Black Swan (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A thriller that zeros in on the relationship between a veteran ballet dancer and a rival during the staging of "Swan Lake".
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Middle Men (2010)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In 1995, straight-and-narrow businessman Jack Harris who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment, finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, con men, Russian mobsters, federal agents, and international terrorists. Caught between a porn star and the FBI, Harris learns that even becoming one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of his generation may not be enough to keep him out of trouble.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, James Caan, Jacinda Barrett, Kevin Pollak, Laura Ramsey
Director: George Gallo
Caterpillar / Kyatapirâ (2010)
Drama
Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War and based on a banned 1929 horror-fantasy story by writer Edogawa Rampo, Caterpillar is a powerful indictment of Japanese right-wing militarism and male domination.
Starring: Shinobu Terajima, Keigo Kasuya, Emi Masuda, Sabu Kawahara, Maki Ishikawa
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Gia (1998)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in the U.S. whose death was attributed to the disease. In between, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis Giambalvo, John Considine
Director: Michael Cristofer
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The New Protocol / Le nouveau protocole / The Protocol – Jeder Tod hat seinen Preis (2008)
Drama | Mystery
A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Marie-Josée Croze, Dominique Reymond, Stéphane Hillel, Gilles Cohen
Director: Thomas Vincent
Jericho Mansions (2003)
Drama | Thriller
Leonard Grey has been the super of the apartment building Jericho Mansions owned by Lily Melnick for thirty years. Leonard is slow and agoraphobic, as well as having amnesia, and dedicates his leisure time to build a complex bridge with clips. When the husband of the landlady (Lily) dies and she receives a call from her sister that lives in Europe, Lily rebukes Leonard and tries to force him to be fired or arrested by the police, forging evidences that he is a thief. However, most of the dwellers like Leonard and he stays working in the building. When Bill Cherry, husband of the masseuse Donna Cherry and lover of Dolores O'Donell, is murdered in Jericho Mansions during the night, the police investigate. There are many suspects, including Dolores's betrayed husband Eugene; Lily and Leonard. However, Jericho Mansions hides a dark and cruel secret.
Starring: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Jennifer Tilly, Maribel Verdú, Peter Keleghan, Pierre Rioux, Bruce Ramsay
Director: Alberto Sciamma
True Justice: Dark Vengeance (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Seattle's darkest criminals are forcing Elijah Kane and his hard knuckled team to work around the clock tracking down a meticulous 'Black Magic'-practicing killer, in the vagrant strip club underworld.
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Stewart, Alex Mallari Jr., J. Anthony Pena, Sarah Lind, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie
Director: Lauro Chartrand, Wayne Rose
True Justice: Brotherhood (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, William Stewart, Alex Mallari Jr., J. Anthony Pena, Sarah Lind, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie
Director: Lauro Chartrand, Wayne Rose
More (1969)
Crime | Drama | Romance
In the late 60's, after graduating in Mathematics, the German Stefan Brückner hitchhikes from Lübeck to Paris to see the world without money. He befriends Charlie in an arcade and they go to a party. When Stefan meets gorgeous American Estelle Miller in the party, Charlie advises him to stay away from her. However, the straight Stefan falls in love with Estelle and after breaking in a house with Charlie to rob, he follows her to Ibiza. Stefan seeks the hotel of his fellow citizen Dr. Ernesto Wolf where Estelle is lodged. He asks her to leave the place and stay with him in an isolated seaside house. Before leaving the hotel, Estelle steals some money and a pack from Wolf. Sooner Stefan learns that Estelle had stolen 200 doses of heroin and he decides to try one fix with her, in the beginning of his trip to hell.
Starring: Mimsy Farmer, Heinz Engelmann, Klaus Grünberg, Henry Wolf, Louise Wink, Michel Chanderli
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Tsotsi (2005)
Crime | Drama
A drama tracing six days in the lonely, violent life of Tsotsi ("the thug"), a ruthless, young gang leader. Bolstered by his small crew of social rejects, he refuses to think further ahead than the raids of the coming night. But when an impromptu car jacking results in the accidental kidnapping of an infant, Tsotsi comes to care for the child and begins to gradually rediscover his humanity and his capacity to love.
Starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe
Director: Gavin Hood
The Straight Line / La Ligne Droite (2011)
Drama
Leila, after five years in prison, found freedom.She meets a young athlete Yannick who has lost sight in an accident. The only discipline that he can practice with his handicap, that's racing.
Starring: Rachida Brakni, Cyril Descours, Clémentine Célarié, Sedina Balde, Thierry Godard
Director: Régis Wargnier
King of the Avenue (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
A young drug dealer sells his soul to the devil in order to become the #1 seller on the block.
Starring: Simon Rex, Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Erick Nathan, Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Hemky Madera, Eddie B. Smith
Director: Ryan Combs
Court Lady / Shadows in the Palace / Goongnyeo (2007)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
During the Chosun period, a court lady is found dead, hanging by the rafters of the palace. After examining the dead body, place physician Chun-ryung discovers that the dead maid was probably murdered and carries out investigation even though her higher-ups pressure her to close the case as suicide.
Starring: Jin-hie Park, Se-ah Yun, Yeong-hie Seo, Jeong-eun Lim, Hye-jin Jeon, Seong-ryeong Kim, Nam-jin Kim
Director: Mee-jeung Kim
Smart People (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant — but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes, David Denman
Director: Noam Murro
Overheard 2 / Sit yan fung wan 2 (2011)
Action | Drama | Thriller
LAW Man-seng, a reputable security dealer was involved in a car accident. Police officer HO Chi-keung is assigned to the case when military surveillance devices were found in LAW's wrecked sports car. During the investigation, Ho finds that Law has some offshore funds of unknown sou rces and that an unknown person Joe is wiretapping not only Law, but other members of 'Landlord Club', a legendary club with members from top business tycoons and entrepreneurs in town.
Starring: Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Ching Wan Lau, Michelle Ye, Yi Huang, Kenneth Tsang, Alex Fong, Fung Woo, Ying Kwan Lok, Wilfred Lau
Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Overheard / Sit yan fung wan (2009)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A major stock exchange in the world, Hong Kong attracts not only money but anyone who tries to manipulate the market. At the Hong Kong Police Force Commercial Crime Bureau, an operation is underway to infiltrate a trading company where a man nicknamed Boss is the chief suspect. The team, led by Inspector Leung (Lau Ching Wan) together with Yeung (Louis Koo) and Lam (Daniel Wu) installs bugs to monitor the communications. When crucial information on a surging share is intercepted, a moment of greed now puts them in a crossfire between the Bureau and the boss.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Jingchu Zhang, Alex Fong, Michael Wong, Waise Lee
Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
The Way Back (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History
A small group of multi-national prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel in a journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Peter Weir
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. But as Kint lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime lord's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end!
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Bryan Singer
K-PAX (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams
Director: Iain Softley
Identity (2003)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
What if every choice we ever make was already made for us? What if there really were no coincidences in life and our destinies were already predetermined? Ten strangers with secrets are brought together in a savage rainstorm: A limo driver (John Cusack), an '80s TV star (Rebecca DeMornay), a cop (Ray Liotta) who is transporting a killer (Jake Busey), a call girl (Amanda Peet), a pair of newlyweds (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott) and a family in crisis (John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr), all take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager (John Hawkes). Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they抣l have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
Starring: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina
Director: James Mangold
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