Washington Square (1997)
Drama | Romance
Passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money. Based on the 1880 Henry James novel.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Ice Soldiers (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi
Buried beneath the Arctic ice since the Cold War, genetically modified Soviet soldiers have been rediscovered, reactivated and are ready to unleash devastating destruction. They are cold-blooded killing machines with super-human strength and one man, a scientist who has been searching for them his entire life, will try to stop the carnage before they complete their terrifying, top-secret mission.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Michael Ironside
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
The After-Dinner Mysteries / Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de (2013)
Mystery
Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Keiko Kitagawa, Jun Kaname, Masatoshi Nakamura, Nanami Sakuraba, Kippei Shîna
Director: Masato Hijikata
Twin Dragons / Shuang long hui (1992)
Action | Comedy
On holidays in Hong Kong, Mrs Ma gives birth to identical twins. A criminal in the same hospital attempts to escape, taking one of the twins hostage. The child is lost during the confusion, and Mr and Mrs Ma return to New York with one child. Years later, John Ma is a famous conductor and pianist, unaware that his twin brother "Boomer" is a mechanic/race car driver/bodyguard in Hong Kong. When John travels to Hong Kong to give a concert, the twins get caught up in each other's business, about which they are anything but experts.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Chi Leung, John Woo, Eric Tsang, Hark Tsui
Director: Ringo Lam, Hark Tsui
R… Rajkumar / Rambo Rajkumar (2013)
Action | Comedy | Romance
An aimless youth starts working for drug baron and his mission is to kill is rival.
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ragini Dwivedi
Director: Prabhudheva
The Front (1976)
Comedy | Drama
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence – who quits TV in disgust over things – and friendship with the show's ex-star – now himself blacklisted – make him start to think about what is really going on.
Starring: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Lloyd Gough, David Margulies, Herschel Bernardi
Director: Martin Ritt
The Wild Geese (1978)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
A group of aged mercenaries are hired by a British millionaire to rescue an African President being held by a vicious Central African dictator. Even though the mission succeeds, the mercenaries are betrayed by the millionaire who's financing the operation as he cares only about his own business interests, and are forced to fight the dictator's troops in order to survive and escape.
Starring: Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, John Kani
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Angels in Stardust (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, AJ Michalka, Billy Burke
Director: William Robert Carey
Shopgirl (2005)
Drama | Romance
Twenty-something native Vermonter Mirabelle Buttersfield, having recently graduated from college, is finding her new life in Los Angeles not quite what she was expecting or hoping. An aspiring artist, she is barely eking out a living working as a clerk at the women's evening gloves counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and thus she can barely make the payments on her massive student loans. She treats her job with a certain distance, often daydreaming as she watches the life of the rich as they shop at the store. She has made no friends, including from among her Saks colleagues, and thus lives a solitary existence, which does not assist in her dealing with her chronic clinical depression.
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Sam Bottoms, Frances Conroy
Director: Anand Tucker
Frankenstein (2004)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Starring: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir
Director: Kevin Connor
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
Bullet (2014)
Action
Cult action hero Danny Trejo is Frank Bullet who takes on a ruthless cartel in a race against time to save his family. The body count just keeps rising in this gritty action film laced with typical Trejo humor. This time they messed with the wrong guy.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Julia Dietze, Torsten Voges, Jonathan Banks, Eve Mauro, Gerald Webb
Director: Nick Lyon
The Last Days on Mars / Last Days on Mars (2013)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Goran Kostic, Johnny Harris, Tom Cullen
Director: Ruairi Robinson
Gloria (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Starring: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Comedy | Crime
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Starring: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Michael Rapaport, Hugh Grant, Tony Darrow, Jon Lovitz
Director: Woody Allen
Sexy Beast (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ex-con Gary "Gal" Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking and explosive battle of wills with Logan, a battle that redefines his notions of love, honor and commitment.
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Bystreye, chem kroliki / Faster Than Rabbits (2014)
Comedy
Three friends wake up after a crazy party in an absolutely unknown place full of unknown people and try to understand, what are they doing there, who all these strangers are and what really happened yesterday… What do men do and what are they speaking about in such a strange situation?
Starring: Leonid Barats, Aleksandr Demidov, Kamil Larin, Rostislav Khait, Nonna Grishaeva, Yekaterina Kuznetsova
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko
Lootera (2013)
Drama | Romance
The year is 1953. A visiting archaeologist called Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal to excavate the temple grounds of the local Zamindar. With knowledge and experience beyond his young demeanour, Varun greatly impresses the Zamindar and his family.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Adil Hussain, Vikrant Massey, Arif Zakaria
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Taal (1999)
Musical | Romance
On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu. He is attracted to her, and makes his attraction known. She also is attracted to him eventually. Her dad approves of Manav, and both go to Bombay to meet his family. On their arrival itself, they are shunned and treated as second class citizens, and this lasts throughout the day, with the treatment getting worst at every point. Both decide to leave. Mansi decides to improve her career, leaving the past behind, and meets with Vikrant Kapoor, who helps her get started. Both see each other regularly, and soon decide to get married. In the meantime, Manav has not given up hope to marry Mansi, despite opposition from his and her families. Manav relentlessly purses his dream of marrying Mansi, even on the day of her marriage to Vikrant.
Starring: Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Alok Nath, Amrish Puri, Sushma Seth, Mita Vasisht, Saurabh Shukla
Director: Subhash Ghai
Retribution / Sakebi (2006)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
While investigating the gruesome death of a woman found in a puddle with her stomach inexplicably full of seawater, Detective Yoshioka begins to wonder whether he himself is actually the killer he's been looking for. He doesn't remember committing the crime, but the murder scene is littered with his belongings – and his fingerprints are all over the body.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Jô Odagiri
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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