The Virgin Spring / Jungfrukällan (1960)
Crime | Drama
After a group of men brutally attack a young woman they unknowingly ask for food and shelter from the girl's parents, setting the stage for chilling revenge.
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Allan Edwall
Director: Ingmar Bergman
3-Iron / Bin-jip (2004)
Crime | Drama | Romance
The lonely and silent rider Tae-suk breaks in empty houses and lives a normal life while the owners are traveling. He does not steal anything and moves from house to house without any loss other than food, and he cleans the houses, provides small repairs or washes some clothes to pay for the hospitality. When he enters in the house of Sun-hwa, he does not see the woman that is wounded in her room after being beaten up on by her abusive husband Min-gyu Lee. Tae-suk helps the hurt woman and when Min-gyu returns, he hits the husband with golf balls and Sun-hwa leaves her husband with Tae-suk on his motorcycle. When they break in the house of an old man, they find that the man is dead and Tae-suk provides funeral service for him. However, his son returns and Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are arrested by two abusive police detectives. He is sent to prison and Sun-hwa is forced to return home. But she never forgets him.
Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Shadows of Love / Repeat I Love You / Ying zi ai ren (2012)
Drama | Romance
When the daughter of the company's boss goes missing, the company's CEO has no choice but to hire a lookalike to assume the missing girl's identity long enough for him to find the real person. But business with the lookalike turns into romance and the CEO and the lookaline fall in love, but things take a turn for the worst when the missing girl shows up and wants everything back including the CEO. What is he to do? Who will he pick, the spoilt rich girl or the simple lookalike?
Starring: Cecilia Cheung, Sang-woo Kwone, Tian Jing, Chun-cheng Ding, Angela Chang, Boran Jing, Richard Ng, Niu Tien
Director: Yuen-Leung Poon
Romance of Their Own / Neukdaeui yuhok (2004)
Action | Drama | Romance
Han-kyung a rustic girl, comes to town to live with her mom. Attracted to her pure charm, the most popular guys Hae-won and Tae-sung come up to fight each other. But Tae- sung has a fatal secret not to love her. Their sad love triangle makes everyone cry.
Starring: Han-seon Jo, Dong-won Kang, Cheong-a Lee
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
The Losers (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An elite Special forces unit is sent to the Bolivian jungle on a search-and-destroy mission. But the team soon find that they have become the target of a deadly double cross instigated by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Making good use of the fact that they're now presumed dead, the group goes deep undercover in a dangerous plot to clear their names and even the score with Max.
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Jason Patric, Óscar Jaenada
Director: Sylvain White
The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 / Jin ping mei er ai de nu li (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Rich scholar Simon Qing has yet to lose his virginity despite being schooled in the art of love by his virile father. All that changes when he meets first love Violetta, who introduces Simon to manhood through many encounters and even more positions. However, their multiple trysts fail to create a lasting love. Heartbroken, Simon takes to the road, where he meets a new woman, inexperienced nun Moon, who abandons her chaste ways to learn all about carnal pleasure from Simon. But even after marrying Moon, Simon is not satisfied, and his morality slowly erodes in favor of his boundless lust. He soon falls for Golden Lotus, who charms him with her natural beauty and small bound feet. Golden Lotus is married to ugly merchant Wu Da Lang, but even the covenant of marriage is no obstacle to Simon.
Starring: Wai Kin Lam, Serina Hayakawa, Kaera Uehara, Hikaru Wakana, Winnie Leung
Director: Man Kei Chin
The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks / Jin ping mei (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Rich scholar Simon Qing has yet to lose his virginity despite being schooled in the art of love by his virile father. All that changes when he meets first love Violetta, who introduces Simon to manhood through many encounters and even more positions. However, their multiple trysts fail to create a lasting love. Heartbroken, Simon takes to the road, where he meets a new woman, inexperienced nun Moon, who abandons her chaste ways to learn all about carnal pleasure from Simon. But even after marrying Moon, Simon is not satisfied, and his morality slowly erodes in favor of his boundless lust. He soon falls for Golden Lotus, who charms him with her natural beauty and small bound feet. Golden Lotus is married to ugly merchant Wu Da Lang, but even the covenant of marriage is no obstacle to Simon.
Starring: Wai Kin Lam, Serina Hayakawa, Kaera Uehara, Hikaru Wakana, Winnie Leung
Director: Man Kei Chin
Covert Affairs (TV Series 2010- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Covert Affairs" centers on a young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Gregory Itzin
Creator: Chris Ord, Matt Corman
Reindeer Games / Deception (2000)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Just released from prison, all Rudy Duncan wants is to start a new life with Ashley, the girl of the his dreams, whom he met through pen pal letters in prison. But between them and happiness stands her crazy brother, Gabriel, and his motley crue of deadly criminals who think Rudy has some inside information about a casino where he once had a job–a casino Gabriel and his short-fused posse plan to take down. Now, just as Rudy is beginning his new life, he's caught in a high-velocity avalanche of temptations and surprises that could bury him, unless he can artfully dodge them.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Isaac Hayes, Ron Jeremy, Donal Logue
Director: John Frankenheimer
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Drama | Thriller
Jane Hudson found fame as child star 'Baby Jane', only to be eclipsed by her sister Blanche when the latter became a Hollywood glamour girl in the 1930s. Blanche's career was brought to an abrupt end by an accident for which Jane was seemingly responsible. Now the two ageing sisters live together in their Hollywood mansion. When Jane discovers that Blanche is planning to sell their home and have her put away, she begins a campaign of terror against her wheelchair-bound sibling.
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett
Director: Robert Aldrich
Body Shots (1999)
Drama
Four hip women get ready for Friday night in LA: they dress, talk about sex, and hit a bar before meeting four men at a rave. The men prepare by talking about sex and drinking. Rick and Jean, two attorneys, have set up the evening, connect at the club, and have a good time. The pairings of Shawn, Trent, Whitney and Emma are more serendipitous. But it's Mike and Sara's night that has serious repercussions: he's an NFL player, loud, swaggering; she's a party animal who drinks a lot early that evening. At 4 AM, she appears at Jean's, disheveled and bruised, saying Mike raped her. Arrested, he says he's innocent, and in flashbacks we see both sides of the story.
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter, Brad Rowe, Sybil Temtchine
Director: Michael Cristofer
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The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and kids — Charlie, Jerry (Jadrien Steele), April (Hilary Gordon), and Clover (Rebecca Gordon) — to the rain forests of Central America, where he plans to create a new civilization starting with his own nuclear family.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Martha Plimpton, Dick O'Neill
Director: Peter Weir
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
At 5AM on a Sunday in Brooklyn, 16-year old Craig Gilner bicycles up to the entrance of a mental health clinic: Stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, before his parents and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed – so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby, soon becomes both Craig's mentor and protege, while Craig is also quickly drawn to another 16-year-old displaced to the adult ward, the sensitive Noelle, who just might make him forget his longtime unrequited crush Nia. With a minimum five days' stay imposed on him by staff psychiatrist Dr. Eden Minerva, it's kind of a funny story…
Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz
Director: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Man on the Moon (1999)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love
Director: Milos Forman
Mildred Pierce (TV mini-series 2011)
Drama
Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, this is the story of middle-class housewife Mildred Pierce's attempts to maintain her and her family's social position during the Great Depression. Mildred Pierce is a five-part miniseries that first aired on HBO on March 27, 2011. Adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel, it was directed by Todd Haynes and stars Kate Winslet in the title role, alongside Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood. Carter Burwell wrote the original score for the miniseries.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Melissa Leo, Brían F. O'Byrne, James LeGros, Murphy Guyer, Mare Winningham, Marin Ireland
Creator: Todd Haynes
Sommarlek / Summer Interlude (1951)
Drama | Romance
The film deals with the innocence of first love and the transition from youth to adulthood, two of the director-screenwriter's favorite themes, and ones that he would revisit in later works. When Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a prima ballerina, receives an old lover's diary after his death in a tragic accident, she begins to reminisce about the happy summer she spent with Henrik (Birger Malmsten), her first love, on an island near Stockholm. A flashback shows the young couple in a playful, carefree light, full of energy and grace. Since parting from Henrik, Maria has emerged as a sucessful dancer with many admirers and a new suitor, the journalist David Nystrom (Alf Kjellin). But she is dissatisfied with her present life and unable to forget the ardent love she experienced that one fateful summer long ago.
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Director: Ingmar Bergman
3 metros sobre el cielo / Three Steps Above Heaven / Three Meters Above the Sky (2010)
Drama | Romance
Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi is a girl from upper-middle class that is educated in goodness and innocence . Hache is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has a appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense.
Starring: Mario Casas, María Valverde, Diego Martín, Andrea Duro, Álvaro Cervantes, Luis Fernández
Director: Fernando González Molina
Superheroes (2011)
Action | Comedy | Documentary | Drama
'Superheroes' will introduce us to several of the country's most famous masked heroes including, Mr. Xtreme, a 33-year-old security guard officer by day, but a goon's worst nightmare by night. We'll follow Mr. Xtreme on his nightly patrols through the streets of San Diego, as he tries to stop evildoers and protect the innocent. We'll also meet the New York Initiative, a fantastic foursome of real life superheroes living together that tackle crime fighting, one Brooklyn borough at a time. Lead by Zimmer, we'll watch as they take to the streets and try to lure criminals out of hiding with their controversial Bait-Patrols. With over 300 registered superheroes in the United States, we'll definitively uncover the 'Real-Life Superhero' cultural phenomenon and discover what inspired these everyday citizens to take the law in to their own hands as they try to make the world a better and safer place for all.
Director: Mike Barnett
Mini's First Time (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Desperate to be free from her drunken, unloving mother Diane, the beautiful, scheming young Mini seduces her stepfather Martin and soon convinces him to join her in a sadistic scheme to have Diane declared insane. But their conspiracy soon escalates to murder and when John Garson, a young detective starts investigating, Martin and Mini begin to turn on each other.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed, Carrie-Anne Moss, Luke Wilson, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Nick Guthe
The Claim / Kingdom Come / Rédemption (2000)
Drama | Romance | Western
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Starring: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
Director: Michael Winterbottom
