200 M.P.H. (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
An amateur racer gets involved in illegal street racing after the death of his brother.
Starring: Jaz Martin, Hennely Jimenez, AnnaMaria Demara, Darren Anthony Thomas, Zedrick Restauro, Jared Kahn, Paul Logan
Director: Cole S. McKay
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
Comedy
Big-screen spin-off of the Channel 4 sitcom following the life of socially awkward suburban teenager Will and three of his friends. The film follows 18-year-old Will and his schoolmates, Neil, Simon and Jay, as they take off on a lads' holiday to Malia in Crete, where they go through all kinds of eye-opening and embarrassing rites of passage.
Starring: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Anthony Head, Laura Haddock
Director: Ben Palmer
Courageous (2011)
Drama | Family
Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David Thomson, and Shane Fuller are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they're quickly discovering…
Starring: Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel, Kevin Downes, Ben Davies
Director: Alex Kendrick
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Crime | Drama
The Coen Brothers are back with a dark and twisted film noir unlike anything you've ever seen. Set in a small 1949 California town, this is the story of a seemingly simple barber, who turns to blackmail and revenge to escape his achingly dull life. But in the tradition of classic noir, nothing goes as planned and nothing is as it seems. And as the barber's plot unravels, the delicious surprises, stunning revelations and just plain strange occurrences will disturb and delight you long after the film has ended.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Maniac Cop (1988)
Action | Crime | Horror
In New York, a man in a cop's uniform starts killing people for no apparent reason.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins, Robert Z'Dar, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree
Director: William Lustig
Treasure Hunt / Wu Jia Zhi Bao (2011)
Comedy
To further her career, elite commercial director Peggy agrees to leave her husband and her young son at home to shoot an ad on an isolated offshore island with alcoholic, incompetent action star Mr. Big. With the star, his family, his manager, and their children, Peggy attracts the attention of gangster Cobra, who is on the island to search for a legendary treasure left from the Ming Dyanasty. Juggling a spoiled superstar, kids, and a team of evildoers, how will Peggy get herself off the island so she can see family again?
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Miaoke Lin, Ekin Cheng, Lucas Tse, Bing Shao
Director: Jing Wong
Vampyres / Daughters of Dracula / Vampyre Orgy (1974)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
This English-made horror thriller is the story of two female vampires who hitchhike along a deserted highway in the English countryside, luring unsuspecting drivers to their gothic mansion for a night of passion – followed by the victim's murder at the hands of the femme fatale.
Starring: Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska
Director: José Ramón Larraz
Sweeney Todd / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Drama | Horror | Musical
Unjustly sent to prison, a man vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who "shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again." Sweeney's amorous accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, creates diabolical meat pies.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Tim Burton
La battaglia di Algeri / The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Drama | History | War
True-to-life chronicle of the Algerian people's struggle to overthrow the French Colonial Government in the mid-1950s. The focus is on the leaders of the Liberation Movement and the French general who is driven obsessively with catching them.
Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Inside Job (2010)
Crime | Documentary
'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Starring: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Director: Charles Ferguson
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Comedy | Drama
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon
Director: John Hughes
Dossier K. (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama
DOSSIER K. is the long anticipated successor to 'The Alzheimer Case' (aka The Memory Of A Killer) which won numerous awards and was sold to over 30 countries, among which the US (where it was released through Sony Picture Classics). This second film based on a novel by Jef Geeraerts is a dense European thriller about passion, betrayal, revenge, blind ambition and the inevitability of fate. Set against the realistic background of Albanian mafia in Antwerp, the story brings the main characters Erik Vincke and Freddy Verstuyft into a disastrous vortex from which no one seems to escape.
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Blerim Destani, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Filip Peeters, R. Kan Albay
Director: Jan Verheyen
Vares – Yksityisetsivä / Vares: Private Eye (2004)
Action | Comedy | Crime
The title character Vares is a finnish private detective who sets out to help a woman named Eeva in her dangerous pursuit for Russian mobs money. Vares himself is a good guy, mostly hanging in his favourite pub with his boozing buddy Luusalmi in his spare time. Mikko Koitere is a tough cop working on both sides of the law. Then there's the hilarious killer duo 'Red-Eye'Munck and Tetsuo Sinkkonen.
Starring: Juha Veijonen, Laura Malmivaara, Jari Halonen, Markku Peltola, Jorma Tommila, Samuli Edelmann
Director: Aleksi Mäkelä
The Diamond Arm / Brilliantovaya ruka (1969)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers (a real smuggler – Gena – was also on board the same ship). So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their stuff back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm.
Starring: Yuri Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Stanislav Chekan
Director: Leonid Gaidai
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Action | Drama | Romance
Pearl Harbor is the classic story of the Japanese attack as told through the eyes of two boyhood friends, now serving as officers in the Army Air Corps. Rafe is an energetic young pilot who is selected to fly with the British in Europe while the United States is still not at war. After Rafe is shot down and presumed killed, Danny comforts Rafe's former lover, Evelyn, and the two draw closer. However, when Rafe turns up alive, the two former friends become enemies, and it is through the turmoil of Pearl Harbor that the two may reconcile their differences.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore
Director: Michael Bay
Tombstone (1993)
Action | Drama | History
Former U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp's plan for peace, quiet and prosperity misfires when he, his brothers and the outrageous rogue Doc Holliday encounter that ruthless band of outlaws, the Cowboys.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
The Saint (1997)
Action | Romance | Sci-Fi
Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. Yet Simon Templar , also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world's most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens and the US is affected forever.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong
Director: Phillip Noyce
Kill Speed (2010)
Action
Best friends fly high-tech planes to deliver crystal meth throughout California.
Starring: Andrew Keegan, Brandon Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson
Director: Kim Bass
The Silent Duel / Shizukanaru kettô (1949)
Drama
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Jump Ashin! / Fan gun ba A-xin! (2011)
Drama | Sport
Ashin loves gymnastics. Since a rib, he was quickly hooked and as an adult it’s his quantity single love. Yes, more than girls, and this is despite looking like Eddie Peng and probably having his pick of women in his rural Taiwan town. However, Ashin’s look after (Pan Li-Li) disapproves of gymnastics and asks so as to Ashin go it up to run the folks fruit locate on behalf of, well, eternity. Ashin does, but soon becomes a felon, execution with playmate Pickles (Lawrence Ko Yue-Lun) and getting into all sorts of bother. Pickles becomes a drug addict and the two run afoul of a gang boss’ son (Chen Han-Dian), so Ashin and Pickles flee to Taipei and resume their thug lifestyle. But gymnastics is until the end of time nearby, calling to Ashin like a long-lost love. Eventually, Ashin chooses to return at your house and back to the pommel horse, but can a loser like Ashin still regain it in himself to grow to be a medal-winning gymnast? And hey, isn’t this a wholly nonsensical premise?
Starring: Han Dian Chen, Lawrence Ko, Chen-Shi Lin, Eddie Peng
Director: Yu-Hsien Lin
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