Verliefd op Ibiza (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Ibiza! The ultimate party island. The white beaches, the finest clubs, the most famous DJ's and beautiful people. "Verliefd op Ibiza" (In love on Ibiza) is a lovely feelgood movie full of humor, music and adventures.
Starring: Jan Kooijman, Sanne Vogel, Gigi Ravelli, Simone Kleinsma, Jim Bakkum, Kim Feenstra
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Barbara Broadcast (1977)
Adult | Comedy | Drama
In a restaurant in New York, the menu is unusual, with some sauces prepared by waiters on the spot. In this scenery, at another table, a reporter interviews a famous prostitute.
Starring: Annette Haven, C.J. Laing, Constance Money, Susan McBain, Jamie Gillis
Director: Radley Metzger
Zombibi / Kill Zombie! (2012)
Comedy | Horror
The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
Starring: Yahya Gaier, Mimoun Ouled Radi, Sergio Hasselbaink, Gigi Ravelli
Director: Martijn Smits, Erwin van den Eshof
Small Soldiers (1998)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Starring: Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Jay Mohr, David Cross, Kevin Dunn, Phil Hartman
Director: Joe Dante
Poklad byzantského kupce / The Treasure of a Byzantine Merchant (1967)
Comedy | Crime
The Treasure of Byzantine Merchant is one the Czech detective classics from the sixties. This movie is based on the novel of Vaclav Erben, successful writer of mysteries, whose famous criminologist was captain Exner. Exner is a clever investigator, but also an elegant playboy with great charm and sense of humor. The theme of this movie is an inquiry of the theft of the treasure which is connected with murder.
Starring: Jirí Vala, Gabriela Vránová, Jirí Sovák, Lubomír Lipský, Vladimír Smeral
Director: Ivo Novák
Bad Country / Whiskey Bay (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by real events, 'Bad Country' (a.k.a. 'Whiskey Bay') is a Louisiana set crime drama. In 1983, veteran Baton Rouge detective Bud Carter infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organisation, including its architect, Lutin.
Starring: Amy Smart, Neal McDonough, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Bill Duke, Tom Berenger
Director: Chris Brinker
Nurse / Nurse 3-D (2013)
Horror | Thriller
By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn't hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins…using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby's actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you'd least expect to justice.
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson, Kathleen Turner
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Daily Lives of High School Boys / Danshi Kôkôsei no Nichijô (2013)
Comedy | Romance
At an all boys high school, Tadakuni (Masaki Suda), Yoshitake (Shuhei Nomura) and Hidenori (Ryo Yoshizawa) are close friends and think usually all day about girls. Their high school then co-hosts a school festival with an all girls high school.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Shûhei Nomura, Ryo Yoshizawa
Director: Daigo Matsui
On His Majesty's Secret Service / Dai noi muk taam 009 (2009)
Comedy
Intrepid inventor Royal Dog (Louis Koo) is part of the elite imperial bodyguard team tasked with protecting the inept Emperor (Liu Yiwei) and Empress (Sandra Ng). Unlike his brother Royal Tiger (Tong Dawei), however, Royal Dog can't fight if his life depended on it. What he lacks in kung-fu prowess though, he makes up for with wacky (untested) weaponry concocted in his workshop. When the Emperor decides to hold a competition to choose a suitor for Princess Rainbow (Song Jia), Royal Dog becomes an unexpected top contender, much to the displeasure of his sassy girlfriend Faithful (Barbie Hsu). There's nary time for romance though when there are so many people out to kill him and the Emperor, including a cross-dressing female assassin (Liu Yang), head eunuch Lord Unicorn (Fan Siu Wong), and even the Empress herself!
Starring: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Sandra Ng, Siu-Wong Fan, Yang Jiang, Yiwei Liu, Jia Song
Director: Jing Wong
Persona (1966)
Drama
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler, an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona…
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Director: Ingmar Bergman
At Middleton (2013)
Comedy | Romance
A man and a woman fall in love while taking their kids on a college admissions tour.
Starring: Andy Garcia, Vera Farmiga, Taissa Farmiga
Director: Adam Rodgers
Stormbreaker / Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (2006)
Action | Adventure | Family | Thriller
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Missi Pyle, Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Sinbad: Where U Been? (2010)
Comedy | Documentary
Sinbad is back and Live at a Comedy Central Concert Special with comedy and music.
Starring: Sinbad
Director: Chuck Vinson
Mistaken For Strangers (2013)
Comedy | Documentary | Music
In 2010, rock band The National were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career. After ten years as a band, and five critically acclaimed albums, they were finally enjoying wider recognition. Lead singer Matt Berninger invited his younger brother, Tom, to join the tour's crew. A budding horror filmmaker, Tom – who is nine years younger than Matt and listens exclusively to heavy metal – decided to bring his camera along. Tom's at sea in the world of indie rock, and living in his brother's shadow brings out the younger sibling in him – he drinks, complains, and struggles to balance his ambition with his tour responsibilities. The result is a film about brothers and about making something of your own.
Starring: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Bryce Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf
Director: Tom Berninger
Humanity and Paper Balloons / Ninjô kami fûsen (1937)
Drama
Humanity and Paper Balloons, unlike most other Japanese films of this period, is a historical film with a critical edge. Refusing to glorify samurai, the film instead deflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life. At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food, the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family's only income comes from the little balloon children's toys made by the wife. Out of desperation, the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out, the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film's narrative circle.
Starring: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Sukezo Sukedakaya, Shizue Yamagishi
Director: Sadao Yamanaka
Gonza the Spearman / Yari no gonza (1986)
Drama
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Starring: Hiromi Gô, Shima Iwashita, Shôhei Hino, Misako Tanaka, Haruko Kato, Takashi Tsumura
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Carmen Falls in Love / Carmen's Innocent Love / Karumen junjo su (1952)
Comedy
Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masao Wakahara, Chikage Awashima, Toshiko Kobayashi, Eiko Miyoshi
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Big Joys, Small Sorrows / Shin yorokobimo kanashimimo ikutoshitsuki (1986)
Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Starring: Gô Katô, Hitoshi Ueki, Reiko Ôhara, Yoko Shinoyama, Hayao Okamoto
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Being Two Isn't Easy / I Am Two Years Old / Watashi wa nisai (1962)
Comedy | Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts of the child. They initially live in an apartment building, and then move into the doting grandmother's house.
Starring: Hiro Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Misako Watanabe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Ballad of Orin / Melody in Gray / Hanare goze Orin (1977)
Drama
This unsentimental Japanese tragedy chronicles the lonely life and quiet death of a blind Geisha girl whose desire for sexual freedom causes her to become an outcast.
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Tomoko Naraoka, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Tôru Abe, Yoshio Harada
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
