Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher, Bridget Fonda
Director: Ate de Jong
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Biography | Drama | Romance
While searching for rare English books, New York writer Helene Hanff's letter to a London bookstore, run by Frank Doel, begins a relationship between the two that spans two decades and two continents. Although their personalities and cultures are miles apart, their friendship blossoms into a deeper affection.
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Director: David Hugh Jones
The Lie (2011)
Drama
A tall tale turns out to have long-term consequences in this dark comedy-drama.
Starring: Joshua Leonard, Kelli Garner, Alia Shawkat, Mark Webber, Jane Adams, Jess Weixler, James Ransone
Director: Joshua Leonard
Danny Collins (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Melissa Benoist
Director: Dan Fogelman
Balls Out / Intramural (2014)
Comedy | Sport
With marriage, graduation, and the real world looming on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb Fuller reassembles the ol' team of misfits for one last epic run in Intramural football.
Starring: Jake Lacy, Nikki Reed, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, Gabriel Luna
Director: Andrew Disney
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Drama | History | War
A dramatization of the Irish civil-rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Christopher Villiers
Director: Paul Greengrass
Groove (2000)
Drama | Music
Acclaimed ensemble piece that follows one life-changing night for a group of party-goers who attend an underground rave party at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse.
Starring: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Elizabeth Sun, Steve Van Wormer, Dmitri Ponce
Director: Greg Harrison
Cinderella (2015)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Sundays and Cybele / Cybèle ou les dimanches de ville d'Avray / Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Drama
Pierre is a Vietnam war veteran, psychologically scarred after killing a child. Cybele is a 12 year-old girl, abandoned by an uncaring father at a small orphanage. After a chance meeting causes Pierre to be mistaken for Cybele's father, they begin a series of Sunday outings together in which they discover a trusting, innocent happiness – though their make-believe world is threatened when a neighbour spots them together and word spreads among Pierre's acquaintances about his illicit relationship. With incredible central performances from Krüger and Gozzi as the two damaged people finding solace and childlike love in each other's companionship, this is a beautiful, heartbreaking tale of the redemptive qualities of love that will live in you long after you have seen it.
Starring: Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel
Director: Serge Bourguignon
Pernicious (2015)
Horror | Thriller
Three young, beautiful girls arrive in Thailand to teach English for the summer, some with noble intentions and some just wanting an adventure, but none were prepared for the massacre that awaited them. The nightmare begins when their new friends go missing, vivid bloody dreams haunt their sleep and a stolen statue leads them down a dark path into Thai folklore and magic that has been long forgotten.
Starring: Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien, Jackie Moore, Sara Malakul Lane
Director: James Cullen Bressack
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Drama
Fictionalized version of the notorious Amanda Knox murder case.
Starring: Cara Delevingne, Kate Beckinsale, Daniel Brühl, Genevieve Gaunt, Ava Acres, Sai Bennett
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Manglehorn (2014)
Drama
A Texas-set story of a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life.
Starring: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina, Harmony Korine
Director: David Gordon Green
Phantom Halo (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Warren Emerson, once a master Shakespearean actor, is now a gambling drunk. Puck-like Samuel enchants crowds of passersby by reciting the Shakespeare monologues his father Warren all but beat into him, while his brother Beckett, a master pickpocket, makes his way through the unsuspecting crowd. When Warren gets in deep with a loan shark, his sons need to find a way to escape, and like Samuel's beloved, Phantom Halo, they must break free from the mud that traps them.
Starring: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rebecca Romijn, Luke Kleintank, Sebastian Roché, Tobin Bell, Jordan Dunn
Director: Antonia Bogdanovich
GirlHouse / Girl House (2014)
Horror | Thriller
A beautiful young college student who, needing money for tuition, moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her life.
Starring: Ali Cobrin, Adam DiMarco, Slaine, Alyson Bath, Chasty Ballesteros, Camren Bicondova
Director: Trevor Matthews
Black Snake Moan (2006)
Drama | Music
When ex-blues musician Lazarus finds the town nymphomaniac Rae left for dead on the side of the road, he vows to nurse her back to health…and cure her of her wickedness. Until then, she'll be chained to the immovable radiator in his home. But Lazarus has demons of his own: his wife just left him for his own brother. While Lazarus and Rae struggle to fix their broken lives, the situation threatens to explode as Rae's boyfriend Ronnie – a roughneck soldier just back from Iraq – comes searching for his missing lover.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran, David Banner
Director: Craig Brewer
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Crime | Drama
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey, Celia Weston
Director: Tim Robbins
Stalker (1979)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Sci-fi drama from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, about two men who are led to their innermost dreams in a strange place once inhabited by aliens. In Tarkovsky's stunningly filmed allegorical fantasy, a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaidanovsky) leads a Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) through an industrial wasteland called the Zone, in search of a room where Truth is contained.
Starring: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Brown Sugar / Seven Days (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
A hot ensemble cast featuring Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah and Mos Def shines in this romantic comedy about love and laughter in the world of hip-hop. Sydney (Lathan) and Dre (Diggs) are childhood friends who share a passion for music and an unsung love for each other. But when Dre marries the wrong woman, Sydney must make her move or risk losing her soulmate forever.
Starring: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Slow Burn (2000)
Thriller
When Trina was a girl, her mother and father were determined to find a fortune in diamonds that had supposedly been buried in the desert in Mexico many years before. Now that her parents have passed on, Trina has inherited their obsession, and continues to search for the stones against the advice of Frank, a geologist and longtime friend of the family. But Trina is not about to give up, and when she discovers that a pair of escaped convicts have happened upon the diamonds, she is grimly determined to steal the jewels from the fugitives.
Starring: Stuart Wilson, Nicole Fellows, Chris Mulkey, Minnie Driver, James Spader, Josh Brolin
Director: Christian Ford
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Drama
From high society to life on the streets, director Tim Robbins brings Depression-era New York City to vivid life. A time when da Vincis are given to millionaires who help fund the Mussolini war effort. And Nelson Rockefeller commissions Mexican artist Diego Rivers to paint the lobby of Rockefeller Center. A time when a young Orson Welles and a troupe of passionate actors risk everything to perform the infamous musical "The Cradle Will Rock."
Starring: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, Philip Baker Hall, John Turturro, Angus Macfadyen
Director: Tim Robbins
