Rushmore (1998)
Comedy | Drama
A coming of age tale that centers on precocious 10th grader Max Fischer and his expulsion from the prestigious Rushmore Academy.
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox
Director: Wes Anderson
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Biography | Drama
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg
Director: Ron Howard
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The Visitor (2007)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Walter (Richard Jenkins) is a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever. As challenges arise for his tenants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friends, and rediscovers a passion he thought he had lost long ago.
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Documentary | History
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Starring: Werner Herzog
Director: Werner Herzog
Bandolero! (1968)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Western
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Starring: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill
Director: F. Gary Gray
Insomnia (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Invited to Nightmute, Alaska, to head a murder case, a veteran LAPD detective finds his investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on him – and by personal guilt over a second crime that may be real…or a figment of his increasingly unstable consciousness.
Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Director: Christopher Nolan
Hoosiers (1986)
Drama | Sport
Nominated for two Oscars and hailed by Sports Illustrated and ESPN as one of the best sports movies of all time, this triumphant tale of a high school basketball team's long-shot attempt to with the state championship is filled with edge-of-your seat suspense and breathless excitement! Featuring "fast-break cinematography that catches the pace of the game" (The Washington Post) and powerful performances from Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper, Hoosiers is "a winner" (Boxoffice)!
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons
Director: David Anspaugh
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Master storyteller Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands) weaves an eerie, enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien
Director: Tim Burton
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Drama | History | Sport
The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Holm
Director: Hugh Hudson
Seattle Superstorm (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi
NASA scientist Tom Reynolds thought everything would be fine when he moved to Seattle to be with his fiancé, Navy Lieutenant Emma Peterson. But when his gearhead son Wyatt can't stop fighting with her green-minded daughter Chloe, they realize that this new family may not make it. And things aren't just stormy on the home front; when an unidentified object is shot down by the military and crashes into Puget Sound, it sets off a series of strange weather phenomena: earthquakes, tornados, lightning storms… and they're spreading. Now, this new family must find a way to work together to save the city, and each other, before it's too late.
Starring: Dominika Juillet, Esai Morales, Ona Grauer, Jared Abrahamson, MacKenzie Porter
Director: Jason Bourque
TRON / TRON: The Original Classic (1982)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
When Flynn hacks into the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure. Beamed inside by a power-hungry Master Control Program, he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high-velocity "Light Cycles" and Tron, a specialized security program. Together they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both the electronic world and the real world!
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes
Director: Steven Lisberger
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
A scientist tries to solve world hunger only to see things go awry as food falls from the sky in abundance.
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Andy Samberg
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Waking Life (2001)
Animation | Drama
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries. We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going?
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Julie Delpy
Director: Richard Linklater
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Z'olushka / Cinderella (2012)
Comedy | Romance
The film's heroine, Masha Krapivina – yet beautiful, and not that clever fairy tale. An ordinary girl, risked, like thousands of her peers from different parts of the country, to conquer Moscow, having left his native country town. Evening studies, and from morning to night work "in hazardous environments" – a maid in a wealthy family. Cereals, of course, goes through, but it works enough: only manage to spin, to please the imperious mistress and her two daughters erratic.
Masha, meanwhile, like millions of other girls on the ears in love with a famous singer Prince Alexei. She – his most devoted fan, alas, without the slightest chance to get acquainted with the subject of their girlish dreams. And it must be the same to happen – "noble" family receives an invitation to a ball, or rather, private party, which will meet all of the cultural elite of the country, and most importantly – there will be the OH! And it is clear that from this moment Mary is ready for any sacrifice to be there, too. But how? To help our Cinderella, of course, comes the fairy godmother in the person's aunt Agnes, editor of the publication "Yellow PRESS». She is ready to get to a "poor cousin" coveted invitation, but with one condition: Maria go to a party with a difficult and rather pungent journalistic assignment…
In this match with a known fairy tale does not end there: the King will be here and it is oligarchic type, and the Prince, surrounded by an entire cage of today's "stars" of show business, and a chiming clock, and even a "glass slipper", played by… There is, perhaps, let it remain until the mystery.
The audience can only be happy to follow the ups and downs of the old as the hills, but sooo modern history and hope for a happy ending, of course, if we have time to sort out Cinderella time that this "prince" – not the one she fantasized himself.
Starring: Kristina Asmus, Nikita Efremov, Artyom Tkachenko, Nonna Grishaeva, Margarita Isaykova
Director: Sergey Ivanov
Delicacy / La délicatesse (2011)
Comedy | Romance
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Audrey Fleurot, Francois Damiens
Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
Comedy
A 30-year-old man, forced to grow up when his parents decide to sell the family vacation home, enlists his friends to throw one final party–an orgy.
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Tyler Labine, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Angela Sarafyan, Lindsay Sloane, Martin Starr, Lucy Punch, Will Forte
Director: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
Róza / Rose (2011)
Drama | History | War
A harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. The law of the jungle had replaced the rule of law. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who survived the Warsaw uprising and is attempting to hide his identity.
Starring: Marcin Dorocinski, Kinga Preis, Marian Dziedziel, Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, Eryk Lubos
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
A Few Best Men (2011)
Comedy
When English lad David announces he is getting married to an Australian, his hapless mates give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'for better or worse'! The chaos-filled wedding day tests their new marriage, challenges David's relationships with his three best men, and risks turning what should be the best day of their lives into the worst. A FEW BEST MEN is a hilarious culture clash between his friends and her family – because blood is thicker than water, and so are David's mates!
Starring: Laura Brent, Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Rebel Wilson, Olivia Newton-John
Director: Stephan Elliott
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Starring: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Dorothée Berryman, Marina Hands
Director: Denys Arcand
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