The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna (1964)
Drama | Thriller
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone – he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit – meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
One Piece Film Z (2012)
Action | Adventure | Animation
The Straw Hat Pirates hit the big screen again in 2012 with the One Piece series' blockbuster 12th feature One Piece Film: Z. This time Luffy and company face their most powerful enemy yet – Zephyr, a former admiral who now leads the Neo Marines. His goal: to wipe out all pirates.
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata
Director: Tatsuya Nagamine
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Senjô no merî Kurisumasu (1983)
Drama | War
Celliers, a high-ranking British officer, is interned by the Japanese as a POW. The camp commander becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major. Meanwhile, lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners.
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
De zaak Alzheimer / The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal struggles to perform an act of street justice as he loses control of his faculties in this thriller from Belgium
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Laurien Van den Broeck, Dirk Roofthooft
Director: Erik Van Looy
Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika / Operation Y & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Starring: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Basov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Natalya Seleznyova, Viktor Pavlov
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960)
Drama
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island…
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Amy Alyson Fans (2011)
Comedy
When his girlfriend Amy suddenly gains fame as a hot young actress, Jay secretly launches an “Amy Alyson” fan website, packed with stalker photos and juicy gossip. Soon enough, Jay’s getting rich from the website and Amy’s distraught over the harassment she receives due to her boyfriend’s covert efforts. However, the consequences of money and fame turn out not to be what either of them expected. Can they survive the drama? A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Cooper Harris, Brendan Bradley, Josh Sussman, Lochlyn Munro, Chris Wylde, Jason-Shane Scott
Director: Jonathan L. Bowen
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Bones (2010)
Drama
The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Starring: Jimmy Bennett, Zakk Wylde, Melissa Ordway, Jonna Walsh, Jesse James, Robin Thomas, Andrew Lawrence
Director: Frank Pestarino
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The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (2010)
Comedy | History | War
Ken Burns meets Spinal Tap in a subversive tour de force relaying the outrageous life stories of four forgotten Civil War heroes: an opium-addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese launderer, a nerdy escaped slave, and a one-armed teenage prostitute. Both wickedly satirical and deeply affectionate, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek tells the "100% true" story of how these oddball outsiders saved the Union from a nefarious foreign plot, how the forces of bigotry expunged their stunning victory from the history books, and – most importantly – how meeting one's ex on the field of battle can be just the thing to re-spark a detoured romance.
Starring: Emily Mitchell, Christopher Lukas, Tim Cusack, Zeb Hollins III, John Redmond, Maureen Brooks, Emilie Bonsant
Director: Wendy Jo Cohen
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The Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
Starring: David Faustino, Andrew Divoff, Kostas Sommer, Joe Torry, Corin Nemec, Jen Nikolaisen, Tara Shayne, Beth Shea
Director: Michael Feifer
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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
