Downloaded (2013)
Documentary
A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large.
Starring: Henry Rollins, Noel Gallagher, Sean Parker, Mike D, Billy Corgan, Shawn Fanning
Director: Alex Winter
Charley Varrick (1973)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Norman Fell
Director: Don Siegel
Room at the Top (1959)
Drama | Romance
The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.
Starring: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson
Director: Jack Clayton
Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
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The Cloth (2013)
Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Cloth is an actionhorror story centered on a secret organization formed by the Catholic Church to counteract the rising cases of demonic possessions across the country. The story follows a young godless man who is being recruited into the cloth.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Rachele Brooke Smith, Justin Price, Robert Miano, Lassiter Holmes, Kyler Willett, Cameron White, Steven Brand, Perla Rodríguez, Khu, Mako Veronica, Dan Roman
Director: Justin Price
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House Party: Tonight's the Night (2013)
Comedy
Chris has it all worked out: he's ready to leave high school behind and head to college in his sweet new ride. The problem is, he'll be leaving behind his best friend and partner in rhyme, Dylan. And he still has to get with Autumn, the girl he's had a crush on since second grade. The solution? Throw one last party where Chris and Dylan can show off their skills with words and women. But a little get-together becomes a hilariously epic disaster where anything can happen and anyone might turn up … including the original house partiers, Kid 'n Play.
Starring: Tristin Mays, Tequan Richmond, Gary Anthony Williams, Raja Fenske, Alex McGregor, Rolonda Watts, Sven Ruygrok, Zac Goodspeed, Keith Powers, Julian Works
Director: Darin Scott
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Michael Imperioli, Adrian Grenier, Rosario Dawson, Jill Hennessy, Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets
Director: Peter Mattei
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Rasskazy / Short Stories (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Daria Nosik, Andrey Petrov, Igor Ugolnikov, Sergei Fetisov
Director: Mikhail Segal
Foxy Brown (1974)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder, Terry Carter
Director: Jack Hill
The Narrows (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Mike Manadoro, a 19 year old from Brooklyn, will do almost anything to get out of his neighborhood and to study photography at a Manhattan university. The problem is Mike's father Vinny, a retired sanitation worker, does not have the financial means to support his son's dream. So when local mob boss Tony offers Mike a high paying job, he takes it. Mike enters college at the same time as he begins delivering mysterious packages for Tony. Juggling new friendships, old loyalties, a new romance and the world of small-time crime, Mike's choices begin to result in dangerous and potentially fatal consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Starring: Sophia Bush, Kevin Zegers, Vincent D'Onofrio, Eddie Cahill
Director: François Velle
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi
Director: Frank Capra
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl / An American Girl Mystery (2008)
Drama | Family
Aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge can't resist bringing home strays, whether it's Grace, an abandoned basset hound, or Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos willing to trade work for meals. Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati, all signs point to the local hobo jungle, where Will and Countee live with a group of their impoverished companions. Kit, who always has her antennae out for a good news story, convinces her new friends to take her to see the hobo camp for herself and writes an article that creates a sympathetic portrait of the camp's residents. But when Kit's mother and their boarders become the latest victims in a string of robberies, Kit's loyalties are tested. Will is accused of the crimes and, with all of their savings gone, the Kittredges face losing their house to foreclosure. Determined to recover the stolen money and believing Will is innocent, Kit recruits her friends Ruthie and Stirling to help her track down the real culprit. Together they uncover a plot that goes far beyond Cincinnati!
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Joan Cusack
Director: Patricia Rozema
Nine Days of One Year / 9 dney odnogo goda (1962)
Drama
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Starring: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Sergei Blinnikov
Director: Mikhail Romm
I vitelloni / The Young and the Passionate (1953)
Comedy | Drama
Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shot. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with his friends, when and where they can find them. He even tries to seduce the wife of his boss and is fired. After each episode, Sandra forgives him. He and his friends of similar temperament are content to be idle, chase girls and leave the work and job-hunting to others. After spending the night away from home with a girl, Sandra cannot forgive anymore and runs off with their child. Fausto and his friends search all over fearing the worst, and he finally finds her at the home of his father, Francesco, who gives him a deserved thrashing. The couple reconciles and Fausto pledges to reform. Life goes on as usual for his other friends, always planning but never getting around to doing anything constructive, with the exception of Moraldo, who makes the break and leaves their town to seek a better life elsewhere.
Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
The Newsroom (TV Series 2012- )
Drama
The Newsroom is an American drama television series created and primarily written by Aaron Sorkin that premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012. The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. It features an ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, who, together with his staff set out to put on a news show "in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements."[1] Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston.
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston, Chris Chalk, John F. Carpenter, Trieu Tran, Margaret Judson, Adina Porter, Charlie Weirauch, Wynn Everett, Thomas Matthews, Chris Messina, Kelen Coleman, Chasty Ballesteros
Creator: Aaron Sorkin
Best Friends Forever (2013)
Drama
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER is a clever dark comedy and sci-fi horror movie, combining equal parts heartfelt road trip buddy film and apocalyptic disaster story, with two badass girls. Harriet, a perpetually optimistic comic-book artist, dreams of escaping her past in Los Angeles and hits the road for a new life in Austin, Texas. She drags Reba her seemingly devil-may-care BFF, along for the ride. After nuclear bombs explode in four cities, the girls are forced to ask: When faced with the end of the world – what is most important to you?
Starring: Brea Grant, Vera Miao, Sean Maher, Kit Williamson, Glen Powell, Alex Berg, Alex Fernie, Stacey Storey
Director: Brea Grant
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Mexican Sunrise (2007)
Action | Drama | Thriller
In less than 24 hours Ryan will be a married man, and in order to celebrate his last night of freedom, Ryan's friends have arranged an elaborate bachelor party blowout across the Mexican border. But somewhere along the journey everything falls apart. Now as one man struggles for survival after being stuffed into a barrel and buried alive, the grim events of that fateful evening unfold in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards that will leave the viewer guessing until the crucial final seconds.
Starring: Armand Assante, Jordan Belfi, William Gregory Lee, Reed Frerichs, Tom Tartamella, Drew Powell
Director: Rowdy Stovall
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Train of Life / Train de vie (1998)
Comedy | Drama | War
Central Europe, WWII. The village fool of a small Jewish community warns the townsfolk that the Nazis are coming, and advises them to build a fake deportation train to cross the Russian border and get to Palestine. Some Jews are dressed up with German uniforms, and soon they start getting strange ideas about how it feels to be a Nazi; others are infected with the fast-spreading germ of communism. Meanwhile, the Russian border gets closer and closer…
Starring: Rufus, Lionel Abelanski, Clément Harari, Michel Muller, Agathe de La Fontaine
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison transport bus arrives with some of Detroit's most lethal prisoners. Soon, the only thing more dangerous than the criminals on the inside is the rogue gang on the outside. And if they're going to survive the night, two men on opposite sides of the law will have to work together to battle an enemy who doesn't follow the code of cop or criminal.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Chashme Baddoor (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Siddharth , Omi and Jai are close friends and room mates who are studying at Delhi University. Siddharth has completed M.A in Economics and is preparing for PhD. Siddharth is very studious and spends most of his time with books whereas Omi and Jai are busy in chasing girls, watching movies or dramas; only common thing among them is smoking. One day Omi and Jai see a girl who is new to their neighborhood and try to impress her by their tricks; they give up when both of them experience shameful events. After some days, Neha shows up as Chamko washing powder salesgirl to their flat, upon seeing whom Jai and Omi hide quickly. Siddharth sees Neha for the first time and a love story begins. But when his two friends find out, they decide to put an end to their relationship as a revenge to the embarrassment inflicted upon them by the girl. Initially they succeed in separating Siddharth and Neha but later on repent when they find that Siddharth lost his interest in work and study and also likely to end his life. Finally they decide to reunite both. The parallel plot runs between Omi, Jai, Siddharth and Lallan Miyan. Lallan Miyan is the local shopkeeper who sells Cigarettes to Omi and Jai on credit. But as students don't clear his debts, Lallan Miyan tries to follow-up with them to get their dues. A spate of kidnapping (especially of young girls) has started in Delhi. One fine day Omi and his friends along with Neha's grandmother plan to stage a fake kidnapping and get married. But unfortunately she is kidnapped by the real gang and the duo is left in a lurch. The later part of the story revolves how they clear the confusion that she has been in fact kidnapped by real thugs and how she is rescued.
Starring: Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Tapsee Pannu, Rishi Kapoor, Anupam Kher
Director: David Dhawan
