White Deer Plain / Bai lu yuan (2012)
Drama | History
A woman (Kitty Zhang) enters White Deer Village and finds herself in a power struggle between two families over land ownership.
Starring: Fengyi Zhang, Kitty Zhang, Gang Wu, Yihong Duan, Taisheng Chen, Wei Liu, Tao Guo, Huanshan Xu
Director: Quan'an Wang
City on Fire / Lung fu fong wan (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chow Yun Fat plays Ko Chow, a police undercover agent who is torn between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to his friends on the wrong side of the law. He wants out and his commander officer Inspector Lau, played by Sun Yueh reluctantly approves his resignation but gives him his last assignment – supplying guns to a gang at criminals suspected of armed robbery. Danny Lee who plays Tigers, heads the gang of robbers. He has built a relationship with Ko Chow based on mutual trust and respect. During the final shoot out with the police, he is equally tom when Ko Chow sacrificed himself to save him and simultaneously revealed his true identity.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung
Director: Ringo Lam
Tengo ganas de ti / I Want You (2012)
Drama
Hache returns home after spending a season in London, away from the indelible memory of that first love with Babi. While trying to rebuild their lives, Gin, a girl of spirit bold, vibrant and life makes you believe that you can relive the magic. But sooner or later will have to meet again with Babi …
Starring: Mario Casas, Clara Lago, María Valverde, Álvaro Cervantes, Diego Martín, Lucho Fernández
Director: Fernando González Molina
Red Dawn (1984)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
In the heartland of the United States of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, throughout the world. As country folk, they are well familiarized with survival tactics and hunting, which allows them to carry out sophisticated acts of military sabotage, upsetting the balance of power in town with their guerilla warfare.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey
Director: John Milius
Swann in Love / Un amour de Swann (1984)
Drama | Romance
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Drama
A slightly dim-witted young Texan journeys to New York City to offer his services as a stud-for-hire, but spends a hard winter helping a tubercular con man.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Barnard Hughes, Brenda Vaccaro
Director: John Schlesinger
Kotoko (2011)
Drama | Horror
The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown…
Starring: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Cocco
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Bubby is a demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother. But when Bubby – who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do – escapes into the outside, he soon discovers the wonders of sex, crime, rock & roll and pizza. Will this 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?
Starring: Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson, Norman Kaye, Paul Simpson, Audine Leith
Director: Rolf de Heer
Genji monogatari: Sennen no nazo / Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Engima (2011)
Drama
"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work…
Starring: Tôma Ikuta, Miki Nakatani, Yôko Maki, Mikako Tabe, Sei Ashina, Rena Tanaka, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Yôsuke Kubozuka
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Sliding Doors (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Young Helen is fired from her job at a PR company, and when the sliding doors of the tube car close on her, we start to see what would have happened if she'd made the train, and if she hadn't.
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Director: Peter Howitt
Purple Rain (1984)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A young man (Prince) with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.
Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III
Director: Albert Magnoli
Elena et les hommes / Elena and Her Men (1956)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Polish countess Elena falls in love to a Frensh radical party's candidate, a general, in pre world war I Paris, but another officer pines for her.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Director: Jean Renoir
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel / Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2011)
Drama
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Anna Mikhalkova, Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Burnt by the Sun 2: Intercession / Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2010)
Drama
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Burnt by the Sun (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. The deadly war comes at very high cost: the Nazis are killing people, burning villages, raping women, bombing churches, destroying bridges. Hoping to survive, Kotov and his daughter are having visions of each other, but their dreams fade amidst massive bombardment. Fire and smoke eclipses the sun. The land around becomes lifeless, defenseless and littered with the dead. Then the dead are covered by snow…
Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergey Makovetskiy, Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Drama | Thriller | War
Find a bomb, defuse it. Find a bomb, defuse it. The job is simple enough, but the room for error is zero. Fail to defuse it, and die. This is the daily work of the United States Army's Bravo Company. They patrol Baghdad during one of the Iraq war's most hellish times, trying each day not to get blown up. James (Jeremy Renner) joins a tightly knit bomb-disposal unit where Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) is already the intelligence expert. James, by contrast, is a real cowboy. Even in the hulking shell of his bomb suit, his swagger is obvious. He has successfully disabled 873 devices, approaching the job with the no-nonsense grit of a Bigelow hero-and the recklessness too. But as the unit faces tougher challenges with each new bomb, the men start to fight James's bullish methods. They have only thirty-eight days left in their rotation. They want to live to see day thirty-nine.
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | Western
A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Rosenda Monteros
Director: John Sturges
The Vampire Diaries (TV Series 2009-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Teen | Thriller
As the school year begins, Elena Gilbert is immediately drawn to a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a vampire struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality.
Starring: Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice Accola, Zach Roerig, Michael Trevino, Nina Dobrev, Steven R. McQueen, Matthew Davis
Creator: Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
The Angels' Share (2012)
Comedy | Drama
This bitter sweet comedy follows protagonist Robbie as he sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time. Overwhelmed by the moment, he swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, he's given one last chance……While serving a community service order, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo who, like him, find it impossible to find work because of their criminal records. Little did Robbie imagine how turning to drink might change their lives – not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. Will it be 'slopping out' for the next twenty years, or a new future with 'Uisge Beatha' the 'Water of Life?' Only the angels know……..
Starring: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane, Roger Allam, Siobhan Reilly
Director: Ken Loach
The Burning Plain (2008)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Connected storylines about love, forgiveness and redemption that take place in different places and times–Mariana, a 16 year old girl tries to put together the shattered lives of her parents in a Mexican border town; Sylvia, a woman in Portland, undertakes an emotional odyssey to redeem a sin from her past; Gina and Nick, a couple who must deal with a clandestine love; and Maria, a young girl who helps her parents find forgiveness.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney, Fernanda Romero, Kacie Thomas
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
The Bear / L'ours (1988)
Adventure | Drama | Family
A captivating film set in late 19th century British Columbia, Canada, 'L'ours' tells the story of an orphaned bear cub befriended and protected by an adult male grizzly, as hunters pursue them through the wilds.
Starring: Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
