Leap of Faith (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town in Kansas where he finds he can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Starring: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas, Meat Loaf
Director: Richard Pierce
Barfi! (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set in the Darjeeling and Calcutta of the 70s, Barfi! is the story of three young people who learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's norms of normal and abnormal. Barfi, a hearing and speech impaired boy falls in love with the beautiful, ethereal Shruti. Worlds collide. And in spite of her deep affection for Barfi, Shruti gives in to societal and parental pressure to marry a 'normal man' and lead a 'normal life'. Many years later, their paths cross once again when Barfi, on the run from the police, is in search o f Jhilmil, a mentally challenged girl who he grew up with.
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana
Director: Anurag Basu
Nostradamus (1994)
Biography | Drama
Recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions of the future. The film is set in France in the 16th century during one of the periodic plague outbreaks (as opposed to the Black Death [mid-14th-century Europe] or the Black Plague [mid-17th-century London]). The film depicts Nostradamus's rise in influence, because of both his success in treating plague and his predictions, culminating in his appointment as court physician to Charles IX of France.
Starring: Tchéky Karyo, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond, F. Murray Abraham, Assumpta Serna
Director: Roger Christian
Classe tous risques / Classe Tous Risques (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Sautet
Les fugitifs / Fugitives (1986)
Comedy | Crime
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of this action.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard
Director: Francis Veber
Jenny McCarthy's Dirty, Sexy, Funny (2014)
Comedy
With the help of a hilarious, all-female slate of stand-up comedians, Jenny McCarthy takes an outrageous look at life as a contemporary woman: from single motherhood to casual sex. Shot at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, this one-hour special includes sets from Justine Marino, Tammy Pescatelli, Lynne Koplitz, Paula Bel and Tiffany Haddish, as well as a series of sketch vignettes from McCarthy herself.
Starring: Jenny McCarthy
Veronica Mars / Veronica Mars: The Movie (2014)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown – just in time for her high school reunion – in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
Starring: Kristen Bell, Krysten Ritter, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Ryan Hansen, Chris Lowell
Director: Rob Thomas
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Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Monaghan, Ray Liotta, Jane Fonda
Director: Geoff Moore, David Posamentier
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The Americans (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who have two children – 13-year-old Paige and 10-year-old Henry, who know nothing about their parents' true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control.
Starring: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Noah Emmerich, Richard Thomas, Annet Mahendru, Susan Misner, Alison Wright
Creator: Joseph Weisberg
Death Note: L Change the World / Death Note 3 / L: Change the World (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
Death Note: The Last Name / Death Note 2 / Desu nôto: The last name (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself—and get rid of L.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shidô Nakamura, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Death Note / Death Note 1 / Desu nôto (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Battle of the Damned (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Melanie Zanetti, Matt Doran, David Field, Jen Sung, Lydia Look, Oda Maria
Director: Christopher Hatton
Achtung, fertig, Charlie! / Ready, Steady, Charlie! (2003)
Comedy | Romance
In a Swiss church, Antonio Carrera is getting married to the pretty daughter of an Italian Mafioso, as army police marches in and takes him to the compulsory Swiss military school.
Starring: Michael Koch, Melanie Winiger, Myriam Aegerter, Marco Rima, Martin Rapold
Director: Mike Eschmann
Wild River (1960)
Drama | Romance
Social drama set in rural Alabama in the 1930s, directed by Elia Kazan. Montgomery Clift stars as Chuck Glover, an agent sent by the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, including an elderly woman, Ella Garth (Jo van Fleet) who refuses to budge from her land, and various factions who object to his providing paid employment for local black labourers. Lee Remick co-stars as Ella Garth's granddaughter Carol, who gradually falls in love with the sensitive and liberal-minded Glover.
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Frank Overton, Malcolm Atterbury
Director: Elia Kazan
Na druhý pohled / On Second Look (2014)
Drama
A story about two brothers whose relationship felt apart more than 20 years ago.
Starring: Vanda Hybnerová, Tomás Dastlík, David Matásek, Josefina Rasilovová, Jan Fanta
Director: Petr Nikolaev
Real Gangsters (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo (Nick Mancuso) and Jack Lo Giacamo (Frank D'Angelo) Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous extended family and volatile business ventures by very different means. Vincent is the politician, the man who always has a plan to help keep the peace, find common ground, bind blood and commerce and grow the family into a billion dollar empire. Jack is the muscle, the hot head, ruthless and uncompromising he lives in the moment and executes his actions based on how he feels. Unfortunately for these two men, these two philosophies don't always work together. Jack enforces his code of duty and honor with a brutal finality that sometimes destroys Vincent's creative scheming. Jack also finds himself unexpectedly protecting the underdogs in his neighborhood that sometimes creates more trouble for him than it's worth. Vincent makes deals with rival families knowing that money is the glue that keeps the peace, avoids problems with law enforcement and builds a future. But having to turn the other cheek drives Jack mad when it sells out his personal integrity and often he can't do it. Somehow the cousins get through each day, keep their enemies guessing and keep business booming. Real Gangsters is an adrenalin rush. A constant roller coaster ride of classic crime, class acts, and the thrill that comes from living life on the edge, one day at a time, when at any moment you may have to put your life on the line to serve and protect the family.
Starring: Robert Loggia, John Savage, Steven Bauer, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Michael Paré, Robert Mangiardi, Frank D'Angelo
Director: Frank D'Angelo
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Truth (2013)
Thriller
A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb (Sean Paul Lockhart, "Milk", "Judas Kiss", "Chillerama") meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy (Rob Moretti, "Crutch", "An Affirmative Act", "Snapshot"), and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb's quest for the truth be revealed. The film also stars Emmy Winner® Blanche Baker, ("16 Candles", "Raw Deal", "Taking Chances").
Starring: Sean Paul Lockhart, Rob Moretti, Blanche Baker, Rebekah Aramini
Director: Rob Moretti
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A Caretaker's Tale / Viceværten (2012)
Drama
Harsh and bitter, apartment caretaker Per despises everyone and everything around him until he comes across a mysterious naked girl in an empty apartment. She doesn't know how to talk, walk, or even eat – she just smiles broadly. Per soon discovers that she has miraculous sexual powers. Perhaps just as startling, he finds himself caring deeply for this beauties in a perverse, unexpected fairy tale about love, possession, and generosity.
Starring: Lars Mikkelsen, Julie Zangenberg, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Peter Plaugborg, Tommy Kenter, Ditte Gråbøl, Leif Sylvester
Director: Katrine Wiedemann
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A Cross to Bear (2012)
Drama
A Cross to Bear tells the unflinching and inspiring story of Erica, a would-be dancer with no family connections who finds herself fighting alcoholism and living on the streets with her newborn child after being left by her boyfriend. One ill-fated night, a tragic event shatters Erica's life. Traumatized and at rock bottom, she finds refuge at the home of Joan – a former nurse who has dedicated her life to helping women like Erica, Tina and Fae. Erica struggles to forge a new path for herself. As the cause of her personal hell is revealed, slowly, with the help of Joan's unique brand of tough love, the friendship of Tina, a former crack baby, and the guidance of other women who have found new beginnings at Joan's House, Erica finds the will to live and learns the redemptive power of forgiveness.
Starring: Kim Fields, Malinda Williams, Danielle Deadwyler, Jackie Long
Director: Tandria Potts
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