung, Linda So, Haze Leung, John Tai, Wei Tang
Director: Scud
Price Check (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Pete Cozy is having trouble resolving a happy marriage and family life with rising debt and a job he hates. When his new boss, Susan, a human dynamo, shows up, Pete is pulled into the maelstrom that is her life and made to work harder than he ever has before. Suddenly, money and opportunities come his way, but at what price?
Starring: Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Annie Parisse, Josh Pais, Edward Herrmann
Director: Michael Walker
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Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Drama
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Starring: Jason Clarke, Zoë Kravitz, Tim Blake Nelson, Gabourey Sidibe, Antonique Smith
Director: Victoria Mahoney
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The Grifters (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A small-time con man tries to avoid getting involved in big-time crime.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
Director: Stephen Frears
Romper Stomper (1992)
Action | Drama
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott, Leigh Russell
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Struck by Lightning (2012)
Comedy | Drama
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Starring: Chris Colfer, Rebel Wilson, Christina Hendricks, Allison Janney, Sarah Hyland, Carter Jenkins, Brad William Henke, Angela Kinsey, Polly Bergen, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Brian Dannelly
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Merry Christmas / Happy Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)
Drama | History | Music | Romance | War
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl
Director: Christian Carion
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You / Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile (2011)
Drama
A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
Starring: Lucy Liu, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Lang, Deborah Ann Woll, Marcia Gay Harden, Ellen Burstyn, Toby Regbo, Peter Gallagher
Director: Roberto Faenza
Gossip Girl (TV Series 2007-12)
Drama | Romance
Gossip Girl satirizes and revolves around the lives of young Manhattan socialites growing up on New York City's Upper East Side who attend elite academic institutions while dealing with sex, drugs, jealousy, and other teenage issues.
Starring: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford, Matthew Settle, Kristen Bell, Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Connor Paolo
Creator: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown.
Starring: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Lisa Blake Richards, Anthony Castillo
Director: John Flynn
Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Circumstances force a young divorcée to move back in with her parents in suburban Connecticut, where an affair with a younger guy rejuvenates her passion for life.
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Abbott, Blythe Danner, Julie White, Christopher Abbott
Director: Todd Louiso
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Joy Ride (2001)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Jessica Bowman, Brian Leckner
Director: John Dahl
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