The Bodyguard (1992)
Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
A well-known entertainer, stalked by an obsessive fan, hires an ex-Secret Service agent to protect her, and the two fall in love.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp
Director: Mick Jackson
Le concert / The Concert (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.
Starring: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, François Berléand, Miou-Miou
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Drama
To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa will graduate from college — decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family's history and relationships come to light.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd, Julia Roberts
Director: Dennis Lee
Wasao (2011)
Drama
WASAO, a story of the love for nature, the people and animals, a tear-jerking story of a speechless dog with a pure heart. WASAO makes a screen debut as himself in this film that tells a sentimental yet heart-warming story of a 'busakawa-ken' (ugly but cute dog) and his past that has never been told. Wasao, has made a name for himself with his adorable appearance, with close to 2,000 tourists who travel to Ajigasawa, Aomori Prefecture in the northenmost of the Tohoku region in Japan on weekends and public holidays, causing traffic congestions. People wrote about his distinct presence and charms in their blogs, resulting in WASAO being an idol in Japan as well as starting a new craze. He has been featured in over 30 magazines and appeared in over 50 television programs in Japan.
Starring: Kai Inowaki, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Shirô Sano
Director: Yoshinari Nishikôri
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The Artist (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance | Western
After his father' dies young Jim Craig leaves his home in the Snowy River valley to work for a wealthy landlord, who happens to be the estranged twin brother of Jim's mentor, a grizzled old prospector. While fighting to earn his spurs by breaking a herd of wild horses, Jim falls in love with his employer's spunky daughter Jessica. One of the horses escapes and the blame falls on Jim, so he has return to the Australian hills where he grew up, in order to find the horse and come back a man.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan
Director: George Miller
Five Element Ninjas / Ren zhe wu di (1982)
Action | Drama
When a quintet of nasty ninjas hell-bent on world domination nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas, who harness the powers of gold, wood, fire, water, and earth.
Starring: Tien-chi Cheng, Tien Hsiang Lung, Meng Lo, Wai-Man Chan, Pei Hsi Chen, Li Wang, Ke Chu
Director: Cheh Chang
The Nines (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Gary, an actor who plays a cop on television, uses too much lighter fluid when he burns his ex-girlfriend's things, then he drinks and drives, uses crack, and crashes his car. He sobers up in jail and is placed under house arrest and the watchful eye of a publicist, the cheery and tough-minded Margaret. She moves him into the empty house of a writer who's away in Canada on a shoot. Gary meets Sarah, an attractive and seemingly-willing neighbor. His friendship with Margaret blooms and strange things happen: he finds notes he doesn't remember writing, he hears noises, and he seems to bump into himself in the kitchen. Two remaining chapters reveal what's going on.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning
Director: John August
Nicostratos, le pélican (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Yannis is 14 and lives on a small Greek island that has managed to remain sauvage.Depuis death of his mother, the relationship between the group with his father, Demosthenes, has hardened. On a trip to Athens, he saves a probable death a young pelican named Nicostratos. Forced to raise it secretly to evade paternal anger, Yannis despite himself becomes a star on his island, which is transformed by tourism with this gorgeous white pelican, the largest bird in Europe! It's been a single one who is remembered for the rest of his life. Yannis will discover the love he bears his father and he never knew him testify.
Starring: Emir Kusturica, Thibault Le Guellec, François-Xavier Demaison, Jade-Rose Parker, Gennadios Patsis
Director: Olivier Horlait
L'exercice de l'État / The Minister (2011)
Drama
The Minister of Transport Jean-Bertrand at night awakened by his chief of staff. A bus is dumped into a ravine. He has no choice but to go there. This is the beginning of an odyssey of a statesman in a world that is increasingly complex and hostile. Speed, power struggles, chaos and an economic crisis, and stores all falls together like a bomb. One of the emergency after the other follow.
Starring: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker, Sylvain Deble
Director: Pierre Schöller
Click (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A harried workaholic, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) doesn't have time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff
Director: Frank Coraci
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery – after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, controlled pacing, rich colors, startling images: bravura trails that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide open.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Tyrannosaur (2011)
Drama
Joseph, a tormented, self-destructive man plagued by violence, finds hope of redemption in Hannah, a Christian charity-shop worker he meets one day while fleeing an altercation. Initially derisive of her faith and presumed idyllic existence, Joseph nonetheless returns to the shop and soon realizes that Hannah's life is anything but placid. As a relationship develops, they come to understand the deep pain in each other's lives. An unconventional love story, Tyrannosaur transcends its bleak circumstances through Joseph and Hannah's vigorous impulse toward redemption.
Starring: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
Director: Paddy Considine
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
The adventures of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving, imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. Max is loved by the wild creatures who make him their King, though he soon longs to be back home with his family.
Starring: Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Max Pfeifer, Madeleine Greaves, Catherine Keener
Director: Spike Jonze
King of Comedy / Hei kek ji wong (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
King of Comedy is a 1999 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Lee Lik-Chi and Stephen Chow. Unlike Stephen Chow's typical mo lei tau films, King of Comedy verges on comedy drama, describing the trials and tribulation that an aspiring actor experiences on his way to stardom. Some commentators[who?] say the story is based on Stephen Chow's early career, as he started off as a temporary actor, before becoming a successful and popular comedy actor over the course of a decade. The film does retain some of bizarre visual gags Chow is known for, such as Chow's character bleeding from the nose and eyes during a singing number.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Cecilia Cheung, Man Tat Ng
Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds faith leading him on a path to East Africa. Shocked by the mayhem in Sudan, Childers becomes a crusader for hundreds of refugee children. Inspired to create a safe haven for the multitudes fleeing enslavement by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army, he restores peace to their lives and eventually his own.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon
Director: Marc Forster
The Muppets (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire
Director: James Bobin
The Descendants (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, living in Hawaii, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident. The event makes him try to re-connect with his daughters while he wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Starring: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard
Director: Alexander Payne
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Drama
Lucy is a young university student possessed by a kind of radical passivity. She lets a flip of a coin decide the outcome of a random sexual encounter and she displays an uncomplaining patience when facing the repetitions of her various menial jobs that fund her studies. One day she answers an ad in the student newspaper and interviews for a job to be a lingerie waitress.
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
Director: Julia Leigh
Carnage (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Two sets of parents meet to discuss their sons' involvement in a schoolyard fight. The meeting quickly becomes an argument in which the parents attack each other's parenting skills and expose problems in their marriages.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Director: Roman Polanski
