In My Father's Den (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A disillusioned war journalist's return home is blighted when he becomes implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl he has befriended.
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy, Vanessa Riddell
Director: Brad McGann
Freelancers (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, Dana Delany, Beau Garrett, 50 Cent, Matt Gerald
Director: Jessy Terrero
Heleno (2011)
Biography | Drama
A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro
Director: José Henrique Fonseca
Another Happy Day (2011)
Drama
A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn as she arrives at her parents' Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children. Lynn's hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice, a fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother, ailing, distant father and ever-judgmental sisters, but most especially by her ex-husband Paul and his hot-tempered second wife Patty.
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Bosworth, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, Demi Moore
Director: Sam Levinson
Aftershock / Tangshan dadizhen (2010)
Drama
On July 28th, 1976, a powerful earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan, north-east of Beijing, China, and killed more than 240,000 people. Director Feng Xiaogang's Aftershock recreates the tragic event and the years of painful recovery that followed it.
Starring: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu, Jingchu Zhang, Zi-feng Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Guoqiang Zhang, Ziwen Wang
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Swerve (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When loner Colin driving through the desert on the way to a job interview, he ends up in the middle of the chaos of a severe car accident. One driver is an excited beautiful woman, the other a dead stranger, with a bag filled with money, in the passenger seat…
Starring: Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon, Vince Colosimo, Roy Billing
Director: Craig Lahiff
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Western
'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' delves into the private life and public exploits of the United States' most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money – and the glory – riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider
Director: Andrew Dominik
Death Wish 3 / Death Wish III (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police detective to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alex Winter
Director: Michael Winner
Casino (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and breathes the odds. He eventually doubles the mob's take and changes the rules of how the casinos are run. But he can't control the odds when it comes to Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. His infatuation with Ginger turns to obsession as she rises with him to the upper crust of society, then turns to the bottle and pills for consolation in her gilded cage. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Warlords / Tau ming chong (2007)
Action | Drama | History | War
During the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, General Pang barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu and Wu Yang. After fighting back attackers from a helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan.
Starring: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Drama
In the troubling times of the Great Depression the Joad family, accompanied by their friend Reverend Jim, migrate from Oklahoma to California in the hopes of finding work in a vineyard and improving their financial condition. But the road is long and rough, and when they reach their destination things aren't quite what they expected.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Russell Simpson, Charley Grapewin, Eddie Quillan
Director: John Ford
The Misfits (1961)
Drama | Romance | Western
A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach
Director: John Huston
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Dan Dailey
Director: Walter Lang
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it?
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Rory Calhoun
Director: Jean Negulesco
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sizzle, sing and dance as a couple of gold diggers out to land rich husbands. This Technicolor film fable follows the exploits of two gorgeous women aboard a luxury ocean liner. One (Monroe) loves diamonds and the other (Russell) loves men. On the ship with them are an elderly diamond mine owner (Charles Coburn), a team of handsome and muscular Olympic athletes, a fascinating but very young millionaire (George Winslow) and a nosy private eye. Packed with 40 minutes of production numbers, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes includes the legendary title song and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan
Director: Howard Hawks
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Biography | Drama | War
Goya's Ghosts is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army, the film captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being a heretic, renowned painter Francisco Goya must convince his old friend Lorenzo, a power-hungry monk and leader of the Spanish Inquisition, to spare her life.
Starring: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, José Luis Gómez
Director: Milos Forman
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War Flowers (2011)
Drama
A young mother whose husband has left her and their daughter to fight for the South in the Civil War, must decide the fate of a Yankee soldier who enters their life.
Starring: Brian Balzerini, Tom Berenger, Jordan Brun, Christina Ricci, Jason Gedrick, Gabrielle Popa, Scott Michael Campbell
Director: Serge Rodnunsky
And God Created Woman / Et Dieu… créa la femme (1956)
Drama | Romance
Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: Roger Vadim
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Emmanuelle (1974)
Drama
Beautiful newlywed Emmanuelle tires of life in Thailand with her ambassador husband and embarks on a series of sexual adventures. Keen to learn the intricacies of desire, she places herself under the tutelage of the elderly Mario, and starts off down a path which leads her to new heights of physical ecstasy. French President Georges Pompidou tried unsuccessfully to ban this film, which later became a cult and France's all-time top grossing film. X was never like this.
Starring: Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Marika Green, Daniel Sarky, Christine Boisson
Director: Just Jaeckin
Undisputed (2002)
Action | Crime | Drama | Sport
George "Ice Man" Chambers (Rhames) is a top ranked heavyweight boxer. However Chambers has his world turned upside down when he is accused of rape and sent to prison. Upon his arrival he hears talk about Monroe Hutchen (Snipes) who is the top ranked prison boxing champ 10 years running. Immediately there is bad blood with Chambers not wanting to be second to no one which leads to a lunch room fight between the men.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda, Wes Studi
Director: Walter Hill
