Boy / Shônen (1969)
Drama
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Starring: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, Gia Mantegna
Director: Scott Walker
The Hangover Part III (2013)
Comedy
Capitalizing on the success of two previous Hangovers, Phil and the boys set out on another road trip and soon find their plans reduced to chaos. Before the dust settles, the gang will have to figure out how to rescue Alan from a mental hospital.
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Jamie Chung
Director: Todd Phillips
Byzantium (2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
In director Neil Jordan's vampire thriller a mother and daughter struggle to hide their bloody secret from their adopted community. Having survived for over 200 years, itinerant single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are offered shelter at the down-at-heel Byzantium guest house when they arrive at a rundown seaside resort. Whilst her cold-hearted mother plies her trade as a prostitute to keep their heads above water and indulges her bloodletting at any opportunity, Eleanor wrestles with keeping her secret from her latest love, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones). But when the truth finally spreads its way through the local population, the arrival of two strangers belonging to an all-male vampire sect known as 'The Brotherhood' heralds a reckoning neither woman is prepared for.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Barry Cassin, Tom Hollander, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Joness
Director: Neil Jordan
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Drama | Thriller
Richard Burton stars as Alec Leamas, a bitter, world-weary secret agent who is taken out of his everyday field operations after a mission goes wrong, and after a bleak spell on Civvy Street finds himself going undercover into East Germany. Subterfuge and double-crossings ensue as Leamas battles to discover the truth behind his mission. Based on the novel by John Le Carre.
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec, Rupert Davies
Director: Martin Ritt
Blaze (1989)
Biography | Drama
Newman stars as a fiery, eccentric governor who falls head over heels in love with dazzling Blaze Star (Lolita Davidovich), an innocent New Orleans stripper with a heart of gold.
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Jenkins, Robert Wuhl
Director: Ron Shelton
Nesmrtelná teta / The Immortal Aunt (1993)
Comedy | Fantasy
The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This enchanting couple is ever debating on which of the two is more important for mankind, their encounters are watched by the third fairy-tale figure aunt Envy. A story of true love that wins over the evil powers of immortal human envy.
Starring: Jirina Bohdalová, Filip Blazek, Barbora Bobulova, Jaromír Hanzlík
Director: Zdenek Zelenka
Městem chodí Mikuláš / St. Nicholas Is in Town (1992)
Drama
During the evening when St. Nicholas arrives to hand out gifts to good children, when human hearts and souls are yielding to the good deeds of the Christmas season, events in the lives of four people become interlinked. A 12-year-old boy spent months at a hospital, out of sight and mind of his uncaring mother. Finally it is a gesture of human love and sympathy that becomes the nicest gift – one that not even St. Nicholas can bring a child.
Starring: Daniel Douda, Eliska Balzerová, Josef Abrhám, Alena Mihulová, Katerina Hrachovcová
Director: Karel Kachyna
+1 / Plus One (2013)
Thriller
Three college friends hit the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night, quickly descending into a chaos that challenges their friendships — and whether they can stay alive.
Starring: Ashley Hinshaw, Rhys Wakefield, Natalie Hall, Rhoda Griffis, Logan Miller
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012)
Documentary
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) — and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive Practice traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore Show) and told in Jay's inimitable voice, this is a remarkable journey inside the secretive world of magic and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees.
Starring: Dick Cavett, Ricky Jay
Director: Molly Bernstein
Mi rifaccio vivo (2013)
Comedy
After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival, Ottone, Biagio tries committing suicide – but in the hereafter he is offered a chance to come back to life for a week.
Starring: Pasquale Petrolo, Emilio Solfrizzi, Neri Marcorè, Sergio Rubini, Vanessa Incontrada, Bob Messini
Director: Sergio Rubini
Funny Girl (1968)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel
Director: William Wyler
Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas / Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Drama
Back from a holiday in Spain, Lili, 19, finds that Loïc, her twin brother, has left the house following a row with their father. She disapproves of her parents' apparently light attitude and is particularly shocked by her father's reluctance to even talk about the event. Lili desperately waits for a phone call from Loïc but her brother shows no sign of life. It is not long before Lili falls into depression and her condition quickly deteriorates. She won't eat anymore and is about to die when, at long last, a postcard written and sent by Loïc brings her back to life…
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld, Julien Boisselier, Aïssa Maïga
Director: Philippe Lioret
Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Documentary | News
Terms And Conditions May Apply examines the cost of so-called 'free' services and the continuing disappearance of online privacy. People may think they know what they give up when they click 'I Agree' on companies like Facebook and Google. They're wrong.
Starring: Max Schrem, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, Moby, Max Schrem, Christopher Shin, Mark Zuckerberg
Director: Cullen Hoback
C.O.G. (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
Starring: Jonathan Groff, Denis O'Hare, Corey Stoll, Troian Bellisario, Dale Dickey, Casey Wilson, Dean Stockwell
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
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A True Story (2013)
Comedy
Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine. Mike and Matt's friendship is put to the test as they fight to maintain their integrity amongst Hollywood's biggest temptations; money, greed, and slutty ex-girlfriends.
Starring: Katrina Bowden, Jon Gries, Malcolm Goodwin, Cameron Fife, Tyler McGee, Kelen Coleman
Director: Malcolm Goodwin
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Thursday (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man, an ex-lover Dallas who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called Billy with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, James LeGros, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter, Glenn Plummer
Director: Skip Woods
Earthquake (1974)
Action | Drama | Thriller
This prime example of the Seventies cycle of disaster movies centres on the repercussions of a massive earthquake that rips Los Angeles apart. Amongst those attempting to restore order are construction engineer Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) and streetwise cop Lew Slade (George Kennedy), whilst construction company owner Sam Royce (Lorna Greene) struggles to escape from his own devastated building.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Director: Mark Robson
Iris (2001)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Iris, based on the life of revered British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, is a story of unlikely yet enduring love. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley, a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. The story unfolds as snippets of time, seen through Bayley's eyes. He recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her. Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Richard Eyre
Sample This (2012)
Documentary
A documentary that reveals how a forgotten record by the Incredible Bongo Band helped cement the foundation of hip hop when DJ Herc extended its percussion by playing them back to back, creating an anthem on the streets of the Bronx.
Starring: Gene Simmons, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Roosevelt Grier, Grandmaster Caz, Freda Payne
Director: Dan Forrer
