The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Starring: Kim Novak, Rex Thompson, James Whitmore, Victoria Shaw, Tyrone Power, Shepperd Strudwick
Director: George Sidney
Tom Arnold: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to it (2010)
Comedy
LOL Comedy presents Tom Arnold's first one-hour stand-up comedy special. From Iowa to L.A., Tom's hilarious real life journey is well documented in American pop cultural history. Tom exposes himself, his four marriages, his well publicized marriage to Rosanne Barr and all they went through and his lifelong friendships developed while working on 72 films. Tom Arnold was filmed in front of a sold out audience at San Bernardino's 1,700 seat Historic California Theatre of the Performing Arts for Showtime.
Starring: Tom Arnold
Director: Scott L. Montoya
Black Ice (2013)
Action | Crime | Sport
A story of youthful misadventure set against the backdrop of a lawless border terrain during the last gasps of the Irish boom – Black Ice charts the story of Alice as she is seduced into the rhythmic rumbling world of local boy racers. Alice is beckoned from her middle-class existence by the growling engine of Jimmy's slick, black, Skyline. Racing, dicing, drifting together on the winding back roads, Alice and Jimmy dream of rally cars and make great plans to escape the cloying town. Alice is swept away, beyond the danger of the boy racer scene, and into the underworld of the borderland, where Jimmy doesn't believe in playing it straight. He likes the taste of money and he likes to take short-cuts. Despite her brother Tom's warnings, Jimmy's criminal behavior only makes Alice want him more, while the greed that has taken hold of the community is about to claim its price in young lives. Two years later an estranged Alice returns home to deal with the aftermath of the high-speed boy racer collision that has taken the life of Tom and his girlfriend. In her search for Jimmy, Alice relives her own complicity in events and the descent into deceit and corruption that led to this personal and community catastrophe.
Starring: Jane McGrath, Killian Scott
Director: Johnny Gogan
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King of the Travellers (2012)
Drama
King of the Travellers is a contemporary drama grounded in the traditions of the Irish traveller community and driven by emotive Shakespearean themes of love, betrayal, friendship and revenge. The story follows John Paul Moorehouse on his destructive quest to uncover the truth about the killer of his father twelve years ago. John Paul's desire for revenge is swayed as he falls for Winnie Power, the daughter of the man he suspects killed his father. John Paul must now battle between his consuming passion for justice versus his desire to be with the woman he now loves.
Starring: John Connors, Peter Coonan, Michael Collins, Carla McGlynn
Director: Mark O'Connor
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The Best of Men (2012)
Biography
Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and pompous consultant Cowan, as well as the patients. However the sister backs him when she realises he is treating her charges as people, not patients, talking to them and involving them in musical entertainments and sporting activity. Soon Whitehall are sending him all their spinal patients and, with visits to the pub and wheelchair sports taught by an army sergeant, he becomes the men's hero. With the war over Ludwig organizes national wheelchair sports competitions which will in turn lead to the establishment of the Paralympic games. An end title informs that in 1966, now a British citizen, Dr Guttmann was deservedly knighted for his part in bringing hope to the hopeless.
Starring: George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie Marsan, Ben Owen-Jones, Rob Brydon
Director: Tim Whitby
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Delivery Man / Starbuck (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A former sperm donor finds out years later that he fathered hundreds of kids and now many of them want to meet him.
Starring: Cobie Smulders, Chris Pratt, Vince Vaughn
Director: Ken Scott
Last Chance Harvey (2008)
Drama | Romance
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting — or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter (Liane Balaban) has chosen to have her stepfather (James Brolin) walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss, he is fired on the spot.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Liane Balaban, James Brolin
Director: Joel Hopkins
Night of the Comet (1984)
Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
Starring: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: Thom Eberhardt
The Killers (1964)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Supposedly based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. In this film noir, two hitmen want to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver!) "just stood there and took it" when they came to shoot him. Ronald Reagan plays a rich, double-crossing bad guy. A young Angie Dickinson (looking just like Ellen Barkin) plays the femme fatale.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Director: Don Siegel
Piedone a Hong Kong / Flatfoot in Hong Kong / Flatfoot Goes East (1975)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
Starring: Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Enzo Cannavale, Enzo Cannavale, Renato Scarpa, Francesco De Rosa, Robert Webber
Director: Steno
Haunt / Haunter (2013)
Horror
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that is family has unknowingly just purchased.
Starring: Jacki Weaver, Liana Liberato, Harrison Gilbertson
Director: Mac Carter
Pit Stop (2013)
Drama
Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama.
Starring: Bill Heck, Marcus DeAnda, Amy Seimetz, John Merriman, Alfredo Maduro, Corby Sullivan, Bailey Bass
Director: Yen Tan
Les mystères de Paris / De Markies met de Ijzeren Vuist (1962)
Action | Adventure
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow — unjustly accused of robbery — to find her missing daughter.
Starring: Jean Marais, Dany Robin, Jill Haworth, Raymond Pellegrin, Pierre Mondy
Director: André Hunebelle
Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person (2011)
Comedy
Wyatt Cenac is a comedy person. That means he tells jokes in exchange for laughs. He's won fancy TV awards doing comedy person things as a writer and performer on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." On one particular night he personed comedy in front of a live audience in New York City and filmed the whole thing. He did this for you. It would be a shame if you didn't buy this stand-up special right now. Or steal it. But it's probably better for everybody if you bought it.
Starring: Wyatt Cenac
Director: Miles Kahn
Girl Rising (2013)
Documentary
The movie tells the stories of nine girls from different parts of the world who face arranged marriages, child slavery, and other heartbreaking injustices. Despite these obstacles, the brave girls offer hope and inspiration. By getting an education, they're able to break barriers and create change.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Grace Moretz, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington
Director: Richard Robbins
Wolf (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
It's about a tough kickboxer named Majid who works in a flower auction center what he doesn't like. He is drawn more and more to the criminal side of life that he finds in his friends and in the kickboxing world. In the end with his temper he finally finds his match into his own demisse.
Starring: Chemseddine Amar, Marwan Kenzari, Bo Maerten, Raymond Thiry, Cahit Ölmez
Director: Jim Taihuttu
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Drama
Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Starring: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Beatty
Director: Elia Kazan
Thief (1981)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Frank is an expert professional thief. His speciality is high-value diamond jobs. After a long stint in prison, he gets out having a very concrete idea of what he wants out of life – a wife, kids, and nice home. As soon as he is able to achieve this goal, by doing what he does best, he intends to retire and become a model citizen. In an effort to accelerate this process, he reluctantly signs on with a big-time gangster to take down a huge score. Unfortunately, Frank's obsession with his vision of the "American Dream" allows him to put aside his natural wariness and mistrust when making the deal for this final job. Thus he becomes ensnared and robbed of his own freedom, independence, and ultimate dream!
Starring: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina
Director: Michael Mann
Tepepa / Long Live the Revolution (1969)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Western
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Starring: Tomas Milian, Orson Welles, John Steiner
Director: Giulio Petroni
Monte Carlo or Bust! / Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
Action | Comedy | Romance
An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.
Starring: Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari, Peter Cook, Tony Curtis, Mireille Darc
Director: Ken Annakin, Sam Itzkovitch
