Contagion (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Illustrates the worst case scenario of a global viral pandemic from multiple points of view, as ordinary people become severely ill and must be cared for by their loved ones, and harried doctors struggle to contain the disease.
Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Barfly (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, J.C. Quinn, Frank Stallone, Gloria LeRoy
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Puncture (2011)
Drama
Mike Weiss is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger, his longtime friend and partner, is the straightlaced and responsible yin to Mike's yang. Their mom-and-pop personal-injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky, a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As Weiss and Danziger dig deeper into the case, a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy teeters on exposure and heavyweight attorneys move in on the defense.
Starring: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw
Director: Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A wealthy treasure hunter employs a brawling, jailbird adventurer to help him find a hidden treasure in the Sahara, but eventually a young woman, along for the ride and looking to marry the wealthy man, comes between them.
Starring: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
Director: Henry Hathaway
Restless (2011)
Drama | Romance
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Director: Gus Van Sant
The Makioka Sisters / Fine Snow / Sasame-yuki (1983)
Drama | Romance
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain). Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.
Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kotegawa Yûko, Jûzô Itami, Kôji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Bedways (2010)
Drama | Music | Romance
Director Nina Bader wants to shoot a film about love and sex and invites her actor-friends Hans and Marie for screen tests for a couple of days. For Nina love is not necessarily a matter of emotion– she is rather looking for an authentic depiction of sex. The intimate collaboration turns into experiments with film, love and bodies and finally has an impact on the private relationships between the three of them. It seems that the boundaries between acting and reality begin to disappear.
Starring: Miriam Mayet, Matthias Faust, Lana Cooper, Laura Tonke, Arno Frisch
Director: Rolf Peter Kahl
The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, José Luis Gómez
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Tokyo Drifter / Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
Action | Crime | Drama
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu's attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Magadheera (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance
Magadheera is set in the backdrop of divine mysteries of death and reincarnation, The story happens in the year 1609. Kala Bhairava is the protector/cheif guard of Udayghad kingdom. Mitra, the heir princess is in love with him. But there is a bad relative of the king who wants to marry her. Sher Khan plans to invade Udayghad. In the process, all of them die. These people are reborn after after 400 years in the contemporary era. Harsha is a race biker, he falls in love with Indu, and a bad guy called Raghuveer is after her.
Starring: Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Agarwal, Dev Gill, Srihari, Sarathbabu
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Of Gods and Men / Des hommes et des dieux (2010)
Drama | History
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Abduction (2011)
Action | Drama | Mystery
A teen finds himself in mortal danger after realizing that his entire childhood has been built on lies. Realizing that the people who raised him aren't his real parents after stumbling across a childhood photo of himself on a website devoted to missing children, the frightened teen flees for his life as FBI agents Frank Burton and Sandra Burns race to protect him and uncover the truth about his mysterious…
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina
Director: John Singleton
Burn Notice (TV Series 2007-2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay! When Michael receives a "burn notice", blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in order to survive. Fully loaded with sly humor, Burn Notice is a fresh spin on the spy genre with plenty of precarious twists to keep you guessing and enough explosive action to keep you riveted!
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Coby Bell
Creator: Matt Nix
Last Day of Summer (2009)
Comedy | Drama
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss. Finally on the last day of summer, Joe snaps and decides to take revenge on his boss but his plans are disrupted when a quick glance from a beautiful girl catches his attention leading him to kidnapping her instead, changing both their lives forever.
Starring: DJ Qualls, Nikki Reed, William Sadler
Director: Vlad Yudin
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21 / 21 – The Movie (2008)
Crime | Drama
Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who – needing to pay school tuition – finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor. With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) leading the way, they've cracked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards isn't illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casinos' menacing enforcer: Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne).
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira
Director: Robert Luketic
Chuck (TV Series 2007-2011)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Chuck Bartowski, ace computer geek at Buy More, is not in his right mind. That's a good thing. Ever since he unwittingly downloaded stolen government secrets into his brain, action, excitement and a cool secret- agent girlfriend have entered his life. It's a bad thing, too. Because now Chuck is in danger 24/7.
Starring: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Sarah Lancaster, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Bonita Friedericy
Creator: Josh Schwartz, Chris Fedak
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) / The Human Millipede (2011)
Drama | Horror
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Starring: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Kandace Caine, Dominic Borrelli
Director: Tom Six
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Action | Drama | War
This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Telly Savalas
Director: Ken Annakin
Občanský průkaz / Identity Card (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Bittersweet comedy from Ondrej Trojan – "Obcanský prukaz", based on book by Petr Sabach about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers – from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians.
Starring: Libor Kovár, Matous Vrba, Jakub Sárka, Jan Vlcek, Anna Geislerová, Martin Mysicka, Jan Vasi
Director: Ondrej Trojan
BrainStorm (2008)
Drama
The main hero of this comedy is the story of a private psychologist James. They try to help others, but their own situation so completely does not understand. Debt to pay off their mortgage, pay alimony, and represents the office. It is infinitely tired and slept. Until it all brother entrusted to his care of their old father, who has long been immersed in the world of senile impotence and incipient dementia. His inner state of mind bordering on soul naughty child, and so care about him getting slightly grotesque character. The moment James is almost untenable situation hits a higher power in the form of a specific drug with fascinating effects: BrainStorm! So everyone get a second chance to correct what you missed at the time originally defined to nature …
Starring: Ivan Trojan, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Tatiana Pauhofová, Ivana Chýlková, Tereza Vorísková
Director: Jirí Strach
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