The Raven (2012)
Mystery | Thriller
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Starring: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kevin McNally
Director: James McTeigue
Swerve (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When loner Colin driving through the desert on the way to a job interview, he ends up in the middle of the chaos of a severe car accident. One driver is an excited beautiful woman, the other a dead stranger, with a bag filled with money, in the passenger seat…
Starring: Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon, Vince Colosimo, Roy Billing
Director: Craig Lahiff
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Western
'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' delves into the private life and public exploits of the United States' most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money – and the glory – riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider
Director: Andrew Dominik
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Comedy | Romance
Shy Londoner Charles meets American Carrie at a friend's wedding and enjoys a one-night stand with her. The next time they meet, again at a wedding, Carrie is accompanied by a rich fiancé, leaving Charles heartbroken. Nevermind, with another wedding on the horizon, there is still time for him to pitch his woo and win the love of his transatlantic sweetheart.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Mike Newell
Death Wish 3 / Death Wish III (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police detective to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alex Winter
Director: Michael Winner
Twins of Evil (1971)
Horror
Stunning identical siblings, one good and the other decidedly evil. One of the young women is a vampire, and the other is the "nice girl next door." When the townspeople decide to burn the vampire at the stake they make a tragic error.
Starring: Inigo Jackson, Judy Matheson, Peter Cushing, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Maggie Wright, Damien Thomas, Katya Wyeth
Director: John Hough
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Karolina Kurkova, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols
Director: Stephen Sommers
District 9 (2009)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi- National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable — he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Casino (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and breathes the odds. He eventually doubles the mob's take and changes the rules of how the casinos are run. But he can't control the odds when it comes to Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. His infatuation with Ginger turns to obsession as she rises with him to the upper crust of society, then turns to the bottle and pills for consolation in her gilded cage. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King
Director: Martin Scorsese
She Wants Me (2012)
Comedy | Romance
He's a lovable, quirky, neurotic NY native, living in LA with his beautiful girlfriend, Sammy. A girl he knows how lucky he is to have in his life, since she was previously married to John: a, tall, fit, gorgeous, extremely successful Harvard med school graduate, who she's remained cordial with. Before Sammy, Sam hasn't had much success, romantically. He's an emerging filmmaker with one feature film under his belt that nobody's heard of. And she's an aspiring actress, inching for her big break, which may never come, unless Sam offers her the female lead in his next project, which he does… the night before one of the hottest, most in demand actresses working today, Kim Powers…
Starring: Josh Gad, Kristen Ruhlin, Hilary Duff, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Messner, Aaron Yoo, Melonie Diaz
Director: Rob Margolies
The Perfect Teacher (2010)
Thriller
When 17-year-old Devon falls in love with her attractive new math teacher Jim, she'll stop at nothing, including murder, to make sure they end up together. Ingratiating herself with his daughter Annique and making sure his current girlfriend Rachel and ex-wife Marissa are out of the way, Devon's obsession takes a deadly toll on Jim's life.
Starring: Megan Park, David Charvet, Boti Bliss
Director: Jim Donovan
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Protéger & servir / Protect and Serve (2010)
Comedy
Friends of Kim and Michelle Huang Budrio – policemen. They are inseparable since they met in an orphanage. Meanie Huang has an unusual attraction for ugly women, and Budrio – naive hypocrite, who dreams of writing the script of the Christian cop show. They – the police are not the best either France or the Paris region, or even his commissariat. However, it is they have to pass a difficult test of his career: under the command of the head of the National Police Mrs Aude Lettele stem the tide of heinous acts of terrorism…
Starring: Kad Merad, Clovis Cornillac, Carole Bouquet, François Damiens
Director: Eric Lavaine
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Drama
In the troubling times of the Great Depression the Joad family, accompanied by their friend Reverend Jim, migrate from Oklahoma to California in the hopes of finding work in a vineyard and improving their financial condition. But the road is long and rough, and when they reach their destination things aren't quite what they expected.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Russell Simpson, Charley Grapewin, Eddie Quillan
Director: John Ford
The Misfits (1961)
Drama | Romance | Western
A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach
Director: John Huston
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Comedy
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Pat O'Brien, George Raft, Joe E. Brown
Director: Billy Wilder
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Comedy | Romance
It's every man's fantasy – a summer romance with the sexiest woman he can imagine. Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a happily married man whose wife and son are off on vacation when his tempting new neighbor (Monroe) sneaks in one hot summer night to cool off in his air-conditioned apartment. How does an ordinary man deal with this irresistible temptation after seven years of marriage? Find out in this 1955 treasure featuring Evelyn Keyes and Marguerite Chapman and directed by Oscar winner Billy Wilder.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka
Director: Billy Wilder
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Dan Dailey
Director: Walter Lang
River of No Return (1954)
Action | Adventure | Western
After his wife dies, Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) and his young son begin a new life in the breathtaking, rugged Northwest wilderness, where Calder is robbed and beaten by ruthless gambler Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun). When Weston's beautiful fiancèe (Marilyn Monroe) then decides to nurse Calder back to health, the insanely jealous Weston risks their lives by taking them all on a ride down a treacherous river in this spectacular looking Western.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Douglas Spencer, Tommy Rettig
Director: Otto Preminger
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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it?
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Rory Calhoun
Director: Jean Negulesco
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sizzle, sing and dance as a couple of gold diggers out to land rich husbands. This Technicolor film fable follows the exploits of two gorgeous women aboard a luxury ocean liner. One (Monroe) loves diamonds and the other (Russell) loves men. On the ship with them are an elderly diamond mine owner (Charles Coburn), a team of handsome and muscular Olympic athletes, a fascinating but very young millionaire (George Winslow) and a nosy private eye. Packed with 40 minutes of production numbers, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes includes the legendary title song and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan
Director: Howard Hawks
