Born Wild / Ye shou zhi tong (2001)
Action | Drama
A young man investigates his twin brother's death and discovers the dark world of underground boxing.
Starring: Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Patrick Tam, Jo Kuk, Ying Kwan Lok
Director: Patrick Leung
Agneepath (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Musical
Twelve year old Vijay lives on the island of Mandwa, with his mother and his well-respected schoolmaster father. Kancha Cheena arrives, asking for the lease of the villagers' land in an exchange for profits from a supposed salt factory. In reality, Kancha plans to take over the island for the manufacture of cocaine. Vijay's father warns the villagers against Kancha. In retaliation Kancha frames him for a crime; the villagers turn against the schoolmaster and hang him. Vijay and his his pregnant mother flee the island. In Mumbai, Vijay is taken under the wing of crime lord Rauf Lala. Fifteen years later, Vijay is ready to return to Mandwa for revenge.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Karan Malhotra
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Róza / Rose (2011)
Drama | History | War
A harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. The law of the jungle had replaced the rule of law. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who survived the Warsaw uprising and is attempting to hide his identity.
Starring: Marcin Dorocinski, Kinga Preis, Marian Dziedziel, Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, Eryk Lubos
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Starring: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Dorothée Berryman, Marina Hands
Director: Denys Arcand
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Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
Action | Drama | War
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight.
Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Deniz Akdeniz, Andrew Ryan
Director: Stuart Beattie
Mystic River (2003)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Three friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands. Working from Brian Helgeland's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, director Clint Eastwood shapes a masterful, brooding thriller built on family, friends and innocence lost.
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden. Laura Linney
Director: Clint Eastwood
Departures / Okuribito (2008)
Drama | Music
Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as an undertaker. He sees himself as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death. However, Daigo's work is despised by all the people around him. But it is through his relationship with death on a daily basis that Daigo begins to understand what life is really about.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Drama
Hard-up student Charlie Simms agrees to a job over Thanksgiving weekend to earn some much-needed cash: he has to escort blind, embittered ex-Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade as he indulges the good life in New York city. Slade plans to eat, drink, make merry and womanise – but unbeknown to Charlie, Slade has some surprising plans to bring the weekend to a close. A remake of a 1974 Dino Risi film.
Starring: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar
Director: Martin Brest
Wedding Dress (2010)
Drama
Go Eun (Song Yoon Ah), a wedding dress designer and single mom, has only a limited number of days to live. Before parting from her young daughter So Ra (Kim Hyang Gi), Go Eun wants to do everything she can for her, including making a beautiful wedding dress for So Ra for the future. As her condition worsens, So Ra finds out about the cancer and tries to fulfill her mother's wishes one by one, in secret…
Starring: Hyang-gi Kim, Yun-ah Song, Mi-seon Jeon
Director: Hyeong-jin Kwon
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Bullhead / Rundskop (2011)
Crime | Drama
The young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from Jacky's past, set in motion a chain of events with farreaching consequences. BULLHEAD is an exciting tragedy about fate, lost innocence and friendship, about crime and punishment, but also about conflicting desires and the irreversibility of a man's destiny.
Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy
Director: Michael R. Roskam
High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma — the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child — makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Design of Death / Sha sheng (2012)
Drama
The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.
Starring: Bo Huang, Simon Yam, Alec Su, Nan Yu, Jing Liang, Jingwu Ma, Xun Wang
Director: Hu Guan
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Drama
Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury
Director: Martin Ritt
Absence of Malice (1981)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
A prosecutor leaks a false story to a reporter that the nephew of a mob boss is under investigation for murder, hoping to pressure the nephew into turning informant. The reporter has no responsibility for the truth of the story, only for accurately repeating what she's been told.
Starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Melinda Dillon, Wilford Brimley
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Love / Ai (2012)
Drama | Romance
The story revolves around the entangled and complex relationships between eight lonely hearts. Cyclist Yi Jia finds herself pregnant by aspiring director A Kai, whose girlfriend happens to be her best friend Xiao Ni. Xiao Ni's wealthy businessman father Lu Ping has been dating socialite Rou Yi for two years, but as he thinks their future is headed for the altar, Rou Yi becomes attracted to Xiao Kuan, an ordinary guy with a stuttering condition. Lu Ping's young business associate Mark is a playboy who thought he would never settle on any woman, until he meets scruffy-looking single mom Xiao Yein Beijing…
Starring: Qi Shu, Youting Zhao, Wei Zhao, Amber Kuo, Yi-han Chen, Ching-Tien Juan, Eddie Peng, Doze Niu
Director: Doze Niu
American Psycho (2000)
Crime | Drama
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the 80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.
Starring: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis
Director: Mary Harron
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Dam999 (2011)
Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The story revolves around the central edifice in this movie, a 100 year old Dam built by British during their colonial days in India . Like a Dam, each character in this movie, holds back their emotions for various reasons, eventually the DAM breaks along with that of its characters drawing the audience to gripping climax. The numerical 999 has got great importance in British Colonial Indian historical pages. The story reveals the concealed truth of India's age old myths and science.
Starring: Joshua Fredric Smith, Megha Burman, Linda Arsenio
Director: Sohan Roy
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The Odessa File / Der Fall Odessa (1974)
Drama | Thriller
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to inquire into the alleged sighting of a former SS Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself investigating the shadowy but powerful organization of former SS members known as ODESSA, a subject of great interest to the Israeli secret service.
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Director: Ronald Neame
Come Rain, Come Shine / Saranghanda, saranghaji anneunda (2011)
Drama
Hyeon Bin plays a very considerate yet, hard to know kind of person. Im Soo-jeong plays the role of a woman who leaves the house because of a man. This movie is about a five years married couple and their lives playing hide-and-seek in their hearts.
Starring: Hyun Bin, Su-jeong Lim
Director: Yoon-ki Lee
Hondo (1953)
Action | Drama | Romance | War | Western
Based on the Louis L'Amour story "The Gift of Cochise," this sparkling western has Wayne as a half-Indian Cavalry scout who, with his feral dog companion, finds a young woman and her son living on a isolated ranch in unfriendly Apache country. A poetic and exciting script, outstanding performances, and breathtaking scenery make this an indisputable classic.
Starring: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness
Director: John Farrow, John Ford
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