Chappie (2015)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Chappie tells the story of a robot imbued with artificial intelligence who is stolen by two local gangsters who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Watkin Tudor Jones, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Hugh Jackman
Director: Neill Blomkamp
The Great Debaters (2007)
Biography | Drama
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams
Director: Denzel Washington
Are We There Yet? (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Year's Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom has dated, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.
Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, Jay Mohr, M.C. Gainey
Director: Brian Levant
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Drama
A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Nastassja Kinski, Tony Goldwyn, Kata Dobó, Mae Whitman, Lorna Scott
Director: Éva Gárdos
After Fall, Winter (2011)
Drama
WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love. WINTER begins with Michael, in his mid forties, suicidal about his writing career, which once flourished and now is on a downturn. He leaves his home in New York and goes to Paris in hopes of igniting his passion for writing and life. He also has a penchant for S and M. Soon after is arrival he meets Sophie, a sexy, smart, soulful, nurse who helps dying people transition to the after world. She and Michael instantly have chemistry albeit combative. Sophie has a secret. Her other job is being a dominatrix. Throughout the film, Sophie is nursing a little girl, Anais, who is dying of leukemia.
Starring: Eric Schaeffer, Lizzie Brocheré, Marie Luneau, Christian Mulot, Sylvie Loeillet
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Bats (1999)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Swarms of genetically altered bats blaze a path of terror through a sleepy Texas town. The only hope to stop the growing tide of devastation is a zoologist who studies bats, her assistant, and the local sheriff.
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon
Director: Louis Morneau
Heaven's Burning (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
While honeymooning in the land Down Under, reluctant Japanese bride Midori decides to free herself from an arranged marriage by faking her abduction. Ironically, she soon ends up as a hostage thanks to a botched bank holdup. That is, until the getaway driver intervenes and rescues her. The chase is on as the duo attempts to elude the cops, the crooks and Midori's humiliated spouse.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Yûki Kudô, Kenji Isomura, Ray Barrett, Robert Mammone
Director: Craig Lahiff
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Comedy | Crime
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. Amos is to pretend to take Andrew prisoner and hold him for ransom but let him go and escape. Amos and Andrew suddenly realize that the Chief's problems are all gone if the two of them both die in a gun battle. The worst partnership in film history then tries to get away from the local police.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Dabney Coleman, Brad Dourif, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin
Director: E. Max Frye
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)
Action | Drama
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry Poindexter , Gary Conway, Jeff Celentano
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Survivor (2015)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Emma Thompson
Director: James McTeigue
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Unfreedom (2015)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
In New York arrives a violent and angry man imprisoned by his brutal past, Mohammed Husain. His mission – to kidnap and kill a peaceful Muslim scholar, Fareed Rahmani. On the other side of the world, , Preeti Gupta, Bhavani Lee, Ankur Vikal, Seema Rahmani Singh, a homosexual girl in New Delhi, kidnaps her bisexual lover, Sakhi Taylor. Her mission – to marry her lover and live happily ever after. In a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom, four characters, in two of the world's largest cities, come face to face with most gruesome acts of torture and violence. The choices they make when they are most cornered in life, expose the blemished reality of contemporary world.
Starring: Victor Banerjee, Adil Hussain, Bhanu Uday
Director: Raj Amit Kumar
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The Unwanted / Carmilla (2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
In this Southern Gothic retelling of Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story 'Carmilla,' a young drifter (Christen Orr) arrives in a rural town seeking the whereabouts of the mother she never knew. When she becomes sexually involved with an emotionally fragile waitress (Hannah Fierman), she exposes the secret of her mother's disappearance and incites the wrath of the girl's overprotective father (William Katt).
Starring: Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Director: Bret Wood
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Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Her sisters think she's a gift from heaven. Their husbands call her the sister-in-law from hell. But Eva is too busy being a smart, sassy, overprotective overachiever to really care what anyone thinks. That is until the guys decide the only way they will ever score any quality time with their women is to find single Eva a man. Pronto. Enter Ray an ultra-suave player's player, who is hired to make Eva fall madly in love with him. All goes according to plan until this ladies' man finds himself unexpectedly falling for this beautiful lady in this hip, fresh and funny comic romp.
Starring: Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Duane Martin, Essence Atkins, Meagan Good, Kym Whitley
Director: Gary Hardwick
Clean and Sober (1988)
Drama
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan, Dakin Matthews, Patricia Quinn
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Welcome to Me (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Tudyk, Wes Bentley
Director: Shira Piven
Cymbeline / Anarchy (2014)
Drama
A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson
Director: Michael Almereyda
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A documentary chronicling the 35 year car racing career of Paul Newman. The documentary showcases Newman's racing life as both a prolific driver and owner.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Patrick Dempsey, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, John Lasseter, Jay Leno, Michael Andretti
Director: Adam Carolla, Nate Adams
Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Comedy | Crime
A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common — they need money, and aren't especially fussy about how they get it. Riley is a guy whose wife has been sent to jail, leaving him to look after their baby, when she's unable to pay a fine. Pero is in love with a beautiful girl who has a roving eye, and he's convinced that a bigger bankroll would help him win her heart. Leon is a hipster who wants to keep his sister, Michelle, out of trouble. Basil is a guy with bad luck, and eyes for Michelle. And Toto is a small-time crook looking for something to do — if it's profitable, all the better. Someone gets the bright idea that a robbery might be the answer to everyone's problems, and with the help of Jerzy, a safe-cracker confined to a wheelchair, they set out to find the right target.
Starring: George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Léolo (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings.
Starring: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Bourgault, Giuditta Del Vecchio, Gilbert Sicotte
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Baadasssss! / How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (2003)
Biography | Drama
Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, Terry Crews, David Alan Grier
Director: Mario Van Peebles
