Tell-Tale (2009)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A single father with a recently transplanted heart goes on a frantic search to find his donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Starring: Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Beatrice Miller
Director: Michael Cuesta
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Never Back Down (2008)
Action | Drama | Sport | Teen
Jake (Sean Faris) is the new kid in school. When a beautiful girl (Amber Heard) befriends him, Jake thinks he's set. But instead, her fight-club boyfriend, Ryan (Cam Gigandet), smacks Jake a bloody, black-eyed welcome. Humiliated, Jake then turns to a mixed martial arts (MMA) master (Djimon Hounsou), who teaches him how to fight…and how to walk away. But it becomes obvious that a brutal re-match is inevitable if Jake wants to stop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.
Starring: Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters, Leslie Hope
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Fame (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
A reinvention of the original 1980 hit film, 'Fame' follows a talented group of dancers, singers, actors, and artists over four years at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, a diverse, creative powerhouse where students from all walks of life are given a chance to live out their dreams and achieve real and lasting fame…the kind that comes only from talent, dedication, and hard work. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, plagued by self-doubt, each student's passion will be put to the test. In addition to their artistic goals, they have to deal with everything else that goes along with high school, a tumultuous time full of schoolwork, deep friendships, budding romance, and self-discovery. As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight, they'll discover who among them has the innate talent and necessary discipline to succeed. With the love and support of their friends and fellow artists, they'll find out who amongst them will achieve fame..
Starring: Kevin Tancharoen, Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
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Sarah's Key / Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Drama | War
A tragic and shameful moment in French history continues to have consequences in the present day in this screen adaptation of the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. Julia Jarmond is a nwriter from the US living in Paris with her husband, Bertrand, an architect who is restoring a block of apartments in Paris owned by his family. Julia learns that Bertrand's family obtained the building through less than honorable means; the original owners were Jews who were forced to sell in the wake of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when the Nazi-affiliated Vichy government arrested over 13,000 Parisian Jews.
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Welcome to the South / Benvenuti al sud (2010)
Comedy
Alberto is responsible for the post office in a small town in Brianza and to please his wife Silvia, who would like to move to Milan, is ready to everything, even to pretend to be disabled to get into the list and get a job in the great metropolis. His trick was discovered, however, and Alberto punishment is found to be transferred to a small branch in Campania. Resigned to his fate, Alberto party alone to his new place, expecting only degradation, roads flooded by waste and fellow slacker. So when they encounter wonderful people, willing, and a new friend, Matt, who tries in every way to make him feel at ease, to Alberto seems to live in a dream. How to say, however, to Silvia and friends who have started to see in a new light?
Starring: Claudio Bisio, Alessandro Siani, Angela Finocchiaro, Valentina Lodovini, Naike Rivelli
Director: Luca Miniero
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World / Spy Kids 4 (2011)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
On the surface, Marissa Cortez Wilson has it all…married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But in reality, trying to mother Rebecca and Cecil, who clearly don't want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur, wouldn't know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case — Marissa's a retired secret agent.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Jeremy Piven, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Danny Trejo
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, granaries were empty–and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery. No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening – except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad, who suspects the answer may rest with a remarkable invention and the man who created it – a man who once said he would stop the motor of the world. Everything now depends on finding him and discovering the answer to the question on the lips of everyone as they whisper it in fear: Who *is* John Galt?
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Edi Gathegi, Jon Polito, Patrick Fischler, Armin Shimerman, Matthew Marsden, Paul Johansson
Director: Paul Johansson
Command Performance (2009)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Rock 'n' roll drummer Joe and his band are about to make it big as the opening act for America's hottest pop star in Moscow. Fame and glory quickly turn into chaos as armed terrorists storm the arena, capturing the pop star and the guests of honor – Russian President Alexander Petrov and his two teenage daughters. With the death toll rising and the hostages' lives on the line, it is up to one man to come to their rescue and save the day.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Molinaro, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno, Clement von Franckenstein, James Chalke, Zahary Baharov
Director: Dolph Lundgren
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Devastated when his fiancee Kate is killed on their wedding day, Henry reluctantly agrees to consult a psychic named Ashley at the urging of his sister Chloe. Despite his skepticism over her psychic abilities, Henry finds himself falling hard for Ashley, and vice versa. But there is a big snag. Ashley is being haunted by Kate's ghost, who considers it her heavenly duty to break up Henry and Ashley's fledgling romance, if it is the last thing she does on this earthly plane.
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane
Director: Jeff Lowell
Step Into Liquid (2003)
Documentary | Sport
This documentary profiles surfers and surfing locations all over the world, including the monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore, the Gulf shores of Texas (where waves are created by oil supertankers), the ice-cold waters of Ireland, Santa Cruz, Costa Rica, the Cortez Banks, Da Nang in Vietnam, the tiny waves of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin and the tropics of Rapa Nui. More important than the diverse and often spectacular locations and waves, however, are the wide range of surfers that are profiled, challenging the stereotypes about the surfing counterculture.
Starring: Jim Knost, Alex Knost, Dan Malloy, Chris Malloy, Keith Malloy
Director: Dana Brown
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The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Drama | War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li, Matt Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova, Ping Su, Lin Ji
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers / Daikessen! Chô urutora 8 kyôdai (2008)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Eight warriors and two generations of Ultra heroes are united.
Starring: Hiroshi Nagano, Takeshi Tsuruno, Takeshi Yoshioka, Shunji Igarashi, Susumu Kurobe, Kôji Moritsugu, Jiro Dan, Keiji Takamine
Director: Takeshi Yagi
Scrooged (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A contemporary comedy based on Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol," focusing on a television executive who decides to exploit the holidays to boost ratings.
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Alfre Woodard, John Glover
Director: Richard Donner
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn't be more excited to have Harvey (Lerner), a "normal" father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future stepdad, the family is forced to decide whether to forgive or to forget. Trish's sister, the virginal, angelic Joy (Henderson), is also haunted by ghosts of lovers past. On leave from her degenerate husband, Allen (Williams), and her job at a New Jersey correctional facility, Joy unwittingly leaves behind a trail of shame and exposed secrets wherever she goes. In one of the film's most stylized sequences, the image of Joy walking the dark streets of Miami in her nightgown maintains her innocence against a backdrop of self-affliction and desire.
Starring: Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael K. Williams, Dylan Riley Snyder, Paul Reubens, Emma Hinz
Director: Todd Solondz
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
Starring: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Rauno Juvonen, Tommi Korpela, Jonathan Hutchings, Per Christian Ellefsen
Director: Jalmari Helander
Stan Helsing (2009)
Comedy | Horror
When he makes a late-night movie delivery to a strange town on Halloween, video store counter jockey Stan Helsing (Steve Howey) finds himself hunted by a who's who of slasher-film killers, including Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Leatherface. Now, Stan and his pals must use their knowledge of horror flicks to defeat the villains and hack their way to freedom. Bo Zenga directs this gleeful parody of classic horror movies.
Starring: Steve Howey, Kenan Thompson, Diora Baird, Desi Lydic, Leslie Nielsen
Director: Bo Zenga
Deception (2008)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's "The List"–a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of "intimacy without intricacy," as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S,' will expose him to yet another world he never imagined–one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg
Director: Marcel Langenegger
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Investigating a series of grisly murders, a reformed alcoholic detective navigates his way through layers of corruption, long-buried secrets, ancient grudges and lethal alliances on the Louisiana bayou. Meanwhile, the world around him struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – and there's money to be made.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Ned Beatty
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Changeling (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A mother prays for the return of her kidnapped son. When her prayers are answered, however, she begins to suspect the boy who comes back is not her child. Inspired by true events that took place in Los Angeles in the 1920s.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore
Director: Clint Eastwood
The Holding (2011)
Thriller
A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.
Starring: Georgia Groome, David Bradley, Vincent Regan, Kierston Wareing, Terry Stone, Jake Curran
Director: Susan Jacobson
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