The Scam (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama
A group of brokers stumble onto a gangster-manipulated stock and descend into distrust and betrayal.
Starring: Ho-geun Bae, Seon-ho Choi, Seong-yeong Han
Director: Ho-jae Lee
The Patriot (2000)
Action | Drama | War
In 1776 South Carolina, widower and legendary war hero Benjamin Martin finds himself thrust into the midst of the American Revolutionary War as he helplessly watches his family torn apart by the savage forces of the British Redcoats. Unable to remain silent, he recruits a band of reluctant volunteers, including his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel, to take up arms against the British. Fighting to protect his family's freedom and his country's independence, Martin discovers the pain of betrayal, the redemption of revenge and the passion of love.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Flightplan (2005)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, Kyle Pratt (Foster) finds herself at odds with an unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in a desperate search find the truth about her daughter.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby
Director: Robert Schwentke
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Drama | History | War
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Starring: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend
Director: Mark Herman
Matrimony / The Matrimony / Xin zhong you gui (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Rene Liu, Songzi Xu
Director: Hua-Tao Teng
Rambo / Rambo IV (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been twenty years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. But it's time now for Rambo to take up arms once more and mete out his own, unique, brand of justice.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Rambo III / Rambo: First Blood Part III (1988)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
When Col. Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy. this intense, heart-pounding adventure boasts unrelenting action and suspense from start to finish.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focas
Director: Peter MacDonald
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet John Rambo is sent on assignment back to Southeast Asia to uncover evidence of still missing POWs, and ends up with his hands full when he comes up against Vietnamese soldiers still guarding the camps, the Russian military that oversees them, and the American State department officials who apparently sent him there fully knowing that he'd be taking on a doomed mission.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Julia Nickson, Steven Berkoff
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
First Blood / Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
He never fought a battle he couldn't win. Academy Award-nominee Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero, ex-green Beret John Rambo in the one that started it all! First Blood is an explosive action-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final, powerful frame.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Jack Starrett
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Monamour (2005)
Drama
Dario is a little publisher from Milano. He is joining the Mantova Festival Letteratura (Book fair) 2004. Marta, his unsatisfied wife, accompanies him. Leon is a French designer-photographer. While Dario is busy with his own business, Marta take a visit to the celebrated Palazzo Te; here under Giulio Romano's fresco representing Jupiter's erected penis she meets Leon. Immediately they become lovers and spend the entire book exhibitions' days making love almost everywhere. This liaison will have soon effects also on the regular one between Marta and Dario.
Starring: Anna Jimskaia, Riccardo Marino, Max Parodi
Director: Tinto Brass
Coco Before Chanel / Coco avant Chanel (2009)
Biography | Drama
This is the story of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Anne Fontaine
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The story is set in 1979 when, before retiring, an aging Michael Corleone tries to go legitimate by entering respectable real estate and communications deals, but is slowly drawn back into the world of organized crime against his will.
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael, whose reign as the "Don" is juxtaposed against the parallel tale of his father's escape from Sicily as a young boy and his subsequent rise to power in New York's Lower East Side during the turn-of-the-century.
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather (1972)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Inside Man (2006)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a surgically planned siege, and the 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in an airtight heist. NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell are dispatched to the scene with orders to establish contact with the heist's ringleader, Dalton Russell, and ensure safe release of the hostages. Working alongside Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Captain John Darius, all are hopeful that the situation can be peacefully diffused and that control of the bank and release of those inside can be secured in short order. But Russell proves an unexpectedly canny opponent–clever, calm and totally in command–a puppet master with a meticulous plan to disorient and confuse not only the hostages, but also the authorities. But just what are the robbers after? Why is nothing working to alleviate the standoff? Detecetive Frazier becomes convinced that invisible strings are being pulled and secret negotiations are taking place while the powder keg situation grows more unstable by the moment.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe
Director: Spike Lee
The Limits of Control (2009)
Drama | Thriller | Crime | Mystery
Set in contemporary Spain, the story of a mysterious loner–a stranger–whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a criminal job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged.
Starring: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Bill Murray
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Apt Pupil (1998)
Drama | Thriller
Todd Bowden is learning about the Holocaust in high school, and recognises an old photograph of a concentration camp officer as an old man in his neighborhood. He confronts the man, Kurt Dussander, with his knowledge. Obsessed with the atrocities Dussander committed during the war, Todd begins to blackmail the old man: in exchange for the teenager's silence, Dussander must reveal his evil past. As Todd probes the old man's buried memories, indications of his evil begin to re-emerge. A game of psychological warfare begins that spirals out of control.
Starring: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton
Director: Bryan Singer
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Anime | Romance | Family | Drama | Music
A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow… could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.
Starring: Youko Honna, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô
Fast & Furious / Fast & Furious 4 (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When tragedy returns fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) to Los Angeles, his long dormant feud with FBI agent Brian O'Conner (Walker) threatens to reignite–until they discover a common enemy. Dom and Brian declare a precarious truce as they try to outmaneuver their adversary and exact revenge. From convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, the two men push the limits of what is possible behind the wheel as they live for speed, drive for the rush and break all the rules!
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Laz Alonso
Director: Justin Lin
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Drama
The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring. Aragorn struggles to fulfill his legacy as he leads his outnumbered followers against the growing power of the Dark Lord Sauron, so that the Ring-bearer may complete his quest.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom
Director: Peter Jackson
