The Woman (2011)
Crime | Drama | Horror
When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.
Starring: Carlee Baker, Shana Barry, Marcia Bennett
Director: Lucky McKee
50/50 (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Adam Lerner, an ordinary 25-year-old who loves his girlfriend and enjoys his job, is diagnosed with cancer. He hears it from the doctor. He tells his family. He goes through chemo. Coping with his mortality, Adam decides to use humor in his struggle to cure cancer and keep his sanity intact. And where his family and friends struggle to fully understand his situation, Adam's psychologist and fellow…
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston
Director: Jonathan Levine
The Big I Am (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Starring: Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan, Michael Madsen, Robert Fucilla, Steven Berkoff
Director: Nic Auerbach
Shallow Hal (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman whom only he can see as a vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis?
Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Animation | Family | Fantasy
When an enchanted kingdom and the most fair princess in the land falls prey to the ultimate mistress of evil, the fate of the empire rests in the hands of three small fairies and a courageous prince's magic kiss. Their quest is fraught with peril as the fellowship must battle the evil witch and a fire breathing dragon if they are to set the Beauty free. From spectacular action to the breathtaking pageantry of the princess and her kingdom, Sleeping Beauty has something to charm every member of your family. Disney's first Large Format animated film. Made in Technirama.
Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Director: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman
Kokowääh (2011)
Comedy | Romance
An author of fiction (Til Schweiger) must deal with the emergence of his 8-year-old natural daughter (Emma Tiger Schweiger), the previously unknown product of a one-night indiscretion in Stockholm. Henry is an unsuccessful screenwriter, and just as unhappy going from one casual relationship to another. Out of the blue he gets a fantastic job offer to co-write the screenplay of a bestselling novel together with Katharina. She is not only the author of the novel, but Henry's ex-girlfriend and the love of his life. He now has a second chance and things couldn't get better when an 8-year-old girl, Magdalena, shows up at Henry's door and turns his life upside down. She's his daughter from a long-forgotten one night stand eight years ago and her mother Charlotte, who's attending a court hearing in the US, insists Henry takes care of Magdalena until she returns. Henry is shocked, and so is Tristan, who thought for eight years that he was Magdalena's biological father. Life will never be the same for any of them.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Emma Schweiger, Jasmin Gerat, Samuel Finzi
Director: Til Schweiger
The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf's Story (2011)
Animation | Family
Nine-year-old Taylor McTuttle has reached a crossroads. Does he believe Santa Claus really knows who is naughty or nice? Does he even believe in Santa Claus anymore? An Elf's Story is the inspirational tale of Chippey, the young scout elf who is assigned by Santa to restore Taylor's belief in Christmas magic. When the boy breaks the number one Elf on the Shelf rule, Chippey loses his Christmas magic; the entire McTuttle family loses its scout elf, and both Taylor and Chippey lose their self-respect. Through the power of love and forgiveness, both of them learn the most important lesson of all: that true belief cannot be taught. A family holiday classic for generations to come. An Elf's Story is filled with fun, music and the timeless message that Christmas is something we carry in our hearts.
Starring: Leslie Bellair, Brendan Dooling, Evie Eikhoff, Emma Greene, Tatiana Guy
Director: Chad Eikhoff
Highlander II: The Quickening / Highlander 2 (1991)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The year is 2024, and the population of Earth are under the impression that the ozone layer has been totally depleted. Former Immortal Connor MacLeod is now an old man, reviled by the media for his part in the construction of a protective shield, which is now in the hands of a corrupt corporation. However, when a batch of evil new Immortals arrive on the planet, McCleod's powers are magically restored, and – with the help of his resurrected mentor Ramirez – he sets out to see if the ozone layer really has been destroyed…
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Highlander (1986)
Action | Fantasy
During a fierce sword battle in the 1500s, Connor MacLeod, a simple Scotsman known as a poor fighter, is mortally wounded — but he does not die. MacLeod learns from the mysterious Ramirez that he is of a race of immortals. These rare knights never age and never reproduce, they can only meet death by the blade of another of their kind. Leaping back and forth through the centuries, MacLeod once again meets the evil Kurgan who nearly killed him 500 years ago. There can be only one.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart
Director: Russell Mulcahy
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Drama | History | Sport
Francis Ouimet was a working-class immigrant kid who–flanked by a 10-year-old caddie smaller than his golf bag–started with nothing and came out of nowhere to break down the barriers and become America's first golf hero nearly a century before Tiger Woods. In a world where it was believed only the wealthy and privileged could play, and win, at golf, it took an outsider to change the rules forever and prove that anyone with enough courage, grit and faith could achieve greatness. It all came to a head at the 1913 U.S. Open. Suddenly, Francis found himself in an ultimate showdown of skill and spirit–he, the unknown upstart American, facing off against Harry Vardon, a U.S. Open winner and six- time British Open champion (a record that still stands today) who was the sport's undisputed champion. One was a towering idol, the other an impossible underdog–and their legendary battle would transcend sport to become an illustration of human determination at its best.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter, Peyton List, Elias Koteas, Marnie McPhail
Director: Bill Paxton
Ghost Rider (2007)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
From Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man, Blade and X-Men, comes a new hero… Ghost Rider. Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) made a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne (Eva Mendes). Now, the devil has come for his due. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider… but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons. Forced to do the devil's bidding, Johnny is determined to confront his fate and use his curse and powers to defend the innocent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Taking Lives (2004)
Mystery | Thriller
Angelina Jolie plays FBI profiler Illeana Scott in this edgy cat-and-mouse thriller also starring Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and Olivier Martinez and directed by D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye,Two for the Money). For 20 years an elusive serial killer has assumed his victims identities. But now theres a breakthrough: Scott is assigned to the case and its her job to know what makes a killer tick. But somehow this killer knows even more about Scott.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez
Director: D.J. Caruso
Real Steel (2011)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train…
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo
Director: Shawn Levy
Collateral Damage (2002)
Action | Thriller
Surging excitement and one-man heroics fuel this powerful action thriller from the director of The Fugitive and Under Siege. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a fireman whose wife and child are killed in a terrorist bombing and who obsessively tracks the mastermind (Cliff Curtis) behind it, from Los Angeles to Colombia to Washington, DC. The fanatic plans to strike again in Washington…but how? When? Where? In the scramble for answers, one thing is clear: Collateral Damage is a ticking time bomb of suspense.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo
Director: Andrew Davis
The Messengers (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
The Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. When those specters become violent, Jess' sanity is questioned – a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Killer Elite (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
An ex-special ops agent is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor. To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader.
Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro
Director: Gary McKendry
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The Tenth Victim / La decima vittima (1965)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized – members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato
Director: Elio Petri
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011)
Crime | Drama
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Vincent Riotta, Paolo Romio, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
If Lula knows on thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor – no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying "tapestry of human extremity" (Variety).
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David Lynch
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Drama | Romance | War
Inman, a Civil War Confederate soldier, is seriously wounded in battle before heading home to North Carolina to his pre-war beloved, Ada. In his absence, Ada–with the help of a young drifter named Ruby–is desperately trying to hold onto the farm of her deceased missionary father. Inman's long journey home takes him through the crumbling confederacy, as he meets people of all walks of life who want to both aid and hinder his mission.
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Anthony Minghella
