Resistance (2011)
Drama | Thriller
In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished.
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen, Kimberley Nixon
Director: Amit Gupta
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Based on a true story, Benjamin Mee is a recently-widowed father who moves his family to a beautiful estate miles outside the city. The only catch is that the estate is also a dilapidated zoo replete with 200 animals, and the purchase of the home is conditional on the new owner keeping the zoo and its entire staff. The Mee family subsequently sets out to rebuild and refurbish the zoo to its former glory, making new friends along the way.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Angus MacFadyen
Director: Cameron Crowe
The Sitter (2011)
Comedy
Noah is a suspended college student, living at home with his single mom, who is talked into babysitting the three, young, misfit kids next door. When he's invited that night to have sex by a girl, he decides to take the kids along on the attempted sexual rendezvous, and the night takes a wild and dangerous turn for the worse for which he is totally unprepared.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell, J.B. Smoove
Director: David Gordon Green
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Drama | Romance
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
Director: Lasse Hallström
Five Corners (1987)
Drama | Romance
Set in 1964 in a lower middle-class New York neighborhood, Heinz has just been released from prison but is still obsessed with Linda. She turns for help to Harry, an ex-boyfriend who has recently taken up the cause of non-violence. But Harry soon finds himself in a morally compromising situation where violence is the only solution.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro
Director: Tony Bill
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Action | Comedy | Horror
After witnessing the brutal murder of his family, Jack Brooks is left with an unquenchable fury that he is constantly fighting to control. Now working as a local plumber and struggling in a relationship with his girlfriend Eve, Jack's life has become a downward spiral. One night, Jack attempts to fix Professor Crowley's old, rusted pipes, but unknowingly awakens an ancient evil. Lured by this demonic power, Professor Crowley discovers a monstrous black heart that quickly forces its way inside of him. Possessed by the heart now beating in his chest, the Professor starts a slow, gruesome transformation. It is at this moment that Jack realizes he can't run from his past, and quickly discovers the true purpose of his inner rage.
Starring: Robert Englund, Trevor Matthews, Rachel Skarsten, David Fox, Daniel Kash
Director: Jon Knautz
The Battle for Marjah (2010)
Documentary
On February 13, 2010, American-led coalition forces launched the biggest military operation since the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Their target was the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. There, the Marines had four tasks: remove the Taliban, hold all ground seized, build infrastructure and governance, and transfer control to Afghan security forces. In this powerful account, award-winning journalist Ben Anderson tells the story of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and its commanding officer, Captain Ryan Sparks. At the battle's outset, Sparks and the 272 men of Bravo are flown 12 miles and dropped into the center of Marjah, where the Taliban lie in wait. For the young Marines, their first task begins. Embedded with Bravo Company, Anderson provides an intimate and sobering look at the realities of counterinsurgency warfare.
Director: Anthony Wonke
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Adventure | Drama | Mystery
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Viola Davis, Max von Sydow, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell
Director: Stephen Daldry
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Drama | Romance | War
Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.
Starring: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Nikola Djuricko, Dzana Pinjo
Director: Angelina Jolie
Take Shelter (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah's healthcare and special needs…
Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham
Director: Jeff Nichols
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Drama
A depiction of Christ's life including a vision of what his life might have been like had he not been crucified.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
Director: Martin Scorsese
The Lion of Judah (2011)
Animation
Follow the adventures of a bold lamb (Judah) and his stable friends as they try to avoid the sacrificial alter the week preceding the crucifixion of Christ. It is a heart-warming account of the Easter story as seen through the eyes of a lovable pig (Horace), a faint-hearted horse (Monty), a pedantic rat (Slink), a rambling rooster (Drake), a motherly cow (Esmay) and a downtrodden donkey (Jack). This magnificent period piece with its epic sets is a roller coaster ride of emotions. Enveloped in humor, this quest follows the animals from the stable in Bethlehem to the great temple in Jerusalem and onto the hillside of Calvary as these unlikely heroes try to save their friend.
Starring: Michael Madsen, Ernest Borgnine, Leon Clingman, Georgina Cordova, Scott Eastwood
Director: Deryck Broom, Roger Hawkins
Juno (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Juno (Ellen Page) is a teen facing an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera). With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner), longing to adopt. Though she faces some tough decisions, Juno flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.
Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney
Director: Jason Reitman
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The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Mark Bringelson
Director: Brett Leonard
Shattered (1991)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more about his past and true identity.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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War Horse / Warhorse (2011)
Drama | History | War
The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston
Director: Steven Spielberg
Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973)
Crime | Sci-Fi
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness – Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?
Starring: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Adrian Hoven, Karl Heinz Vosgerau
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Penance (2009)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.
Starring: Marieh Delfino, Michael Rooker, Graham McTavish
Director: Jake Kennedy
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A blind man and a deaf man are mistakenly accused of murder and must work together to find the real killers.
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Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Kevin Spacey, Joan Severance, Anthony Zerbe
Director: Arthur Hiller
