Nordwand / North Face (2008)
Adventure | Drama | History | Sport
Set in 1936, centers around four mountain climbers who attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland and the tragic events that follow.
Starring: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Touching the Void (2003)
Adventure | Documentary | Drama | Sport
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a successful three-and-a- half-day ascent, disaster struck. Simpson fell a short distance and broke several bones in his leg. With no hope of rescue, the men decided to attempt descent together with Yates lowering Simpson 300 feet at a time in a slow, painful process that could have potentially been deadly for both. One further misstep led to Yates unknowingly lowering his injured partner over the lip of a crevasse. With the gradient having gone from steep to vertical, he was no longer able to hold on. Certain they were about to be pulled jointly to their deaths, the only choice was to cut the rope. How Simpson survived the fall, and made it back to base camp is a story that will astound and inspire. In 'Touching the Void', Yates and Simpson return to the Siula Grande for the first time to retell their story.
Starring: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Ollie Ryall
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Drama | Fantasy
Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.
Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper
Director: Benh Zeitlin
French Cancan / Only the French Can (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
Starring: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Dora Doll
Director: Jean Renoir
Wir sind die Nacht / We Are the Night (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Lena, an 18-year-old petty thief is bitten Louise, the leader of a trio of female vampires that are as deadly as they are gorgeous. Lena soon discovers that her newfound existence as a vampire is both a blessing, when she's enjoying the freedom, luxury, and parties, and a curse, when she falls dangerously in love with a young, undercover policeman.
Starring: Karoline Herfurth, Max Riemelt, Nina Hoss, Anna Fischer, Jennifer Ulrich
Director: Dennis Gansel
At Close Range (1986)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties.
Starring: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins
Director: James Foley
City Rats (2009)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A modern day Dickensian tale about eight haunted people who meet and fall apart while searching for redemption in each other.
Starring: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, James Lance, MyAnna Buring
Director: Steve Kelly
The World According to Garp (1982)
Comedy | Drama
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
Starring: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: George Roy Hill
Freaks (1932)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor
Director: Tod Browning
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Like Water for Chocolate / Como agua para chocolate (1992)
Drama | Romance
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why they coudn't get married because Tita's mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first, and have Tita to stay and take care of her. It shows how marriage was imposed on those times, and how a love between two people can change everything. This picture set a new epoch in Mexican movies all over the world.
Starring: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné
Director: Alfonso Arau
Dukhless / Soulless (2012)
Comedy | Drama
This is a story of 29-year-old top manager named Max who is absolutely sure about his success and happiness. Everything he does is earning and spending money. Expensive cars, penthouse, night clubs, posh girls, parties and drugs are attributes of his life. But one day he meets a girl who is from another side of the life. And he starts to understand that there is something wrong in his way of living. From this point everything around and inside him starts to change.
Starring: Danila Kozlovskiy, Mariya Andreeva, Mikhail Efremov, Artur Smolyaninov
Director: Roman Prygunov
Liz & Dick (2012)
Biography | Drama
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton – and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again – only to divorce again – but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor – Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Grant Bowler
Director: Lloyd Kramer
Politist, adjectiv / Police, Adjective (2009)
Crime | Drama
In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a youth whose father is a builder. Cristi watches, he smokes, he writes reports, he wants to meet with the prosecutor. Can a cop have a conscience? Is the noun being modified "procedural" or "state"?
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu, Cerasela Trandafir
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
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
