Amber Alert (2012)
Horror | Thriller
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
Starring: Jasen Wade, Summer Bellessa, Chris Hill
Director: Kerry Bellessa
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Drama | Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Starring: Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Shelley Duvall
Director: Robert Altman
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Steve Buscemi
Benny's Video (1992)
Crime | Drama
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this insettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Director: Michael Haneke
North by Northwest (1959)
Action | Adventure | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marion Crane goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer's clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman, who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Crossing / Keurosing (2008)
Drama
The movie is based on a real story about the life of a North Korean defector and his family. Actor Cha In-pyo starred as a North Korean coal miner who crossed illegally into China to get medicine for his wife…
Starring: In-Pyo Cha, Myeong-cheol Shin, Young-hwa Seo, In-gi Jeong, Da-yeong Joo
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Pusher (2012)
Crime | Thriller
Based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn, Pusher stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
Starring: Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn, Mem Ferda, Zlatko Buric
Director: Luis Prieto
Ripley's Game / Il gioco di Ripley (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley – cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous – lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley – ever a student of human nature – initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Starring: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone, Chiara Caselli
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sad Fairy Tale / Shang xin tong hua (2012)
Drama | Romance
Liu Tong (Hu Xia) is a computer programmer in a film and television studio he is a small potato who is quiet, stubborn and solitary. His beautiful colleague Yang Jia (Cecilia Liu) is adored and pampered by all. She has an innocent aura and could almost pass as an princess in a fairytale. Many people in the company are attracted to her, including her covetous boss. But Yang remains stubbornly single. Liu pays close attention to Yang, helping her resolving her harassment problem with courage and wisdom. In order to protect herself from the boss, Yang always pretends to faint at the right moment. During these times, Liu stays by her side. One day he comes up with the groundbreaking idea of making Yang believes that she can leap through time so that she can be a true fairytale princess. Sad Fairy Tale is a story about giving carrying one's destined love in one's heart through joy and tears. It is also a riveting story of youth.
Starring: Shishi Liu, Xia Hu, Ryan Zuo, Nan Xie, Kenny Lin
Director: ZhengChao Xu
Torn Curtain (1966)
Thriller
Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in this classic tale of international espionage set behind the Iron Curtain.
Starring: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
ParaNorman (2012)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, John Goodman, Casey Affleck
Director: Sam Fell, Chris Butler
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Someone is pitting the world's superpowers against each other–and only the legendary James Bond (Agent 007) can stop it. When a British warship is mysteriously destroyed in Chinese waters, the world teeters on the brink of World War III–until 007 zeros in on the true criminal mastermind. Bond's do-or-die mission takes him to Elliot Carver, a powerful industrialist who manipulates world events as easily as he changes headlines from his global media empire. After soliciting help from Carver's sexy wife, Paris, Bond joins forces with a stunning yet lethal Chinese agent, Wai Lin. In a series of explosive chases, brutal confrontations and impossible escapes, including a motorcycle pursuit through Saigon, Bond and Wai race to stop the presses on Carver's next planned news story–global pandemonium.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay, Götz Otto, Joe Don Baker
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
A New York detective/mama's boy loses his fiancee to a rich con man in las Vegas.
Starring: James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Andrew Bergman
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Bob Barker, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers
Director: Dennis Dugan
Patton (1970)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Patton is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved the United States of America with a lofty and historical zeal. Tracing his personal rivalries with such generals as Rommel and Montgomery, his problematic treatment of his own men, and his nearly runaway contempt for diplomacy, the film triumphs as an enduring portrait of a complex and larger-than-life figure.
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Edward Binns, Jack Gwillim
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Sparrow / Man jeuk (2008)
Drama | Romance
Nicknamed "sparrow", a pickpocket lifts wallets from unsuspecting targets with elegance and grace, like a sparrow fluttering its wings through a congested cityscape. Fai and his 3 associates lead carefree and playful lives as pickpockets. When the mysterious Beauty charms them into stealing a key, the sparrows worry about what they're getting themselves into, but accept the job when Beauty threatens to take her own life. Mystery builds as the sparrows go forward with their plan. At the rendezvous point, Hollywood Inn, Beauty and the key disappear altogether. It seems Beauty carries many secrets, including her relationship with the reclusive powerful tycoon, Mr. Yen. The sparrows are playing with fire, although this knowledge hardly lessens their intrigue.
Starring: Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Ka Tung Lam, Suet Lam, Hoi-Pang Lo
Director: Johnnie To
Hope Springs (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart, Elisabeth Shue, Mimi Rogers
Director: David Frankel
Lawless (2012)
Crime | Drama
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Shia LaBeouf
Director: John Hillcoat
