Ip Man 3 / Yip Man 3 (2015)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson, Jin Zhang, Lynn Hung, Patrick Tam, Karena Ng
Director: Wilson Yip
Coming Home / Gui lai (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Monk Comes Down the Mountain / Dao shi xia shan (2015)
Action | History
When a food shortage threatens the mountaintop temple where he lives, a young, wushu-capable Taoist monk named He An Xia is asked by his master to take leave. After he descends the mountain, An Xia is confronted with a strange, fantastical world. He witnesses firsthand the complicated relationship between a doctor, his wife and his brother, makes the acquaintance of a strange master-pupil duo and gets embroiled in a quest for vengeance.
Starring: Baoqiang Wang, Chen Chang, Aaron Kwok, Chiling Lin, Wei Fan, Wah Yuen
Director: Kaige Chen
The Girl King (2015)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Starring: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Michelle Fairley
Director: Ron Howard
Tower of London (1962)
Drama | History | Horror | Thriller
On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the thrown for himself. The late King had two young sons, his heir, Edward V and the younger Prince Richard, but they are not of age and so names his other brother, Clarence as Lord Protector of the Realm. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness. He spreads rumors that the late King's two sons are illegitimate and therefore not eligible to ascend to the throne. He assassinates the young princes and is crowned King Richard III. The ghosts from his past have the final say however…
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Bruce Gordon, Robert Brown, Joan Camden
Director: Roger Corman
The New World (2005)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
In 1607, three ships sailed across the Atlantic to the shores of what became known as Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of these Europeans changed forever the history of the native people already living peacefully in this fertile land. Captain John Smith, a British mutineer facing execution who finds a new purpose–and a dangerous love–in this new land. Smith falls for the young and beautiful Pocahontas.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, Q'orianka Kilcher, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi
Director: Terrence Malick
Wilde (1997)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Literary genius, legendary wit, bon vivant, and gay martyr, Oscar Wilde was a man whose legend has grown to iconic proportions since his death at the beginning of the 20th century. Establishing Wilde (Stephen Fry) as a loving family man, complete with a wife (Jennifer Ehle) and two adorable sons, the film takes pains to portray him as a dignified genius who was as pained by what he considered his own sin — his homosexuality — as he was delighted by the sins of others. From his initial encounters with Robbie Ross (Michael Sheen), his first male lover, through his tragic affair with the beautiful and bratty Alfred Lord Douglas (a perfectly cast Jude Law), Wilde is seen as a conflicted fellow, warring with his own urges even as he dazzles everyone around him.
Starring: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt
Director: Brian Gilbert
Ogniem i mieczem / With Fire and Sword (1999)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century, based on the classic novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Starring: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Bogdan Stupka, Aleksandr Domogarov, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Andrzej Seweryn
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Spotlight (2015)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup
Director: Tom McCarthy
Spotlight (2015)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup
Director: Tom McCarthy
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The 33 (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mario Casas
Director: Patricia Riggen
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Biography | Drama | History
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Patrick Lyster, James Gregory, Tyrone Keogh
Director: Bille August
Suffragette (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Sarah Gavron
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Experimenter (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram begins a series of innovative behavior experiments designed to explore the psychology of obedience. The outcome is shocking, and Milgram becomes a controversial figure.
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, John Leguizamo
Director: Michael Almereyda
The Emperor in August / Japan's Longest Day / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban (2015)
Drama | History | War
On August 14th, 1945, at an Imperial conference, the Showa Emperor, Hirohito (Masahiro Motoki), finally decided to accept the Potsdam Declaration. However, some young firebrand Army officers insisted on continuing the war and conspired to launch a coup. Anami (Koji Yakusho), the Minister of War, was pressed to make an extremely difficult decision.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka
Director: Masato Harada
Memories of the Sword / Hyeomnyeo: Kar-ui gi-eok (2015)
Action | Drama | History
While the Goryo Dynasty in the medieval Korea, three warriors named Deok-ki, Poong-chun and Seol-rang have led a riot against the king and his foreign allies from Kitan, China. But Deok-ki betrays them, which results in the death of Poong-chun. But Seol-rang is able to escape with Seol-hee, Poong-chun's little daughter, and her sword. 18 years later, Seol-rang got blind but she raised and taught Seol-hee very well. Both feel that the time for revenge is right, but Deok-ki is now one of the most powerful men in the country. All of them know, that spilling blood is the only way of redemption.
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, Go-eun Kim
Director: Heung-Sik Park
Everest (2015)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A hiking expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Keira Knightley
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Gallipoli (1981)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Robert Grubb, David Argue
Director: Peter Weir
The Pirates / Hae-jeok: Ba-da-ro gan san-jeok (2014)
Action | Adventure | History
Set in the Joseon Dynasty period, pirates fight to catch a gray whale which swallowed a royal seal.
Starring: Ye-jin Son, Nam-gil Kim, Sulli Choi, Tae-woo Kim
Director: Seok-hoon Lee
