The Tempest (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
The sorceress Prospera spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Akuwudike, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn
Director: Julie Taymor
Soldier (1998)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Galactic wars of the near-future are fought by soldiers trained as merciless, obedient warriors. But times change. New bioengineered combatants make veterans like Sgt. Todd obsolete. But don't expect to toss Todd on the scrap heap without a fight.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
I want to be a Soldier (2010)
Drama
I Want To Be A Soldier" is the story of Alex, an average eight year old kid who seems to grow a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He begins to develop a communication problem with his parents and other kids at school, and closes in on himself, inventing two imaginary friends…
Starring: Cameron Antrobus, Josephine Barnes, Robert Englund, Cassandra Gava, Danny Glover, Jo Kelly
Director: Christian Molina
Water for Elephants (2011)
Drama | Romance
A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton
Director: Francis Lawrence
Turning Point / Laughing gor chi bin chit (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama
The prequel to the popular character, Laughing Gor (Michael Tse) in the highly rated TVB drama series Emergency Unit. This movie tells the story of Laughing and before he join the police force has a dark background as member of a tried under Chou (Anthony Wong).
Starring: Michael Tse, Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Felix Wong, Fala Chen, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Koni Lui
Director: Herman Yau
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama | Western
In Arizona in the late 1800's, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russel Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail — and dangers at every turn — the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny. In theaters September 7th.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster
Director: James Mangold
Righteous Ties / Georukhan gyebo (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
Chi-sung, a gangster, is sent to prison for seven years after stabbing a man on orders from his boss. But his boss betrays him and tries to have him killed, though the attempt is unsuccessful and Chi-sung manages to escape. His childhood friend Joo-joong is given the task of tracking him down, forcing him to choose between his friendship and loyalty to his gang.
Starring: Jae-yeong Jeong, Jun-ho Jeong, Seung-yong Ryoo
Director: Jin Jang
NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series 2009- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
NCIS: LOS ANGELES is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Special Agent "G" Callen (Chris O'Donnell) is a chameleon who transforms himself into whomever he needs to be to infiltrate the criminal underworld. His partner is Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J), a former U.S. Navy SEAL who has seen action in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and a surveillance expert who uses state of the art monitoring equipment to look out for those in the field and feed them crucial information. Both Callen and Hanna report to Special Agent Lara Macy (Louise Lombard), the OSP team leader responsible for directing the operations and making life-or-death decisions. Assisting the team is Special Agent Kensi Lo (Daniela Ruah), the exceptionally bright daughter of a slain Marine who lives for the adrenalin rush that comes with undercover work, and Operational Psychologist Nate Getz (Peter Cambor), adept at getting into anybody's head, profiling the target and monitoring agents' states of mind before, during and after missions. Armed with the latest in high tech gear and sent regularly into life-threatening situations, this tight-knit team relies on each other to do what is necessary to protect national interests. Shane Brennan ("NCIS") is the executive producer for CBS Television Studios.
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Linda Hunt, Barrett Foa, Renée Felice Smith, Peter Cambor
Creator: Shane Brennan
NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series 2009- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
NCIS: LOS ANGELES is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Special Agent "G" Callen (Chris O'Donnell) is a chameleon who transforms himself into whomever he needs to be to infiltrate the criminal underworld. His partner is Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J), a former U.S. Navy SEAL who has seen action in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and a surveillance expert who uses state of the art monitoring equipment to look out for those in the field and feed them crucial information. Both Callen and Hanna report to Special Agent Lara Macy (Louise Lombard), the OSP team leader responsible for directing the operations and making life-or-death decisions. Assisting the team is Special Agent Kensi Lo (Daniela Ruah), the exceptionally bright daughter of a slain Marine who lives for the adrenalin rush that comes with undercover work, and Operational Psychologist Nate Getz (Peter Cambor), adept at getting into anybody's head, profiling the target and monitoring agents' states of mind before, during and after missions. Armed with the latest in high tech gear and sent regularly into life-threatening situations, this tight-knit team relies on each other to do what is necessary to protect national interests. Shane Brennan ("NCIS") is the executive producer for CBS Television Studios.
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Linda Hunt, Barrett Foa, Peter Cambor, Eric Christian Olsen
Creator: Shane Brennan
Fast Five / Fast & Furious 5 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.
Starring: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Justin Lin
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Drama | Romance
An avowed alcoholic, Ben drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as something connects between these two disenfranchised souls.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino
Director: Mike Figgis
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Boksuneun naui geot (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A deaf-mute man, Ryu, works in a smelting factory and inhabits his own silent world, oblivious to the din both at work and in his downscale apartment building. He idolizes his sister, who urgently needs a kidney transplant, and when he's laid off and then tricked out of his savings by organ traffickers, his wacko girlfriend, Yeong-mi, suggests kidnapping his former boss's daughter to pay for his sister's operation. Yeong-mi sees it as social revenge. Ryu, initially scared of the consequences, finally agrees after seeing another laid-off worker attempt hara- kiri outside the boss's home. After kidnapping the boss's daughter, their whole plan starts to quickly unravel with horrible consequences.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Doona Bae, Ji-Eun Lim, Bo-bae Han, Se-dong Kim, Dae-yeon Lee
Director: Chan-wook Park
Limit of Love: Sea Monkey (2006)
Action | Drama
A small team of Coast Guard divers, including Daisuke, rappels onto the ship from a helicopter and begins to evacuate the panicked passengers. Then Daisuke finds a familiar face – Kanna. They had a tiff the night before about their wedding plans – Kanna had already made her dress, while Daisuke was still reluctant to propose – and she left for Tokyo, feeling like a fool. Now she see Daisuke in a different, more heroic light – but before they can properly reconcile, she has to evacuate, while Daisuke searches for stray passengers.
He finds two – a pregnant woman (Ohtsuka Nene) and an excitable man (Fukikoshi Mitsuru) who reluctant to leave his expensive foreign car. Through a series of mishaps, Daisuke, his pal and fellow diver Tetsuya (Sato Ryuta), and the two passengers end up trapped on the ship, as the water seeps in from below and the flames roar above.
The Coast Guard swings into action to save this quartet, but despite the presence of dozens of Guardsmen, the rescue operation does not go smoothly. Who can save them?
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Ryûta Satô
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Sea Monkey (2004)
Action | Drama
The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must endure and survive a 50-day training. Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito) and 13 other recruits take part in the training. With his love for the ocean and dream to work as a rescuer at sea, a rescue diver seemed like the perfect occupation for Daisuke.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Ken Kaito
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Thomas Crown (Pierce Bronson) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of challenges. When an alarm sounds at a a world class museum and someone walks out with a priceless Monet, Crown is the last person the New York police suspect. Who would steal something he could easily afford to buy and why would he? But one person suspects him: Catherine Banning (Renne Ruso), the brilliant female investigator hired to retrieve the painting no matter what it takes. Catherine loves the chase as much as he does and she's on to his game. Crown has found his challenge. The Thomas Crown Affair is based on the 1968 movie with the same title starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie R. Faison
Director: John McTiernan
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Sean Connery is back for his final performance as superagent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller from the director of The Empire Strikes Back. When two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil SPECTRE organization, Agent 007 is hurled into an explosive, pulse-pounding race to save the world from nuclear terrorists!
Starring: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Max von Sydow, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Bernie Casey
Director: Irvin Kershner
Gods and Generals (2003)
Action | Drama | History | War
A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
5 Days of War (2011)
Action | Drama | War
A drama set centered around the war between Russia and Georgia, and focused on a journalist from the US, his cameraman, and a Georgian native who become caught in the crossfire.
Starring: Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Richard Coyle, Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer, Dean Cain
Director: Renny Harlin
Blindness (2008)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yoshino Kimura, Yûsuke Iseya
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Missing / Sam hoi tsam yan (2008)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
A man who plans ask his girlfriend to marry him hides an engagement ring in Japan's ancient undersea ruins off Yonaguni Island.
Starring: Angelica Lee, Isabella Leong, Chen Chang, Isabella Leong, Alice Lee, Xiaodong Guo, Tony Leung, Chen-Yue Chang
Director: Hark Tsui
