Staten Island / Little New York (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In the shadow of Manhattan, the lives of three ambitious men intersect when Sully, a dim-witted septic tank cleaner, decides to rob $50,000 from the local mob boss.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel
Director: James DeMonaco
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Eureka (TV Series 2006-2012)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world’s geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country’s best kept secrets.
Starring: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston, Joe Morton, Chris Gauthier, Jordan Hinson, Niall Matter
Creator: Andrew Cosby, Jaime Paglia
Sofia / Assassin's Bullet (2012)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Agent Robert Diggs left his career in the FBI to escape the memories of his wife's death. However, when an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list, the FBI and CIA request he take on the case.
Starring: Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall
Director: Isaac Florentine
Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive / Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy (2011)
Biography | Drama
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend.
Starring: Sergey Bezrukov, Oksana Akinshina, Andrey Smolyakov, Ivan Urgant, Maksim Leonidov
Director: Pyotr Buslov
City of Joy / La cité de la joie (1992)
Drama
Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita, and two sons, Shambhu and Manooj. As the Pal are unable to repay the loan they had taken years ago from a moneylender, their land and property are auctioned, and they are rendered homeless. Hazari and his family re-locate to Calcutta with hopes of starting life anew, save some money and go back to Bihar, as well as get Amrita married. Things do not go as planned, as they lose their entire savings to a con-man, Gangooly, who took their money as rent by pretending to be a landlord. Then Hazari gets an opportunity to take up driving a rickshaw manually through a local godfather, Ghatak. He gets to meet a American, Dr. Max Lowe, and together they strike up a friendship along with a local social worker, Joan Bethel. Misunderstandings crop up between Joan and the Godfather, resulting in the shutting down of their shanty medical clinic…
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri
Director: Roland Joffé
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Comedy | Crime
Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Director: Charles Crichton
Boudu sauvé des eaux / Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Comedy
Boudu is a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine, and is rescued by Monsieur Lestingois, a well-to-do bookseller with liberal ideas, who takes him home and tries to reconcile him with life and society. But Boudu is bored in this cosy little nest and uses his time to make trouble in the peaceful households around him.
Starring: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret, Max Dalban, Jean Dasté, Charles Granval
Director: Jean Renoir
Mad Money (2008)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Academy Award winner Diane Keaton, Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes are all in for the crime of their lives! Deep inside the most secure bank in America, three desperate women from very different worlds cook up the most unlikely heist of the century: Smuggle out millions of dollars in worn-out currency headed for a Federal Reserve shredder every day. Taking the cash is going to be easy…but getting away with it will be insane! Ted Danson, Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore), Roger Cross (24) and Stephen Root (Office Space) co-star in this wild comedy caper from the creator of Thelma & Louise about chasing your dreams, beating the system and paying the price for Mad Money!
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root
Director: Callie Khouri
Audition / Ôdishon (1999)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A widowed TV producer is encouraged by his teenage son to remarry before he gets too old. Unable to find anyone suitable, he decides to hold auditions for a false movie in order to test out potential wives. He thinks he may have found the one he is looking for when he auditions a former ballerina, but she seems too good to be true and an investigation into her past reveals a horrific secret.
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Takashi Miike
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The Law of Attraction / Wan You Yin Li (2011)
Drama | Romance
Businessman Gao Yuan (Wen Zhang) misses his flight due to the fault of the airport security detectors and he puts the blame on the officer in-charge, Shi Xiao Lin (Bai Bai He). After a series of disputes and misunderstandings, Xiao Lin remembers clearly of his previous trips at the Beijing Airport Terminal 3. And soon it opens up the love between the two. Mathematician Wang Yong (Guo Tao) and his wife Xue Lian (Zhang Jing Chu) are trying hard to conceive a baby until they need to see different doctors to check the fertility of their sperm and ovum respectively. They even tried yogas, assisted reproductive recipes, and even different sex positions. After unsuccessful first few attempts, eventually Xue Lian manages to get pregnant. Ah Mei (Karen Mok) is travelling with an unidentified lover until they got an accident on an intersection. Both managed to survive. What Ah Mei did not know is that the accident was staged as a motive of revenge by her husband Zhou Yun Shan (Leon Dai), as a method of punishment for his unfaithful wife. At the same time both are trying hard to save their crumbling marriage. Hai Qiao (Bowen Duan) and Jia Xin (Huang Huan) are childhood parachute jumping partners. As an adult Jian Xin is forced to quit parachute jumping due of drug use. As a result of this Hai Qiao is depressed and is changing his own way to persuade her to quit drug taking. She manages to quit and both become parachute jumping partners once again with a new beginning.
Starring: Baihe Bai, Leon Dai, Bowen Duan, Karen Mok, Jingchu Zhang, Tao Guo, Zhang Wen, Huan Huang
Director: Zhao Tianyu
One Hundred and One Dalmatians / 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Adventure | Animation | Family
A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.
Starring: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright, Cate Bauer
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend… or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.
Starring: Jeremy Luc, Melissa Molinaro, Jack Scalia, Paul Sorvino, Joey Fatone, Vinny Guadagnino, William Atherton, Tony Sirico
Director: John Shepphird
Bail Enforcers / Bounty Hunters (2011)
Action
Bail Enforcers is about a team of bounty hunters who gets into trouble when they are confronted with the moral dilemma of a local mob boss wanting the team to turn a bail jumper over to him for the price of a million dollars.
Starring: Trish Stratus, Frank J. Zupancic, Boomer Phillips, Christian Bako, Andrea James Lui
Director: Patrick McBrearty
Serengeti (2011)
Documentary
Each year, more than one and a half million herbivores cross the rich plains of the Serengeti. During their journey, the hordes of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles must not only carry their destination but also small to avoid predators on the prowl. Lions, hyenas, cheetahs and crocodiles seize every opportunity to capture a prey traversing the 3,000 miles from Savannah.
Starring: Hardy Krüger Jr.
Director: Reinhard Radke
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Mythos Amazonas (TV Series 2010)
Documentary
Die 3-teilige Doku-Serie entführt den Zuschauer in die Welt des grössten Regenwaldes der Erde. In eine Region, die den ersten Europäern, die sie betraten, Furcht einflösste. Für sie war der Amazonas eine grüne Hölle. Heute weiss man, wie artenreich und einmalig das Gebiet ist und welch wichtige Rolle es für das Klima spielt. Drei Jahre verbrachte das Produktions-Team am Amazonas. Auf einer Fläche, etwa 20mal so gross wie Deutschland, legten sie tausende Kilometer zu Fuss, in Booten, in Flugzeugen oder Helikoptern zurück. Die Mühe lohnte sich: Zeitlupen, stabilisierte Flugaufnahmen, Makro- und Unterwassershots sowie Kranfahrten lieferten 400 Stunden Filmmaterial in HD Qualität, darunter einzigartige Aufnahmen und spektakuläres, nie zuvor gefilmtes Tierverhalten.
Creator: Lothar Frenz, Sue Western
Director: Christian Baumeister
Jaws (1975)
Thriller
A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers until a part-time sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb
Director: Steven Spielberg
Fünf Freunde / Five Friends / Famous Five (2012)
Family
The FAMOUS FIVE spend their first holidays together and plunge into an exciting adventure: George’s dad has been kidnapped! The kids take up the trail of the gangsters and uncover a breathtaking plot.
Starring: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele-Marie Nickel, Armin Rohde, Johann von Bülow, Michael Fitz, Anja Kling, Anna Böttcher
Director: Mike Marzuk
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The Saphead (1920)
Comedy
Buster Keaton stars as Bertie Van Alstyne, the pampered son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Having known no other lifestyle but privilege, he wanders through a variety of misadventures-an attempt at courtship, a trip to an illegal gambling den, and a tumble onto the floor of the Stock Exchange-oblivious to the obstacles that stand before him.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Edward Jobson, Beulah Booker, Edward Connelly, Edward Alexander
Director: Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean Corso is highly skilled at his work, a position which requires dexterity, cultural expertise, nerves of steel… and few scruples. Known for locating rare books for wealthy collectors, Corso is hired by eminent book-lover and scholar of demonology, Boris Balkan. Corson's mission: to find the last two volumes of legendary manual of satanic invocation "The Ninth Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," compare them Balkan's first volume, supposedly the only one of its kind, and ascertain the authenticity of the series. Corso accepts the challenge. From New York to Toledo, Paris to Cintra, he immerses himself in a labyrinth full of pitfalls and temptations, disturbing encounters, violence and mysterious deaths. Protected by an angelic creature and guided by a force more powerful than himself, Corso solves one by one the mysteries of the dreaded Book and discovers the real purpose of his mission.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford
Director: Roman Polanski
Navy Seals (1990)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
The Navy's elite SEAL (SEa, Air and Land) squad is made up of the best of the best: supreme warriors who take on dangerous missions no other fighting force would dare attempt. Sent to rescue the crew of a U.S. aircraft held hostage by mideast terrorists, the SEALs know that their skills will be put to the test. But when they discover that the terrorists have seized the plane's arsenal of deadly Stinger missiles, they're thrust onto the frontlines of the battle of a lifetime.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Rick Rossovich, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Bill Paxton
Director: Lewis Teague
