Mysterious Skin (2004)
Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Starring: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg
Director: Gregg Araki
Déjà vu (1989)
Comedy
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich – Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odessa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
Starring: Jerzy Stuhr, Galina Petrova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Vladimir Golovin, Oleg Shklovsky, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Gennadi Vengerov
Director: Juliusz Machulski
Konfident / Estebák / The Confidant (2012)
Comedy | Drama | History | Thriller
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
Starring: Jirí Mádl, Michaela Majerníková, Maciej Stuhr, Jan Budar, Ondrej Vetchý
Director: Juraj Nvota
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Drama
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school…if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson
Director: Elia Kazan
Vi är bäst! / We Are the Best! (2013)
Drama
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Starring: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Mattias Wiberg, Jonathan Salomonsson, Alvin Strollo
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Oblomov / Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova (1979)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The title character is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to go to bed one day–and never get up. Preferring to sleep his way through life rather than confront it, Oblomov is shaken from his slumbers by the arrival of a childhood friend Shtoltz. A series of flashbacks show why it is that this friend's presence gets Oblomov out of his 'jammies and back on his feet. Also known as A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov.
Starring: Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryo, Andrei Popov, Elena Soloveyv, Avangard Leontev
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Two successful New Yorkers, Meryl and Paul, are at their wits' ends on how to solve their strained marriage. But when they become the only witnesses to a brutal murder, the police hide them away in Wyoming – together. Now these diehard city dwellers will have to survive the weather, bears, fresh air, and forced time with one another if they want to make it out alive.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Mary Steenburgen, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Kelly
Director: Marc Lawrence
Roma / Fellini's Roma (1972)
Comedy | Drama
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Starring: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Marne Maitland, Renato Giovannoli, Elisa Mainardi
Director: Federico Fellini
Piknik / Picnic (2014)
Drama
Weekend trip of nine friends into places where they have once spent long years of their lives.
Starring: Ludek Munzar, Jan Tríska, Petr Nározný, Leopold Haverl, Oldrich Vlach
Director: Hynek Bocan
Milenci & vrazi / Lovers & Murderers (2004)
Drama
The driving force of the drama is an explosive power of hatred, desire for love and for application where some people attack comfort of living, luxury and sophistication of the world of others who had enjoyed enough of love and power, are worn-out now, and so they are actually happy to succumb. Movie is based on Vladimir Paral's famous novel
Starring: Jirí Langmajer, Ondrej Vetchý, Zlata Adamovská
Director: Viktor Polesný
Life Stinks (1991)
Comedy | Romance
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
Starring: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin
Director: Mel Brooks
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Douglas, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Director: Elia Kazan
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
John Sedley is a petty gangster whose facial deformities earned him the nickname "Johnny Handsome." When Johnny and a friend are double-crossed during a robbery by two partners, his friend is killed and Johnny is sent to prison. There, a sympathetic surgeon makes a deal to give Johnny a new face – and a new shot at life. Once on the outside, Johnny discovers that staying straight isn't easy. But his new look does open one door for Johnny – revenge.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Forest Whitaker, Morgan Freeman, Lance Henriksen
Director: Walter Hill
Le sauvage / Call Me Savage (1975)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He helps her to escape and drives her to the airport and gives her a plane ticket to Paris. Then he thinks he can go back to his peaceful lonely life on his island. Of course, he is wrong and will be bothered again by Nelly…
Starring: Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dana Wynter, Tony Roberts, Luigi Vannucchi
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
Starring: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, David Farrar, Donald Houston, Robert Brown
Director: Rudolph Maté
Destová víla / The Rain Fairy (2010)
Family | Fantasy
The Elements that control everything – Air, Fire, Earth and Water – do a regular inspection of people. We are following Water, called Rain Fairy, dressed as a poor woman going through countryside. She finds out that people became selfish, envious and lust for money and that love and goodness are fading. Elements decide that people should be punished and so it stops raining…
Starring: Lenka Vlasáková, Vica Kerekes, Jakub Gottwald, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová, Marián Labuda, Martin Dejdar, Petr Nározný
Director: Milan Cieslar
Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu / In Love by Own Request / Love by Request (1982)
Comedy | Romance
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Evgeniya Glushenko, Vsevolod Shilovsky, Irina Reznikova, Yuriy Dubrovin, Vladimir Belousov, Yu. Kopich
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan
Anna Karenina (1935)
Drama | Romance
The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson, Basil Rathbone
Director: Clarence Brown
Waking (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Ben's life is on a predictable but seemingly perfect path, with success in his future in both his career and personal life. He has a fine fiancee, a great job working for her dad, and it looks like he may be about to take over her dad's practice as a psychologist once he ties the knot with the daughter. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Nadia changes everything. After meeting her, recurring dreams of her turn into something much more. He finds he is able to connect with Nadia in dreams, getting her real phone number through a dream initially, then going on beautiful journeys together through their past memories, in dreams. Ben must decide if this one in a million connection actually is real, and if he is meant to throw away a good life, for… literally, the girl of his dreams.
Starring: Skyler Caleb, Meg Cionni, Tim Daly, Alison Haislip, Tara Erickson, Steve Moulton
Director: Ben Shelton
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The Wonders (2013)
Comedy | Mystery
The complex relationship between a Jerusalem street artist and a mysterious, modern-day prophet being held prisoner in an abandoned apartment across the alleyway.
Starring: Uri Chizkiya, Efrat Gosh, Ori Hizkiah, Yehuda Levi, Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf
Director: Avi Nesher
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