The Grifters (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A small-time con man tries to avoid getting involved in big-time crime.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
Director: Stephen Frears
Romper Stomper (1992)
Action | Drama
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott, Leigh Russell
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Struck by Lightning (2012)
Comedy | Drama
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Starring: Chris Colfer, Rebel Wilson, Christina Hendricks, Allison Janney, Sarah Hyland, Carter Jenkins, Brad William Henke, Angela Kinsey, Polly Bergen, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Brian Dannelly
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Merry Christmas / Happy Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)
Drama | History | Music | Romance | War
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl
Director: Christian Carion
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You / Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile (2011)
Drama
A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
Starring: Lucy Liu, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Lang, Deborah Ann Woll, Marcia Gay Harden, Ellen Burstyn, Toby Regbo, Peter Gallagher
Director: Roberto Faenza
Gossip Girl (TV Series 2007-12)
Drama | Romance
Gossip Girl satirizes and revolves around the lives of young Manhattan socialites growing up on New York City's Upper East Side who attend elite academic institutions while dealing with sex, drugs, jealousy, and other teenage issues.
Starring: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford, Matthew Settle, Kristen Bell, Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Connor Paolo
Creator: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown.
Starring: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Lisa Blake Richards, Anthony Castillo
Director: John Flynn
Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Circumstances force a young divorcée to move back in with her parents in suburban Connecticut, where an affair with a younger guy rejuvenates her passion for life.
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Abbott, Blythe Danner, Julie White, Christopher Abbott
Director: Todd Louiso
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Joy Ride (2001)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Jessica Bowman, Brian Leckner
Director: John Dahl
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A League of Their Own (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
In a small town in Oregon, farm girls Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller are sisters who compete with each other, even over the little things. With so many young men overseas fighting the Axis, there is a danger that professional baseball will be shut down for the duration of the war. A well-known candy manufacturer, Walter Harvey, contrives the idea to create a professional baseball league for women; both the keep the sport alive and to make a buck or two. Dottie is recruited by a scout for this new league but refuses to go unless her sister is allowed on the team. These women, along with their team-mates, begin a journey that opens up a whole new world, far beyond that of the baseball diamond, lead by team manager, Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up star ruined by alcohol and angered and embarrassed to be the coach of a girl's team.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Lovitz
Director: Penny Marshall
Blast from the Past (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
A romantic comedy about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnick, Dale Raoul
Director: Hugh Wilson
Big Night (1996)
Drama
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution – he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night…
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Holm
Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
The Chamber (1996)
Drama | Thriller
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. "Cayhall," about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man's life lies in the balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well…
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry
Director: James Foley
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Adrift / À Deriva (2009)
Drama
It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Búzios with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover Ângela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to their children that they are not going to live together for a period, the confused Filipa believes that Ângela is the responsible for the separation of her parents and discovers that the marriage of Mathias and Clarice is built on a bed of lies.
Starring: Laura Neiva, Vincent Cassel, Camilla Belle, Débora Bloch, Cauã Reymond
Director: Heitor Dhalia
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Road North / Tie pohjoiseen (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A father may have many sons, but a son has only one father. Father and son have lost touch with each other. They make a journey through Finland and learn to know each other again.
Starring: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzén, Irina Björklund, Elina Knihtilä
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Breakin' / Breakdance: The Movie (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC.
Starring: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers
Director: Joel Silberg
Arbitrage (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A hedge-fund magnate is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire before the depths of his fraud are revealed. An unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
Starring: Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Susan Sarandon, William Friedkin, Laetitia Casta
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
Comedy | Drama
An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chace Crawford
Director: Bruce Beresford
Sherlock (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures in 21st Century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. The update maintains some traditional elements of the stories, such as the Baker Street address and the evil Moriarty. Although the events of the books are transferred to the present day, existing elements are incorporated into the new characters to "ground the forthcoming tales in reality, and appease ardent fans of the classic tales"; for example, Martin Freeman's Watson has returned from military service in Afghanistan. When speaking to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and discussing the fact that the original Watson was invalided home after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), Gatiss realised that "It is the same war now, I thought. The same unwinnable war".
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Jonathan Aris
Creator: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
Sherlock (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures in 21st Century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. The update maintains some traditional elements of the stories, such as the Baker Street address and the evil Moriarty. Although the events of the books are transferred to the present day, existing elements are incorporated into the new characters to "ground the forthcoming tales in reality, and appease ardent fans of the classic tales"; for example, Martin Freeman's Watson has returned from military service in Afghanistan. When speaking to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and discussing the fact that the original Watson was invalided home after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), Gatiss realised that "It is the same war now, I thought. The same unwinnable war".
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Jonathan Aris
Creator: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
