A Man Who Was Superman / Superman ieotdeon sanai (2008)
Comedy | Drama
A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.
Starring: Jeong-min Hwang, Gianna Jun
Director: Yoon-Chul Chung
Lord of Darkness / Sawney: Flesh of Man (2012)
Horror
Sawney, a religious psychopathic killer (played by David Hayman) drives a devilish Black Cab (taxi), stalking the towns and cities, abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. His insane family of inbred killers Judd and Jake, use their agility to wreak slaughter and havoc among their victims, who are then dragged to Sawney's lair in the hills, where they are raped, tortured and cannibalised. Sawney with his skillful surgical blade removes the appetizing pieces of human flesh for dinner before feeding the remains to a chained BEAST in the cellar. The Missing Persons list is beginning to rise! Investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald (Samuel Feeney) writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. Frustrated police inspector Bill Munro (Gavin Mitchell) is under great pressure to catch the serial killers but is hindered by Hamish who is constantly giving him bad press. He decides to feed Hamish with privileged information rather than fight against him, just to get results for his superiors. But Hamish decides to investigate the heinous crimes on his own, with disastrous results. Unknowingly, his fiancée Wendy McIntyre (Elizabeth Brown) is drawn into the intriguing plot, she becomes a target for the psychopathic KILLERS! This dramatic horror film reaches its climax when the BEAST is let loose from its cellar to seek retribution.
Starring: David Hayman, Elizabeth Brown, Lisa Cameron, Lindsay Cromar, Shian Denovan, Samuel Feeney, William Houston
Director: Ricky Wood
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Birds of a Feather (2012)
Drama
Two cousins from different walks of life have similar aspirations: fame and fortune in the music business. However, when they both begin their careers in the industry, they quickly realize that the business isn’t much different from the streets, where every bad decision could come with a life-threatening consequence. Featuring Zaytoven Dotson and Curtis Franklin, Birds of a Feather is an in-depth tale of success, failure and betrayal.
Starring: Big Bank Black, Radric, Xavier, Curtis Franklin, Shawty Shawty
Director: Curtis Franklin
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Beeswax (2009)
Comedy | Drama
A pair of identical twin sisters – one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other – 'same face, different bodies.'
Starring: Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Katy O'Connor, David Zellner
Director: Andrew Bujalski
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A Dark Truth / The Truth (2012)
Action | Thriller
A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.
Starring: Kim Coates, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Durand, Andy Garcia, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria, Devon Bostick
Director: Damian Lee
The Art of War II: Betrayal / The Art of War 2 (2008)
Action | Thriller
When Agent Neil Shaw comes out of hiding to vindicate his former mentor's murder, he winds up on the trail of betrayal and lethal corruption. Under the charge of his friend and a senatorial candidate, his mission is to set things straight. But when more people turn up dead, Shaw realizes that he's been set up as bait.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Lochlyn Munro, Athena Karkanis, Winston Rekert, Ryan McDonald, Rachel Hayward, Scott Heindl
Director: Josef Rusnak
Peyton Place (1957)
Drama | Romance
It's the pre-WWII era. Peyton Place is a small town in New England, whose leading adult citizens rule the town with their high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their offspring. The adults, especially those that wield power largely through their positions and/or through their wealth, will not tolerate anything they believe morally improper, even if there is a hint of impropriety without comprehensive evidence to back up the hints. As their offspring grow from teenagers to adults, the offspring learn that there is much hypocrisy by the adults lying underneath that façade of proper Christian morals. The offspring begin to rebel in different ways, which is brought to public scrutiny with the arrival into town of an "outsider", the new young high school principal Michael Rossi, and through a murder trial.
Starring: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn
Director: Mark Robson
Imitation of Life (1934)
Drama | Romance
Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work as Bea's housekeeper in exchange for a room for herself and her daughter Peola. Bea comes up with a plan to market Delilah's pancake recipe. The two soon become wealthy and as the years go on, their friendship deepens. Their relationships with their daughters, however, become strained. Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new life by passing for white. Bea's love for her daughter is tested when she and Jessie fall for the same man.
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Juanita Quigley
Director: John M. Stahl
Baby Face (1933)
Drama | Romance
Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank sub-manager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. When he complains of not seeing her she says: "I'm working so hard I have to go to bed early every night."
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker
Director: Alfred E. Green
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Drama | Western
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd
Director: Arthur Penn
The V.I.P.s / International Hotel (1963)
Drama
Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead, must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company. Max Buba, a film mogul traveling with starlet Gloria Gritti, must get out of England immediately or face ruinous British income tax. The Duchess of Brighton has taken a job as a hostess at an American holiday resort, thinking she will be able to keep her family estate on her new income. Fog descends and blurs the future for them all, forced now to wait in the airport hotel for morning and fair weather.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles
Director: Anthony Asquith
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
Director: Richard Whorf
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music | Romance
Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home.
Starring: Bob Dylan, B.J. Rolfzen, Dick Kangas, Liam Clancy, Tony Glover, Paul Nelson, Allen Ginsberg
Director: Martin Scorsese
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor / The Marriage Counselor (2013)
Drama
A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Jurnee Smollett, Kim Kardashian, Lance Gross
Director: Tyler Perry
Simon & the Oaks / Simon och ekarna (2011)
Drama
Two boys come of age in Sweden during World War II.
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Helen Sjöholm, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Gödicke, Karl Linnertorp, Jonatan S. Wächter, Karl Martin Eriksson
Director: Lisa Ohlin
Schlussmacher (2013)
Comedy
An employee at a professional separation agency — a business that helps couples break up — embarks on his toughest assignment yet: helping his own parents part ways.
Starring: Matthias Schweighöfer, Milan Peschel, Nadja Uhl, Anna Bederke, Heiner Lauterbach, Catherine de Léan
Director: Matthias Schweighöfer, Torsten Künstler
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Although for Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda domesticity is turning out to be all they'd wished for, it's not long before the girls are yearning for something/anything to break the routine. Luckily for them, a little spice, this time in the form of a glamorously exotic adventure, proves to be just what the girls need to recharge their batteries.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Director: Michael Patrick King
Sex and the City / Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), successful author and everyone's favorite fashion icon- next-door, is back, her famously sardonic wit intact and sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City. Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) four years after the hit HBO series ended, as our favorite femmes fashionables continue to juggle jobs, friendships and relationships while they start to navigate motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate… some of them may even – brace yourself – brave other boroughs outside Manhattan.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Director: Michael Patrick King
Fly with the Gold / Ôgon o daite tobe (2012)
Crime | Drama
Kota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa (Tadanobu Asano), a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda (Kenta Kiritani), a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student (Shim Chang-Min), Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki (Junpei Mizobata) and a former elevator engineer (Toshiyuki Nishida). These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Kenta Kiritani, Junpei Mizobata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Chang-min Shim
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
26 Years / 26 Nyeon (2012)
Drama | Thriller
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a private security outfit get involved in a plan to convict the person responsible for the massacre that occurred during the Gwangju Democratization Movement. Kwak Jin-Bae (Jin Goo) is a gang member who lost his father in the Gwangju Democratization Movement. He wants to get revenge. Shim Mi-Jin (Han Hye-Jin) is a shooter from the national team. She is the shooter for the covert team. Policeman Kwon Jung-Kyuk (Im Seul-Ong) lost his family in the Gwangju Democratization Movement. He is now responsible for the cars that have access to the ex-president's house.
Starring: Ku Jin, Hye-jin Han, Soo-bin Bae, Seul-ong Im, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Director: Geun-hyeon Jo
