Hugo (2011)
Adventure | Drama | Family
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Martin Scorsese
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drama | Romance
Among the idle nobility of 18th Century France, a pair of cold-hearted rivals, the charming Vicomte de Valmont and the beautiful Marquise de Merteuil, amuse themselves and each other by seducing and toying with the affections of those around them. But their games take a surprising turn when Valmont sets his sights on the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, whom he considers his greatest challenge, because she is renowned for virtue and loyalty to her husband. Meanwhile, the Marquise seeks revenge on an ex-lover by attempting to corrupt the virginal Cecile de Volanges, to whom he is engaged.
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves
Director: Stephen Frears
Bad Santa (2003)
Comedy | Crime
The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Soke is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus, a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, his pal tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to crack mall security and rob stores blind just before Christmas. However, there's one flaw to this plan – Willie is a bitter, foul-mouthed and perpetually grouchy alcoholic who doesn't care for kids, and it's all he can do to keep himself from getting fired while on the job. The mall's manager is certain something's wrong with the Santa he's hired, so he asks the mall's chief of security to do some research on Willie. Meanwhile, one of the kids Willie is forced to talk to becomes a regular customer; overweight, awkward, and the frequent target of bullies, the boy manages to arouse something like sympathy from Willie, who tries to give him some advice and develops something vaguely resembling Christmas sprit along the way.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Bernie Mac, John Ritter
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Polisse / Poliss (2011)
Crime | Drama
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit – taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these cops balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day? Fred, the group's hypersensitive wild card, is going to have a hard time facing the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer on a Ministry of the Interior assignment to document the unit.
Starring: Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Foïs
Director: Maïwenn Le Besco
Sanbiki no samurai / Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Action | Drama
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Starring: Tetsurô Tanba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kayama
Director: Hideo Gosha
Humanity's end (2009)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The last man in the universe is hunted down by a hybrid race known as the Nephilim.
Starring: Jay Laisne, Rochelle Vallese, Cynthia Ickes, William David Tulin
Director: Neil Johnson
Wizards (1977)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Avatar is the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar's evil brother Blackwolf dominates Scortch, a bleak land of goblins and wraiths. When the power-hungry Blackwolf attacks Montagar, Avatar, accompanied only by a spirited young woman and a courageous elf, must enter the darkness of Scortch to save his world.
Starring: Jesse Welles, Bob Holt, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Steve Gravers
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Days of Glory / Indigènes (2006)
Action | Drama | War
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Two Hands (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs…
Starring: Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field
Director: Gregor Jordan
Hot Enough for June / Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Comedy
In this satirical comedy-thriller at the height of the 007 popularity and set amidst the world of international espionage, unemployed Nicolas Whistler accepts a job and a tidy salary with what he believes to be a glass manufacturing company in London. He soon discovers that his business behind the Iron Curtain is in fact illegal. Everyone apparently believes him to be a spy but it takes much time and adventure for him to realize it. The realization numbs him with horror, and with his contacts gone, he is on his own. He must escape arrest and flee to England but the secret police are close behind him!
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina
Director: Ralph Thomas
Footloose (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to…
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
Director: Craig Brewer
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait / Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006)
Documentary | Sport
A full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
Starring: David Beckham, Zinédine Zidane
Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno
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The Dirty Picture (2011)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The Dirty Picture is set against the colourful and entertaining backdrop of hte South film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the fiercely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited love. To the world, she was the queen of sensuality. But at heart, Silk was just another woman craving true love. An unfortunate encounter with deceit and infidelity led to dire consequences!
Starring: Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Milan Luthria
Requiem for a Killer / Requiem pour une tueuse (2011)
Thriller
Lucrèce is a contract killer in search of a new life. Specialized in the use of poisons and enamored with opera, she accepts a difficult, final hit in a castle in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Posing as a soprano, Lucrèce must perform on stage during the very prestigious Festival of Ermeux and slaughter one of her co-performers, British baritone Alexander Child, who recently bought a distillery in Scotland, and thus became the only obstacle to a strategic pipeline project with considerable financial ramifications. He just won a long legal battle against British Oil, who now has no other choice but to eliminate him. To complicate things, French counter-espionage learns of the hit and sends Rico, a reinstated former agent, to infiltrate the orchestra, unmask and terminate all who wish harm to Alexander Child.
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky Karyo
Director: Jérôme Le Gris
Hell and Back Again (2011)
Action | Documentary | History | War
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
Director: Danfung Dennis
Sennentuntschi / Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
Horror | Mystery
In a small village in the Swiss Alps, a young woman (Roxane Mesquida) turns up, naked, distressed and not talking. The village cop Sebastian (Nicholas Ofczarek) takes her in and tries to find out what happened to her. At the same time, a group of dairy makers goes missing from a mountain pasture. Are these two stories connected, like the village populace seems to think? And is there something to the legend of the Sennentuntschi?
Starring: Roxane Mesquida, Nicholas Ofczarek, Andrea Zogg, Carlos Leal, Joel Basman
Director: Michael Steiner
The Shiver of the Vampires / Le frisson des vampires (1971)
Horror
A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.
Starring: Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles
Director: Jean Rollin
My Name is Khan (2010)
Drama | Romance
"My Name Is Khan" is about a Muslim who suffers from the Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that impacts social interaction abilities, and he is arrested as a suspected terrorist in post-9/11 Los Angeles after authorities mistake his disability for suspicious behaviour.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon, Katie A. Keane, Kenton Duty, Benny Nieves, Christopher B. Duncan
Director: Karan Johar
Jack and Jill (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Peter Dante, David Spade
Director: Dennis Dugan
The Lookout (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chris Pratt was once a Golden Boy athletic hero in his small Midwestern town. Chris had it all – a beautiful girlfriend, a well-heeled family and a shining future. But after a serious accident, Chris has found himself in a strange new world where the most basic things seem to fall through holes in his memory and nothing quite makes sense. Unable to make it on his own, he lives with his mentor in navigating this surreal life – the wisecracking, fiercely independent blind man, Lewis. For a job, Chris sweeps the floor at the bank waiting for his halted life to come unstuck. Things suddenly shift when he meets Gary Spargo, an old school acquaintance and street philosopher who begins to revive Chris' shattered confidence, even helping him find a stripper – albeit a stripper named Luvlee Lemons. But Gary has bigger plans, and when he recruits Chris into his grand plan to rob the bank where he works, Chris appears to be in way over his damaged head. As the bank heist unravels into chaos, both Chris' uncertain future and even more importantly Lewis' survival are on the line. Now, it's up to this young outcast who can't always think straight to figure out how to outwit and take down his manipulators his own way.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino
Director: Scott Frank
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