All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Drama | Sport
A drama centered on a promising football running back during his senior year in college.
Starring: 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Whitfield, Ray Liotta
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Grand Canyon (1991)
Crime | Drama
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Starring: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, Alfre Woodard
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Drama | War
In 1914, a group of German teenagers volunteer for action on the Western Front. Paul Baumer is a sensitive youth, but is persuaded to join up by a war-mongering professor advocating glory for the Fatherland. Paul and his friends are trained under Himmelstoss, a kindly postmaster turned brutal corporal, and then sent to the front lines to taste battle, blood and death.
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Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
Director: Lewis Milestone
Immortals (2011)
Action | Drama | Fantasy
Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unleash the Titans, who have been imprisoned deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros since the dawn of time and thirst for revenge. In the king's hands, the bow would rain destruction upon mankind and annihilate the Gods. But ancient law dictates the Gods must not intervene in man's conflict. They remain powerless to stop Hyperion… until a peasant named Theseus comes forth as their only hope.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto, Stephen Dorff, Kellan Lutz
Director: Tarsem Singh
Manhattan (1979)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A middle-aged TV writer, living in Manhattan, finds himself torn between relationships with a teenage girl who idolizes him, a thirtysomething woman who shares his intellectual passions, and an ex-wife who left him for another woman.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Anne Byrne Hoffman
Director: Woody Allen
Henri 4 (2010)
Drama | History
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne.
Starring: Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt, Armelle Deutsch, Chloé Stefani, Ulrich Noethen, Hannelore Hoger
Director: Jo Baier
Matching Jack (2010)
Drama
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Starring: Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell, James Nesbitt, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: Nadia Tass
Yumeji (1991)
Drama
Yumeji is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing / Undisputed 2 (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.
Starring: Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Ben Cross, Eli Danker, Mark Ivanir
Director: Isaac Florentine
J. Edgar (2011)
Biography | Crime | Drama
As the face of law enforcement in the US for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts
Director: Clint Eastwood
Godzilla / Gojira (1954)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
A monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Fuyuki Murakami, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Director: Ishirô Honda
Ocean Heaven / Haiyang tiantang (2010)
Drama
Wang, a maintenance man at an Ocean Park-style water theme park, lives with his 20-year-old son, David. David suffers from autism and is unable to function independently in the outside world. He is a competent swimmer and regularly joins Wang at work, where he is allowed to play in the large aquariums with the dolphins, turtles and other tropical fish. However, when Wang discovers he has terminal cancer and only a matter of months left to live, he must help David assimilate into normal society, or risk him being incarcerated in a hellish mental asylum.
Starring: Jet Li, Zhang Wen, Lunmei Kwai, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yuanyuan Gao
Director: Xiao Lu Xue
Army of Shadows / L'armée des ombres (1969)
Drama | War
The film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens, and friendships, loyalty and trust give way to suspicion, secrecy and loss.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, André Dewavrin
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Dom / Home (2011)
Drama
The Shamanov's family lives in a big house in the middle of the steppe. Their life is full of family conflict. The eldest son returns home after 25 years of absence. But the group of assassins pursues him.
Starring: Sergey Garmash, Bogdan Stupka, Ekaterina Rednikova, Vladimir Epifantsev
Director: Oleg Pogodin
In Tranzit (2008)
Drama | Romance | War
"In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Commander Pavlov…"
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich, Daniel Brühl
Director: Tom Roberts
Repo (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Two best friends….. One dumb plan.
Starring: Benjamin Gourley, Jason Mewes, Izabella Miko, Lindsey McKeon, Sunny Mabrey, Patrick Muldoon, David Quane
Director: Benjamin Gourley
Seeking Justice (2011)
Action | Drama | Thriller
After his wife is assaulted, her husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score, which brings him more trouble.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Grendel (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
King Higlack of the Gauths entrusts prince Finn and a fire ball weapon to his champion, slayer Beowulf. They lead twelve men on a mission to help king Hrothgar of the Danes, whose once glorious realm is terrorized by undefeated the Biblical monster Grendel. In fact the task is even harder, as Hrothgar kept gruesome secrets.
Starring: Chris Bruno, Marina Sirtis, Ben Cross, Michael J. Minor, Atanas Srebrev
Director: Nick Lyon
The Phantom of the Opera at The Royal Albert Hall (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber's landmark musical. From the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Starring: Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser
Director: Nick Morris, Laurence Connor
Older Than America (2008)
Drama
A woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her Native American boarding school. A contemporary drama of suspense, Older Than America delves into the lasting impact of the cultural genocide and loss of identity that occurred at these institutions across the United States and Canada.
Starring: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi, Sarah Agnew, Jeri Arredondo, Noah Kol Balfour
Director: Georgina Lightning
