The Color of Money (1986)
Drama | Sport
Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
Starring: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Bill Cobbs, John Turturro
Director: Martin Scorsese
A.C.A.B.: All Cops Are Bastards (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Starring: Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini, Andrea Sartoretti, Domenico Diele, Roberta Spagnuolo, Nick Nicolosi
Director: Stefano Sollima
He Got Game (1998)
Drama | Romance | Sport
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Bill Nunn, Ned Beatty
Director: Spike Lee
A Perfect World (1993)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in the 1960s, this story is about the relationship that develops on the road between an escaped convict and the young boy he has kidnapped. The police chief who is tracking the two knows a vital truth about the convict's past.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern
Director: Clint Eastwood
Angels & Airwaves Love / Love (2011)
Drama | Sci-Fi
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity – and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
Starring: Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson, Bradley Horne
Director: William Eubank
Believe in Me (2006)
Drama | Sport
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Mathis, Bruce Dern, Bob Gunton
Director: Robert Collector
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The Piano in a Factory / Gang de qin (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't mind divorcing a woman who has become a stranger, but he can't bear to part with his daughter. Chen has worked hard to give her a respectable life and has taught her his love of music. When asked if she'd rather stay with her father or go with her mother, the girl gives a practical, devastating answer: she'll go with whomever can provide her with a piano. Chen cannot afford such a luxury item, but the piano becomes his last hope to save what little is left of his family. With the help of his loyal friends and the support of his lover – the singer in his band – Chen concocts several plans to fulfill his daughter's wish…
Starring: Wang Qian-Yuan, Hailu Qin, Yongzhen Guo, Shin-yeong Jang, Qian Liu, Tianyu, Xingyu Liu, Er-yang Luo
Director: Zhang Meng, Jae-young Kwak
Kahaani / Story (2012)
Drama | Thriller
Kolkata is abuzz with the preparations for the annual Durga Puja festival, as seven months pregnant Vidya Bagchi steps off the airplane from London. Her first stop is the local police station to file a missing person report. Weeks ago, her husband Arnab arrived in India for a job assignment. The first two weeks, they talked daily on the phone, and then without explanation his calls stopped. Everywhere Vidya turns, no one can remember Arnab; there is no trace of him at the guest house or his workplace. It is as if he never existed. But Vidya will not give up her search. Somewhere in Kolkata she will discover the dangerous truth.
Starring: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Darshan Jariwala
Director: Sujoy Ghosh
Madrasapattinam / Madras Town (2010)
Drama | History | Romance
After the death of her husband, Amy Smith, an elderly English woman, decides to return to India to search for her long lost lover and to return a necklace she was given. Through memory flashbacks we see how Amy as a young girl first arrived in Madrasapattinam, India in 1945 to join her father who was the governor of the city. Through some events of fate she meets Paritihi, a young Indian boy. Amy, feeling drawn towards Paritihi and intrigued by Indian culture, asks him to be her guide around the town and to show him the ways of his country. Soon a tender romance develops between them. However, Amy is too be married to officer Robert Ellis, a cruel man appointed by her father, forcing Amy and Paritihi to fight for their love.
Starring: Arya, Amy Jackson, Cochin Hanifa, Alexx O'Nell, Mike Parish
Director: Vijay
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Drama | Romance
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine
Director: Lasse Hallström
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / Wall Street 2 (2010)
Drama
Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gekko – still a master manipulator and player – is after something very different from redemption…
Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach
Director: Oliver Stone
Wall Street (1987)
Crime | Drama
In this riveting behind-the-scenes look at big business in the 1980's, an ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko. But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that's too high to pay.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp
Director: Oliver Stone
A Frozen Flower / King Protector / Ssang-hwa-jeom (2008)
Drama | History | Romance
A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.
Starring: Jin-mo Ju, Ji-hyo Song, In-seong Jo
Director: Ha Yu
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The Killing Fields (1984)
Drama | History | War
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Director: Roland Joffe
Harakiri / Seppuku (1962)
Drama
Set in 17th-century Japan, director Makaki Kobayahi's HARAKIRI stars Tatsuya Nakadai (RAN) as masterless samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo. Structured in a series of flashbacks, the film opens in a period of serenity that has brought about a consolidation of power in Japan, resulting in the release of many samurai from their feudal obligations. These men–Hanshiro included–are in desperate straits, struggling to avoid poverty and starvation. According to their code, they must appear at clan estates and offer to commit seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, and often the clan retainer will offer them work or alms. When Hanshiro arrives at such an estate, the chief retainer Kageyu Saito (Rentaro Mikuni) tells him a cautionary tale about the fate of samurai Motome Chijiiwa (Akira Ishihama), who was forced to commit seppuku with a dull bamboo sword as punishment for dishonoring the samurai code.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba, Masao Mishima
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
First Snow (2006)
Drama | Thriller
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner
Director: Mark Fergus
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story / EverAfter (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
In a re-telling of one of our most beloved tales, a resourceful young woman must overcome the schemes of her evil stepmother to be with the one she loves – the Prince of France – who has fallen for her beauty and intelligence. With the ingenuity of Leonardo Di Vinci and the strength of love, the young woman realizes that the Cinderella story can come true.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Angelica Huston
Director: Andy Tennant
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A Good Rain Knows / Ho woo shi jul (2009)
Drama | Romance
A traveling architect meets an old friend from his student years; the pair realize their connection has always been a romantic one.
Starring: Woo-sung Jung, Yuanyuan Gao
Director: Jin-ho Hur
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Wrong Is Right (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Starring: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, John Saxon
Director: Richard Brooks
Beyond the Front Line / Framom främsta linjen (2004)
Drama | War
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
Starring: Tobias Zilliacus, Ilkka Heiskanen, Christoffer Westerlund
Director: Åke Lindman
