Honey 2 (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Starring: George Alexander, Kat Graham, Gerry Bednob, Randy Wayne, Seychelle Gabriel
Director: Bille Woodruff
Mr. Nice (2010)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
The true story of Howard Marks, an Oxford grad who became a major marijuana importer in the 1960s in the U.K. and managed to escape jail time by posing as an agent for MI5.
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Elsa Pataky, Crispin Glover, Andrew Tiernan, Omid Djalili
Director: Bernard Rose
SP: The motion picture yabô hen (2010)
Drama
For the uninitiated, SP: The Motion Picture basically introduced a team of Japanese politician bodyguards. The focus here lies on the team leader, Soichiro Ogata (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi / Suspect X) and one of the member Kaoru Inoue (Junichi Okada). Inoue stood out from the rest with his special "ESP" abilities to remember stuff, detect traps and even premonition. Needless to say, as the protagonist, he would go above and beyond the call of duty.
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôko Maki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Junichi Okada, Yukijirô Hotaru, Kei Yamamoto
Director: Takafumi Hatano
Jackie Brown (1997)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jackie supplements her meager income as a stewardess by smuggling cash into the U.S. for gunrunner Ordell Robbie–until the day an ATF agent and an L.A. cop bust her at the airport. The cops pressure her to help them bring down Ordell, threatening prison if she refuses. With a sympathetic bailbondsman, who understands her restlessness only too well, Jackie arrives at a bold almost foolhardy plan to play off these opposing forces against each other. Matters are complicated by Ordell's confederates, Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston who have agendas of their own. By appearing to cooperate with both sides, Jackie attempts to outfox them both and walk away with a half million dollar payday!
Starring: Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, Lisa Gay Hamilton
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Ask the Dust (2006)
Drama | Romance
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkin, Idina Menzel, Justin Kirk, Jeremy Crutchley
Director: Robert Towne
Tell No One / Ne le dis à personne (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Relentless suspense and a tense multi-layered plot combine in slick thriller 'Tell No One' – Guillaume Canet's multi award-winning numberone French box office smash hi adapted from the international bestselling novel by acclaimed crime writer Harlan Coben. It follows one man's frantic race against time, and possible death, as his tragic past is suddenly and unexpectedly unearthed. Paediatric Alex Beck (François Cluzet), still devastated by the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) in the early days of their marriage eight years ago, receives an anonymous email. When he clicks on the link he sees a woman's face standing in a crowd and being filmed in real time – Margot;s face. Is she still alive? And why does she instruct him to 'tell no one'? At the same time the unearthing of two bodies near the site where Margot was discovered leads to the police to reopen their case. Alex is number one suspect – and eight years down the line the police are determined that he will take the rap for murder.
Starring: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye, Marina Hands
Director: Guillaume Canet
Singham (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Musical
A humiliated gangster uses his influence and goon power to terrorize a newly transferred police officer.
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Sonali Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar, Sudhanshu Pandey
Director: Rohit Shetty
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Sex and the Emperor (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Trouble is brewing in the Imperial Court, with the young heir to the throne caught in the middle of a power struggle between his dominant mother and the ambitious chief eunuch. Numerous concubines fulfill his every sexual wish, however, he finds pleasure in only one woman, a servant girl called Guilian. Despite the attempts by his friend, Little Li, to protect the girl, she is expelled from the palace and sold into prostitution. The love-struck Prince cannot forget his true love and searches the brothels throughout the land to find her, with outrageous and often mind blowing consequences.
Starring: Gwan Chin, Julie Lee, Shu-Kei Wong, Yut Fei Wong, King-Tan Yuen, Yvonne Hung, Sai-Kit Yung
Director: Sherman Wong
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Room in Rome / Habitación en Roma (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Alba and Natasha are two lesbian women who meet in Rome and decide to spend the night together in a hotel room. However, their night of fun and sex gradually turns into something more meaningful as both women realise as the hours pass that they are falling in love, something neither had expected.
Starring: Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko, Enrico Lo Verso, Najwa Nimri, Ander Malles, Laura Meizoso
Director: Julio Medem
Blade Runner (1982)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Visually spectacular, action-packed and enduringly provocative since its original 1982 release, the stylish noir thriller Blade Runner stars Harrison Ford in the enigmatic role of 21st-century detective Rick Deckard. As he hunts for vengeful, fugitive replicants in a high-tech future soured by urban and social decay, he is drawn to a mysterious woman whose secrets may undermine his own soul.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
Director: Ridley Scott
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Father of Invention (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Robert Axle, an eccentric inventor turned ego maniacal infomercial guru, loses it all when one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. After 8 years in maximum security prison, Axle is ready to redeem his name and rebuild his billion dollar empire. But first he must convince his estranged 22 year old daughter to let him live with her and her quirky, over protective roommates.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Camilla Belle, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Anna Anissimova, John Stamos, Red West
Director: Trent Cooper
The Woman in Green (1945)
Crime | Drama | Horror
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell, Paul Cavanagh
Director: Roy William Neill
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander
Director: Roy William Neill
The Spider Woman (1944)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Vernon Downing
Director: Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon
Director: Roy William Neill
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Crime | Drama | Horror
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Soulboy (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s Northern Soul underground music scene.
Starring: Martin Compston, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen, Nichola Burley, Craig Parkinson, Brian McCardie, Jo Hartley
Director: Shimmy Marcus
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren
Director: J. Lee Thompson
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man / Yip Man chinchyun (2010)
Action | Biography | Drama
It is about around Yip Man's resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters.
Starring: Yu-Hang To, Siu-Wong Fan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Huang Yi, Rose Chan, Ip Chun
Director: Herman Yau
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Ip Man / Yip Man (2008)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
Adapted from the life story of Ip Man – the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This movie will be the first important record of the master's life. Ip's persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect shown to wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents. Ip Man is a concept, a spirit, a way of thinking – and it exemplifies a new peak in Hong Kong's wushu movies.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong, Chen Zhi Hui, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Lynn Hung
Director: Wilson Yip
