Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Drama
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman, Margo Martindale
Director: George Miller
The Good Earth (1937)
Drama | Romance
The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them to leave their land and live in the town. However it turns out to be a blessing in disguise for them…
Starring: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin
Director: Sidney Franklin
Hang Loose (2012)
Comedy
Kevin must go to Hawaii to attend the wedding of his big sister. The day before the wedding he goes on a misadventure with his future brother in law and his crazy groomsmen that changes his life.
Starring: Dante Basco, Kevin Wu, Justin Chon, Benjamin Arthur, Nicholle Tom, Dion Basco, Minae Noji, Katherine Emily Mills, Jennifer Fairbank, Augie Tulba
Director: Ryan Kawamoto
Swing Time (1936)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted (till the end of the film at least!) by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo, the band leader who won't play for them to dance together.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa
Director: George Stevens
Robosapien: Rebooted (2013)
Adventure | Drama
The story begins when a scientist is working on an intelligent robot for humanitarian purposes, who discovers the company he works for is intends to use the robots for military purposes. The scientist steals one of the robots which ends up being lost and broken, then is fixed by a lonely 11-year-old boy. A robot boy and a human boy team up to save their respective parents, who are being held captive by the organization that funded the robot's creator. The two become friends and embark on adventures while being pursued by the authorities.
Starring: Kim Coates, Penelope Ann Miller, David Eigenberg, Jae Head, Joaquim de Almeida, Bobby Coleman
Director: Sean McNamara
Guzaarish / The Request (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shernaz Patel, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Ash Chandler
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit / What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Romance
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Starring: Nora Arnezeder, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Anne Parillaud, Vincent Perez, Anne Consigny, Mohamed Fellag, Nicolas Giraud
Director: Alexandre Arcady
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Comedy | Romance
While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.
Starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles
Director: Leo McCarey
Monsieur Verdoux / A Comedy of Murders (1947)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Director: Charles Chaplin
The Great Dictator (1940)
Comedy | Drama | War
Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a Jewish barber. The barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
Director: Charles Chaplin
Modern Times (1936)
Comedy | Drama
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Director: Charles Chaplin
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Drama | Romance
After returning home from the war, a young GI has a chance encounter with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner and agrees to pose as her husband to help her face her domineering father. When their passions for each other are ignited amidst the magical sensuality of the harvest ritual, they unexpectedly find themselves embarking on a romantic adventure as they overcome all odds to be together.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini, Angélica Aragón, Evangelina Elizondo
Director: Alfonso Arau
Mr. Destiny (1990)
Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Imagine if one day, out of the blue, your wildest dreams came true. That's exactly what happens to junior executive Larry Burrows when he bumps into a mysterious stranger. Instantly, Larry's ho-hum life becomes his ultimate fantasy — huge mansion, beautiful wife, cars galore! But before long, his new lifestyle isn't so enchanting.
Starring: James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, Jon Lovitz, Rene Russo, Jay O. Sanders
Director: James Orr
G-Men / 'G' Men (1935)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
It's the early days of the F.B.I. – federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they've got limited powers – they don't carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests – that doesn't stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James "Brick" Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well. But Davis wants to be an honest lawyer, not a shyster, despite his ties to mobster boss McKay, and he's intent on doing so, until Buchanan is gunned down trying to arrest career criminal Danny Leggett. Davis soon joins the "G-Men" as they hunt down Leggett (soon-to-be Public Enemy Number One) and his cronies Collins and Durfee, who are engaged in a crime and murder spree from New York to the midwest.
Starring: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan, Regis Toomey
Director: William Keighley
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A young man is drawn to a mysterious young girl who moves to his small town and stumbles on a crypt of her family secrets in this adapation of Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl's series of novels.
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis, Kyle Gallner
Director: Richard LaGravenese
The ABCs of Death (2012)
Comedy | Horror
Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Co-produced by Drafthouse Films, and finally ready to be unleashed-see what happens when you give more than two dozen of the most brilliant filmmakers from around the world free reign to indulge their creative impulses and black humor. From A to Z, it's got something for every genre fan and is like nothing you've ever seen before.
Starring: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Iván González, Kyra Zagorsky, Erik Aude, Dallas Malloy, Darenzia
Director: Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Jason Eisener, Xavier Gens, Ti West, Jake West, Srđan Spasojević
Die Wand / The Wall (2012)
Drama | Fantasy
A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.
Starring: Wolfgang M. Bauer, Ulrike Beimpold, Martina Gedeck, Julia Gschnitzer, Karlheinz Hackl, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Director: Julian Pölsler
Imaginaerum / Imaginaerum by Nightwish (2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Musical
Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?
Starring: Marianne Farley, Quinn Lord, Francis X. McCarthy, Ilkka Villi, Keyanna Fielding, Tuomas Holopainen
Director: Stobe Harju
Love Is All You Need / Den skaldede frisør (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Susanne Bier directs and co-writes this romantic comedy starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. Danish hairdresser and cancer patient Ida (Dyrholm) finishes with chemotherapy and, upon arriving home, finds her husband cheating on her with his youthful colleague. In her vulnerable state she leaves for Italy where her daughter Astrid (Molly Blixt Egelind) is getting married and on the way encounters widower Philip (Brosnan), the estranged father of Astrid's husband-to-be Patrick (Sebastian Jessen). As Ida and Philip get to know one another they each begin to discover a new lease of life.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Kim Bodnia, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Jessen
Director: Susanne Bier
Marathon Man (1976)
Thriller
In New York City, the brother of an infamous Nazi war criminal is killed in a head on collision car accident. Shortly thereafter, members of a covert US government group called "The Division" begin to be murdered one by one. When the brother to one Division member sees his brother knifed to death, it is revealed that former SS dentist Szell, "the White Angel" of Auschwitz, is wrapping up loose ends to smuggle priceless diamonds from the United States.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Director: John Schlesinger
