Summertime (1955)
Drama | Romance
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Director: David Lean
Will (2011)
Drama | Family | Sport
An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.
Starring: Damian Lewis, Bob Hoskins, Rebekah Staton, Kieran Wallbanks, Perry Eggleton
Director: Ellen Perry
Friends with Money (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Four women friends: three are wealthy and married plus there's Olivia, a former teacher who's now a maid. The marriages are in various states of health: Franny and Matt are happy and very rich. Christine and David write screenplays together, are remodeling their house, and argue. Jane is angry all the time and Aaron, who's an attentive husband, strikes everyone as gay. Franny sets up Olivia with a friend of hers, Mike, a personal trainer, and Olivia takes him with her to a couple of housecleaning jobs. A benefit dinner for ALS, an awkward guy named Marty whose place Olivia cleans, and a French maid's outfit figure in the story. Is there more to life than its problems?
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Curfew (2012)
Drama | Short
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Starring: Fatima Ptacek, Shawn Christensen, Kim Allen, Dana Segal, Kirsten Holly Smith
Director: Shawn Christensen
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Wasted on the Young (2010)
Drama | Thriller
Set in an elite high school where social hierarchies are rigorously enforced, Zack is the ruler of cool and his half brother Darren is a geek-boy misfit tenuously connected to the clique through his position on the swim team. Trouble ensues when they both fall for Xandrie, a smart, literary girl with a healthy disregard for conformity and the hipster scene. Things get horribly out-of-hand when Zack throws a party and the imploding consequences threaten Xandrie's life.
Starring: Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell
Director: Ben C. Lucas
The Front Page (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
Director: Billy Wilder
Falling Uphill (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Robert asks Jenny, a girl he found on Craigslist, to be his new roommate. Now after a year of living together, he finds himself falling in love with her, but his ability to keep afloat in San Francisco is coming to an end. With a lame job and not enough income, he has no choice but to move back with his parents in Rochester, NY. With only three days until his flight home, Robert struggles to tell Jenny his true feelings and to determine what direction his life is headed.
Starring: Ari Kanamori, Jessiqa Pace, Jack McGee, Jena Hunt
Director: Richard J. Bosner
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Broken Roads (2012)
Drama
A teens life is shattered by a tragic car accident. Leaving his mother dead and him lost from the world. He's forced to move to a small town to live with his grandmother, whom he's never met. After living together they discover that they're unable to find peace with their own demons until they've found peace with each other. Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life; dealing with loss. A character driven journey of rediscovery and the hills climbed which forever change us.
Starring: Sally Kirkland, Aidan Bristow, Shoshana Bush, Rolonda Watts, Ross Marquand, Lisa Glass
Director: Justin Chambers
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Comedy | Drama
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.
Starring: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir
Director: Alan Clarke
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | War
A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular.
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life / Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
Biography | Drama | Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Caroline Tillette, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Joann Sfar
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama-bushi kô (1983)
Drama | Music
In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday – the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first.
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô, Shoichi Ozawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama bushiko (1958)
Drama
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Communion (1989)
Biography | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher
Director: Philippe Mora
Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
Premonition (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Linda Hanson has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate Nelligan, Amber Valletta
Director: Mennan Yapo
Electrick Children (2012)
Drama
Rebecca Thomas's directorial debut is an indie coming-of-age drama in which a young Mormon girl believes that she has become pregnant by listening to a pop song. 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) has been so strictly brought up by her fundamentally religious family that she has never even seen a cassette recorder. Shortly after her 15th birthday, her curiosity about the forbidden contraption triggers both a personal epiphany and a family crisis, leading to the unfolding of a string of unexpected events and encounters as Rachel and her brother, Will (Liam Aiken), leave their hometown and hook up with a gang of street kids in Las Vegas.
Starring: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage, Cynthia Watros
Director: Rebecca Thomas
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Adventure | Drama
The world famous movie director John Wilson has gone to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than takes care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden, George Dzundza, Edward Tudor-Pole, Marisa Berenson
Director: Clint Eastwood
Legend of Bailiff Sansho / Sansho the Bailiff / Sanshô dayû (1954)
Drama
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi's dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Starring: Elias Koteas, Corey Feldman, Josh Pais, Kevin Clash, Sam Rockwell, Joe D'Onofrio
Director: Steve Barron
