The Hustler (1961)
Drama | Sport
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton
Director: Robert Rossen
Kalifornia (1993)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Brian Kessler, a journalist researching serial killers, and his photographer girlfriend Carrie set out on a cross-country tour of the sites of the killings. Sharing the ride and their expenses are Early Grayce, a paroled white trash criminal, and his girlfriend Adele. As the trip progresses, Early begins to appear more and more unstable, and Brian and Carrie begin to fear that they may have a real-life killer in the back seat of their car.
Starring: David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis
Director: Dominic Sena
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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
The Rescue Aid Society agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher
Starring: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, Adam Ryen
Director: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel
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The Rescuers (1974)
Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.
Starring: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn, Jeanette Nolan
Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens
Dreamworks Spooky Stories (2012)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Short
A compilation of Halloween-themed shorts: Scared Shrekless, Shrek's Thrilling Tales, Shrek: The Pig Who Cried Wolf, Shrek: The Ghost of Lord Farquaad, Monsters vs Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots, Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space.
Black Magic Rites / Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento… (1973)
Horror
Delirium director Renato Polselli delivers yet another delectable slice of cinematic sleaze with this sadomasochistic shocker set in a gothic castle, and culminating with the sacrifice of seven naked virgins during a bloody satanic orgy. Lurid depictions of whippings, torture, and beatings abound in a truly diabolical tale of inhuman cruelty starring Euro sleaze-queen Rita Calderoni and prolific actor/bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay.
Starring: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raul Lovecchio, Christa Barrymore
Director: Renato Polselli
The Devil and Daniel Webster / Shortcut to Happiness (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Director: Alec Baldwin
A Double Life (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy.
Starring: Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins, Millard Mitchell
Director: George Cukor
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The Fourth State / Die vierte Macht (2012)
Thriller
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak, Max Riemelt, Rade Serbedzija
Director: Dennis Gansel
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Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Western
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin – they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries…
Starring: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Maria Conchita Alonso
Director: Walter Hill
Dictado / Childish Games (2012)
Horror | Thriller
Dictado (aka Childish Games) tells the story of a childless couple, Daniel and Laura, both teachers, who are confronted by an unusual situation when Mario, a childhood friend of Daniel's, turns up acting strangely and wanting them to meet his daughter, Julia. Daniel manages to get rid of him, but the next day he learns of Mario's suicide. Julia, who is now an orphan, ends up being taken in temporarily by the couple, despite Daniel's discomfort at not only the strange encounter with Mario but also the excessive enthusiasm of Laura at playing the role of mother. The tension builds as Laura tries to help Julia regain the will to live and Daniel begins to feel threatened by some of Julia's behaviors, as well as the apparent awakening of memories of a terrifying past involving Mario that he thought he had put behind him.
Starring: Juan Diego Botto, Bárbara Lennie, Mágica Pérez
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
The Trial / Le procès (1962)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Brilliantly capturing the opressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' THE TRIAL is the story of the young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested. All without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted belle epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli
Director: Orson Welles
Bugsy (1991)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Starring: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould
Director: Barry Levinson
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50 First Dates (2004)
Comedy | Romance
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together for the first time since The Wedding Singer in one of the funniest romantic comedies in years. Henry (Sandler) lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It's a sweet life with no strings attached…until he meets Lucy (Barrymore). He and Lucy hit it off from the get-go, but the next day she acts like she doesn't know him. Has his karma come around to kick him in the butt or what? Actually, Lucy has short-term memory loss so every night all memory of her day is erased. But a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams, and if that means having to find imaginative ways of doing it over again every day, then Henry's up for the challenge.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin James
Director: Peter Segal
Death Race 2 (2010)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Newly arrived at Terminal Island, a prison for the convicted criminals who are beyond rehabilitation, Carl "Luke" Lucas must prove his mettle in a race to the death.
Starring: Luke Goss, Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Frederick Koehler
Director: Roel Reiné
Death Race (2008)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the "Death Race" are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet. International action star Jason Statham leads the action-thriller's cast as three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames, an ex-con framed for the murder of his wife. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a "Death Race" crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen): Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, he must win the insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals–including nemesis Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson)–in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach (Ian McShane) to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with 2 mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man must destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.
Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez, Jason Clarke
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Sport
In the year 2000, hit and run has become the national sport. It's a no-holds barred cross-country race, in which the aim is to kill off not only your opponents, but as many pedestrians as possible. David Carradine takes on Sylvester Stallone in this classic adrenaline thriller that will make you look both ways twice before you cross.
Starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Martin Kove, Roberta Collins, John Landis
Director: Paul Bartel
Legend of a Rabbit / Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit / Tu Xia Chuan Qi (2011)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
The hilarious wuxia toon follows simple-minded cook Rabbit, who begins his action-packed adventure in the martial world after acquiring supreme kung fu from the dying Old Grandmaster. In return, Rabbit promises to deliver the Grandmaster's token as the ruler of the martial world to his daughter Peony, and take revenge on his renegade disciple Lord Bear.
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Teddy Robin Kwan, Kay Tse, Hanjin Tan
Director: Lijun Sun
Nihon rettou: Ikimonotachi no monogatari / Japan's Wildlife: The Untold Story (2012)
Documentary
Bears, monkeys, boars, foxes, seals and other animals live on the Japanese islands. These animals depends on each other like a family. Cameramen Mitsuaki Iwago, Ikuo Nakamura, & Shimada Chu films these animals and their environment to better understand why.
Starring: Masaki Aiba, Gori, Hitomi Kuroki, Masami Nagasawa
Director: Keizô Ideta
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Life Love Lust (2010)
Adult | Short
LIFE: After finishing their day at the restaurant, a chef and a waitress have an incredible encounter to celebrate his birthday. LOVE: A forty-something executive seduces a young man she occasionally meets in a city hotel. LUST: Lola uses her whole body to give an intense skin on skin massage to a shy and lonely woman, driving her to pure ecstasy. LIFE LOVE LUST consists of three gems of erotic cinema from the acclaimed director Erika Lust.
Starring: Leo Galvez, Yoha Galvez, Michelle Blanch, Bel Gris, Lara Tinelli, Lola Fellini
Director: Erika Lust
