2ND Take (2011)
Drama
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Sarah Jones, Josh Zuckerman, Lee Tergesen, Patty McCormack
Director: John Suits
A Little Pond / Jageun yeonmot (2009)
Drama | War
During the Korean War, small mountain village is evacuated as retreating American GIs approach.
Starring: Seung Geun Moon, Roe-ha Kim, Hye-jin Jeon, Myeong-cheol Shin
Director: Sang-woo Lee
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Celeste and Jesse met in high school, married young, and at 30, decide to get divorced but remain best friends while pursuing other relationships.
Starring: Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Emma Roberts, Ari Graynor, Chris Messina, Eric Christian Olsen, Elijah Wood
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Our Day Will Come / Notre jour viendra (2010)
Drama
Patrick and Remy are two warriors who fight not for any one country or any one people, but for their own cause. Together they are ready to take on the entire world and are certain that they will win…
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy, Vanessa Decat, Pierre Boulanger
Director: Romain Gavras
Peter's Friends (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Years Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Jack the Ripper (1988)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
During the latter half of 1888 a notorious serial killer nicknamed Jack The Ripper terrorises the East End of London by murdering prostitutes in a terribly violent way. Public outrage follows. Inspector Frederick Abberline is assigned to the case but finds that it is not just a simple murder enquiry. Based on a real life event, this film claims to have had access to top secret Home Office files and believe that their ending is the correct solution to the age old mystery.
Starring: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins, Jane Seymour, Michael Gothard
Director: David Wickes
Saints and Soldiers / The Saints of War (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Based on the historical event known as the "Malmedy Massacre," a tale of a group of U.S. soldiers in Germany in World War II, one of whom served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany just before the war. In mid-December 1944 Hitler's Army blitzkriegs through the Ardennes Forest into Belgium creating the colossal wintertime offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Daniel Epstein and close friend Nathan Greer find themselves held captive with over seventy other U.S. Soldiers in a snow covered field. Without warning German soldiers open fire on the U.S. Prisoners. Epstein, Greer and a handful of other soldiers are able to escape the massacre by hiding in the nearby woods. Without weapons or food they take on the unforgiving winter trying to find their way back to allied occupied territory.
Starring: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby, Peter Holden
Director: Ryan Little
Eros (2004)
Drama | Romance
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Starring: Li Gong, Chen Chang, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar Wai Wong
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In Dreams (1999)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Claire Cooper dreams strange things from time to time. One night, she dreams about a little girl being taken away by a stranger, right in her neighbourhood. When her own daughter Rebecca is kidnapped and murdered only a little later, Claire is sure about the chilling truth that her and the killer's mind are connected to each other in dreams. But nobody believes her being able to foresee the killer's next steps, as she could with her own daughter. In addition, the nervous breakdown she suffers gets her into a mental facility after a suicide attempt. And here, locked away in a padded cell, she dreams of her husband being murdered…
Starring: Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Sagona, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
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Black and White (1999)
Crime | Drama | Music
Set in New York City, Black and White features several losely related stories centering on a pair of documentary filmmakers, Sam and her husband Terry, in following a group of caucasian teens, Raven, Charlie, Will, Marty, Wren and others who try to fit in with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd who include gangster rapper Rich Bower and his music partner Cigar in landing a recording gig, as well as college basketball player Dean who is conflicted on taking a fall on a game for shady gambler Mark Clear who has hidden agenda for Dean and Rich.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gaby Hoffmann, Allan Houston, Jared Leto, Method Man, Joe Pantoliano, Bijou Phillips, Oliver Grant, Raekwon, Claudia Schiffer, William Lee Scott, Brooke Shields, Mike Tyson, Elijah Wood, Ben Stiller
Director: James Toback
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One Night Stand (1997)
Drama | Romance
Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. Then he returns home to L.A. to his family and wife Mimi. A year later Max returns to New York again to visit Charlie who is now dying, and there he meets Karen again, who is married to Charlie's brother Vernon.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Mike Figgis
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Paulie (1998)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado, Jay Mohr, Buddy Hackett
Director: John Roberts
The New Kids (1985)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Abby McWilliams and her brother Loren are particularly normal teenagers. Their parents Mac and Mary Beth are killed in an accident. It's decided that Abby and Loren live in Glenby, Florida with their Aunt Fay and Uncle Charlie who own a gas station and an amusement park. Loren and Abby don't have much trouble making friends at their new high school. Loren starts dating Karen, the local sheriff's daughter while Abby starts dating Mark. Loren feels uncomfortable when he sees a blond-haired guy harassing Abby in the lunchroom. Mark tells Loren and Abby that the blond-haired guy is Eddie Dutra, a teenage drug addict who is the leader of a gang of redneck thugs. Loren helps Abby keep Dutra at a distance. Dutra's retaliations keep getting more vicious until Dutra forces a showdown at the amusement park by kidnapping Abby.
Starring: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin, Eric Stoltz
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
On Air / Parlez-moi de vous (2012)
Comedy | Drama
40-year-old Mélina is the most famous voice in France. Host of a evening radio program, she resolves listener's emotional and sexual problems on the air with cheekiness, humor, and frankness. Everyone knows her voice, but no one knows her face. In everyday life, she avoids all contact and lives like a spinster in a chic part of town. She is looking for her mother, whom she's never known. When she discovers that the latter is living with a large family in the high rise blocks at the edge of the city, she decides to get near to her, incognito…
Starring: Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Nadia Barentin, Catherine Hosmalin, Patrick Fierry, Jean-Noël Brouté
Director: Pierre Pinaud
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Flight (2012)
Drama | Thriller
An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, Melissa Leo
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Drama | Music
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, Alicia Witt, Terrence Howard
Director: Stephen Herek
The Great Raid (2005)
Action | Drama | War
THE GREAT RAID is an inspirational true story of one of the most the triumphant rescue missions in U.S. military history. As World War II rages, the elite 6th Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war. Under the command of Lt. Col. Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the men of the 6th will face the unthinkable by attempting the impossible. Also featuring James Franco (Spider Man 1 & 2), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare In Love), this gripping big-screen hit captures a moment in time when men of honor became soldiers of destiny.
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Fiennes, Marton Csokas
Director: John Dahl
Now Is Good (2012)
Drama
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Kaya Scodelario, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine
Director: Ol Parker
Holy Motors (2012)
Drama | Fantasy
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man…
Starring: Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue, Jeanne Disson, Michel Piccoli, Elise Lhomeau
Director: Leos Carax
The Mistress of Spices (2005)
Drama | Romance
In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she is kidnapped but escapes and is raised by the First Mother in a sort of traditional cult of spices. She becomes the Mistress of Spices and is sent to the Spice Bazaar in San Francisco, with the mission of following three basic rules: help her clients to accomplish their desires with the spices, but never hers; never leave the store; and never be touched in the skin. When she meets the handsome American architect Doug, she feels a great attraction and desire for him, breaking the first rule and being punished by the spices.
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Caroline Chikezie
Director: Paul Mayeda Berges
