Love in Between / Du yeoja (2010)
Drama | Romance
When the wife of a university professor discovered her husband having affair with his student and meet his lover they become friends and relationship between two women become closer.
Starring: Jun-ho Jeong, Yi-yeong Shim, Jae-Won Choi, Eun-Kyung Shin
Director: Chong Yun-Su
Evidence (2013)
Horror | Thriller
A detective hunts down a killer using video footage shot by the victims of a massacre at an abandoned gas station.
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto, Nolan Gerard Funk, Harry Lennix, Dale Dickey, Caitlin Stasey
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
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Paulette (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business.
Starring: Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin, André Penvern, Jean-Baptiste Anoumon, Axelle Laffont
Director: Jérôme Enrico
Conspirators / Tóngmóu (2013)
Crime | Thriller
Two detectives from two different countries investigating the same case. As their investigation brings them closer to the truth, they found out something else. What can it be, and what is the truth that lies within?
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Nick Cheung, Yi Yan Jiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Ah-Niu, Terence Chui, Wai Lam
Director: Oxide Pang
Dances with the Dragon / Yu long gong wu (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts onto a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?
Starring: Andy Lau, Sharla Cheung, Deannie Yip, Man Tat Ng, Alfred Cheung, May Lo, Yvonne Yung
Director: Jing Wong
Night and Day / Bam gua nat (2008)
Drama
"Night and Day" is centered around the mixed emotions found in traveling. Characters in the film are Sung-nam Kim, an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student Yoo-jung Lee studying painting in Paris, Sung-in Han waiting for her husband Sung-nam Kim, and North Korean Kyeong-su Yun also studying in Paris.
Starring: Sabine Crossen, Ju-bong Gi, Cyril Hutteau, Su-jeong Hwang, Yeong-ho Kim, Seon-gyun Lee, Eun-hye Park, Min-jung Seo
Director: Sang-soo Hong
A Gentle Breeze in the Village / Tennen kokekkô (2007)
Drama
Set against the backdrop of Japan's scenic countryside, director Nobuhiro Yamashita's tale of adolescent love avoids the tear-jerking and virulent social commentary of many first-love stories in telling the tale of a rural schoolgirl smitten by a handsome new arrival from Tokyo.
Starring: Kaho, Masaki Okada, Yui Natsukawa, Kôichi Satô, Erisa Yanagi, Shoko Fujimura
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome / Mad Max 3 (1985)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalypse world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must first survive the town, survive the desert and then rescue the innocent children he has discovered.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Tina Turner, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior (1981)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
In the first sequel to Mad Max, Max lends his aid and protection to a small band of survivors who are losing their struggle to protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage, mohawked marauders.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Virginia Hey, Syd Heylen, Bruce Spence, Emil Minty, Michael Preston
Director: George Miller
Mad Max (1979)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for – revenge!
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
Director: George Miller
M (1931)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who Is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Director: Fritz Lang
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Comedy | Drama | Teen
The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.
Starring: Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Burke
Director: Richard Linklater
Ogni pritona / Brothel Lights (2011)
Drama
In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
Starring: Oksana Fandera, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Bogdan Stupka, Katerina Shpitsa
Director: Aleksandr Gordon
Jersey Girl (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Ollie Trinkie is a publicist, who has a great girlfriend, Gertrude, whom he marries and they are expecting a baby but while he is looking forward to being a father, he doesn't lighten his workload. Gertrude gives birth but dies in the process. Ollie doesn't live up to his responsibilities as a father. Eventually the strain and pressure of losing his wife and being a father gets to him and he has breakdown, which leads to his termination. So with nothing much to do he tries to be good father to his daughter, Gertie. He also meets a young woman name Maya, who likes him but he is still not over his wife.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin, Jason Biggs
Director: Kevin Smith
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
Starring: Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Billy Green Bush, Royal Dano, Peter Cetera
Director: James William Guercio
George Lopez: America's Mexican (2007)
Comedy
Superstar comedian/actor George Lopez, one of the premier comedic talents in the entertainment industry, makes his HBO solo debut performed live in front of a packed house at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. Lopez delivers a hilarious routine touching on his own Latino roots, immigration and naturalization, modern-day kids, old-school values, interracial relationships, the e-coli outbreak, and the future.
Starring: George Lopez
Director: Marty Callner
The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna (1964)
Drama | Thriller
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone – he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit – meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
One Piece Film Z (2012)
Action | Adventure | Animation
The Straw Hat Pirates hit the big screen again in 2012 with the One Piece series' blockbuster 12th feature One Piece Film: Z. This time Luffy and company face their most powerful enemy yet – Zephyr, a former admiral who now leads the Neo Marines. His goal: to wipe out all pirates.
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata
Director: Tatsuya Nagamine
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Senjô no merî Kurisumasu (1983)
Drama | War
Celliers, a high-ranking British officer, is interned by the Japanese as a POW. The camp commander becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major. Meanwhile, lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners.
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
