Missing in Action (1984)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago
Starring: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, David Tress, James Hong
Director: Joseph Zito
Prison on Fire II / Jian yu feng yun II: Tao fan (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama
A story about the discord between two prisoners, pitted against each other through social circumstances: a mainland leader, Dragon, is blamed for the death of a fellow-inmate; and a Hong Kong local, Ching, is named as the squealer in order to cover up a murder committed by a sadistic prison officer and an unsavory mainlander inmate. The result–both Dragon and Ching are forced to become fugitives in order to escape the wrath of vengeance in-store for them from both sides; during the course of their escape, the two co-dependent "enemies" form a lasting kinship.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Sung Young Chen, Roy Cheung, Li Yu, Chi Hung Ng, Elvis Tsui, Kwong Leung Wong
Director: Ringo Lam
Silenced / Do-ga-ni (2011)
Drama
Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin. But he and Yu-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.
Starring: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jeong, Hyeon-soo Kim, Ji-yeong Kim, Jeong In-seo, Baek Seung-Hwan, Hye-jin Park
Director: Dong Hyeuk Hwang
Ride Away / Dal-lyeo-la ja-jeon-geo (2008)
Drama | Romance
Ha-jung (Han Hyo-Joo), a first-year college student, is interested in a boy namedSu-ook (Lee Young-Hoon) who works at a secondhand bookstore near her school. In order to see Su-wook, Ha-jung visits the shop to buy and sell books; over time, her lifestyle becomes focused on Su-wook. She learns that he rides around on his bicycle, and this leads her to learn to ride one. They begin to express their feelings for each other, but neither of them are aware of each other's painful secrets from the past.
Starring: Hyo-ju Han, Young-hoon
Director: Seong-woon Lim
A Thousand Words (2012)
Comedy | Drama
After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word we speak.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ariel Winter, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke
Director: Brian Robbins
Zoolander (2001)
Comedy
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Milla Jovovich
Director: Ben Stiller
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The School of Rock / School of Rock (2003)
Comedy | Music
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
Starring: Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack
Director: Richard Linklater
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Drama
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Starring: Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Director: Atom Egoyan
The Demoniacs / Les démoniaques (1974)
Horror
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, The Demoniacs concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered.
Starring: Joëlle Coeur, John Rico, Willy Braque, Paul Bisciglia, Miletic Zivomir
Director: Jean Rollin
The Sentinel (2006)
Action | Crime | Thriller
There's never been a traitor in the United States Secret Service…until now. And the evidence points to Pete Garrison (Douglas), one of the most trusted agents on the force. Now on the run, with two relentless federal investigators (Sutherland and Longoria) hot on his heels, Garrison must fight to clear his name and thwart an attempt on the President's life before it's too late!
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster
Director: Clark Johnson
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Comedy
In this domestic romp, Dean Martin and Lana Turner team up as a married couple whose marriage is threatened by Dino’s gambling ways. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino’s business partner (Eddie Albert) to pose as his bookie. But the strategy backfires as it rouses the ire of mob boss, Tony Gagouts (Walter Matthau) who decides its time to eliminate the competition. Screenwriter and producer Jack Rose adapted the novel, Four Horse-Players Are Missing by Alexander Rose. Directed by Daniel Mann (Come Back, Little Sheba).
Starring: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau
Director: Daniel Mann
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Rushmore (1998)
Comedy | Drama
A coming of age tale that centers on precocious 10th grader Max Fischer and his expulsion from the prestigious Rushmore Academy.
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox
Director: Wes Anderson
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Biography | Drama
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg
Director: Ron Howard
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Gallants / Da lui toi (2010)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate company. Two martial artists run the village's teahouse, which was once the kung-fu school of their teacher Master Law. Law is in fact lying unconscious upstairs in a three decades-long coma, but he awakes when gym boss and local landlord Pong attempts to secure the teahouse for redevelopment. Law mistakes Cheung for a former student and starts training him in preparation for a martial-arts tournament at Pong's gym that will decide all their fates.
Starring: Siu-Lung Leung, Kuan Tai Chen, Teddy Robin Kwan, You-Nam Wong, J.J. Jia, Jin Auyeung
Director: Clement Cheng, Chi-kin Kwok
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Prison on Fire / Gam yuk fung wan (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama
An explosive crime-drama that caused a sensation upon its release. Audiences gasped for breath from the bloodshed and violence, yet were deeply moved by the fraternal bond between the two leading characters. Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung are riveting as the inmates who get involved with the intracacies of the prision system.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung, Roy Cheung, Ka-Kui Ho, Chi Hung Ng, Kwong Leung Wong, Fui-On Shing
Director: Ringo Lam
The Visitor (2007)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Walter (Richard Jenkins) is a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever. As challenges arise for his tenants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friends, and rediscovers a passion he thought he had lost long ago.
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Documentary | History
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Starring: Werner Herzog
Director: Werner Herzog
Bandolero! (1968)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Western
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Starring: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill
Director: F. Gary Gray
Insomnia (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Invited to Nightmute, Alaska, to head a murder case, a veteran LAPD detective finds his investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on him – and by personal guilt over a second crime that may be real…or a figment of his increasingly unstable consciousness.
Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Director: Christopher Nolan
