Moneyball (2011)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Bennett Miller
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Contagion (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Illustrates the worst case scenario of a global viral pandemic from multiple points of view, as ordinary people become severely ill and must be cared for by their loved ones, and harried doctors struggle to contain the disease.
Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Videodrome (1982)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called "Videodrome." As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Starring: James Woods, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
Barfly (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, J.C. Quinn, Frank Stallone, Gloria LeRoy
Director: Barbet Schroeder
The Robbers / Wo de tangchao xiongdi (2009)
Action
Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers' adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the duo.
Starring: Jun Hu, Wu Jiang, Lichun Lee, Xiao Wang, Xiao-lei Yu
Director: Shu-peng Yang
Terra Nova (TV Series 2011- )
Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.
Starring: Jason O'Mara, Shelley Conn, Allison Miller, Naomi Scott, Stephen Lang, Christine Adams, Landon Liboiron, Alana Mansour, Rod Hallett, Simone Kessell, Dean Geyer
Creator: Craig Silverstein, Kelly Marcel
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Puncture (2011)
Drama
Mike Weiss is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger, his longtime friend and partner, is the straightlaced and responsible yin to Mike's yang. Their mom-and-pop personal-injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky, a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As Weiss and Danziger dig deeper into the case, a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy teeters on exposure and heavyweight attorneys move in on the defense.
Starring: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw
Director: Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A wealthy treasure hunter employs a brawling, jailbird adventurer to help him find a hidden treasure in the Sahara, but eventually a young woman, along for the ride and looking to marry the wealthy man, comes between them.
Starring: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
Director: Henry Hathaway
Going the Distance (2004)
Comedy
He may have just graduated but Nick has it all figured out – marriage, a lucrative career and a totally different lifestyle from that of his West Coast hippy parents. When he discovers that his future wife may be falling prey to a powerful and oversexed music producer, Nick is determined to fly to Toronto to win her back. Lifelong buds and dedicated surfers Tyler and Dime have other ideas for their staid best friend – the road trip adventure of his life. With only three days to make it to the MuchMusic Video Awards, the unlikely road warriors head off. Two sexy hitchhikers, Sasha and Jill, complicate matters and a series of accidents, orchestrated by a malevolent stranger, sabotage the trip turning Nick's future plans upside down.
Starring: Christopher Jacot, Joanne Kelly, Shawn Roberts, Mayko Nguyen, Ryan Belleville, Katheryn Winnick, August Schellenberg
Director: Mark Griffiths
Ženy v pokušení / Women in Temptation (2010)
Comedy
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
Starring: Lenka Vlasáková, Eliska Balzerová, Veronika Kubarová, Vojtech Dyk, Jirí Machácek, Michal Gulyás, Jirí Helekal
Director: Jirí Vejdelek
Restless (2011)
Drama | Romance
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Director: Gus Van Sant
Panic Button (2011)
Horror | Thriller
Have You Read The Terms & Conditions?
Starring: Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson, Elen Rhys, Joshua Richards, Vern Raye, Tobias Jon
Director: Chris Crow
The Makioka Sisters / Fine Snow / Sasame-yuki (1983)
Drama | Romance
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain). Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.
Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kotegawa Yûko, Jûzô Itami, Kôji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
The Pool Boys (2010)
Comedy
A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Brett Davern, Efren Ramirez, Rachelle Lefevre
Director: J.B. Rogers
Bedways (2010)
Drama | Music | Romance
Director Nina Bader wants to shoot a film about love and sex and invites her actor-friends Hans and Marie for screen tests for a couple of days. For Nina love is not necessarily a matter of emotion– she is rather looking for an authentic depiction of sex. The intimate collaboration turns into experiments with film, love and bodies and finally has an impact on the private relationships between the three of them. It seems that the boundaries between acting and reality begin to disappear.
Starring: Miriam Mayet, Matthias Faust, Lana Cooper, Laura Tonke, Arno Frisch
Director: Rolf Peter Kahl
Dark Spirits (2008)
Thriller
Eva searches for the reason behind her sisters murder but finds that evil is already pursuing her.
Starring: Milka Minichova, Dan Brown, Jan Budar, Marco Igonda, Václav Jirácek
Director: Huck Keppler
The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, José Luis Gómez
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Le moine / The Monk (2011)
Thriller
Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word…
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi López, Catherine Mouchet, Roxane Duran
Director: Dominik Moll
Tokyo Drifter / Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
Action | Crime | Drama
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu's attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Magadheera (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance
Magadheera is set in the backdrop of divine mysteries of death and reincarnation, The story happens in the year 1609. Kala Bhairava is the protector/cheif guard of Udayghad kingdom. Mitra, the heir princess is in love with him. But there is a bad relative of the king who wants to marry her. Sher Khan plans to invade Udayghad. In the process, all of them die. These people are reborn after after 400 years in the contemporary era. Harsha is a race biker, he falls in love with Indu, and a bad guy called Raghuveer is after her.
Starring: Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Agarwal, Dev Gill, Srihari, Sarathbabu
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
