Redemption Road / Black, White & Blues (2010)
Drama
A Tennessee-set drama focused on an individual's spiritual redemption.
Starring: Michael Clarke Duncan, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Luke Perry, Tom Skerritt, Lee Perkins, Melvin Van Peebles
Director: Mario Van Peebles
The Conman / Du xia 1999 (1998)
Comedy
King (Andy Lau from the first God Of Gamblers movie) is a professional gambler who ends up in prison after murdering a man, at the gambling table, in self defense. Behind him he leaves a pregnant wife that he's neglected almost totally in favour of the cards. 5 years later King is released and wants nothing but to reunite with his wife and the child he's never seen. He enlists small time hoodlum Dragon (Nick Cheung, who also appeared in the subsequent Conman-movies) to help him locate his wife while also teaching him a thing or two about the art of gambling. King himself does not really want to return to the tables but is forced into action when the close ones to him are put into jeopardy…
Starring: Andy Lau, Athena Chu, Nick Cheung, Bonnie Law, Waise Lee, Jack Kao, Angie Cheung, Emotion Cheung
Director: Jing Wong
The Shadow (1994)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Jonathan Winters, Sab Shimono
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Vivre Sa Vie / Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux / My Life to Live (1962)
Drama
Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard'ss greatest muse, plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute, her downward spiral depicted in a series of discrete tableaux of daydreams and dances. Featuring some of Karina and Godard'ss most iconic moments—from her movie theater vigil with The Passion of Joan of Arc to her seductive pool-hall strut—Vivre sa vie is a landmark of the French New Wave that still surprises at every turn.
Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (2010)
Family | Fantasy
When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Rick Roberts, R.D. Reid, Jordan Prentice, Gage Munroe, Rebecca Williams, Marcia Bennett
Director: James Orr
Ecstasy (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A single church-going mother desperately tries to save her two daughters from walking down the same dark path she was once on; and a young woman fights against addiction to a mysterious party drug.
Starring: Charlie Bewley, Christy Andersen, Elisa King, Ashley McCarthy, David J. Phillips, Teagan Vincze, Corbin Timbrook
Director: Lux
The Ledge (2011)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
A police officer looks to talk down a young man lured by his lover's husband to the ledge of a high rise, where he has one hour to contemplate a fateful decision.
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, Jaqueline Fleming, Christopher Gorham
Director: Matthew Chapman
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg, has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin, the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days! With his two sidekicks–Passepartout and femme fatale Monique–Fogg is headed on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race that takes our heroes to the world's most exotic places by land, sea, and air.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Cécile De France, Robert Fyfe, Ian McNeice
Director: Frank Coraci
The Troll Hunter / TrollHunter / Trolljegeren (2010)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Starring: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Mørcks, Glenn Erland Tosterud
Director: André Øvredalal
The Tree of Life (2011)
Drama | Fantasy
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's following the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan
Director: Terrence Malick
Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy / 3D rou pu tuan zhi ji le bao jian (2011)
Drama
As a conceited scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Yangsheng believes that since life is short, one should pursue the ultimate sexual pleasure as time allows. Wei Yangsheng encounters Tie Fei the Taoist priest's daughter, Tie Yuxiang, on an occasion. With the former's talent and the latter's beauty, they fall in love at first sight, and Wei Yangsheng is later married into the Tie's family. Yuxiang is elegant and courteous under the influence of her father's faith, though her lack of passion cannot fully satisfy Wei Yangsheng's sexual needs. His disappointment is no less than his affection for her.
Starring: Saori Hara, Hiro Hayama, Leni Lan, Yukiko Suô, Vonnie Lui, Tony Ho, Kirt Kishita
Director: Christopher Sun
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Comedy | Crime
Larry Donner is an author and writing teacher whose life turns miserable when his ex-wife steals his book and gets rich and famous by publishing it under her name. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students, offers to kill Larry's ex-wife and wants Larry to kill his horrible mother in return. Larry thinks it's a joke, until his ex-wife goes missing.
Starring: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew
Director: Danny DeVito
Rivals / Les liens du sang (2008)
Action | Crime | Drama
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favorite.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme, Marie Denarnaud, Mehdi Nebbou
Director: Jacques Maillot
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
In 1930s rural American South, psychopathic preacher Harry Powell is arrested for a minor offence. His cell mate, Ben Harper, facing the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. When Powell is released, he tracks down Harper's widow and children in an attempt to get his hands on the loot.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Director: Charles Laughton
Seven Samurai / Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A Japanese farming village, constantly besieged and pillaged by an army of bandits, recruits seven independent samurai to defend it.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Repulsion (1965)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, Carol is haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent pitch. Thanks to its unforgettable attention to disturbing detail and Polanski's unparalleled adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion remains one of cinema's most shocking psychological thrillers.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux
Director: Roman Polanski
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he'd loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Kagemusha / The Shadow Warrior (1980)
Drama | History | War
On the death of a clan chief his place is taken by the lookalike hired to overlook the battlefields while the chief is really busy elsewhere.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
3 Women (1977)
Drama
Two nurses with contrasting backgrounds become friends and move into an apartment together. A third woman, a mural artist, also inhabits the building.
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Director: Robert Altman
Le dernier métro / The Last Metro (1980)
Drama | Romance
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut's gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds—a Jewish theater manager in hiding; a leading man who's in the Resistance; increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight—the troupe believes the show must go on. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy, and even comedy, The Last Metro (Le dernier métro) is Truffaut's ultimate tribute to art overcoming adversity.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol
Director: François Truffaut
