The Christmas Miracle of Johnathan Toomey (2007)
Family | Fantasy
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father…
Starring: Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Thomas Briggs
Director: Bill Clark
Firefox (1982)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Mitchell Gant, a U.S. pilot, is smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Melancholia (2011)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide into the Earth.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgård
Director: Lars von Trier
The Debt (2010)
Drama | Thriller
In 1997, shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stefan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds
Director: John Madden
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Drama | Family
This heartwarming true story is an U.S. adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty. Today, a bronze statue of Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya station in Japan as a permanent reminder of his devotion and love.
Starring: Richard Gere, Joan Allen
Director: Lasse Hallström
Point Blank / À bout portant (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A couple's lives are turned upside down when the woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend must negotiate her realease.
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier
Director: Fred Fred Cavayé
Les cousins / Les Cousins (1959)
Drama
Two cousins of differing personalities come to live together in Paris.
Starring: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Michèle Méritz
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Big Jake (1971)
Action | Crime | Drama | Western
When his grandson is kidnapped by the scurrilous John Fain, Big Jake sets out to deliver the $1 million ransom. On the off-chance that there'll be gunplay, Jake brings along his sons James and Michael.
Starring: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bruce Cabot
Director: George Sherman
The Mortician (2011)
Thriller
A redemption tale, the story of a man stepping from darkness into to light, one man's struggle through the violence and corruption of a dying city where the poor are corralled into lawless ghettos. Alienated and cold, the mortician processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated.
Starring: Edward Furlong, Dash Mihok, Blake Michael, Method Man, Wendell Pierce, Luis Da Silva Jr.
Director: Gareth Maxwell Roberts
Gone in Sixty Seconds / Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A legendary car booster (Nicolas Cage) thinks he left the fast lane behind him until he's forced out of retirement to save his kid brother from the wrath of an evil mobster. It is nothing less than a fullthrottle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours — and the cops are already onto them!
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton
Director: Dominic Sena
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Face/Off (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In this plot-twisting, high-tech thriller, relentless FBI agent Sean Archer must go dangerously undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, the sadistic terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy. After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally "borrows" Troy's face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, transforms into Archer and wrecks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home. As the bomb continues to tick and the tension mounts, it becomes a high stakes game of cat and mouse as both Archer and Troy, ironically trapped in their enemy's body, try to save face – their own.
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon
Director: John Woo
Con Air (1997)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A prison parolee- on his way to freedom- faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he is on is skyjacked by the most infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom! Buckle up and hang on tight as explosive, high-flying action soars to new heights…and delivers high-caliber motion picture enjoyment!
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames
Director: Simon West
RoboCop 3 (1993)
Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real estate project, Robocop (Robert John Burke, Copland) joins forces with a renegade band of freedom fighters to save them. But Robocop must face some deadly foes, including a lethally efficient android and a dangerous gang of thugs. Robocop's latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry only somewhat evens the battlefield, as this lone superhero takes on the entire army of corporate militia in an all-out war to control Detroit!
Starring: Robert John Burke, Rip Torn, Mako, John Castle, CCH Pounder, Nancy Allen
Director: Fred Dekker
RoboCop 2 (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When Detroit's decent into chaos is further compounded by a police department strike and a new designer drug called "Nuke," only Robocop can stop the mayhem. But in his way are an evil corporation that profits from Motor City crime and a bigger and tougher cyborg with a deadly directive: Take out Robocop. Containing the latest gadgetry and weaponry as well as the brain of the madman who designed "Nuke," this new cyborg isn't just more sophisticated than his predecessor…he's psychotic and out of control! And it's going to take everything Robocop has – maybe even his life – to save Detroit from complete and utter anarchy.
Starring: Peter Weller, Belinda Bauer, John Glover, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Felton Perry
Director: Irvin Kershner
RoboCop (1987)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the not-to-distant-future, a newly transfered Detroit police officer is remade into an indistructable cybornetic cop after being dismembered by a gang of thungs in an abandoned warehouse. Reborn as Robocop he is programed to serve and protect the citizens of Detroit and eliminate the rampant crime in the city streets so that a massive city-wide reconstruction project can get underway. But once he has completed his task, he sets his sites on the corruption inside Securities Concepts Inc.- the corporation that created him.
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Repo Men (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Remy and Jake are best friends and The Union's most dangerous repossession men, reclaiming top-dollar organs when recipients fall behind on their payments. But after an on-the-job accident forces Remy to be outfitted with a top-of-the-line heart replacement, he finds himself in-debt and on-the-run. Now, the hunter becomes the hunted as Jake will stop at nothing to track him down to finish the job.
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Good Time Max (2007)
Drama
Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life.
Starring: James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Wilmer Calderon, Trip Hope, Richard Portnow, Jarrod Bunch, Robyn Cohen
Director: James Franco
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Action | Drama | History | War
Seen through the eyes of a squad of U.S. soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D- Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer – and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel
Director: Steven Spielberg
Demolition Man (1993)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi
A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock
Director: Marco Brambilla
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In a Glass Cage / Tras el cristal (1987)
Drama | Horror
A former Nazi doctor-turned-pedophile, paralyzed from the neck down after a suicide attempt, is forced to accept a boy as his nurse under threat of blackmail: the boy secretly witnessed the doctor's torture and murder of another boy, and possesses the man's diary, which details his wartime experiments and his subsequent descent into pedophilia and murder. Before long, the boy displays his ambition to follow in the older man's footsteps.
Starring: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría, Imma Colomer, Josue Guasch, David Cuspinera
Director: Agustí Villaronga
