The Tenth Victim / La decima vittima (1965)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized – members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato
Director: Elio Petri
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011)
Crime | Drama
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Vincent Riotta, Paolo Romio, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
If Lula knows on thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor – no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying "tapestry of human extremity" (Variety).
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David Lynch
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Drama | Romance | War
Inman, a Civil War Confederate soldier, is seriously wounded in battle before heading home to North Carolina to his pre-war beloved, Ada. In his absence, Ada–with the help of a young drifter named Ruby–is desperately trying to hold onto the farm of her deceased missionary father. Inman's long journey home takes him through the crumbling confederacy, as he meets people of all walks of life who want to both aid and hinder his mission.
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Anthony Minghella
Have Mercy on Us All / Pars vite et reviens tard (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A strange symbol resembling an inverted 4 appears in the doors of people's houses in Paris, and residents of apartments with unmarked doors are turning up dead. An unemployed man, who reads people's letters and woes in a public park -a "city crier"- begins reading letters announcing the return of the plague. As panic and rumor begin to spread and Parisians start painting the symbol on their own doors to stem the "Black Death" outbreak, Detective Adamsberg and retired professor Decambrais join forces to try solve this mystery.
Starring: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet
Director: Régis Wargnier
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Higher Ground (2011)
Drama
Pregnant, married, and awkward at eighteen years old, Carolyn Briggs grows more and more interested in Jesus, eventually giving herself over to a radical New Testament church. Amidst her community of self-described "Jesus Freaks," Carolyn's daily life consists of hours of Bible study, alternative family practices and bracing for the oncoming Rapture. It's only when her marriage begins to unravel that…
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz, John Hawkes, Bill Irwin, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Donna Murphy
Director: Vera Farmiga
Mr. Untouchable (2007)
Crime | Documentary
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable". Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and facing a life sentence without parole, Barnes started naming names. With the first hand testimony from "the black Godfather" himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge.
Starring: Leroy Barnes, Don Ferrarone, Thelma Grant, Carol Hawkins-Williams, Joseph Jazz Hayden, Leon Scrap Batts
Director: Marc Levin
Suburban Girl (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Brett Eisenberg is an ambitious young book editor living in the literary hotbed of Manhattan's upper east side. While attempting to navigate the political regime change at her office, she faces the pressure of leaving her safe, but often boring, college boyfriend for the charms of a notorious, and much older, publishing playboy named Archie Knox. Based on stories from the bestselling book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec Baldwin, James Naughton, Maggie Grace, Chris Carmack
Director: Marc Klein
Proof (2005)
Drama | Mystery
On the eve of her 27th birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a mathematical genius named Robert, must deal not only with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, but also with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks of Robert's. As Catherine confronts Hal's affections and Claire's overbearing plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father's madness–or genius–will she inherit?
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis, Colin Stinton, Roshan Seth
Director: John Madden
Siberia, Monamour / Sibir, Monamur (2011)
Drama
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. Sometimes their relative uncle Yuri brings food to them. Once on his way back from Ivan's village uncle Yuri is attacked by dogs & perishes. Ivan & Leshia stay without supply. Once Leshia witnesses Ivan shooting at 'his' dog & runs away. The old Man finds him in a dry well, but he fails to get him out on his own. Ivan sets out through taiga in search of help. Now the dogs are hunting him… And the boy is waiting for his father…
Starring: Lidiya Bairashevskay, Nikolai Kozak, Sergey Novikov, Sonya Oleynik, Mikhail Protsko, Sergey Puskepalis, Maxim Yemelyanov, Pyotr Zaychenko
Director: Slava Ross
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What's Your Number? (2011)
Comedy | Romance
A woman, having hit her sexual limit at 20 men, decides to track down the other 19 guys in hopes that she's overlooked one who could be "the one."
Starring: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor
Director: Mark Mylod
Good Morning, Killer (2011)
Thriller
follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
Starring: Catherine Bell, Cole Hauser, Titus Welliver, William Devane, Genevieve Buechner
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Detective David Starsky is the most dedicated undercover cop working the mean streets of Bay City, California. Maniacally devoted to his job, when he's on duty no crime goes unpunished – and he's always on duty. And that's a good thing, because he has big shoes to fill: his mother was one of the best cops in the history of Bay City. But while his mom stuck with the same partner throughout her entire career, due to his extremely zealous brand of police work, Starksy burns through partners faster than his beloved Gran Torino goes through spark plugs. Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson is having career issues of his own – he's a good cop, but his laidback personality and desire for a quick buck don't always get the job done. He has excellent instincts; he just needs a little bit of focus to keep him on the admittedly less profitable side of the law. Exasperated Bay City Police Caption Dobey has found the perfect solution for two of his biggest problems: pair up Starsky and Hutch and put them out on the streets.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Vince Vaughn
Director: Todd Phillips
School of life (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A new teacher squares off against his crusty competitor for a teacher of the year award.
Starring: David Paymer, Ryan Reynolds, John Astin, Andrew Robb, Kate Vernon
Director: William Dear
Crows Zero II / Kurôzu zero II (2009)
Action
Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Nobuaki Kaneko, Haruma Miura, Sôsuke Takaoka, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Takashi Miike
Crows Zero / Kurôzu zero (2007)
Action | Thriller
Follows Genji, who's wish is to outdo his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, in everything the old man achieved. His first goal is to become top dog at the scariest school in town, Suzuran High School.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Takayuki Yamada, Sansei Shiomi, Ken'ichi Endô, Gorô Kishitani
Director: Takashi Miike
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it – a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Jonathan Demme
The Frighteners (1996)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Frank Bannister is a psychic swindler with the perfect business partners. They work cheap… they're dedicated… and they're dead. Possessed with a genuine ability to communicate with the dearly departed, Bannister earns a stiff living by setting up "spirit clearance" scams with his trio of ghostly cronies. But Frank may not be the only one in the small town of Fairwater working the paranormal side of the street. A series of inexplicable deaths and bizarre occurrences suggests the presence of a malevolent poltergeist. With the suspicious finger of a zealous FBI agent pointing directly at him, and the woman he cares for in danger, Bannister attempts to unravel the supernatural crime spree by venturing into a realm where all fears are realized… and true evil does not die.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey, Chi McBride
Director: Peter Jackson
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Throne of Blood / Kumonosu-jô (1957)
Drama
A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Holiday (2006)
Comedy | Romance
In Nancy Meyers – The Holiday, two women trade homes only to find that a change of address can change their lives. Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda, realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris – handsome brother Graham and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur, mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach
Director: Nancy Meyers
