The Three Stooges (2012)
Comedy
While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
Starring: Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Elles (2011)
Drama
Anne, a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja and Charlotte, are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
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My Best Enemy / Mein bester Feind (2011)
Comedy | Drama | War
Vienna in the 1930s. Victor Kaufmann, the son of a wealthy cosmopolitan Jewish couple, works in his father’s art gallery. His best friend whom he has known since childhood and from whom he is inseparable, is Rudi Smekal. Victor’s girlfriend, the attractive and vibrant Lena, is also a friend of Rudi’s. In a moment of exuberance Victor shows his friend a well-kept family secret: a drawing by Michelangelo that was believed lost. It comes as a terrible shock to Victor to learn that Rudi has long been a member of the Nazi party and is hoping that Austria’s annexation to Germany will improve his career chances with the Nazis. Having missed the right moment to flee Austria, the Kaufmanns are now stuck in Vienna. They transfer their estate to Lena in an attempt to protect it from being confiscated. Having bragged about the Michelangelo drawing, Rudi receives an order from Berlin to seize the art work. In order to save his old friends, Rudi suggests a deal: the drawing in exchange for the Kaufmanns’ freedom. But he has overestimated his influence. No sooner does the drawing fall into the hands of the Nazis than the Kaufmann family is sent to a concentration camp…
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller, Udo Samel, Uwe Bohm
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple / Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô (1955)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Novecento / 1900 (1976)
Drama | History
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock, the other born to a land owner. The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Werner Bruhns
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Airport (1970)
Drama | Thriller
Oscar winner Helen Hayes and Burt Lancaster lead an all-star cast in this gripping film about the manager of an international airport who struggles to deal with a bomb threat and a blizzard.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy
Director: George Seaton
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
Biography | Drama | War
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWI. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Director: Moustapha Akkad
No Doubt / Dol-i-kil Soo Eobs-neun (2010)
Drama
A family moves into the suburbs of Gyunggi-do. A while later a girl named Mi-rim goes missing and chaos takes over the village. Mi-rim's father searches for his daughter and while visiting the police station he stumbles upon a criminal record from one of the family members that just moved. Mi-rim's father and the villagers threaten and pacify Sejin and his family. The film follows the genre conventions of a thriller yet it also contains people's prejudices and oppression. Sejin's past record as a convict rids him of his individuality and his sister is on the brink of losing her job as a kindergarten teacher. The film questions what is true violence. The result, violence does not just include person to person, but can be silent brought on by a community that leads to a sacrifice of an individual. Such is the typical mechanism, murdering individuality through the violence of a group.
Starring: In-gi Jeong, Chang-sook Kim, Tae-woo Kim, Jeong-jin Lee, Seong-Eon Lim
Director: Soo-young Park
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto / Miyamoto Musashi (1954)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter in the isolated home of a widow, Oko, and her daughter, Akemi. Oko seduces Matahachi, who forgets his betrothal to the virtuous Otsu. Oko, Matahachi, and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. Matahachi's family rejects Takezo's report and has him arrested for treason. A monk rescues him from death and sentences him to the study of the samurai code. Otsu and Takezo fall in love, and she promises to wait for him when he sets off on the road as a knight errant.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
The Rebound (2009)
Comedy | Romance
In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Andrew Cherry, Kelly Gould, Lynn Whitfield
Director: Bart Freundlich
Wunderkinder (2011)
Drama
The story takes place in the Ukraine (Poltava) in 1941 before and during the German invasion. This story is about deep friendship between three musically talented children . Two Jewish children both virtuosic and a talented German girl who share a love of music .. Their friendship extends beyond the gaps of different religions and nationalities, The Nazis invasion to the Soviet Union destroyed their world and they and their families deal with death threats War brings with it.
Starring: Gedeon Burkhard, Natalia Avelon, Rolf Kanies, Kai Wiesinger, Catherine H. Flemming, Gudrun Landgrebe, Konstantin Wecker
Director: Markus Rosenmüller
Prime Time (2012)
Crime | Drama
Annika Bengtzon, crime reporter for Kvallspressen evening newspaper in Stockholm, living with Thomas and mother of two children, is faced with the murder of the whimsical TV star Michelle Carlsson. This is during the shortest night of the year found shot dead in the mobile control room of the TV station. Carlsson found himself with others in a castle to shoot for a television program. This second series of two books by Liza Marklund consists of "Nobel Testament".
Starring: Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée, Kajsa Ernst, Erik Johansson
Director: Agneta Fagerström-Olsson
Get The Gringo (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal named Driver is nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Changing Lanes (2002)
Drama | Thriller
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self absorption and a spark of anger will cause the two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changes forever. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck star in a provocative and gripping drama that exposes the best and worst in all of us.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
Director: Roger Michell
High Noon (1952)
Drama | Western
A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Just Cause (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's no question he caught the right man–and no last-minute intervention is going to keep that cold-blooded killer out of the electric chair. Someone is the mastermind of a deadly game… and all roads lead back to the site of that long-ago murder–where, this time, there are two intended victims.
Starring: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris
Director: Arne Glimcher
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Barbershop (2002)
Comedy | Drama
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out. The barbershop is filled with characters who share their stories, jokes, trials and tribulations. In the shop we find Eddie, an old barber with strong opinions and no customers. Jimmy is a highly educated barber with a superiority complex who can't stand Isaac, the new, white barber who just wants a shot at cutting some hair. Ricky is an ex-con with two strikes against him and is desperately trying to stay straight. Terri is a hard-edged woman who can't seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend. And lastly there's Dinka, a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn't get the time of day.
Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas
Director: Tim Story
Lacuna / Zui hou yi ye (2012)
Comedy | Romance
2 people wake up and sleep together,but did not know each other!So they began to recall what happened last night!!
Starring: Shawn Yue, Jingchu Zhang, Lawrence Chou, Choize
Director: Kwok Cheung Tsang, Chi-Man Wan
Bunt / Nal-a-ra Heo-dong-goo (2007)
Drama
11-year-old Dong-Gu (Choi Woo-Hyeok), who is mentally challenged, loves going to school to provide water to his friends. However, he gets disappointed when the school decides to install a water purifier in every classroom. Dong-Gu then learns that every freshman on the school baseball team is required to supply water to their senior teammates, so he joins the team. Meanwhile, Dong-Gu’s father (Jung Jin-Young), who owns a chicken restaurant and loves to take care of his mentally disabled son, finds out that he has cancer…
Starring: Yun Chan, Woo-hyuk Choi, Soon-chang Hong, So-hyeon Jeon, Jin-yeong Jeong
Director: Gyoo-tae Park
Treasure Island (2012)
Adventure
Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Rupert Penry-Jones, Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland
Director: Steve Barron
