Destination Tokyo (1943)
Adventure | History | War
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
Starring: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson, Robert Hutton
Director: Delmer Daves
Bends / Guo jie (2013)
Drama
BENDS straddles the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and tells the story of ANNA, an affluent housewife and FAI, her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they each negotiate the pressures of Hong Kong life and the citys increasingly complex relationship to mainland China. Fai is struggling to find a way to bring his pregnant wife and young daughter over the Hong Kong border from Shenzhen to give birth to their second child, even though he crosses the border easily every day working as a chauffeur for Anna. Anna, in contrast, is struggling to keep up the facade of her ostentatious lifestyle into which she has married, after the sudden disappearance of her husband amid financial turmoil. Their two lives collide in a common space, the car.
Starring: Carina Lau, Kun Chen, Yuan Tian, Stephanie Che, Lawrence Cheng
Director: Flora Lau
Resolution (2012)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Learning that his best friend, Chris, is holed up in a remote rural shack on a methamphetamine bender, Michael takes it upon himself to travel out to the location with a pair of handcuffs determined to enforce cold turkey on his beleaguered pal – as a last ditch attempt to save his life. Suddenly forces seemingly beyond their control combined with baffling activity and the memories of each man's past actions occasion an intense excursion of isolation for these friends whose friendship will be tested to the brink.
Starring: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., Kurt David Anderson, Emily Montague, Skyler Meacham
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Way of the Wicked (2014)
Thriller
Years ago, young Robbie Mueller left his small home town under a cloud of suspicion. Now, teenage Robbie has returned – and he's set his sights on Heather, the daughter of local police detective John Elliott. When the town is swept by a series of gruesome killings, a mysterious priest seems to be the only one who can help protect them.
Starring: Christian Slater, Vinnie Jones, Emily Tennant, Jake Croker, Aren Buchholz
Director: Kevin Carraway
Don Peyote (2014)
Comedy | Drama
DON PEYOTE tells the story Warren Allman, an unemployed stoner who finally finds a purpose in life after an unpleasant encounter with a homeless man preaching the end is near. Fueled by vivid apocalyptic dreams, Warren becomes obsessed with 2012 doomsday theories and decides to make a documentary on the subject while his fiance is busy planning their wedding.
Starring: Dan Fogler, Josh Duhamel, Jay Baruchel, Topher Grace, Wallace Shawn, Anne Hathaway
Director: Michael Canzoniero, Dan Fogler
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Friended to Death (2014)
Comedy
A dark comedy about a social media junkie who fakes his own death via social media just to see which of his "friends" will show up to the funeral.
Starring: Ryan Hansen, James Immekus, Zach McGowan, Sarah Smick, Ian Michaels, Richard Riehle, Angela Bullock, Robert R. Shafer
Director: Sarah Smick
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House of Dust (2013)
Horror | Thriller
College students exploring an abandoned mental asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients; inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One, is a convicted serial killer from 1950.
Starring: Inbar Lavi, Steven Grayhm, Eddie Hassell, Holland Roden, John Lee Ames, Stephen Spinella, Justin James Lang, Alesandra Assante, Nicole Travolta, Joy Lauren
Director: A.D. Calvo
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
Drama
A seemingly joyous return to a high school reunion becomes every woman's worst nightmare when her son suddenly disappears.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson, Ryan Merriman, Alexa Vega
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Underneath / The Underneath (1995)
Crime | Thriller
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions and had left his wife to deal with the mess he created. He now must reassimilate back into the town, renew his relationships with his family and friends (and enemies) and, most of all, seek out his ex-wife to woo her again. In the process, he obtains a job working with his mother's new husband as an armored car driver. He almost seems the perfect prodigal son as he finds his niche back in the community and his way back into his ex's heart. His troubles surmount when he and his wife are caught in the act by her hoodlum boyfriend/fiancé. To get out of this predicament, Michael must concoct a plan to heist of a payroll being carried by his armored car company.
Starring: Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Paul Dooley, Shelley Duvall
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Deceived (1991)
Thriller
A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the supposed death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. After his supposed death, strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past. Developments that lead her to believe she has been Deceived.
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Damon Redfern, John Heard, Robin Bartlett, Ashley Peldon, Beatrice Straight
Director: Damian Harris
Eden no umi / Sea of Eden (1976)
Drama | Romance
A jovial young man from Tokyo, Nanjo, comes to teach at a girl highschool on the coast of Setonaikai. He captures the heart of all the girls right away except a rebellious one, Tomoe.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Yutaka Nanjo
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Lone Survivor (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
Based on the failed mission "Operation Red Wings" which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28, 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Alexander Ludwig, Emile Hirsch, Eric Bana
Director: Peter Berg
This Is England (2006)
Crime | Drama
It's 1983 and school is out. Twelve-year-old Shaun is a lonely boy growing up in a grim coastal town in northern England, whose father died fighting in the Falklands War. Over the course of the summer holiday he befriends a group of local skinheads. With his pent-up rage and frustration, Shaun finds exactly what he needs in the gang–mischief, mayhem and brotherhood. He also meets the volatile and boorish Combo, an older skinhead who sees himself in Shaun. Adopting Shaun as his protégé, Combo leads the gang down a hate spewing path that culminates in an irreversible act of violence.
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Michael Socha, Joseph Gilgun, Jack O'Connell
Director: Shane Meadows
Sobache serdtse / Heart of a Dog (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
The film is set in Moscow not long after the October Revolution. A well-known surgeon Preobrazhensky happens to need a dog and lures the animal to his big home annex practice with a piece of sausage. The dog is named Sharik and well taken care of by the doctor's maids, but still wonders why he's there. He finds out too late he's needed as a test animal: the doctor implants a pituitary gland and testicles of a recently deceased alcoholic and petty criminal Klim Chugunkin into Sharik. Sharik proceeds to become more and more human during the next days. After his transition to human is complete, it turns out that he inherited all the negative traits of the donor – bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking – but still hates cats. Eventually he turns the life in the professor's house into a nightmare…
Starring: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev, Nina Ruslanova
Director: Vladimir Bortko
La Run (2011)
Drama
Guillaume is a good young man. He has never taken hard drugs in his life, doesn't plan on trying, and has a honest job. Everything goes chaotic when he witnesses his father's attempted suicide, over a heavy gambling debt. In order to pay out his father's debt in a record time, Guillaume follows his best friend, Manu, in the difficult world of drug dealing.
Starring: Jason Roy-Léveillée, Marc Beaupré, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Nicolas Canuel, Martin Dubreuil, Paul Dion, Nanette Workman
Director: Demian Fuica
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New France / Battle of the Brave / Nouvelle-France (2004)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls.
Starring: Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Gérard Depardieu, Irène Jacob, Tim Roth, Jason Isaacs, Colm Meaney
Director: Jean Beaudin
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The Journey of August King (1995)
Drama
August King, a young man whose life is changed forever when he risks everything to help a beautiful woman on a courageous- and very dangerous -search for a new life.
Starring: Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston
Director: John Duigan
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Aces: Iron Eagle III / Iron Eagle III (1992)
Action | Drama
Colonel Charles Chappy Sinclair teams with three retired maverick fighter jocks from England, Germany and Japan as they fly souped-up World War II airplanes to combat a ruthless German drug lord and his high tech weaponry in the lawless South American jungles.
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Rachel McLish, Paul Freeman, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fred Dalton Thompson
Director: John Glen
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From the Hip (1987)
Comedy | Drama
Judd Nelson stars in the 1980's dramedy as Robin "Stormy" Weathers, an ambitious young attorney who joins a staid Boston law firm, where he shocks his superiors with his unconventional courtroom tactics. Surprisingly, his exuberant behavior impresses his superiors, and Robin soon finds himself promoted to junior partner. However, when he is assigned to a high-profile rape-murder case, he is forced to reexamine not only his ethics, but also his career decision as he grows to suspect his own client's guilt.
Starring: Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan, David Alan Grier, Nancy Marchand
Director: Bob Clark
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The Principal (1987)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.
Starring: James Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, Esai Morales
Director: Christopher Cain
