Throw Down / Yau doh lung fu bong (2004)
Action | Drama
A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer.
Starring: Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, Tony Leung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Jordan Chan
Director: Johnnie To
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part II / Sàidékè balái Part II (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Part II depicts the grisly guerrilla warfare employed as the Seediq, led by Chief Mona Rudao (Lin Ching Tai), use Taiwan's mountains and forests to their advantage. But the Japanese employ modern warfare – airplanes, cannons, tear gas, and explosives – to mount their counterattack and the vastly outnumbered Seediq can only withstand for so long.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Umin Boya, Chi-Wei Cheng, Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Michio Hayashida, Akira Hibino, Vivian Hsu
Director: Te-Sheng Wei
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part I / Sàidékè balái Part I (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Seediq Bale Part 1 sows the seeds for the film's powerful final conflict, depicting how the Seediq people are demoralized and finally reborn by their continued subjugation by the Japanese. Stripped of their native hunting grounds and forced to work deforesting the very mountains they called home, the rival Seediq tribes rallied together and violently rose up against years of Japanese repression in the 1930 Wushe Incident.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Umin Boya, Chi-Wei Cheng, Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Michio Hayashida, Akira Hibino, Vivian Hsu
Director: Te-Sheng Wei
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Love Story (1970)
Drama | Romance
Against his fathers wishes, upper-class Harvard student Oliver marries Jenny, a girl from a poor Italian family. After some struggle, Oliver finishes law school and the young couple are about to start a family when Jenny is found to be gravely ill.
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Punch / Wan-deuk-i (2011)
Drama | Sport
Based on a novel, this is a movie about a poor and rebellious Wandeugi, meeting an oddball teacher and growing up. "Punch" begins firmly rooted in the coming-of-age genre, but turns into a family drama and a social drama dealing with such crucial issues as the generation gap, education, disability, and multi-culturalism. It does all this and imparts some valuable lessons while providing entertainment and inspiration.
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Ah In Yoo
Director: Han Lee
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Donkey (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
Upon his release from jail, two-bit thug Don Keys gets caught up in the kidnapping plot of a mobster's daughter.
Starring: Matthew Stefiuk, Cassandra Petrella, Greg Hiscock
Director: Adrian Langley
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Bending the Rules (2012)
Action | Drama
Theo Gold, the New Orleans Assistant District Attorney, is about to have the worst day of his life. Not only does his wife decide to leave him on the eve of his birthday, but he manages to lose a high profile case against detective Nick Blades. Now, the only thing Theo has left is the car his father, Herb, entrusted to him – a 1956 Studebaker Goldenhawk. But when he discovers that his father's pride and joy has been stolen, Theo is determined to do whatever it takes to get that car back. The same person he just tried to put away, Nick Blades, becomes his only ally in the police department. As the two set off to find the car, action and comedy quickly develop, because the stolen car is merely a small piece of a much larger puzzle.
Starring: Adam Copeland, Jamie Kennedy
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Action | Drama | History | War
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory. Flags of Our Fathers is based on the bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers, which chronicled the battle of Iwo Jima and the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers in Easy Company.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery
Director: Clint Eastwood
Talk to Her / Hable con ella (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.
Starring: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, Chus Lampreave, Paz Vega
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
W.E. / Wallis & Edward (2011)
Drama | History | Romance
Two love stories, one historic and one contemporary, are interwoven. The famous romance between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson is juxtaposed with the affair of a Russian security guard with a New York trophy wife Wally Winstrhop. Wally is obsessed with the story of Edward and the woman he loved, and embarks on her own research of their life together, even attending the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate. She comes to see that their relationship, although glamorous, was not the perfect one that she had imagined it to be.
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D'Arcy
Director: Madonna
Kingdom of War Part II / Naresuan Part II (2007)
Drama | History | War
An epic historical action film about King Naresuan the Great, who liberate the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation.
Starring: Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Kingdom of War Part I / Naresuan Part I (2007)
Drama | History | War
An epic historical action film about King Naresuan the Great, who liberate the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation.
Starring: Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Armed and Deadly (2011)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Janis McKenzie, is a 36 year old photographer in Sarasota. Janis witnessed her twin brother kill their parents. Twenty years later, she waits for him to come to kill her for her testimony. Trained in martial arts, she is ready. All Janis wants is CLOSURE.
Starring: Lisa Varga, Audrey Landers, Diane Ford
Director: Andrzej Mrotek
Littlerock (2010)
Drama
Japanese siblings Rintaro and Atsuko are visiting the United States for the first time. They are headed for San Francisco when their rental car breaks down in the California desert town of Littlerock. Despite the cultural and language barriers, they soon fall in with a group of aimless young locals, including an awkward outcast named Cory who is clearly taken with Atsuko. She finds a fumbling romance…
Starring: Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia, Rintaro Sawamoto, Roberto Sanchez
Director: Mike Ott
Roadracers (1994)
Action | Drama
Cynical look at a 50's rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
Starring: David Arquette, John Hawkes, Salma Hayek
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Bunraku (2010)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
A mysterious drifter and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi both arrive in a town that has been terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of Nicola, the awesomely evil "woodcutter" and his lady Alexandra, a femme fatale with a secret past. This classic tale is re-vitalized and re-imagined in an entirely fresh visual context, set in a unique world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play fantasy, a place where even the landscape can betray you.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Gackt, Shun Sugata, Jordi Mollà, Emily Kaiho
Director: Guy Moshe
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Mimic (1997)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Three years ago, two young scientists teamed up to save New York City from an roach-borne epidemic that was killing thousands of children. Their miracle of genetic engineering was the Judas Breed, an insect whose enzimes proved deadly to the disease-carrying roaches. However, their creation has come back to haunt them, altering the balance of nature and tipping the scales in favor of the insects. The thing created in the lab has changed, and now, out there in the city it has begun to mimic the most dangerous predator of all—humans.
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Alexander Goodwin
Director: Guillermo del Toro
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young soldier goes missing upon returning to the U.S. from Iraq. When his war veteran father and his mother begin questioning the circumstances surrounding their son's mysterious disappearance, they embark on a journey to piece together their son's final days, enlisting the help of a police detective to aid in the investigation.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco
Director: Paul Haggis
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Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet…
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull
Director: Bruce Beresford
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
A group of British POWs is forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson, they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building program and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it.
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
