Toast (2010)
Comedy | Drama
The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain.
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Victoria Hamilton, Colin Prockter, Ken Stott, Oscar Kennedy, Matthew McNulty
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Beautiful Boy (2010)
Drama
A married couple copes with life after their 18 year-old son kills several people and himself at his college campus.
Starring: Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner, Logan South, Bruce French, Austin Nichols
Director: Shawn Ku
Everything Must Go (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Adapted and directed by Dan Rush, and based on a short story by Raymond Carver, "Everything Must Go" tells the story of Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell) a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling off the wagon one last time, he returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all his possessions out on the front lawn. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line – or more properly, on the lawn – reluctantly holding a yard sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Peña, Stephen Root, Laura Dern, Glenn Howerton, Shannon Whirry, Christopher Jordan Wallace
Director: Dan Rush
Married Life / Marriage (2007)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Harry (Chris Cooper) decides he must kill his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) because he loves her too much to let her suffer when he leaves. Harry and his much-younger girlfriend Kay (Rachel McAdams) are head over heels in love, but his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) wants to win Kay for himself. As Harry implements his awkward plans for murdering his wife, the other characters are occupied with their own deceptions. Like Harry, they are overwhelmed by their passion, but struggle to avoid hurting others.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson, David Wenham
Director: Ira Sachs
Contact (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life, directed by another Oscar winner, Robert Zemeckis.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, David Morse, Jena Malone
Director: Robert Zemeckis
The Tempest (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
The sorceress Prospera spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Akuwudike, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn
Director: Julie Taymor
La grande vadrouille / Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Comedy | War
An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans.
Starring: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset
Director: Gérard Oury
Soldier (1998)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Galactic wars of the near-future are fought by soldiers trained as merciless, obedient warriors. But times change. New bioengineered combatants make veterans like Sgt. Todd obsolete. But don't expect to toss Todd on the scrap heap without a fight.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
I want to be a Soldier (2010)
Drama
I Want To Be A Soldier" is the story of Alex, an average eight year old kid who seems to grow a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He begins to develop a communication problem with his parents and other kids at school, and closes in on himself, inventing two imaginary friends…
Starring: Cameron Antrobus, Josephine Barnes, Robert Englund, Cassandra Gava, Danny Glover, Jo Kelly
Director: Christian Molina
Les Beaux Gosses / The French Kissers (2009)
Comedy
A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters.
Starring: Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolière, Julie Scheibling, Robin Nizan-Duverger
Director: Riad Sattouf
Assassins (1995)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Robert Roth is the best hitman around, but the code and sense of duty once part of his deadly career are lost in a post-Cold War world of free-lance guns. He wants out. Not so Miguel Bain, a driven killer who knows how to claim the top spot of his shadowy profession: eliminate Roth.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoli Davydov, Muse Watson
Director: Richard Donner
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011)
Comedy | Family
Marley is back for more tail-wagging fun, and this time he speaks! That's right, the "world's worst dog" has a frisky voice and an attitude to match. Join Marley for his mischievous puppy years, as he and his summer pal, Bodi Grogan, wreak havoc on a neighborhood dog contest.
Starring: Travis Turner, Donnelly Rhodes, Merrilyn Gann, Chelah Horsdal, Sydney Imbeau, Alex Zahara
Director: Michael Damian
Water for Elephants (2011)
Drama | Romance
A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton
Director: Francis Lawrence
Wrecked (2011)
Thriller
A man awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. Injured and trapped inside, with no memory of how he got there or who he is, he must rely on his most primal instincts to survive. But as he attempts to free himself from the carnage and escape an impossible situation, a darker side is revealed. Even if he manages to survive, the man may have to face the horrible consequences of an earlier, forgotten life.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Adrian Holmes, Ryan Robbins, Jacob Blair, Mark McConchie
Director: Michael Greenspan
The Killing (1956)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A gang of greedy petty criminals plan a race track robbery. The plan gets foiled and disaster ensues.
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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The Specialist (1994)
Action | Thriller
Set in Miami, an explosives expert helps a seductive beauty avenge the murder of her parents, teaming up against a formidable trio of villains: a powerful Cuban crime boss, his son, and their merciless hit man.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts
Director: Luis Llosa
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama | Western
In Arizona in the late 1800's, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russel Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail — and dangers at every turn — the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny. In theaters September 7th.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster
Director: James Mangold
Fast Five / Fast & Furious 5 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.
Starring: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Justin Lin
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Drama | Romance
An avowed alcoholic, Ben drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as something connects between these two disenfranchised souls.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino
Director: Mike Figgis
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women… in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor's mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his kid brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul's wedding. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships– past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love…or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone
Director: Mark Waters
