No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Action | Drama
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno, Tai Chung Kim
Director: Corey Yuen
Pari e dispari / Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978)
Comedy | Crime
Johnny is a very good driver motorboat with which it is competing in many competitions in Miami, Charlie instead is a truck driver making deliveries in various places and ultimately must carry a tank full of dolphins. The two characters meet when some miscreants sabotage speedboat Johnny. He thinks that it was Charlie who was eating a plate of beans, but in the end they discover that the real culprits are a gang of illegal bookmakers are putting their hands boobies next races to be held in Miami. Johnny to discover the intentions of the band Charlie proposes to work with him, but these early disagrees because his acquaintance seems too clever, witty trickster and for his rough taste. However, at the end, the two combine to sabotage plans by gangsters fighting and fisticuffs fun. In the midst of this climate Charlie, in despair, he will find also be the illegitimate brother of Johnny for an escapade of his father, still alive, who pretends to be blind in order to collect a pension. After Johnny was passed off as a runner with the horses and Charlie took part in a second meeting, the two brothers find out which houses the boss of the gang of bookmakers and Johnny will have to play with him and his henchmen in a poker game. Johnny wins but the boss does not intend to make it go away, so Charlie and Johnny greet the members of the band with a new and more powerful punch and brawl.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Luciano Catenacci, Marisa Laurito, Kim McKay
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Mahanagar / The Big City (1963)
Drama
The Big City (Mahanagar), set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.
Starring: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar, Haradhan Bannerjee, Vicky Redwood
Director: Satyajit Ray
California, 90420 (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Documentary | Drama
A glimpse into the world of weed through the eyes of Oaksterdam University Students and OU Chancellor/Prop 19 Spokeswoman, Dale Sky Jones.
Starring: Dale Sky Jones, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Lee, Ix, John Hirsch, Amber Lund, Nicholas Lund
Director: Dean Shull
A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Drama
In 24 short hours, Jack goes to prison for five years. Tonight, for the first time since the sudden death of their parents one year earlier, the family is summoned to their ancestral home for Jack's farewell dinner. What begins as a civil, if not joyful, reunion filled with food, drink, and acerbic conversation, quickly devolves into a morally questionable whirlwind of regret, reversals, and revelations. As they duke it out in a half-savage half-civilized fashion, these characters, and the truths behind their long history of conflict and tragedy, are slowly and surprisingly revealed.
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Gil Bellows, Lauren Lee Smith, Tygh Runyan, Kathleen Robertson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Leah Gibson, Sarah Lind, Jessica Heafey
Director: Terry Miles
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Georgia (1995)
Drama | Music
Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her desperate need to be accepted by her sister is constantly complicated by her drug and alcohol problems. Georgia lives a very ordered life with husband, house and children, and Sadie does everything to get her attention.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine, Ted Levine, Max Perlich, John Doe, John C. Reilly
Director: Ulu Grosbard
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Fast Sofa (2001)
Adventure | Drama
This road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick, who believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies obsessively, and deals drugs on the side, all to the chagrin of his lover Tamara. He decides to seek out Ginger via the road, and along the way picks up Jules, a neurotic, virginal type.
Starring: Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Goldberg, Eric Roberts, Jennifer Tilly, Bijou Phillips
Director: Salomé Breziner
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Super Buddies (2013)
Family
An ordinary day at Fernfield Farms turns extraordinary when Budderball, Mudbud, B-Dawg, Buddha and Rosebud discover mysterious rings that grant them each a unique super power. Before you can say, "Buddies, assemble," the pups unleash their amazing abilities and race to the rescue when a shape-shifting bully from outer space threatens the planet. But can they succeed in kicking major tail without revealing their new secret identities?
Starring: John Ratzenberger, Michael Teigen, Jason Earles, Tim Conway, Atticus Shaffer, Alyson Stoner
Director: Robert Vince
L'arnacoeur / Heartbreaker (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Starring: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Héléna Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Miami Supercops / Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, C.B. Seay, William Jim, Ken Ceresne
Director: Bruno Corbucci
The Trap (1959)
Crime | Drama
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes…
Starring: Richard Widmark, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise, Lee J. Cobb, Carl Benton Reid, Lorne Greene
Director: Norman Panama
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Comedy
From the director of Animal House and the creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun, comes the original madcap, most out-of-control spoof of all time. The one that started it all! The Kentucky Fried Movie!
Starring: Bill Bixby, Evan C. Kim, George Lazenby, David Zucker, Marcy Goldman, Barry Dennen
Director: John Landis
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters (2011)
Documentary
A documentary that captures the greatest world record Tetris players as they prepare for the Classic Tetris World Championship. From the days of Thor Aackerlund and his historic victory at the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, right up to the present and Harry Hong's perfect "Max-Out" score, this documentary expertly chronicles over two decades of Tetris Mastery.
Starring: Thor Aackerlund, Pat Contri, Harry Hong, Jesse Kelkar, Robin Mihara, Ben Mullen, Jonas Neubauer
Director: Adam Cornelius
Epic (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world…and ours.
Starring: Beyoncé Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Knoxville, Christoph Waltz
Director: Chris Wedge
Night Vision (2011)
Thriller
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
Starring: Ali Adatia, Darryl Dougherty, Noelle DuBois
Director: Nathaniel Warsh
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5 Souls (2011)
Thriller
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences…
Starring: Kristina Anapau, Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Ian Bohen, Rex Cumming, Allison McAtee
Director: Brett Donowho
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Low Fidelity (2011)
Drama
Low Fidelity is a film about relationships and fidelity, or the lack thereof- a dramedy in the vein of "The Big Chill" with a "Little Miss Sunshine" sensibility. A group of old high school friends, now in their late thirties, get together for the weekend to celebrate the 4th of July, with their significant others in tow, for better or for worse.
Starring: Tom Bower, Molly Cheek, Lina Esco, Gale Harold, Elaine Hendrix, Mark Kelly, Peyton List, Don McManus, Meredith Monroe, Ross Partridge, Ed Quinn, Lauren Byrnes
Director: Devon Gummersall
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Long Weekend / Thongsook 13 (2013)
Horror
Thongsook is a shy, nerdy, childlike teenager who's always harassed and made fun of by his friends since he was a boy. Luckily Thongsook has a best friend in Nam, a girl who's grown up with him and looks after him whenever she can. When Thongsook and Nam enter college, they hang out with a new group of friends: Boy, Jack, Beam and Pui. As usual, these new friends enjoy making fun of Thongsook, a fate that the young man has to endure with hardly a protest. The whole gang take a trip to a deserted island in the middle of a lake but Thongsook is not invited despite Nam's insistence. However, once they arrive at the island, Thongsook shows up mysteriously. The pleasant vacation turns horribly wrong on the second night – it is Friday the 13th, known as The Night of the Devouring Ghosts.
Starring: Natpassara Adulyamethasiri, Acharanat Ariyaritwikol, Chinawut Indracusin, Sean Jindachot, Kitlapat Korasudraiwon, Butsarin Yokpraipan, Sheranut Yusananda
Director: Taweewat Wantha
Nan bei Shao Lin / Shaolin Temple 3: Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Action
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are chased all over by soldiers. Meanwhile, one of the southerners turns out to be a cross-dressed woman, who is also discovered to wear a footbell to match Jet Li's, meaning they are somehow slated for an arranged marriage.
Starring: Jet Li, Qiuyan Huang, Qingfu Pan, Hu Jian Qiang, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu, Jianwen Zhang
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
11.6 (2013)
Drama | Thriller
When one day in November 2009 French security van driver Toni Musulin made off with the 48 bags and boxes of bank-notes in his charge, that was the amount –11.6 million euros, to be precise — he was carrying. The event, the source of great amusement to many of his compatriots, and of bemusement to the rest, has been brought efficiently to the screen in what is less thriller than film noir — a glimpse into the troubled mind of a man prepared to throw away everything for the sake of a gesture.
Starring: François Cluzet, Bouli Lanners, Corinne Masiero, Juana Acostas, Johan Libéreau, Mireille Franchino
Director: Philippe Godeau
