The Gift (2000)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear, John Beasley
Director: Sam Raimi
Shanghai Triad / Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao (1995)
Crime | Drama
Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Jinbao, the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai. Fourteen-year-old Tang Shuisheng has been recruited by his uncle to watch Xiao Jinbao. Ultimately, Shuisheng becomes the only person to whom she can talk openly and whose relationship with her is not motivated by power or greed. In secret, Xiao Jinbao has become the mistress of Song, the Greens' number two man, and together they conspire against Mr. Tang.
Starring: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wang Xiaoxiao, Xuejian Li, Chun Sun, Biao Fu, Shu Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
See Spot Run (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Family
A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.
Starring: David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Joe Viterelli, Angus T. Jones, Steve Schirripa, Anthony Anderson
Director: John Whitesell
Little Nicky (2000)
Comedy | Fantasy
When somebody's mother is an angel and his father is the devil, life can be really confusing. For a sweet boy like Little Nicky, it just got a whole lot worse. His two evil brothers Adrian and Cassius have just escaped from Hell and are wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting earth. His dad is disintegrating and it's up to Nicky to save him and all of a humanity by midnight before one of his brothers becomes the new Satan.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tommy Lister
Director: Steven Brill
Blankman (1994)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles on a method to make his clothes bulletproof, he decides to use his skills to be the lowest budgeted superhero of all.
Starring: Damon Wayans, David Alan Grier, Robin Givens, Christopher Lawford, Lynne Thigpen, John Pallotta
Director: Mike Binder
Gangs of Wasseypur / G.O.W. (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Shahid Khan's vow to get his father's honor back turns him into the most feared man in the Indian town of Wasseypur.
Starring: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jameel Khan
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Senior Skip Day (2008)
Comedy
Adam Harris, a semi-lame senior, is head over heels in love with Cara. Unfortunately she is the most popular girl in school. On the one day of the year that he could actually have a chance, senior skip day, he screws it all up by accidentaly slipping the location of the party to his principle. But have no fear, in a last resort effort he moves the party to his house and all seems to be well. Or is it…
Starring: Gary Lundy, Larry Miller, Lea Thompson, Tara Reid, Kayla Ewell, Talan Torriero
Director: Nick Weiss
Tristana (1970)
Drama
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope…
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Buñuel
Upworld / Upworld, the Magic Little Alien / A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Gnorm is just an average Gnome. But he wants to impress the lady Gnomes by doing something heroic. So he steals the Gnome's magic stones to expose them to sunlight to recharge them. When he gets to the surface, (Gnome's live deep underground) he witnesses a murder, and the killer ends up with his stones. Detective Casey, who was working a sting operation with the murdered man, (another detective) is blamed for botching the sting, and causing the death. Wanting to catch the killer to clear his name, he teams up with Gnorm, who he accidentally discovers. He is going to need Samantha's help, but she thinks he is a nut. You see, no one else knows about Gnorm.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Orbach, Claudia Christian, Eli Danker, Mark Harelik
Director: Stan Winston
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The Night We Never Met (1993)
Comedy | Romance
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygiene. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their separate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Justine Bateman, Kevin Anderson, Annabella Sciorra
Director: Warren Leight
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Out on a Limb (1992)
Comedy
He's got 24 hours to find his missing wallet with a phone number worth a hundred million dollars. There's only one place he hasn't looked…
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Heidi Kling, John C. Reilly, Marian Mercer
Director: Francis Veber
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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Drama
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
Starring: Ariyan A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Chequita Jackson, Jerard Washington
Director: Leslie Harris
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Marie Kroeyer / Marie Krøyer (2012)
Biography | Drama
The story of the marriage between the painters Marie and P.S. Krøyer.
Starring: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Sverrir Gudnason, Lene Maria Christensen, Tommy Kenter
Director: Bille August
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
While flying from Los Angeles to New York, the "good boy" Oliver Martin meets the "bad girl" Emily Friehl and they have sex in the restroom. They stay together along the day in New York, when Oliver discloses the planning of his life – his future career, successful job and then raising a family. He gives the phone number of his mother to Emily and asks her to call six years later to check. For seven years, they occasionally meet each other, and in the end, their relationship becomes love.
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Taryn Manning
Director: Nigel Cole
The Last Tycoon / Da Shang Hai (2012)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
It was 1917, China. CHENG is an innocent young man who works in a grocery store and has no ambition, other than to be with his lovely neighbor, the Peking Opera student QIU. One fateful night changes Cheng's life forever, as he walks in on the affair that is happening between his female boss and the chief of police. To hide this secret, the chief decides to throw Cheng into prison, accusing him of raping his boss. Desolate, Cheng bonds with his cellmate MAO, who has an escape plan. The duo breaks out, and Cheng has no choice but to leave his life and his dream girl behind.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng, Quan Yuan, Li Yuan, Monica Mok
Director: Jing Wong
18 Year Old Virgin / 18-Year-Old Virgin (2009)
Comedy
This female flip on "lose your virginity" comedies follows an 18-year-old girl as she tries to become a woman the night before throwing her cap in the air for graduation. However, she finds that this is easier said than done.
Starring: Olivia Alaina May, Lauren Walsh, Todd Leigh, Dustin Harnish, Karmen Morales, Daniel Sykes, J. Michael Trautmann
Director: Tamara Olson
City Without Baseball / Mou ye chi sing (2008)
Drama | Sport
The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality. It also enables them to find the will to live in the face of death and the strength to conquer losing in a spectatorless sport.
Starring: Yu Chung Leung, Ron Heung, John Tai, Jason Tsang, Jose Au, Yu Hong Lau, Peter Mak
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon, Scud
Captain Ron (1992)
Adventure | Comedy
After he inherits a yacht, Chicago businessman Martin totes his family to the Caribbean to claim it. Not having any skill at boating, he hires long-haired, one-eyed low-life Captain Ron, to pilot the heap to Miami.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto, Sunshine Logroño, Jorge Luis Ramos
Director: Thom E. Eberhardt
Windwalker (1981)
Adventure | Drama | Western
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.'
Starring: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar
Director: Kieth Merrill
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Stand Off / Whole Lotta Sole (2011)
Comedy | Drama
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Colm Meaney, Martin McCann, Yaya Alafia, David O'Hara, Michael Legge
Director: Terry George
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