Rivals / Les liens du sang (2008)
Action | Crime | Drama
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favorite.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme, Marie Denarnaud, Mehdi Nebbou
Director: Jacques Maillot
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
In 1930s rural American South, psychopathic preacher Harry Powell is arrested for a minor offence. His cell mate, Ben Harper, facing the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. When Powell is released, he tracks down Harper's widow and children in an attempt to get his hands on the loot.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Director: Charles Laughton
Seven Samurai / Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A Japanese farming village, constantly besieged and pillaged by an army of bandits, recruits seven independent samurai to defend it.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Repulsion (1965)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, Carol is haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent pitch. Thanks to its unforgettable attention to disturbing detail and Polanski's unparalleled adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion remains one of cinema's most shocking psychological thrillers.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux
Director: Roman Polanski
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he'd loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Kagemusha / The Shadow Warrior (1980)
Drama | History | War
On the death of a clan chief his place is taken by the lookalike hired to overlook the battlefields while the chief is really busy elsewhere.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
3 Women (1977)
Drama
Two nurses with contrasting backgrounds become friends and move into an apartment together. A third woman, a mural artist, also inhabits the building.
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Director: Robert Altman
Le dernier métro / The Last Metro (1980)
Drama | Romance
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut's gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds—a Jewish theater manager in hiding; a leading man who's in the Resistance; increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight—the troupe believes the show must go on. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy, and even comedy, The Last Metro (Le dernier métro) is Truffaut's ultimate tribute to art overcoming adversity.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol
Director: François Truffaut
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Hans Langsdorff is captaining the crack German battleship Graf Spee through the South Atlantic, unaware that a small number of lightweight British battle cruisers are hot on his trail. When the British cruisers manage to trap the powerful German ship in the Uruguayan harbor of Montevideo, they attempt to trick Langsdorff into believing that an entire battle fleet is waiting to destroy his vessel at sea.
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Biker Boyz (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama
A son of the leader of a legendary group of an urban biker gang tries to retain his championship title.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Orlando Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Lisa Bonet, Brendan Fehr, Larenz Tate, Kid Rock
Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Last Year at Marienbad / L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
A man attempts to convince a woman that, a year earlier, they had met and fallen in love.
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
Director: Alain Resnais
Lola Montès / The Sins of Lola Montes (1955)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophüls charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophüls's final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.
Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner, Ivan Desny
Director: Max Ophüls
Uncertainty (2009)
Drama | Romance
A young couple, Kate and Bobby, flip a coin on the Brooklyn bridge to determine the paths their lives take that day, the Fourth of July. The green path takes them to Brooklyn where they spend a quiet day with Kate's family, coming to a better understanding of their status as a couple. The yellow path takes them to Manhattan where they are being chased by a gunman and are in the center of a dangerous crime ring involving large amounts of money. What does the future hold for Kate and Bobby?
Starring: Lynn Collins, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Assumpta Serna, Nelson Landrieu, Sofia Luca
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful son. A daughter named Meadow. An uncle who's losing his marbles. A hot-headed nephew. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in his two families. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" doesn't mean you've got it made.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, Robert Iler
Creator: David Chase
The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful son. A daughter named Meadow. An uncle who's losing his marbles. A hot-headed nephew. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in his two families. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" doesn't mean you've got it made.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, Robert Iler
Creator: David Chase
The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful son. A daughter named Meadow. An uncle who's losing his marbles. A hot-headed nephew. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in his two families. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" doesn't mean you've got it made.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, Robert Iler
Creator: David Chase
The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful son. A daughter named Meadow. An uncle who's losing his marbles. A hot-headed nephew. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in his two families. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" doesn't mean you've got it made.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, Robert Iler
Creator: David Chase
The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful son. A daughter named Meadow. An uncle who's losing his marbles. A hot-headed nephew. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in his two families. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" doesn't mean you've got it made.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, Robert Iler
Creator: David Chase
The Jacket (2005)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to his native Vermont suffering from Amnesia. When he is accused of murdering a police officer and committed to a mental institution, a physician, Dr. Becker, puts him on a controversial treatment regimen in which Starks is injected with experimental drugs, confined in a straight-jacket, and locked for extended periods in the body drawer of the basement morgue. In his drugged and disoriented state, Starks' mind propels him into the future, where he meets Jackie, and discovers that he is destined to die in four days. Together, they search for a way to save him from his fate.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro
Director: John Maybury
Street Dance / StreetDance (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
When Carly and her streetdance crew lose both their leader and their rehearsal space within a short space of time, hope arrives in the unlikely guise of a local ballet school. The school's headmistress, Helena (Charlotte Rampling), offers Carly the use of the school's rehearsal facilities in return for an injection of the streetdance intensity and passion that she finds lacking in her lacklustre classically-trained students. Cultures, egos, talents and temperaments clash as the worlds of streetdance and ballet collide.
Starring: Nichola Burley, Richard Winsor, Ukweli Roach, Frank Harper, George Sampson, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
