The Confession (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.
Starring: John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Brad Mirman
In The Bedroom (2001)
Crime | Drama
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart…
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother
Director: Todd Field
Animal Factory (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, John Heard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Arnold, Seymour Cassel, Mark Boone Junior
Director: Steve Buscemi
Claustrofobia (2011)
Thriller
When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine.
Starring: Carolien Spoor, Dragan Bakema, Thijs Römer
Director: Bobby Boermans
Tromeo and Juliet / Tromeo & Juliet (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Updated to be set in the outskirts of New York City, Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy is transformed into a no-holes barred, punk-inflected Elizabethan stage send-up of the story of a doomed love.
Starring: Will Keenan, Lemmy, Debbie Rochon, Stephen Blackehart, Tiffany Shepis
Director: Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties / Garfield 2 (2006)
Animation | Comedy | Family
When Garfield follows his owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle. Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal four-legged subjects, but his reign is in jeopardy. The nefarious Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort. Garfield's bigger, better, more purr-fect world is soon turned upside down in this tale of two kitties.
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Bill Murray, Roger Rees, Lena Cardwell, Veronica Alicino
Director: Tim Hill
Garfield / Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Animation | Comedy | Family
Life couldn't be sweeter for Garfield, everyone's favorite feline. Parked on a comfortable chair in front of the television, feasting on his favorite dish, lasagna, and hurling insults at his beleaguered owner Jon, Garfield is the master of his universe.When Jon takes Garfield to visit beautiful veterinarian Liz Wilson, she gives Jon a pepped-up, tail-wagging, panting creature thatrepresents everything that Garfield loathes. Garfield, meet Odie, a lovable, dim-witted dog. The wise-cracking cat is, for the first time in his nine lives, left speechless. The clueless Odie chases his tail till he's dizzy, crashes into walls, and barks without cause, all to the unbridled delight of Jon who eagerly welcomes Odie into his home. Odie turns Garfield's perfect world upside down. Garfield's solution: OUT, DARN DOG. When the hapless hound disappears into the evil clutches of local celebrity Happy Chapman, you would think Garfield would rejoice. But he feels responsible for the fate of another. With uncharacteristic energy, courage and selflessness, Garfield manages to pull himself away from his lazy life and spring into action. He's on the unlikeliest of impossible missions: to save Odie.
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bill Murray, Evan Arnold, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vanessa Christelle
Director: Peter Hewitt
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi
In 2525, as mankind has begun to colonise space, a group of cadets are training to fight against human insurrectionists. One of these cadets, Thomas Lasky, has doubts about his abilities as a soldier and his convictions for this war. Whilst he struggles with himself, the planet is invaded by an unknown alien race. Reeling under the assault, Lasky and his squad mates are rescued by John-117, one of the UNSC's legendary SPARTAN-II super-soldiers. John must inspire Lasky to fulfill his potential as a soldier and a leader to fight against an enemy deadlier than any that humanity has faced before.
Starring: Tom Green, Anna Popplewell, Osric Chau, Daniel Cudmore, Ayelet Zurer
Director: Stewart Hendler
The Details (2012)
Comedy
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Kerry Washington, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
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The Bay (2012)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
This 'found-footage' film is set in 2009 in the town of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland where something has infected the water there. But it's not 100% known what it is or how it is transmitted. But when people start turning up dead and others start to do strange things, fear turns to panic and the town is shut down. The Government confiscate all video footage from every source possible. The Government didn't want you to see this. This is that footage which is put together by a news reporter who was there.
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Jane McNeill, Christopher Denham, Kether Donohue, Michael Beasley
Director: Barry Levinson
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Amber Alert (2012)
Horror | Thriller
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
Starring: Jasen Wade, Summer Bellessa, Chris Hill
Director: Kerry Bellessa
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Drama | Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Starring: Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Shelley Duvall
Director: Robert Altman
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Steve Buscemi
Benny's Video (1992)
Crime | Drama
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this insettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Director: Michael Haneke
North by Northwest (1959)
Action | Adventure | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marion Crane goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer's clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman, who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Pusher (2012)
Crime | Thriller
Based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn, Pusher stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
Starring: Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn, Mem Ferda, Zlatko Buric
Director: Luis Prieto
Ripley's Game / Il gioco di Ripley (2002)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley – cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous – lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley – ever a student of human nature – initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Starring: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone, Chiara Caselli
Director: Liliana Cavani
Torn Curtain (1966)
Thriller
Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in this classic tale of international espionage set behind the Iron Curtain.
Starring: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
