Collection of Shorts (1922-2013)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Short
This is a collection of shorts from Disney and others which were included as bonus material on various Blu-ray discs.
Midnight's Children (2012)
Drama
A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.
Starring: Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Siddharth
Director: Deepa Mehta
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan — who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found — Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter.
Starring: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Katherine DeMille, Sidney Toler
Director: William A. Wellman
Contest (2013)
Drama | Family
Bullied high school student Tommy (Daniel Flaherty) is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor, Matt (Kenton Duty), the school's most popular student and star athlete. Tommy is suspicious, but is forced to accept the awkward friendship in order to enter a cooking contest with a big prize. And besides, it's so much easier to impress his crush, Sarah (Katherine McNamara), when he's not getting beat up by Matt and his team. As the cooking contest heats up, Sarah sniffs out a conspiracy, but nobody wants to hear about it. Can Tommy trust his budding friendship with Matt or is it all a huge joke on him?
Starring: Kenton Duty, Danny Flaherty, Mary Beth Peil, Katherine McNamara, Kyle Dean Massey, Talon G. Ackerman
Director: Anthony Joseph Giunta
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Line of Duty (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
"Mission Park" follows the lives of four best friends who choose very different paths. Torn apart over time by their ambitions, their choices ultimately bring them back together on different sides of the law. In this urban crime drama, two young F.B.I. agents, Bobby Ramirez (Jeremy Ray Valdez) and Julian Medina (Will Rothhaar), go undercover to infiltrate an illegal drug organization run by the untouchable drug lord Jason Martinez (Walter Perez) and his right-hand man Derek Hernandez (Joseph Julian Soria).
Starring: Jeremy Ray Valdez, Will Rothhaar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Bryan Ramirez
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Runner Runner (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A businessman who owns an offshore gambling operation finds his relationship with his protégé reaching a boiling point.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton, Justin Timberlake, Anthony Mackie
Director: Brad Furman
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Closed Circuit (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Martin and Claudia are lawyers — and ex-lovers — who find themselves put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Eric Bana, Julia Stiles, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Ciarán Hinds, Jim Broadbent
Director: John Crowley
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Don Jon (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull "10s" every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Glenne Headly, Tony Danza, Brie Larson
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, Masam Holden, Dayo Okeniyi
Director: James Ponsoldt
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Riddick / Riddick: Rule the Dark / The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bautista, Bokeem Woodbine, Jordi Mollà
Director: David Twohy
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear / Ninja II (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Ninjitsu master Casey is back and out for revenge when his pregnant wife is murdered.
Starring: Scott Adkins, Vithaya Pansringarm, Kane Kosugi, Tim Man, Mika Hijii
Director: Isaac Florentine
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Ninja (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Casey journeys from the U.S. to Japan to study the ancient martial art of ninjutsu with the greatest masters on the planet. Now his training will be put to the test when he's summoned by his sensei to return to New York on a dangerous mission. Casey must protect the Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest containing the weapons of a legendary ninja.
Starring: Scott Adkins, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Mika Hijii
Director: Isaac Florentine
Real: A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur / Real / Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (2013)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Koichi (Sato) and Atsumi (Ayase) are childhood friends who have become lovers. Despite this closeness when Atsumi attempts suicide Koichi is at a loss to understand the circumstances that drove her to do such a thing. Now she is in a coma and Koichi needs to find out the reason. Since Koichi is a neurosurgeon he has access to the latest studies and so he takes part in a medical procedure that will allow him to enter Atsumi's subconscious. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koichi tries to discover why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. When he enters her mind she asks him to find a picture which she drew as a child. It is the key to a suppressed memory connected to a childhood trauma, an incident buried in their past which will bring their minds together and allow him to get close to truly knowing his love.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Haruka Ayase, Miki Nakatani, Jô Odagiri, Shôta Sometani, Keisuke Horibe, Yutaka Matsushige, Kyôko Koizumi
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Belle du Seigneur / A Grand Affair (2012)
Drama | Romance
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalia Vodianova, Ed Stoppard, Marianne Faithfull, Maria Bonnevie
Director: Glenio Bonder
The Last Circus / Balada triste de trompeta (2010)
Comedy | Drama
1937: Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia. Still in his costume, he is handed a machete and led into battle against National soldiers, where he single handedly massacres an entire platoon. Fast forward to 1973, the tail end of the Franco regime.
Starring: Carlos Areces, Carolina Bang, Antonio de la Torre, Manuel Tallafé, Sancho Gracia, Santiago Segura
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Sobaka Baskerviley / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
Crime | Mystery
A film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes.
Starring: Vasili Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Irina Kupchenko
Director: Igor Maslennikov
The Undefeated (1969)
Western
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Starring: John Wayne, Antonio Aguilar, Rock Hudson, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Christmas Bounty (2013)
Action | Comedy
A former bounty hunter turns into an elementary schoolteacher. Determined to have a normal life and keep her bounty hunter past a secret, she reluctantly returns home for Christmas to help save the family business by catching the one bounty that got away. But when her fiancé follows her home for the holiday, she struggles to hide her wild family business and a bounty hunter ex-boyfriend she thought she'd left behind.
Starring: Mike Mizanin, Francia Raisa, April Telek, Chelan Simmons, Aleks Paunovic, Will Greenberg
Director: Gil Junger
Shopping Tour / Shoping-tur (2012)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
A group of Russian tourists go on a shopping spree to the neighboring Finland – only to be attacked by the Finnish cannibals. We focus on a middle-aged woman and her teenage son who is shooting the film, as we watch it, on his cell-phone.
Starring: Tatyana Kolganova, Satu Paavola, Tatyana Ryabokon, Timofey Yeletskiy
Director: Mikhail Brashinskiy
City Hall (1996)
Drama | Thriller
A young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and mob family member who had previously been supiciously given probabtion, only to break its terms. New York's Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun starts digging for information.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau
Director: Harold Becker
