Recount (2008)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, Tom Wilkinson, Bruce Altman
Director: Jay Roach
An Officer and a Murderer (2012)
Crime | Drama
The riveting film is based on the true story of a powerful and respected military officer who committed numerous brutal crimes and was eventually brought down by a tenacious small town police detective.
Starring: Gary Cole, Laura Harris, Rossif Sutherland, Nahanni Johnstone, Catherine Disher
Director: Norma Bailey
Devil's Due (2014)
Horror
After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.
Starring: Zach Gilford, Allison Miller, Sam Anderson, Griff Furst
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Gimme Shelter (2013)
Drama
16 year old street-wise Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey, is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, to take her in.
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Stephanie Szostak, Ann Dowd
Director: Ron Krauss
Kid Cannabis (2014)
Drama
KID CANNABIS is the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life – complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords – may leave this ex-pizza boy in way over his head.
Starring: Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kenny Wormald, Ron Perlman, Aaron Yoo, John C. McGinley
Director: John Stockwell
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Small Time (2014)
Comedy | Drama
comes to selling cars. Martini is a good-time charley, who never settled down. Klein, however, still pines for his ex-wife Barbara who left him years ago for a more successful man. After their son, Freddy graduates high school, he decides to forego college in favor of selling cars with his old man. But what's good for Klein might not be the best thing for Freddy, as Freddy quickly transforms from innocent young man into a jaded car salesman… leaving Al with a tough decision to make.
Starring: Christopher Meloni, Devon Bostick, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Norris
Director: Joel Surnow
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Son of Batman (2014)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Hidden atop a secret mountain stronghold lies the League of Shadows and its fearless leader, Ra's al Ghul. Together with his equally dangerous daughter Talia, he oversees a trained army of assassins with plans for global domination. But an uprising from within the league now threatens to shift the balance of power and sends Talia and her young son, Damian, fleeing to Gotham City. With assassins on their trail, Talia seeks the protection of Batman, who, unbeknownst to him, is the boy's father. With his son in tow, Batman wages war against the villain Deathstroke and the League of Shadows, all while teaching his headstrong boy that one can't fight crime by becoming a criminal. With help from Gotham's finest, including Commissioner Gordon and Nightwing, Batman will soon discover that his son and most trusted ally are one and the same!
Starring: Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan, Thomas Gibson, Morena Baccarin, Xander Berkeley, Giancarlo Esposito, David McCallum
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Sweet Alibis / Tian mi sha ji (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.
Starring: Alec Su, Ariel Lin, Chung-tien Wu, Tsu-Jun Lang, Ruby Lin
Director: Yi-chi Lien
Along Came A Spider (2001)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott, Monica Potter, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
Director: Lee Tamahori
Summer in February (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
British drama based on the lives and loves of the Newlyn School of artists, influential at the beginning of the 20th century. Arguably the wildest and most free-spirited sect of the school is the Lamorna Group, who live together at the Lamorna Valley Estate on the Cornish coast. Alfred Munnings is one of the foremost artists based at Lamorna, a strident opponent of modernism particularly famous for his skill at depicting horses. However, Alfred faces stern competition for the love of fellow artist Florence Carter-Wood in the form of the estate's land agent Gilbert Evans.
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Mia Austen, Shaun Dingwall
Director: Christopher Menaul
The Damned United (2009)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
From the best-selling and critically acclaimed novel by David Peace, 'The Damned United' is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Michael Sheen as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough. Timothy Spall stars as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Set in 1960's and 1970's England, 'The Damned United' tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football, Leeds United.
Starring: Michael Sheen, Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, Ralph Ineson, Joe Dempsie, Stephen Graham
Director: Tom Hooper
Run, Fat Boy, Run / Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A charming but oblivious overweight guy leaves his fiancee on their wedding day only to discover years later that he really loves her. To win her back, he must finish a marathon while making her realize that her new handsome, wealthy fiancé is the wrong guy for her.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Matthew Fenton, Harish Patel
Director: David Schwimmer
Swedish House Mafia: Leave the World Behind (2014)
Documentary | Music
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND follows global music sensation Swedish House Mafia as they complete their 'One Last Tour', the largest worldwide electronic music tour in history with over 1,000,000 tickets sold worldwide in just one week. Director Christian Larson (TAKE ONE) captures the band's decision to bring an end to their life's biggest achievement in order to save their friendship. Audiences will get a front-row seat as Larson films the trio in an honest, raw and emotional showcase of the group's final chapter as electronic music's finest.
Starring: Axel Hedfors, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello
Director: Christian Larson
Golden Chickensss / Gam Gai SSS (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Working as a call girl since she was sixteen, Kam (Sandra Ng) is now a madam with many young girls under her wings. A regular face among the rich and powerful, Kam is fonder of the past when Hong Kong was still under British rule. Gordon (Nick Cheung), the mafia boss whom Kam had a crush on, is released from jail almost two decades after Hong Kong's Handover back to China, and has a hard time coming to terms with the new face of the city. Kam, with nothing but pure intentions, helps Gordon get back on his feet towards a normal life because that's what Hong Kong people do.
Starring: Sandra Ng, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ronald Cheng, Eason Chan, Anthony Wong, Wyman Wong
Director: Matt Chow
The Apology King / Shazai no ohsama (2013)
Comedy
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Starring: Sadao Abe, Mao Inoue, Yutaka Takenouchi, Masaki Okada, Machiko Ono, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Katsumi Takahashi
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Police Story 2013 / Ging chaat goo si 2013 (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Ye Liu, Tian Jing, Wei Na, Rongguang Yu
Director: Sheng Ding
The Doors (1991)
Biography | Drama | Music
Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, from his days as a UCLA film student in the early 1960s to his death in a Paris hotel in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But as the Doors' fame begins to spread-with Morrison as the focus of attention-his drug consumption and erratic behavior increase exponentially. The rest of the band-Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger-begins to grow tired of his late arrivals, the increasing number of cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott
Director: Oliver Stone
The Commitments (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Music
The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
Starring: Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Bronagh Gallagher, Angeline Ball
Director: Alan Parker
95ers: Time Runners / 95ers: Echoes (2013)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the distant future, millions have died in brutal wars leaving cities laying in ruins. The ultimate weapons become time machines which can insure victory by manipulating the past. In the not-distant future, FBI agent Sally Biggs is obsessed with investigating unsolved cases involving paranormal activities- especially the bizarre disappearance of her scientist husband. She suspects that the mysteries have something to do with the destabilization of time, since Sally herself has the power to rewind history. But she slowly learns that her power is connected to a cataclysmic war in the future, and that she, her husband, and their unborn child become important targets of soldiers travelling from the future. Hunted by assassins while her own timeline is unraveling, her only hope is to follow her husband's ghost to the awesome truth that ties all the mysteries together.
Starring: Alesandra Durham, Joel Bishop, Terence Goodman, Ian Paul Freeth, Chris Laird, Anne Sward, K. Danor Gerald, Alan Peterson, Alix Maria Taulbee, Christopher Robin Miller
Director: Thomas Gomez Durham
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A Farewell to Fools (2013)
Comedy | Drama | War
Set during World War II, somewhere in Romania. A German soldier is found dead near a village, and the local authorities must finger the culprit or they will all be shot by Nazis the following morning. There's no way to identify the guilty party, but there is Ipu, the madman of the village, who the town leaders, led by Father Johanis, pressure to claim responsibility for the soldier's death and die to save their skins. A farce seen through the eyes of a young village boy, we witness the comedy and horror of human nature as the villagers manipulate one another-even the ones you'd least expect…
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Laura Morante, Bogdan Iancu, Alexandru Bindea
Director: Bogdan Dreyer
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