Haunter (2013)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A teenage ghost teams-up with a living girl to stop a phantom killer, and break a vicious supernatural cycle.
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Peter Outerbridge, Michelle Nolden, Stephen McHattie
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Le volcan / Eyjafjallajökull (2013)
Comedy
For travelers around the world, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull is a downer. For Alain and Valerie, it’s a catastrophe. For if they are to make it in time to the tiny Greek village where their daughter's wedding is taking place, the two divorcees have to swallow their pathological hatred for each other and hit the road together.
Starring: Valérie Bonneton, Dany Boon, Denis Ménochet
Director: Alexandre Coffre
Hello Babies / Liu fu xi shi (2014)
Comedy
Torn between the All's Well Ends Well and the I Love Hong Kong series every year Lunar New Year? This year you don't have to! Director Vincent Kok unites Eric Tsang and Raymond Wong for the jubilant movie Hello Babies, a Lunar New Year comedy that has everything from a wacky plot to lowbrow jokes to make you laugh. High in holiday spirit, the comedy features Sandra Ng as a famous midwife who helps a couple (played by Ronald Cheng and Fiona Sit) to conceive. As the tradition goes, the Lunar New Year movie has a plethora of star cameos including Alex Fong, Alex Lam, Karena Chin, Lynn Xiong, Jan Lamb, Miriam Yeung and Louis Koo as well as a great deal of hilarious references to movies like Ip Man and The Grandmaster. Lui Ming (Raymond Wong) and Yeung Ah Wei (Eric Tsang) are lifelong rivals who challenge one another to just about everything that they can think of, and now they're competing over the birth of an heir. Lui Ming, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, threatens his nephew Scallop (Ronald Cheng) to have a child with wife Suet (Fiona Sit) as quick as possible after finding out about the baby girl carried by Yeung's son Alex (Alex Lam) and wife Shan Shan (Karena Chin). Hiring midwife Kung Sham (Sandra Ng), who has incredible reproducing skills, to help Scallop and Suet conceive, they eventually come up with a make-do plan to cope with their father-in-law Lui Ming's constant request.
Starring: Bak-Ming Wong, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng, Ronald Cheng, Fiona Sit, Lynn Hung
Director: Vincent Kok
Gabrielle (2013)
Drama | Music | Romance
Gabrielle is a young woman with Williams syndrome who has a contagious joie de vivre and an exceptional musical gift. Since she met her boyfriend Martin, at the recreation centre where they are choir members, they have been inseparable. However, because they are "different," their loved ones are fearful of their relationship. As the choir prepares for an important music festival, Gabrielle does everything she can to gain her independence. As determined as she is, Gabrielle must still confront other people's prejudices as well as her own limitations in the hope of experiencing a love far from the "ordinary".
Starring: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
Director: Louise Archambault
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Shortly after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, a mysterious letter signed by the musical genius appears: "What longings with tears for you…my life…my everything…farewell then…Go on loving me, ever yours, ever mine, forever, L.." These mysterious words prove the existence of one true love for Beethoven in the midst of numerous affairs – and never a marriage – with countesses. However, throughout history, Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" remains unknown until now, where with enough evidence, Beethoven's "longing" is revealed, disclaiming all previous theories and biographies about one of the greatest composers who ever lived.
Starring: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Barry Humphries
Director: Bernard Rose
Viy / Forbidden Empire (2014)
Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Western Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods of Ukraine. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskite, Andrey Smolyakov, Igor Jijikine, Oleg Taktarov
Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Starring: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg
Director: Gregg Araki
Déjà vu (1989)
Comedy
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich – Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odessa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
Starring: Jerzy Stuhr, Galina Petrova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Vladimir Golovin, Oleg Shklovsky, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Gennadi Vengerov
Director: Juliusz Machulski
Konfident / Estebák / The Confidant (2012)
Comedy | Drama | History | Thriller
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
Starring: Jirí Mádl, Michaela Majerníková, Maciej Stuhr, Jan Budar, Ondrej Vetchý
Director: Juraj Nvota
The Four 2 / Si da ming bu 2 (2013)
Action | Adventure
The movie sees the return of Heartless, Iron Fist, Hunter and Cold Blood, four detectives who dedicate their unique and special skills to the service of Master Zhuge in solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals.
Starring: Chao Deng, Yifei Liu, Anthony Wong, Collin Chou, Ronald Chengs
Director: Gordon Chan
Mortician / Lin Zhong Jiong Shi (2013)
Comedy | Horror
Mortician is a heartfelt story about life and death wrapped in the package of a horror comedy produced by Man Cheun and director Cub Qian ( Lost on Journey, A Happy Chinese New Year). The film revolves around a timid mortician who lost his ability to laugh, but in his line of work he encounters kindhearted yet odd people who help him become a better person and overcome his childhood fears. Due to injuries to his nerve system, orphan Siu Bo (Bao Bei'er) lost his ability to laugh when he was young. Feeling guilty for what happened, his uncle Qing Song (Kim Chim) arranges a position for him in a funeral home in the city. Haunted by what he sees every night there, he braves his fears with the support of his uncle who always reminds him of the meaning of their work for the deceased. Along the way, he also finds a way to cope with death when it finally knocks on his door.
Starring: Sui-man Chim, Bei-Er Bao, Janice Man, Shui-Fan Fung, Monica Mok, Gangshan Jing, Kristy Yang, Chi Chung Lam, Chao Zhang
Director: Cub Chin
Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)
Drama
A mystery unfolds with a woman named Madoka (Maki Horikita), who is a killer, and Ataru (Masahiro Nakai). The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru.
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yûta Tamamori, Maki Horikita, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hiroaki Murakami
Director: Hisashi Kimura
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Drama
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school…if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson
Director: Elia Kazan
Vi är bäst! / We Are the Best! (2013)
Drama
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Starring: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Mattias Wiberg, Jonathan Salomonsson, Alvin Strollo
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Oblomov / Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova (1979)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The title character is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to go to bed one day–and never get up. Preferring to sleep his way through life rather than confront it, Oblomov is shaken from his slumbers by the arrival of a childhood friend Shtoltz. A series of flashbacks show why it is that this friend's presence gets Oblomov out of his 'jammies and back on his feet. Also known as A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov.
Starring: Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryo, Andrei Popov, Elena Soloveyv, Avangard Leontev
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Moebius (2013)
Drama
In this wordless film a wife fails to exact revenge on her cheating husband so instead takes it out on her son by castrating him. Remorseful, the husband tries his best to make it up to his son.
Starring: Jae-hyeon Jo, Eun-woo Lee, Young-ju Seo
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Commitment / Dong-chang-saeng (2013)
Action | Drama
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister.
Starring: Seung Hyun Choi, Ye-ri Han, Yoo-Jeong Kim, Je-mun Yun, Sung Ha Jo, Seong-Woong Park
Director: Hong-soo Park
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Two successful New Yorkers, Meryl and Paul, are at their wits' ends on how to solve their strained marriage. But when they become the only witnesses to a brutal murder, the police hide them away in Wyoming – together. Now these diehard city dwellers will have to survive the weather, bears, fresh air, and forced time with one another if they want to make it out alive.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Mary Steenburgen, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Kelly
Director: Marc Lawrence
Roma / Fellini's Roma (1972)
Comedy | Drama
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Starring: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Marne Maitland, Renato Giovannoli, Elisa Mainardi
Director: Federico Fellini
Piknik / Picnic (2014)
Drama
Weekend trip of nine friends into places where they have once spent long years of their lives.
Starring: Ludek Munzar, Jan Tríska, Petr Nározný, Leopold Haverl, Oldrich Vlach
Director: Hynek Bocan
