Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Drama
An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard, Robert Patrick
Director: Robert Lorenz
The Game (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
There are no rules in "The Game". And that will make life very difficult for Nicholas Van Orton, a successful businessman who is always in control. Van Orton lives a well-ordered life – until an unexpected birthday gift from his brother destroys it all. Like it or not, Nicholas has been enrolled in a game – "a profound life experience" that begins quietly but soon erupts in a rush of devastating events. Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat
Director: David Fincher
Following (1998)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing. Christopher Nolan's feature length debut.
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Dick Bradsell
Director: Christopher Nolan
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Drama
The adult siblings of the Fitzgerald family prepare for their estranged father to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago.
Starring: Kerry Bishé, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Heather Burns, Noah Emmerich, Marsha Dietlein, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Anita Gillette, Tom Guiry, Ed Lauter, Malachy McCourt, Nick Sandow
Director: Edward Burns
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Deadfall (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek, Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
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Willard (2003)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard then finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Mr. Frank Martin, a vicious man whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one.
Starring: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs, Ashlyn Gere, William S. Taylor
Director: Glen Morgan
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Atlantic City (1980)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid), his number-running sideline escalates to mob involvement.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Director: Louis Malle
Les amants de Montparnasse / Montparnasse 19 / Modigliani of Montparnasse (1958)
Biography | Drama
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.
Starring: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Anouk Aimée
Director: Jacques Becker
Aballay / Aballay, el hombre sin miedo / Aballay, the Man without Fear (2010)
Drama | Western
Aballay was a bad tempered gaucho. After killing a man, the terrified look of the victim's son raised his consciousness about his savagery. Years go by, that kid's look doesn't leave him. Aballay knows that the kid will look for him.
Starring: Pablo Cedrón, Nazareno Casero, Claudio Rissi
Director: Fernando Spiner
Spartan (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Respected Secret Service agent Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), the missing daughter of a high-ranking political figure.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Tia Texada, Lionel Mark Smith
Director: David Mamet
Untold Scandal / Scandal – Joseon namnyeo sangyeoljisa (2003)
Drama
Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' this film is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty. The irresistible temptress Lady Cho asks her younger cousin, Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become her husband's concubine. But, his attentions soon shift to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook, who lives according to her convictions as a Catholic. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has remained celibate for nine years since her husband's death. However, conquering the most virtuous woman in the land proves to be more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy expects.
Starring: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, Yong-jun Bae, Hyeon-jae Jo, So-yeon Lee
Director: Je-yong Lee
OMG: Oh My God! (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri
Director: Umesh Shukla
These Foolish Things (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A young actress seeks to follow in her famous mother's footsteps.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Zoë Tapper, Andrew Lincoln, David Leon, Terence Stamp, Lauren Bacall
Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley
Ready to Wear / Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Comedy | Drama
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Anouk Aimée, Lili Taylor, Rupert Everett, Forest Whitaker, Michel Blanc
Director: Robert Altman
Deranged / Yeon-ga-si (2012)
Drama | Thriller
Jae-hyuk is an ordinary man in his 40s. He works as a medical supplies salesman and is hassled by doctors all day. His brother Jae-pil is a detective that is not all that interested in public safety and spends most of his time moaning about the stock market. The discovery of a series of floating, gruesomely skeletal bodies around the country sparks hysteria. The police commissioner is disturbed to see CCTV footage of people jumping into water as if they were possessed, and drowning themselves. Time passes and hundreds of similar cases are reported, leaving officials stumped as to the cause of the deaths. The government declares a national emergency. Jae-pil joins the massive investigation and meets the mayor of a small town who claims he witnessed several men in work uniforms dumping infected dogs into the streams and realizes that there is a conspiracy behind the outbreak. Meanwhile, Jae-hyuk's wife and children are showing the same symptoms as the victims…
Starring: Moon Jeong-hee, Dong-wan Kim, Ha-nui Lee, Kim Myeong-min
Director: Jeong-woo Park
Dark City (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his…then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger
Director: William Dieterle
To Walk with Lions (1999)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions – and, ultimately, the park itself – from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
Starring: Richard Harris, John Michie, Kerry Fox, Ian Bannen, Hugh Quarshie, Honor Blackman, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Carl Schultz
Made in Jersey (TV Series 2012)
Drama
Martina Garretti is a young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm. Her firm’s cutthroat landscape is challenging, but what she lacks in an Ivy League education she more than makes up for with tenacity and blue-collar insight. After just a few weeks, firm founder Donovan Stark, takes note of Martina’s ingenuity and resourcefulness, as does her sassy secretary Cyndi Vega. With the support of her big Italian family, including her sexy older sister Bonnie, Martina is able to stay true to her roots as a bold, passionate lawyer on the rise in a new intimidating environment.
Starring: Janet Montgomery, Kyle MacLachlan, Toni Trucks, Jessica Blank, Felix Solis, Drew Beasley, Nicolette Pierini, Erin Cummings, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Joseph Siravo, Michael Drayer, Donna Murphy, Kristoffer Polaha, Dominic Fano, Lewis Grosso, Paulina Gerzon, David Pittu, Aaron Roman Weiner
Creator: Dana Calvo
The Good Witch's Gift (2010)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
Almost as soon as Jake and Cassie decide to get married on Christmas Eve, complications arise. An ex-con, Leon Deeks (Graham Abbey, "The Border"), arrives in town, and Jake is asked by the Mayor to make him his top priority. At the same time, Jake's having trouble securing the wedding license since he can't find Cassie's documents proving her existence. There's also the difficulty in finding a wedding cake at the last minute. Last but not least, Jake's kids are upset: Brandon (Mathew Knight, "Candles on Bay Street") wants to spend time with his new girlfriend, and is feuding with his sister, Lori (Hannah Endicott-Douglas, "Samantha: An American Girl Holiday.") Meanwhile, Lori manages to lose Cassie's wedding ring.
Starring: Catherine Bell, Chris Potter, Catherine Disher, Peter MacNeill, Matthew Knight, Elizabeth Lennie, Hannah Endicott-Douglas
Director: Craig Pryce
The Words (2012)
Drama | Romance
Aspiring writer Rory Jansen finds another man's haunting memories in a collection of lost stories and claims them as his own, propelling him to literary stardom.
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Ben Barnes
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
