Carnage (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Two sets of parents meet to discuss their sons' involvement in a schoolyard fight. The meeting quickly becomes an argument in which the parents attack each other's parenting skills and expose problems in their marriages.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Director: Roman Polanski
Disclosure (1994)
Drama | Thriller
An executive at a high-tech firm is passed over for a promotion, only to discover that his new boss is a woman with whom he'd had an affair 10 years earlier. When the woman immediately makes an aggressive sexual overture toward him, the man sues for sexual harassment, which uncovers a series of revelations about his own past and the future of his company.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland
Director: Barry Levinson
Stick (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ernest (Stick) Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, but trouble follows him throughout as he tries to collect a debt and make up for lost time with his daughter. Stick also finds a new flame with a lady financial wizard (Kyle) and gets set to enjoy a new life, but Chucky and Nestor, the two hoods that owe him the debt, have other plans for Stick.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal
Director: Burt Reynolds
Sweetie (1989)
Comedy | Drama
Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of love when he plants a tree in their yard. Sweetie is plump, imperious, self-centered, and seriously mentally ill. The parents see none of the illness, seeing only their cute child. Kay mainly feels exasperation at her sister's impositions. Slowly, the film exposes how the roots of Sweetie's illness have choked Kay's own development. Can she be released?
Starring: Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry, Michael Lake
Director: Jane Campion
Young Adult (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature, returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school either.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson
Director: Jason Reitman
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Striptease (1996)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
At the Eager Beaver, a topless bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, former FBI clerk Erin Grant dances in order to raise enough money to regain custody of her seven year-old daughter, Angela. David Dilbeck, a kinky Congressman controlled by a gang of murderous sugar cane growers, staggers into the club and can't contain his sexual urges while watching Erin dance. He is recognized by Jerry Killian, a sharp-eyed regular, who, also infatuated with Erin, initiates a blackmail plan against Dilbeck meant to aid Erin in her court case. Killian is soon murdered, and Detective Al Garcia finds the blackmailer's body floating in a lake. The plot spreads from there and begins to include characters from society's fringes; there's Shad, the Eager Beaver's menacing bouncer with some ingenious blackmail schemes of his own. Darrell, Erin's psychopathic ex-husband, a small-time crook who deals in wheelchairs stolen from rest homes and hospitals.
Starring: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick
Director: Andrew Bergman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The English language imagining of Stieg Larsson's bestseller "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". The movie follows an investigative journalist who has been hired by a wealthy industrialist to follow up on the disappearance of a family member.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer
Director: David Fincher
A Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011)
Drama
Nader and Simin argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go because he thinks he must stay in Iran and take care of his father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi), who suffers from Alzheimers. However, Simin is determined to get a divorce and leave the country with her daughter.
Starring: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Director: Asghar Farhadi
This Must Be the Place (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller – an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father's nemesis. As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery.
Starring: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, David Byrne
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Drama
A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers
Director: Milos Forman
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Présumé coupable / Guilty (2011)
Drama
The film tells the plight of Alain Marecaux – "bailiff" of the case Outreau – arrested in 2001 and his wife and 12 others to horrible acts of pedophilia that they never committed. This is the story of the descent into hell of an innocent man facing a legal system incredibly unfair and inhumane, the story of his life and that of his relatives crushed by one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in our time.
Starring: Philippe Torreton, Wladimir Yordanoff, Noémie Lvovsky, Raphaël Ferret, Michelle Goddet
Director: Vincent Garenq
54 (1998)
Drama | History
Shane O'Shea was a 19-year-old guy living with his dad and two siblings in a small, boring town in New Jersey…until he crossed the river into New York City and entered a nightclub that was nothing less than the center of the universe – Studio 54. Shane's fast rise from busboy to the "glamorous" job of a shirtless waiter–puts Shane directly in competition with his ambitious buddy, Greg, a handsome busboy who's unwilling to "do what it takes" to advance his career. Shane also befriends Greg's Latin wife, Anita, a coat check girl, also aspiring to be a singing disco diva. The trio work under the erratic tutelage of their excessive yet nerdy club impressario–Steve Rubell. All four of their lives collide during this summer of 1979 when the club went from its height to its decline following IRS investigations.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Sela Ward, Mike Myers, Neve Campbell
Director: Mark Christopher
Cairo Time (2009)
Drama | Romance
A woman arrives in Cairo to meet her husband only to be told he is unavoidably delayed in Gaza and has in turn sent his friend, a retired Egyptian U.N. security officer, to meet her at the airport. The brief love affair that follows catches them both completely off guard.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig
Director: Ruba Nadda
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
Drama | Romance
A New York art dealer meets an attractive, yet mysterious broker who takes her on an erotic journey that pushes the limits of how far she will go.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton
Director: Adrian Lyne
Au Revoir Les Enfants / Au revoir les enfants (1987)
Drama | War
An autobiographical account of the filmmaker's childhood friendship, at a Catholic boarding school in 1944, with a Jewish boy the headmaster is trying to save by hiding him under a false name.
Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Director: Louis Malle
Beloved / Les bien-aimés (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
Paris in the sixties to the London of the 2000s, Madeleine and her daughter Vera come and go around the men they love. But all ages can not live love lightly. How to resist the passage of time and that addresses our deepest feelings? New film from french master Christophe Honoré ("Love Songs"), "Le Bien-Aime" was the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival 2011.
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech
Director: Christophe Honoré
Sympathy for Delicious (2011)
Drama
Dean O'Dwyer, also known as ""Delicious D," is an up-and-coming DJ on the underground music scene in Los Angeles. When a motorcycle accident leaves Dean paralyzed, he abandons his turntables for a wheelchair as his once promising career disappears before his eyes. Forced to live out of his car on skid row, Dean begins his descent into depression when he meets Father Joe Roselli, a passionate young priest. Father Joe introduces Dean to the world of faith-healing, an unlikely way for him to begin his quest to walk again. He soon discovers that he possesses the otherworldly power to heal people, but in an odd twist of fate, he is utterly unable to heal himself. Despite Father Joe's warnings, Dean angrily decides to use his newfound gift for fame and fortune. He joins a rock band led by charismatic front man The Stain with bassist Ariel, and manager Nina Hogue.
Starring: Christopher Thornton, Mark Ruffalo, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney, Juliette Lewis
Director: Mark Ruffalo
Magic (1978)
Drama | Horror | Romance | Thriller
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
Director: Richard Attenborough
Awaydays (2009)
Drama
Set in the post-punk era in the North West of England, follows 19-year-old Carty who is good- looking, funny, clever and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago and he lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all of his earnings on gigs, clubs, records and soccer. It's at a match that he meets Elvis, who changes everything. He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack is legendary–they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the Boneheads and Bootboys they fight against. For as long as he has been going to soccer games, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis is offering him a way in.
Starring: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen Graham, Oliver Lee, Lee Battle
Director: Pat Holden
Café de Flore (2011)
Drama
A love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love.
Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
