Dead Calm (1989)
Drama | Thriller
A thriller involving a couple who have gone on vacation to overcome a personal tragedy and become involved with a dangerous and mysterious stranger.
Starring: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Sharon Cook, Michael Long
Director: Phillip Noyce
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
"Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" is a quirky romantic comedy set in the world of the upper middle class in Northern India. Kush Agnihotri (Imran Khan) is looking for the ideal Indian bride for his brother Luv Agnihotri (Ali Zafar) who stays in London. In his quest, Kush goes through an array of wacky encounters with several families until he finally finds that perfect girl in Dimple Dixit (Katrina Kaif), the craziest / wackiest girl he has ever known. Both the families meet. Formalities completed. Preparations proceed in full swing. And just then, our hero Kush falls in love with Dimple… his brother's dulhan. What follows is a comical and unpredictable series of events in this unusual topsy-turvy tale of love.
Starring: Imran Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ali Zafar, Tara D'Souza
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
Dhobi Ghat / Mumbai Diaries (2010)
Drama
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) is the story of four people from very different backgrounds, whose worlds intersect and leave them forever altered. As they find themselves drawn into compelling relationships, the city finds its way into the crevices of their lives, separating them even as it brings them closer Fragments of their experience – seen through a naive video diary, black and white photographic images and painting – form a portrait of Mumbai and its people, bound together as they journey through longing, loneliness, loss and love.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Monica Dogra, Kriti Malhotra
Director: Kiran Rao
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Film Socialisme / Film Socialism (2010)
Drama
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday… Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
Starring: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Dream House (2011)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Successful publisher Will Atenton quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby, and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived. When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann…
Starring: Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz
Director: Jim Sheridan
Gangs of New York (2002)
Crime | Drama | History
Set in New York City, 1840-1863, a young man named Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks vengeance against Bill 'The Butcher' Poole (Daniel Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father. Though he secures the help of pickpocket Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz), the task at hand may be more dangerous than Amsterdam ever imagined when he realizes that his father was murdered as a result of gang warfare between the powerful Manhattan Irish and Italian gangs. Amid the crooked cops and corrupt politicians of the Tammany Hall era, political enforcer Bill Poole stands out as only one scoundrel in the crime-plagued Five Points section of lower Manhattan in the early 1860s.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly
Director: Martin Scorsese
Barton Fink (1991)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Barton Fink is a scriptwriter who has become a Hollywood hit. However, he has writer's block, in desperation he turns to his neighbours for help. Fink finds the real-life inspiration he needs from the most sinister of sources!
Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Baarìa (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Peppino, the nickname of the boy at the story's heart, is a tough little kid in the 1930s, used to the rough-and-tumble world of Baaria (local slang for Tornatore's native Bagheria), a hot and dusty Sicilian village with one main street. His adventures are many and his memories singular: men gambling in the local square, goats eating his schoolbooks, and the enchantment of silent film screenings. All of this plays out against the darker canvas of black-shirted fascists strutting in the streets, the declaration of war and the ecstatic moment of liberation when the Allies land on the island.
Starring: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
True Justice: Urban Warfare (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Elijah Kane's (Steven Seagal) city is caught in the crossfire of a gang war between the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, when they attack the dangerous Mexican gang, MS-13, in Seattle and look to flip a profit doing so. While the gangs war on, a single man has taken the financial crisis personally when he holds his neighborhood bank hostage citing they took not only his house, but his life.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie, William Stewart, Sarah Lind, Adrian Hough
Director: Keoni Waxmans
Sunny / Sseo-ni (2011)
Drama
Seven girlfriends reunite 25 years after attending junior high school together.
Starring: Ho-jeong Yu, Sim Eun-Kyeong, Hee-kyung Jin, Min-yeong Kim, Su-hee Go, Kang So-ra, Lee Yeon-Kyeong, Nam Bo-ra, Kim Seon-Kyeong, Bo-mi Kim, Hong Jin-hee, Park Jin-joo, Hyo-rin Min, Yeong-seo Park
Director: Hyeong-Cheol Kang
Rizzoli & Isles (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery
RIZZOLI & ISLES follows Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, complete opposites and good friends who solve crimes and bust some of Boston's most notorious criminals. Growing up at opposite ends of the economic spectrum, the two remain strikingly different from one another in many ways. Jane, the only female detective in Boston's homicide division, is a tough and gutsy cop who doesn't let her guard down (except with Maura), dodges her overprotective mother and is better at basketball than her brother. Maura, meanwhile, is usually more comfortable among the dead than the living. She is always impeccably dressed in designer duds with a steady, sometimes icy temperament. And she is working on curbing her tendency to diagnose the people she meets – including her first dates. Jane and Maura often find themselves working together as both use their brilliant minds and expertise to figure out the "who done it" as well as the "how done it" of Boston's most complex cases.
Starring: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges, Lee Thompson Young, Bruce McGill, Lorraine Bracco, Brian Goodman
Creator: Janet Tamaro, Tess Gerritsen
Carlos (TV mini-series 2010)
Biography | Crime | Drama
CARLOS tells the story of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who was one of the most wanted terrorists in the world for two decades. Between 1974, when he attempted to kill a British businessman, and 1994, when he was arrested in Khartoum, he lived several lives under many names and went through all the political complexities of his era. Who was Carlos? How were his identities interrelated and superimposed? What did they revolve around? And who was he before he threw himself heart and soul into his endless combat? These are the questions this fiction is built upon.
Starring: Edgar Ramirez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstatten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach
Creator: Daniel Leconte
Agora (2009)
Adventure | Drama | History
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
The Lover / L'amant (1992)
Biography | Drama | Romance
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Duras.
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung, Frédérique Meininger
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
House (TV Series 2004-2012)
Drama | Mystery
Go deeper into the medical mysteries of House, TV's most compelling drama. Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he'll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case.
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, Bobbin Bergstrom
Creator: David Shore
The Woman (2011)
Crime | Drama | Horror
When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.
Starring: Carlee Baker, Shana Barry, Marcia Bennett
Director: Lucky McKee
50/50 (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Adam Lerner, an ordinary 25-year-old who loves his girlfriend and enjoys his job, is diagnosed with cancer. He hears it from the doctor. He tells his family. He goes through chemo. Coping with his mortality, Adam decides to use humor in his struggle to cure cancer and keep his sanity intact. And where his family and friends struggle to fully understand his situation, Adam's psychologist and fellow…
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston
Director: Jonathan Levine
The Big I Am (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Starring: Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan, Michael Madsen, Robert Fucilla, Steven Berkoff
Director: Nic Auerbach
Shallow Hal (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman whom only he can see as a vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis?
Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara / Z.N.M.D. (2011)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran Habib, a writer by profession, and they contact their London-based financial broker friend, Arjun, to remind him of a pact of traveling to Spain. The trio commence their long overdue trip not fully realizing that Arjun has still not forgiven Imran for his break-up with Sunani, while he himself regrets being dumped by Rohini, and must also compete with Imran for the affections of gorgeous Deep Sea Diving Instructor, Laila; Kabir struggles to accept life as Natasha's husband; and Imran must ready himself to meet his biological father, Salman, who had abandoned him at birth.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin, Ariadna Cabrol, Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Zoya Akhtar
