I Wish / Kiseki (2011)
Drama
12-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, begins to believe that the new bullet train service will create a miracle when the first trains pass each other at top speed.
Starring: Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Cara Uchida, Kanna Hashimoto, Rento Isobe, Hoshinosuke Yoshinaga
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Drama | Romance
The 10-year relationship of a male-to-female transsexual with her lover.
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri, Susan Almgren
Director: Xavier Dolan
The Bullet Vanishes / Xiao shi de zi dan (2012)
Action | Drama | Mystery
In an arsenal during the warlord era in China, a girl, accused of stealing bullets, is shot to death by the Boss. Six months later, a series of murders occur. Policemen Bao and Guo investigate the case. But all the clues point to the dead girl! They then discover that “stealing bullets” is a cover-up for a conspiracy between the Boss and the Police Chief. The latter tries to have Bao and Guo killed, but that increases their determination to solve the mystery. Finally, they find the real murderer…
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Ching Wan Lau, Mini Yang, Boran Jing, Gang Wu, Kai Chi Liu, Hu Gao, Yiyan Jiang, Hei-Yi Cheng
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Rust and Bone / De rouille et d'os (2012)
Drama | Romance
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves the north of France for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Jacques Audiard
Weekend / Week End (1967)
Comedy | Drama
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus (1959)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Starring: Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia
Director: Marcel Camus
Outlaw (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
London: present day. In lawless streets the guilty are left unhindered to go about their business. Returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, former Paratrooper Bryant (Sean Bean) is appalled by what he sees in a country he no longer recognises. Determined to do something about it, he assembles a group of like minded souls who resolve to restore the balance between right and wrong, good and evil, enforcing justice with a brutality to match that of the once unpunished, unsuspecting wrongdoers. But when the law of the land is co-opted in this way, who decides when enough is enough?
Starring: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins, Lennie James, Sean Harris, Rupert Friend, Sally Bretton
Director: Nick Love
Prénom Carmen / First Name: Carmen (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity.
Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
The Salton Sea (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dealer Pooh-Bear.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Goldberg, Luis Guzmán, Doug Hutchison, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: D.J. Caruso
The Confession (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.
Starring: John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Brad Mirman
In The Bedroom (2001)
Crime | Drama
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart…
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother
Director: Todd Field
Animal Factory (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, John Heard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Arnold, Seymour Cassel, Mark Boone Junior
Director: Steve Buscemi
Tromeo and Juliet / Tromeo & Juliet (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Updated to be set in the outskirts of New York City, Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy is transformed into a no-holes barred, punk-inflected Elizabethan stage send-up of the story of a doomed love.
Starring: Will Keenan, Lemmy, Debbie Rochon, Stephen Blackehart, Tiffany Shepis
Director: Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Drama | Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Starring: Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Shelley Duvall
Director: Robert Altman
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Steve Buscemi
Benny's Video (1992)
Crime | Drama
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this insettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Director: Michael Haneke
Crossing / Keurosing (2008)
Drama
The movie is based on a real story about the life of a North Korean defector and his family. Actor Cha In-pyo starred as a North Korean coal miner who crossed illegally into China to get medicine for his wife…
Starring: In-Pyo Cha, Myeong-cheol Shin, Young-hwa Seo, In-gi Jeong, Da-yeong Joo
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Ripley's Game / Il gioco di Ripley (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley – cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous – lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley – ever a student of human nature – initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Starring: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone, Chiara Caselli
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sad Fairy Tale / Shang xin tong hua (2012)
Drama | Romance
Liu Tong (Hu Xia) is a computer programmer in a film and television studio he is a small potato who is quiet, stubborn and solitary. His beautiful colleague Yang Jia (Cecilia Liu) is adored and pampered by all. She has an innocent aura and could almost pass as an princess in a fairytale. Many people in the company are attracted to her, including her covetous boss. But Yang remains stubbornly single. Liu pays close attention to Yang, helping her resolving her harassment problem with courage and wisdom. In order to protect herself from the boss, Yang always pretends to faint at the right moment. During these times, Liu stays by her side. One day he comes up with the groundbreaking idea of making Yang believes that she can leap through time so that she can be a true fairytale princess. Sad Fairy Tale is a story about giving carrying one's destined love in one's heart through joy and tears. It is also a riveting story of youth.
Starring: Shishi Liu, Xia Hu, Ryan Zuo, Nan Xie, Kenny Lin
Director: ZhengChao Xu
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
