The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A brain tumor allows a person to change the past by reflecting at relevant pictures.
Starring: Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan, Gina Holden, Lindsay Maxwell
Director: John R. Leonetti
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Melora Walters, Eric Stoltz
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
The 400 Blows / Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Crime | Drama
François Truffaut first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe most brilliant auteurs.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble
Director: François Truffaut
Little Big Soldier / Da bing xiao jiang (2010)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
Set during the final years of the Warring States period of ancient China, a cowardly soldier of Liang, who has captured a heavily wounded young general of rival kingdom Wei through sheer luck. Hoping that he will be rewarded and possibly discharged from the army, the soldier, who longs for peace and freedom, takes the captive along on his way back home. Their initial animosity gradually turns into friendship as the odd couple encounters danger in the shape of refugees, nomads, and the Wei armies on their eventful journey.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Leehom Wang, Rongguang Yu, Sung-jun Yoo, Ken Lo, Peng Lin
Director: Sheng Ding
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Kenshiro / Shin Kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken – Kenshirô den (2008)
Animation
A prequel set between Kenshiro's defeat at the hands of Shin and the beginning of the manga.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yuriko Ishida, Romi Pak, Takeshi Aono, Keiichi Nanba
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki / Shin Kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken – Toki den (2008)
Animation
Centers around the character Toki.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Aya Hirano
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Raoh – Fierce Fight / Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den – Gekitô no shô (2007)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
A retelling of Kenshiro's final battle with Raoh.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Nobuaki Kakuda, Ko Shibasaki
Director: Toshihiro Hirano
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria / Shin Kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken – Yuria den (2007)
Animation
Centers around Yuria and how she became the Last Nanto General.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Debitto Itô, Chikao Ôtsuka, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Akio Ohtsuka
Director: Hidehito Ueda
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Raoh – Death in Love / Fist of the North Star: New Saviour Legend / Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den – Jun'ai no shô (2006)
Animation
A retelling of Kenshiro's battle against Souther, the strongest of the Nanto Roku Seiken masters, with a sub-plot involving Raoh and Reina.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Ko Shibasaki, Akio Ohtsuka, Hôchû Ôtsuka
Director: Takahiro Imamura
Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Short
The Winter Festival is coming and Po is asked to host the great exclusive formal banquet for all the Masters of Kung Fu. However, the occasion is on the same night as his father's restaurant's own party and Mr. Ping, upset at his son's absence, will not cancel it to cook for the masters at Po's request. Burdened by his father's imposed guilt about his conflicting responsibilities, Po finds all the preparations a dispiriting struggle. However, the solution comes from where he least expects it even as the panda must decide who truly needs him more on the big night.
Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu
Director: Tim Johnson
The Kid with a Bike / Boy with a Bike / Le gamin au vélo (2011)
Drama
Placed in a group home for children, peppery 11-year-old Cyril promptly escapes, unwilling to accept that his deadbeat dad has abandoned him. Rebuffed by his father, the distraught Cyril is taken in by concerned passerby Samantha, who in time becomes his foster guardian. Samantha's good heart could make a world of difference in Cyril's life, but the troubled young boy still has demons to deal with.
Starring: Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Brothers (2009)
Drama | Thriller | War
Thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill and his younger brother Tommy Cahill, are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace, with whom he has two young daughters. Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who's always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam's farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie and Hank Cahill, a retired Marine. Shipped out to Afghanistan, Sam is presumed dead when his Black Hawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains. At home in suburbia, the Cahill family suddenly faces a shocking void, and Tommy tries to fill in for his brother by assuming newfound responsibility for himself, Grace, and the children.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Bailee Madison, Sam Shepard
Director: Jim Sheridan
Christine / John Carpenter's Christine (1983)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. But as the car changes, so does Arnie, and his newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
Starring: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Roberts Blossom
Director: John Carpenter
Anthony Zimmer (2005)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters. While traveling by train to the country nearby Nice, the common man François Taillandier, who has the same body shape of Zimmer, is select by Chiara as if he were Zimmer and used as a bait to lure those that are pursuing her. When Taillandier is chased by the professional Russian killers, he runs the French police when the real situation begins to be disclosed to him.
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Yvan Attal, Sami Frey, Gilles Lellouche, Daniel Olbrychski, Samir Guesmi
Director: Jérôme Salle
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent
Director: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools – the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, everything changes as Harry, Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Mike Newell
L-O-V-E / Ai dao di (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
L-O-V-E. is an anthology of four short films by directors Chen Yi-xian, Vincent Fang, Huang Tzi-chiao, and Jiu Ba Dao, who each were at the helm of their own stories, delivering their own brand of what it means to be in love.
Starring: Van, Megan Lai, Cheng-Lung Lan, Annie Liu, Alan Kuo, Ching-Tien Juan, Kai-xuan Tseng, Tracy Chou
Director: Yi-xian Chen, Vincent Fang, Tzi-Chiao Huang, Giddens Ko
Aladdin (1992)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Our hero Aladdin is a street-smart peasant who, with one rub of a magic lamp, meets up with the most hip, hilarious and totally unpredictable Genie the screen has ever seen. But the evil sorcerer, Jafar, also craves the lamp's power. If Aladdin is to defeat him and win the love of princess Jasmine, he must learn to be himself – and that's one wish the Genie can't grant!
Starring: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Gilbert Gottfried, Charles Adler, Frank Welker, Linda Larkin
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Brenda wears comfortable, cotton panties; Nikki wears sheer, lacy thongs. Richard Cooper is in the middle, with a good job in Manhattan, a house in the suburbs, and two cute children with Brenda, his intelligent, good-looking wife who's a teacher. But there's no sex in this seven-year marriage, so Richard's bored. Into the mix walks Nikki, a sexy, sassy, single friend he's not seen in years. Nikki has problems and finds a reason to stop at his office every day. He tries to help, they have some fun, and he doesn't mention Nikki to Brenda. His work and reputation suffer. Is he about to scratch the seven year itch? What choices does Richard have?
Starring: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres
Director: Chris Rock
Paradise Now (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves. However, things go wrong and both friends must separate in the border. One of them, maintaining in his purpose of carry the attack to the end, and the other will have his doubts about it.
Starring: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Mohammad Bustami
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
