The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Comedy | Romance
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Director: George Cukor
10 Years / Ten Years (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The night before their high school reunion, a group of friends realize they still haven't quite grown up in some ways.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Lynn Collins, Brian Geraghty, Ari Graynor, Ron Livingston, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Chris Pratt
Director: Jamie Linden
Michael (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A drama focused on five months in the life of pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.
Starring: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss, Victor Tremmel
Director: Markus Schleinzer
The Way (2010)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A father travels from the US to France to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling "El Camino de Santiago" from France to Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
Starring: Martin Sheen, Yorick van Wageningen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Emilio Estevez
Director: Emilio Estevez
Plein soleil / Purple Noon (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf to fetch his spoiled, playboy son, Philippe, and bring him back home to the States. In return, Tom will receive $5,000. Philippe toys with Tom, pretending he will go back home, but has no intentions of leaving his bride to be, Marge, and honoring his father's wishes. After some time passes, Mr. Greenleaf considers the mission a failure and cuts Tom off. Tom, in desperation, kills Philippe, assumes his identity, and lives the life of a rich playboy. However, he will need all his conman abilities to keep Philippe's friends and the police off the trail.
Starring: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Romy Schneider, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns
Director: René Clémentt
Playing by Heart (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. Mark is dying of AIDS, and his mother comes to his bedside: they must talk truthfully. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit: why is he reluctant? An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex, but she is unwilling for the relationship to grow. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars. By the week's end, their parallel stories converge.
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie, Jay Mohr, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart, Madeleine Stowe
Director: Willard Carroll
Forced to Fight (2011)
Action
Once a legend in the brutal world of illicit underground fighting, Shane Slavin (Gary Daniels) decides to turn his life around, promising his wife and young son he’s fought his last battle. But when his younger brother betrays a ruthless crime boss (Peter Weller, RoboCop I & II), Shane is forced back into the arena to pay his brother’s debts and to protect his family. Now Shane must confront a gauntlet of incredibly savage, no-holds-barred fights with no rules, no mercy and just two possible outcomes: win… or die fighting.
Starring: Gary Daniels, Peter Weller, Brian Flaherty, Vladimir Comorovschi, Philip Granger
Director: Jonas Quastel
Sammy's Adventures 2 / Sammy's avonturen 2 (2012)
Adventure | Animation
Sammy and Ray, leatherback turtles and friends forever, are enjoying an atoll’s water and sand, shepherding new hatchlings Ricky and Ella out to sea. Suddenly, a poacher swoops in and ships them off to be part of a spectacular aquarium show for tourists in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape. But with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet Octopus, and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own.
Starring: Pat Carroll, Carlos McCullers II, Cinda Adams, Dino Andrade, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Isabelle Fuhrman, Wesley Johnny
Director: Ben Stassen
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Comedy | Drama
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, Robert Duvall
Director: Jason Reitman
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Comedy | Drama
When an irresponsible and child-like dad is barred from seeing his kids, he disguises himself as a woman and applies for the job of housekeeper for his ex-wife. The disguise of a sturdy matron works a beneficial change on him as well…but how long can he keep the act up.
Starring: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday, Martin Mull
Director: Chris Columbus
Consenting Adults (1992)
Crime | Thriller
Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio, and Kevin Spacey heat up the screen in Consenting Adults, the spine-tingling sexy thriller that seduced audiences and critics alike. When two couples living next door to each other grow too close, one of the husbands risks everything for a passion he can't resist – his neighbor's wife. His temptation traps the foursome in a shocking web of betrayal and murder. And now accused of a crime he didn't commit, he must race against time to save his family from a shocking fate. Directed by master of suspense Alan J. Pakula, this erotic thriller twists and turns as tension builds to a sensational heart-stopping climax!
Starring: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Forest Whitaker, E.G. Marshall
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Comedy | Crime
A middle-class man whose fiancee has just invested their life savings in a "starter" home turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year in college.
Starring: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Megan Mullally, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins
Director: Bruce McCulloch
Monster's Ball (2001)
Drama | Romance
Hank, an embittered prison guard, lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his own twenty something son, Sonny. Hank and Sonny work for the local prison where they are preparing the electric chair for a black inmate. After the man is executed, Hank falls in love with Letitia, the inmate's widow. This emotionally charged affair forces Hank to re-evaluate how deeply prison work and his father's infectious hatred have affected his soul.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs
Director: Marc Forster
Vincent & Theo / Van Gogh (1990)
Biography | Drama
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Starring: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys
Director: Robert Altman
Double Team (1997)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
Counter-terrorist Jack Quinn misses his target, Stavros, on the eve of his final mission.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke
Director: Hark Tsui
Extracted (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi
A scientist who has invented a technique to watch people's memories finds himself in a dangerous situation after he's tasked with entering a heroin addict's mind to see whether the man committed murder
Starring: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Richard Riehle, Nick Jameson
Director: Nir Paniry
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Charlie's Angels are a crime-fighting trio, masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts. When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels are on the spot with their brains, brawn and high-tech toys. Aided by their loyal sidekick Bosley, the girls are about to bring down the bad guys when a terrible secret is revealed that makes the Angels a target of assassination.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Tom Green
Director: McG
Miami Vice (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris) as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), who may seem unorthodox, but is actually procedurally sound, is charismatic and flirtatious until he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one–especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Working deeply undercover is dangerous and alluring…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go where their badges don't count…
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Towles
Director: Michael Mann
Casanova (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova (Ledger) is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty, Francesca (Miller), who does the one thing he never thought possible refuse him. Through a series of clever disguises and scheming ruses, he manages to get ever closer to Francesca. However, he is playing the most dangerous game he has ever encountered one that will risk not only his life and reputation but his only chance at true passion.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin, Omid Djalili
Director: Lasse Hallström
La cérémonie / La Cérémonie (1995)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The upper-class owner of a gallery, Catherine Lelievre, hires the efficient and quiet maid Sophie to work in the family manor in the French countryside. Her husband Georges Lelievre, who is an opera lover, her daughter Melinda and her teenage son Gilles welcome Sophie and appreciate her work. Sophie soon befriends the postmistress Jeanne, who is a bad egg and encourages Sophie to rebel against her employers, but the maid stays submissive. However, Sophie is ashamed of a secret and feels uncomfortable in many situations, finding a way to hide her secret. When Georges tells Sophie that he does not want Jeanne in his house, Sophie stands up to him. Melinda discovers her secret and Sophie blackmails her, but Melinda tells her parents what happened. Georges fires Sophie and she returns to the house later with Jeanne on the rampage.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Dominique Frot, Julien Rochefort
Director: Claude Chabrol
