The Drummond Will (2010)
Comedy | Mystery
Estranged brothers Marcus and Danny find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous quest to unravel the mystery surrounding their father's very unlikely wealth.
Starring: Mark Oosterveen, Phillip James, Jeremy Drakes, Jonathan Hansler, Victoria Jeffrey, Nigel Osner
Director: Alan Butterworth
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Drama | Romance
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man (Ken Watanabe) who is out of her reach. Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi
Director: Rob Marshall
Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Horror
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
Starring: Lauren Holly, Eric F. Adams, Marcelle Baer, Edrick Browne, Leanne Cochran, Thomas C. Daniel
Director: Steven C. Miller
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La mala educación / Bad Education (2004)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
In the early 60s, two boys – Ignacio and Enrique – discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Javier Cámara, Alberto Ferreiro
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Sprague Grayden
Director: Tod Williams
Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night / Paranômaru akutibiti: Dai-2-shô – Tokyo Night (2010)
Horror | Thriller
The Yamano family lives in a secluded home in a remote Tokyo residential area. Their 27-year-old daughter Haruka suffered a compound fracture in a car accident while traveling in America. Haruka returns home in a wheelchair. There to meet her is her younger brother 19-year-old Koichi. Their father is away from the Yamano resident due to a business trip abroad. Koichi is left to take care of his sister until she can walk again.
Starring: Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama
Director: Toshikazu Nagae
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Horror | Thriller
After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban "starter" tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
Director: Oren Peli
The Rock (1996)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated U.S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert and a former Alcatraz escapee, is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe
Director: Michael Bay
Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2010)
Action | Adventure
The story is a prequel to the video game Assassin's Creed II. It centres around the father of the game's main character Ezio Auditore de Firenze. Giovanni is an assassin living during the Renaissance in 15th century Italy. At this dawn of a new era, a conspiracy is being plotted by one corrupt family to overthrow the powerful Medici family and destroy a unified Italy. As an assassin, Giovanni must face this threat and bring justice. The story introduces the situation before Assassin's Creed II, and the enemies of both characters.
Starring: Romano Orzari, Claudia Ferri, Devery Jacobs
Director: Yves Simoneau
Nevinnost / Innocence (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Another feature film written by Petr Jarchovský and directed by Jan Hřebejk is slowly being born. Shooting started in late August in Prague and its three-day final stage took place at Máchovo jezero (Mácha’s Lake). Audience will have the opportunity to enjoy completed movie for the first time at Berlinale in February next year. The plot brings out a contemporary drama and – as the title suggests – it’s going to be a study about man’s guilt and innocence. Unexpected twists and turns in the story will reveal secrets from the past, viewers may look forward to seeing Ondřej Vetchý, Aňa (Anna) Geislerová or Luděk Munzar as main characters. As the unit, once again, has not changed much since the last shooting, Bystrouška is not missing, represented by Michal Holubec with his Black Mary and Honza Skála operating the mikes. Michal relied on standard well-proven equipment. The only exception is Lectrosonics wirelesses, which have recently become popular with the guys from Bystrouška. Octopack – a system featuring four two-channel receivers with robust design and compact form factor considering the options it provides – facilitates work in somewhat frantic rhythm of shooting on spot. Shortly after the shooting is finished, Michal will take the recorded material back to the Bystrouška studios, where intensive sound postproduction works will take over. So, to be on the safe side, we are now replenishing our coffee reserves…
Starring: Ondrej Vetchý, Anna Geislerová, Ludek Munzar
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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The Monster Squad (1987)
Action | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
A small town is disrupted with the arrival of Dracula to retrieve an amulet controlling the balance between good and evil.
Starring: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan
Director: Fred Dekker
Riddles of the Sphinx (2008)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
An astronomer and a cryptographer uncover a series of ancient tunnels, unwittingly unleashing a deadly Sphinx. In order to trap the Sphinx back in its tomb and stop impending destruction, our explorers must solve a series of complicated and possibly deadly riddles.
Starring: Dina Meyer, Lochlyn Munro, Mackenzie Gray, Emily Tennant, Donnelly Rhodes
Director: George Mendeluk
Ice Twisters (2009)
Sci-Fi
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
Starring: Mark Moses, Camille Sullivan, Kaj-Erik Eriksen
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Deadheads (2011)
Adventure | Comedy | Horror
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with its own agenda.
Starring: Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Markus Taylor, Thomas Galasso, Natalie Victoria, Eden Malyn, Benjamin Webster
Director: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Straw Dogs (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation.
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Willa Holland
Director: Rod Lurie
Man of the West (1958)
Action | Drama | Romance | Western
On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Starring: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord
Director: Anthony Mann
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Habermannův Mlýn / Habermann (2010)
Drama | Romance | War
A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.
Starring: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Hannah Herzsprung
Director: Juraj Herz
Senna / Ayrton Senna: Beyond the Speed of Sound (2010)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film follows Senna's struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless – Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people. Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time – and in Brasil as a Saint.
Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Jean-Marie Balestre
Director: Asif Kapadia
Peter & the Wolf / Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (2006)
Animation | Family | Music | Short
It's a wolf-eats-duck world. But it's a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage and – with a little help from a crazy bird and a dreamy duck (and none whatsoever from a fat, lethargic cat and two hooligan hunters) – can catch the wolf. Director: Suzie Templeton
Director: Suzie Templeton
Zhu Zhu Pets: Quest for Zhu (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Family
The heart-warming, heart-tugging tale of four colourful young teens (who just happen to be hamsters) on a quest to find the Palace of Zhu, where they believe all their dreams will come true.
Starring: Kathleen Barr, Sean Campbell, Shannon Chan-Kent, Ian James Corlett, Erin Mathews, Jillian Michaels, Jan Rabson, Mariah Wilkerson
Director: Bob Doucette
