Friends with Benefits (2011)
Comedy | Romance
The relationship between two friends gets complicated when they decide to get romantic.
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Will Gluck
Assalto ao Banco Central / Federal Bank Heist (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
Starring: Eriberto Leão, Hermila Guedes, Milhem Cortaz, Lima Duarte, Giulia Gam, Milton Gonçalves, Vinícius de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré
Director: Marcos Paulo
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Good Neighbors (2010)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor arrives in the building, all three quickly hit it off. But as they soon discover, each of them has their own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety.
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Scott Speedman
Director: Jacob Tierney
V perine / The Magical Duvet (2011)
Comedy | Musical
The film V perine is a musical comedy made in the high-spirited style of Mamma Mia. In a relaxed world, where everybody used to dance rock'n'roll and the streets were full of pink Cadillacs, good and bad dreams hidden in our quilts take form. The musical adventure culminates in the magical world of dreams.
Starring: Lucie Bílá, Karel Roden, Bolek Polívka, Eliska Balzerová, Jirí Mádl, Karel Belohradský
Director: F.A. Brabec
Cilada.com / Trap.com (2011)
Comedy | Romance
Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.
Starring: Bruno Mazzeo, Fernanda Paes Leme, Augusto Madeira, Carol Castro, Fabiula Nascimento, Fúlvio Stefanini, Sérgio Loroza, Thelmo Fernandes
Director: José Alvarenga Jr.
The Smell of Success (2009)
Comedy
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics salesgirl, who steps in to take control. She is not sure she has a nose for the family business, but she is determined to make foul into profit. Little does she know that a ruthless, slick-talking fertilizer rep is plotting a takeover. Whether she likes it or not, she must trust her top salesman, Patrick Fitzpatrick, to devise a plan to regain Rose's rightful position on top of the heap.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Téa Leoni, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed Helms, Mark Polish
Director: Michael Polish
The Quiet American (2002)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle, an idealistic aid worker from the US, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler. When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally – murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the US war in Vietnam.
Starring: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Mam, Robert Stanton, Holmes Osborne
Director: Phillip Noyce
Flying Monsters with David Attenborough (2011)
Documentary
For thousands of years, humans have believed that there were once flying monsters. But did they really exist beyond our nightmares? 220 million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap: pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction.
Starring: David Attenborough, Douglas A. Lawson
Director: Matthew Dyas
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Action | Comedy
A wild, illegal, and popular cross-country car race is organized, and the eccentric entrants will do anything to win, including low-down, dirty tricks.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin
Director: Hal Needham
Beyond Borders (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich, Yorick van Wageningen
Director: Martin Campbell
Tomcats (2001)
Comedy
Seven years ago, a bunch of friends make a bet that'll give the last remaining bachelor a ton of money. Now, after losing a ton of money at a Vegas Casino, Michael Delaney has to quickly get his friend Kyle married so that he can collect the prize money to pay back his debt.
Starring: Shannon Elizabeth, Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Horatio Sanz, Jaime Pressly
Director: Gregory Poirier
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Alain Chabat, Claude Rich, Gérard Darmon
Director: Alain Chabat
Inside Out (2011)
Crime | Drama
For the last thirteen years AJ has been behind bars, convicted of manslaughter for killing a man who intended to kill his best friend, Jack. Now released, AJ wants nothing more than to start a small business and live a crime-free life. Unfortunately, within hours of leaving prison, his oldest and best friend, Jack involves AJ in an accidental shooting in which a man is killed, forcing Jack to skip town.
Starring: Paul Levesque, Michael Rapaport, Parker Posey, Michael Cudlitz, Julie White, Bruce Dern, Jency Griffin
Director: Artie Mandelberg
The Infidel (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Mahmud Nasir, a dyed-in-the-wool (if somewhat relaxed) Muslim, lives with his family in London's East End. Mahmud's world is turned upside down when he discovers after the death of his mother that he was adopted at birth – and that he is actually a Jew. Caught in the grip of a full-scale identity crisis, Mahmud turns to drunken Jewish cabbie Lenny for reassurance.
Starring: Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi, Yigal Naor, Stewart Scudamore, James Floyd
Director: Josh Appignanesi
Harsh Times (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike. Mike is feeling the heat from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia: either get a job or get out. But the love of a beautiful woman can't compare to the bonds of friendship, and Jim and Mike are soon cruising the streets of South Central, slipping back into a deceitful life of drugs, violence and petty crime, just like when they were kids.
Starring: Christian Bale, Eva Longoria, Freddy Rodrígue, J.K. Simmons, Noel Gugliemi, Terry Crews
Director: David Ayer
Boogie Woogie (2009)
Comedy | Drama
An art dealer and gallery owner is desperate to acquire 'Boogie-Woogie', a Mondrian painting he covets above all others. Its owners, the ailing Alfred Rhinegold and his wife Alfreda, do all they can to raise the price by courting rival bidders. A whirlwind of wheeling, dealing and bed-hopping ensues as lives and careers are made and broken.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Heather Graham, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Christopher Lee
Director: Duncan Ward
Shortbus (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
Starring: Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Raphael Barker
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cape Fear (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a 14 year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Director: Martin Scorsese
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The Girl in the Park (2007)
Drama
Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success. But when Julia meets Louise, a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia's old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Alessandro Nivola, Keri Russell, Daisy Tahan
Director: David Auburn
Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo (2011)
Comedy
Lalau Velasco travels across the country performing routines about how tough his life is on the road. His father, Ramon, a veteran actor who poorly manages his son's fleeting career, constantly tries to pull off little cons and shady side jobs. On tour one day in CearA!, Lalau gets offered a lot of money to impersonate a foreign guru whose workshop teaches people how to get rich quick. Seeing the chance to rid himself of his meddlesome father, Lalau gladly takes the job but ends up involved in a plot of corruption, betrayal and murder.
Starring: Flávia Alessandra, Gregório Duvivier, Tarcísio Meira, Mariana Rios, Ângela Vieira
Director: Hugo Carvana
