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
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Drama
Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron.
The Fellowship has divided; they now find themselves taking different paths to defeating Sauron and his allies. Their destinies now lie at two towers – Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted wizard Saruman waits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Based on the novel The Two Towers, the second in The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
Director: Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Drama
With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting Frodo are servants of the Dark Lord, Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, Middle-Earth is doomed.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean
Director: Peter Jackson
The Escapist (2008)
Thriller | Crime | Action | Drama
The Escapist stars Brian Cox as Frank Perry – an institutionalized convict who is twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists – misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
Starring: Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Super (2010)
Action | Comedy | Drama
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Starring: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion
Director: James Gunn
Peacock (2010)
Drama | Thriller
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. This might have to do with John's secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. Then, in a moment, everything changes…
Starring: Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas, Bill Pullman, Graham Beckel
Director: Michael Lander
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
The night she arrives at the remote Collingwood lakehouse, Mari and her friend are kidnapped by a prison escapee and his crew. Terrified and left for dead, Mari's only hope is to make it back to parents John and Emma. Unfortunately, her attackers unknowingly seek shelter at the one place she could be safe. And when her family learns the horrifying story, they will make three strangers curse the day they came to the Last House on the Left.
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Good Morning President (2009)
Drama
Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
Starring: Soon-jae Lee, Dong-gun Jang, Du-shim Ko
Director: Jin Jang
Written By / Joi sun ho (2009)
Drama | Fantasy
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Kelly Lin, Mia Yam
Director: Ka-Fai Wai
Tracker (2010)
Thriller | Adventure | Drama | Action
An ex-South African Boer War guerrilla fighter in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori seaman accused of murdering a British soldier.
Starring: Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Gareth Reeves
Director: Ian Sharp
De-Lovely (2004)
Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
A musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter in which the musician looks back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light–including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Lee Porter.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Alan Corduner
Director: Irwin Winkler
Battle of Britain (1969)
Action | Drama | War
A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If England had lost, the Germans may very well have won the war. The incredible cast includes Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Curt Jurgens, and Laurence Olivier, in a no-expense-spared production featuring stunning airborne dog-fight sequences.
Starring: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Curd Jürgens, Ralph Richardson
Director: Guy Hamilton
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Follows Sam Axe on a mission in Latin America and gives us a glimpse into his military past.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Kiele Sanchez, RonReaco Lee
Director: Jeffrey Donovan
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Comedy | Romance | Drama | Adventure
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz
Director: Rian Johnson
