De zaak Alzheimer / The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal struggles to perform an act of street justice as he loses control of his faculties in this thriller from Belgium
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Laurien Van den Broeck, Dirk Roofthooft
Director: Erik Van Looy
Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika / Operation Y & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Starring: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Basov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Natalya Seleznyova, Viktor Pavlov
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960)
Drama
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island…
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Amy Alyson Fans (2011)
Comedy
When his girlfriend Amy suddenly gains fame as a hot young actress, Jay secretly launches an “Amy Alyson” fan website, packed with stalker photos and juicy gossip. Soon enough, Jay’s getting rich from the website and Amy’s distraught over the harassment she receives due to her boyfriend’s covert efforts. However, the consequences of money and fame turn out not to be what either of them expected. Can they survive the drama? A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Cooper Harris, Brendan Bradley, Josh Sussman, Lochlyn Munro, Chris Wylde, Jason-Shane Scott
Director: Jonathan L. Bowen
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Bones (2010)
Drama
The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Starring: Jimmy Bennett, Zakk Wylde, Melissa Ordway, Jonna Walsh, Jesse James, Robin Thomas, Andrew Lawrence
Director: Frank Pestarino
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The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (2010)
Comedy | History | War
Ken Burns meets Spinal Tap in a subversive tour de force relaying the outrageous life stories of four forgotten Civil War heroes: an opium-addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese launderer, a nerdy escaped slave, and a one-armed teenage prostitute. Both wickedly satirical and deeply affectionate, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek tells the "100% true" story of how these oddball outsiders saved the Union from a nefarious foreign plot, how the forces of bigotry expunged their stunning victory from the history books, and – most importantly – how meeting one's ex on the field of battle can be just the thing to re-spark a detoured romance.
Starring: Emily Mitchell, Christopher Lukas, Tim Cusack, Zeb Hollins III, John Redmond, Maureen Brooks, Emilie Bonsant
Director: Wendy Jo Cohen
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The Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
Starring: David Faustino, Andrew Divoff, Kostas Sommer, Joe Torry, Corin Nemec, Jen Nikolaisen, Tara Shayne, Beth Shea
Director: Michael Feifer
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Downloaded (2013)
Documentary
A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large.
Starring: Henry Rollins, Noel Gallagher, Sean Parker, Mike D, Billy Corgan, Shawn Fanning
Director: Alex Winter
Charley Varrick (1973)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Norman Fell
Director: Don Siegel
Room at the Top (1959)
Drama | Romance
The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.
Starring: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson
Director: Jack Clayton
Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
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The Cloth (2013)
Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Cloth is an actionhorror story centered on a secret organization formed by the Catholic Church to counteract the rising cases of demonic possessions across the country. The story follows a young godless man who is being recruited into the cloth.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Rachele Brooke Smith, Justin Price, Robert Miano, Lassiter Holmes, Kyler Willett, Cameron White, Steven Brand, Perla Rodríguez, Khu, Mako Veronica, Dan Roman
Director: Justin Price
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House Party: Tonight's the Night (2013)
Comedy
Chris has it all worked out: he's ready to leave high school behind and head to college in his sweet new ride. The problem is, he'll be leaving behind his best friend and partner in rhyme, Dylan. And he still has to get with Autumn, the girl he's had a crush on since second grade. The solution? Throw one last party where Chris and Dylan can show off their skills with words and women. But a little get-together becomes a hilariously epic disaster where anything can happen and anyone might turn up … including the original house partiers, Kid 'n Play.
Starring: Tristin Mays, Tequan Richmond, Gary Anthony Williams, Raja Fenske, Alex McGregor, Rolonda Watts, Sven Ruygrok, Zac Goodspeed, Keith Powers, Julian Works
Director: Darin Scott
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Michael Imperioli, Adrian Grenier, Rosario Dawson, Jill Hennessy, Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets
Director: Peter Mattei
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Rasskazy / Short Stories (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Daria Nosik, Andrey Petrov, Igor Ugolnikov, Sergei Fetisov
Director: Mikhail Segal
Foxy Brown (1974)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder, Terry Carter
Director: Jack Hill
The Narrows (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Mike Manadoro, a 19 year old from Brooklyn, will do almost anything to get out of his neighborhood and to study photography at a Manhattan university. The problem is Mike's father Vinny, a retired sanitation worker, does not have the financial means to support his son's dream. So when local mob boss Tony offers Mike a high paying job, he takes it. Mike enters college at the same time as he begins delivering mysterious packages for Tony. Juggling new friendships, old loyalties, a new romance and the world of small-time crime, Mike's choices begin to result in dangerous and potentially fatal consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Starring: Sophia Bush, Kevin Zegers, Vincent D'Onofrio, Eddie Cahill
Director: François Velle
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi
Director: Frank Capra
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl / An American Girl Mystery (2008)
Drama | Family
Aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge can't resist bringing home strays, whether it's Grace, an abandoned basset hound, or Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos willing to trade work for meals. Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati, all signs point to the local hobo jungle, where Will and Countee live with a group of their impoverished companions. Kit, who always has her antennae out for a good news story, convinces her new friends to take her to see the hobo camp for herself and writes an article that creates a sympathetic portrait of the camp's residents. But when Kit's mother and their boarders become the latest victims in a string of robberies, Kit's loyalties are tested. Will is accused of the crimes and, with all of their savings gone, the Kittredges face losing their house to foreclosure. Determined to recover the stolen money and believing Will is innocent, Kit recruits her friends Ruthie and Stirling to help her track down the real culprit. Together they uncover a plot that goes far beyond Cincinnati!
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Joan Cusack
Director: Patricia Rozema
Nine Days of One Year / 9 dney odnogo goda (1962)
Drama
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Starring: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Sergei Blinnikov
Director: Mikhail Romm
