Le dernier vol / The Last Flight (2009)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
A woman goes on a journey to find her husband after his plane disappears in the Sahara.
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Marquet, Frédéric Epaud, Saïdou Abatcha, Michaël Vander-Meiren
Director: Karim Dridi
Tropical Inferno / Women in Cellblock 9 / Frauen für Zellenblock 9 (1978)
Action | Crime | Drama | Horror
Another sadistic women's prison film from the director of Ilsa, the Wicked Warden and Barbed Wire Dolls, this exploitation film posits a group of revolutionaries led by Karine Gambier thrown into a South American jail. Howard Vernon plays the staff torture specialist, Dr. Costa, who manages to extract information from Gambier, necessitating an escape by the women to warn their compatriots. Plenty of sex and violence is featured for the raincoat crowd, while Franco cultists will delight in Vernon's wonderfully sinister performance as the prison doctor.
Starring: Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Aida Gouveia, Esther Studer
Director: Jesús Franco
The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall (2013)
Comedy
In this one-hour special, some of the biggest names in comedy pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded in 1963 by Budd Friedman. From its earliest days in New York City to a Hollywood expansion and beyond, The Improv played a major part in the American stand-up explosion of the '80s and '90s.
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Jay Leno, Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Judd Apatow, Lewis Black, Larry David, Damon Wayans, Richard Lewis, Marlon Wayans, Bill Maher, Shawn Wayans
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After a series of crimes leads them to take to the Texas hills, lovers Ruth Guthrie and Bob Muldoon are finally cornered in a shack and involved in a fierce shootout with the police. In the ensuing battle Ruth critically injures a police officer, and Bob, unwilling to see his love sent to jail, admits to firing the shot, resulting in a sizable prison sentence. Years later, as he slowly acclimatises to life behind bars, the unexpected news that Ruth has borne him a daughter turns Bob's world upside down, resulting in him staging an audacious escape from prison and setting out across country to track down his family.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck
Director: David Lowery
La vie de bohème / The Bohemian Life (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilmss, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Mon meilleur ami / My Best Friend (2006)
Comedy
François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers. Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno's chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the "three S's" – being sociable, smiling and sincere – though they don't come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno's naiveté in playing along, but what's the cost of cheating at friendship?
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet
Director: Patrice Leconte
Deep Rising (1998)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi
When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one!
Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi, Anthony Heald, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Stephen Sommers
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that…
Starring: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Kari Väänänen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Horror | Sci-Fi
Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople…
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, Sandor Elès, Katy Wild, Kiwi Kingston
Director: Freddie Francis
About Adam (2000)
Comedy | Romance
A waitress meets personable, attractive Adam and they soon become lovers, then get engaged. Wasting no time, Adam starts an affair with her bookish sister, who knows about the first relationship. Their (none-too-happily) married third sister knows about both these liaisons but is still attracted to Adam. The lad is certainly playing the field, but in their own ways the girls seem to be getting just as much out of the deal as him.
Starring: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Tommy Tiernan
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Unhook the Stars (1996)
Drama | Romance
Character study about Mildred, an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter finally leaves home, she finds that, for the first time in her life, she has nobody to worry about – but soon becomes involved in the life of Monica, a young mother whose husband has left her to look after her young son J.J.. As the relationship blossoms, Monica teaches Mildred that there is more to life than taking care of others.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Nick Cassavetes
The Punk Singer (2013)
Documentary
A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.
Starring: Kathleen Hanna
Director: Sini Anderson
Let's Get Lost (1988)
Documentary | Music
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.
Starring: Chet Baker
Director: Bruce Weber
The Family (2013)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, Dominic Chianese, David Belle
Director: Luc Besson
Open Grave (2013)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A man wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Fleeing the scene, he breaks into a nearby house and is met at gunpoint by a group of terrified strangers, all suffering from memory loss. Suspicion gives way to violence as the group starts to piece together clues about their identities, but when they uncover a threat that's more vicious – and hungry – than each other, they are forced to figure out what brought them all together – before it's too late.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Kretschmann, Erin Richards, Josie Ho, Max Wrottesley
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Jingle All the Way (1996)
Comedy | Family
Christmas. It's the most magical time of year. But while many are bustling to find their children the perfect gifts, others aren't quite ready to adopt the holiday spirit. High-powered businessman Howard Langston loves his family, but he just can't seem to find enough time for wife Liz and son Jamie. But Howard will make it up to Jamie… he'll buy him the toy on every child's list to Santa — and the hottest action figure of the season — Turbo Man! Unfortunately, Howard if facing one BIG problem: It's Christmas Eve, and Turbo Man has been sold out since Thanksgiving! Howard's down-to-the-wire trek to find Turbo Man quickly turns into an odyssey wilder than he could have ever imagined. In the course of his seemingly endless Yuletide misadventures, he finds himself in a no-holds-barred fight-to-the-finish with a crazed postman named Myron, who is out to claim the last Turbo Man for his own kid.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Martin Mull
Director: Brian Levant
O Estranho Caso de Angélica / The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
Drama
Set in the 1950s, a young photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter. But when he looks through his lens, the young woman appears to come to life. From that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night.
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Leonor Silveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Ana Maria Magalhães, Luís Miguel Cintra
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
The Poker House (2008)
Drama
A dramatization of Lori Petty's teenage years spent in small town Iowa.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chloë Grace Moretz, Selma Blair
Director: Lori Petty
White Reindeer (2013)
Comedy
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne struggles to put her life back together during a sad, strange Christmastime in suburban Virginia.
Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Laura Lemar-Goldsborough, Lydia Hyslop, Joe Swanberg, Chris Doubek
Director: Zach Clark
Artifact (2012)
Documentary
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, this riveting and award-winning documentary gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto (“Requiem for a Dream,” “Dallas Buyers Club”) and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they fight a relentless lawsuit with record label Virgin/EMI and write songs for their album “This Is War.” Opening up his life for the camera during months of excruciating pressures, Leto reveals the struggles his band must face over questions of art, money and integrity. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, Tomo Milicevic
Director: Jared Leto
