Why Stop Now (2012)
Comedy | Drama
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Paul Calderon
Director: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner
Gangster Squad (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A chronicle of the Los Angeles Police Department's fight to keep East Coast Mafia out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Mój rower / My Father's Bike (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
Starring: Michal Urbaniak, Artur Zmijewski, Krzysztof Chodorowski, Witold Debicki, Anna Nehrebecka
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Defendor (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Bruined and beaten, arm in a sling, neck in a brace, Arthur Poppington sits in front of court-appointed psychologist Ellen Chum. After making her swear to secrecy, Poppington begins to tell the story of his secret life as "Defendor" – yes, that's an "OR" – spelling is not one of his super powers. By day, Poppington directs traffic around road construction sites, but at night he dons a pair of black tights, a black jersey with a crude "D" duct-taped to his chest, and trawls the streets as his alter ago. As Defendor, Poppington engages in what he believes is a super heroic fight against crime in an attempt to fulfull his unrealized dream of capturing his archrival, Captian Industry – a gun trafficking crime lord who Poppington mistankenly believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Defendor's problems with the law begin with his intervention in a trick gone bad. When coming to the aid of Katerina Debrofkowitz, an underage prostitute, Defendor tangles with her pimp, Chuck Dooney – a crooked undercover cop. By doing so, Defendor bumbles his way into a criminal underwold, and the stage is set for a showdown with Captain Industry.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh, Kat Dennings
Director: Peter Stebbings
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
Drama | Romance
After a rough break-up, Elizabeth sets out on a journey across the U.S., leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and a soulful new friend; a cafe owner–all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop and his estranged wife and a down-on-her luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman
Director: Kar Wai Wong
The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
Action | Thriller
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "the world's greatest treasure".
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Lance Henriksen, Nicole Sherwin, Alexis Zibolis, Jason S. Gray, Elvis Naumovski, Antonio Jaramillo
Director: Peter Mervis
Princess of Thieves (2001)
Action | Adventure
Sherwood Forest has a courageous new hero – Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and intelligence of her mother Marion, Gwyn is anxious to follow in Robin Hood's footsteps. But he'd rather see her remain safely behind under the watchful eye of Friar Tuck and her best friend Froderick. As King Richard nears death, Robin Hood and his Merry Men are summoned to help bring Richard's son Prince Philip to his rightful place on the throne before the evil Prince John can assume power. But when Robin Hood is captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham and sentenced to death, his life and the future of England lie in Gwyn's inexperienced hands.
Starring: David Barrass, Malcolm McDowell, Hannah Cresswell, Keira Knightley, Del Synnott, Stuart Wilson
Director: Peter Hewitt
Pawn (2013)
Crime | Thriller
An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next – and what happened just before – will change everything you think you know. The building is now surrounded. There are restless fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Common, Marton Csokas, Sean Faris, Stephen Lang, Ray Liotta, Nikki Reed, Forest Whitaker
Director: David A. Armstrong
Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus (2010)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
Starring: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo, Gerald Webb
Director: Christopher Ray
The Professionals (1966)
Action | Adventure | Western
A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1917. The wild West commando team consists of a dynamite expert (Burt Lancaster), an ex-revolutionary and munitions expert (Lee Marvin), a horse specialist (Robert Ryan), and a tracker (Woody Strode). On their mission to return Carter's highly prized wife, they track the Mexican revolutionaries through rough and rugged desert terrain, determined to outsmart, outshoot, and outride anyone they come across–until they meet the the charismatic Rasa and discover that Carter's seductive wife is in love with the Mexican outlaw and has no intention of returning with the band of "professionals."
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Richard Brooks
Cabaret (1972)
Drama | Musical
A female entertainer at the Kit Kat Club of Weimar-era Berlin falls in and out of love with a visiting British scholar while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson
Director: Bob Fosse
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Horror | Thriller
Jill Johnson, a babysitter terrorized through phone calls by a psychopath 7 years ago, gains the help of a dedicated detective to find the killer once and for all when he returns.
Starring: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst
Director: Fred Walton
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Popular high school senior Virginia Wainwright survives a freak accident, but suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. As she attempts to resume a normal life, something terrible is happening – her friends are ruthlessly murdered one-by-one.
Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Lisa Langlois
Director: J. Lee Thompson
The Young Savages (1961)
Crime | Drama
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Shelley Winters, Larry Gates, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
Scavenagers / Space Soldiers (2013)
Sci-Fi
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
Starring: John Lee Ames, Roark Critchlow, Brett Curtze, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jennifer Jalene, Louise Linton, Jeremy London
Director: Travis Zariwny
Inch'Allah (2012)
Drama
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Starring: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Hammoudeh Alkarmi
Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Le Jour des corneilles / The Day Of The Crows (2012)
Animation
Courge lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father, a tyrannical colossus that reigns as the forest master and who forbids his son to leave it. Not knowing much about the company of men, the boy grows wild, with the placid ghosts that haunt the forest as his only companions. Until the day when he must go to the closest village where he will meet the young Manon…
Starring: Jean Reno, Lorànt Deutsch, Isabelle Carré, Claude Chabrol
Director: Jean-Christophe Dessaint
My Awkward Sexual Adventure / An Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012)
Comedy
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a conservative accountant enlists the help of an exotic dancer to guide him on a quest for sexual experience, leading him into a world of strip clubs, sensual massage parlors, cross-dressing and S & M.
Starring: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manninen, Vik Sahay, Melissa Marie Elias
Director: Sean Garrity
Wuss (2011)
Comedy
WUSS is the story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
Starring: Nate Rubin, Alicia Anthony, Ryan Anderson, Cody Jones, Tony Hale
Director: Clay Liford
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Terror Tract (2000)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him only to be killed by his spouse and her boyfriend in which she begins having dreams of her husband not staying dead. The second story "Bobo" involves increasing fear and paranoia from a kindly family man whose young daughter finds and adopts a stray monkey who turns out to be more than meets the eye. The third story "Come To Granny" involves a trouble teenager with psychic abilities who visits a therapist to warn her that she happends to be the next victim of a vicious serial killer called The Granny.
Starring: John Ritter, David DeLuise, Allison Smith, Kim Correll, Kelli Mix
Director: Lance W. Dreesen, Clint Hutchison
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