The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 / Breaking Dawn: Part 1 / Twilight 4 (2011)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
The Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Director: Bill Condon
The Sunset Limited (2011)
Drama
The Sunset Limited is a searing, two character drama that mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between two strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. The story focuses on two very different men – a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones), who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, the Sunset Limited. As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. As their philosophical debate progresses, each spar passionately to defend their personal credo and convert the other.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Brestskaya Krepost / Fortress of War (2010)
Action | Drama | War
The film shows the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which had taken upon the first strike of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941. Story describes the events of the first days of the defense. The film tells about three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again and again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Aleksei Kopashov, Aleksandr Korshunov, Anatoly Kot
Director: Aleksandr Kott
Drive Me Crazy (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Nicole Maris is a popular high school preppy senior in Utah who gets her life turned upside down when her perfect date, Brad, falls for a cute cheerleader from another school a month before the school's centennial senior prom. After recovering from the shock, Nicole comes up with a solution to save her reputation: find a guy to appear like they're going steady and to take her to the dance hoping to make Brad jealous. Nicole then hooks up with her next door neighbor, prankster and trouble maker Chase Hammond, and tries to model him in her own image while he's looking to make his long-term girlfriend Dulcie jealous too. However, both Nicole and Chase don't expect their charade to lead it where they never expected it to.
Starring: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Ali Larter, Stephen Collins
Director: John Schultz
Wasabi / Wasabi – The Japanese Dip That Kicks Like a Mule (2011)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace. There he mets his former colleague Momo and his daughter Yumi who he did not know was ever born. Hubert eventually finds out why his girlfriend left him and the reason becomes his and his new daughters problem.
Starring: Jean Reno, Ryôko Hirosue, Michel Muller, Carole Bouquet, Yoshi Oida
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
Civic Duty (2006)
Drama | Thriller
After being laid off in a downsizing of his company, the bitter and bigoted American accountant Terry Allen faces financial problems with the mortgage of his house. He uses his available time to snoop his downstairs neighbor Gabe Hassan, a Middle Eastern student that is having his Master degree sponsored by an Islamic organization in an American university, and calls the FBI to tell his suspicion. However, FBI Agent Tom Hilary asks him to forget Hassan. When Terry tells his wife Marla Allen that he had contacted FBI, she becomes upset and leaves Terry. However, his obsessive bigotry and alienation trigger paranoia against his neighbor and a tragic conclusion.
Starring: Peter Krause, Khaled Abol Naga, Richard Schiff, Kari Matchett
Director: Jeff Renfroe
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Three Colors: Red / Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Final entry in a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns a model who discovers her neighbour is keen on invading people's privacy.
Starring: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Frédérique Feder
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: White / Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society shows a man dealing with a Polish immigrant whose wife wants to divorce him because he can't perform in bed.
Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Janusz Gajos
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: Blue / Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
Drama | Music | Mystery
First of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns how the wife of a composer deals with the death of her husband and child.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
10 Years Love / Jûnen ai (2008)
Drama
In the third grade of high school, Mari who is a manager of football club prays to god to captain of the team, Hiroya Takagi can score a goal on a final PK which decides a champion team. However Hiroya misses the goal and his team losts the game. So far he has enjoyed huge big popularity, but after the game, he losts friends and girlfriend, and becomes a loser. Because Mari deeply loves Hiroya, She decides to become a vent for his sex. But ironically Takagi’s family breaks, and he becomes themissing. Mari follows his scent, and she goes to the Great White Way-Shinjukukabukicho where she is a stranger…
Starring: Mari Sakurai, Bobby, Aki Kawamura, Wakana, Yasuei Yakushiji
Director: Nakaba Ueda
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Adelheid (1970)
Drama
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when he discovers her sheltering her German-soldier brother.
Starring: Petr Cepek, Emma Cerná, Jan Vostrcil
Director: Frantisek Vlácil
Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Three women hire a fourth to try and get even with a con-man.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeta Chopra, Dippanita Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Shireesh Sharma, Akshay Anand
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Schlafkrankheit / Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Drama
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
Starring: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot, Maria Elise Miller
Director: Ulrich Köhler
Gruz 200 (2007)
Drama | Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Starring: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksei Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Leonid Bichevin
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Adaptation (2002)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Despite the success of his first produced script, "Being John Malkovich," for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay, Charlie Kaufman is plagued by insecurities, both in his career and his personal life. When he is hired to adapt "The Orchid Thief," a nonfiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John Laroche, he is completely stumped.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox
Director: Spike Jonze
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Anonymous (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, "Anonymous" speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories…
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, Xavier Samuel, Derek Jacobi
Director: Roland Emmerich
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Drama | History
Behind every great painting lies an even greater story.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York, Joanna Litwin
Director: Lech Majewski
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Rain Fall (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama
In Tokyo, a minister of public works is rumored to be taking evidence of corruption to a reporter: the CIA, the yakuza, and others want to grab the information and use it to squeeze the government. On the subway trip to meet the reporter, the official is murdered, but it looks like a heart attack. However, no one, including the murderer, can find the flash drive with the evidence. Now the CIA, gangsters, and the city police are searching. The dead official's daughters are in danger: the shadowy John Rain, ex-special forces and perhaps now in league with North Korea, tries to stay one step ahead as he looks for the flash drive and protects one of the daughters.
Starring: Kippei Shiina, Gary Oldman, Kyoko Hasegawa
Director: Max Mannix
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Revolver (2005)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
'Revolver' is populated with Guy Ritchie's ('Snatch'; 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels') classic breed of fast-talking, sharp-suited gangsters but with a psychological twist that your mind may not be able to handle. Jason Statham ('The Transporter' and 'Transporter 2') is Jake Green, a grifter who vows revenge against Macha (Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas'), the ferocious crime boss who sent him to prison. After taking Macha down in a game of chance, Macha puts out a hit on Jake. Now, caught between a gun and a hard place, Jake finds himself protected by two vicious loan sharks (Vincent Pastore and Andre Benjamin) who make him an offer he can't refuse.
Starring: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, André Benjamin, Terence Maynard, Andrew Howard
Director: Guy Ritchie
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Crime | Drama | Western
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Mary Beth Hughes, William Eythe, Harry Morgan
Director: William A. Wellman
