Two Hands (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs…
Starring: Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field
Director: Gregor Jordan
Hot Enough for June / Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Comedy
In this satirical comedy-thriller at the height of the 007 popularity and set amidst the world of international espionage, unemployed Nicolas Whistler accepts a job and a tidy salary with what he believes to be a glass manufacturing company in London. He soon discovers that his business behind the Iron Curtain is in fact illegal. Everyone apparently believes him to be a spy but it takes much time and adventure for him to realize it. The realization numbs him with horror, and with his contacts gone, he is on his own. He must escape arrest and flee to England but the secret police are close behind him!
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina
Director: Ralph Thomas
Ayumi Hamasaki Countdown Live 2007-2008 Anniversary (2007-2008)
Music
Hamasaki Ayumi has been on the music scene for over a decade during which she has set all kinds of records on the J-pop charts. The pop diva continues to amaze the masses with her live countdown spectacles year after year, and her most recent tenth anniversary show was no exception. Held at Tokyo's National Yoyogi Stadium right before the close of 2007, Ayumi Hamasaki Countdown Live 2007-2008 Anniversary features 17 tracks including "Together When…", "untitled -for her-", "evolution", "Ladies Night", and "RAINBOW". Ayu unveils her energetic show with dazzling costumes and eye-catching stage design.
Starring: Ayumi Hamasaki
Director: Chikara Tanaka
Footloose (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to…
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
Director: Craig Brewer
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait / Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006)
Documentary | Sport
A full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
Starring: David Beckham, Zinédine Zidane
Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno
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The Dirty Picture (2011)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The Dirty Picture is set against the colourful and entertaining backdrop of hte South film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the fiercely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited love. To the world, she was the queen of sensuality. But at heart, Silk was just another woman craving true love. An unfortunate encounter with deceit and infidelity led to dire consequences!
Starring: Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Milan Luthria
Requiem for a Killer / Requiem pour une tueuse (2011)
Thriller
Lucrèce is a contract killer in search of a new life. Specialized in the use of poisons and enamored with opera, she accepts a difficult, final hit in a castle in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Posing as a soprano, Lucrèce must perform on stage during the very prestigious Festival of Ermeux and slaughter one of her co-performers, British baritone Alexander Child, who recently bought a distillery in Scotland, and thus became the only obstacle to a strategic pipeline project with considerable financial ramifications. He just won a long legal battle against British Oil, who now has no other choice but to eliminate him. To complicate things, French counter-espionage learns of the hit and sends Rico, a reinstated former agent, to infiltrate the orchestra, unmask and terminate all who wish harm to Alexander Child.
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky Karyo
Director: Jérôme Le Gris
Hell and Back Again (2011)
Action | Documentary | History | War
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
Director: Danfung Dennis
Sennentuntschi / Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
Horror | Mystery
In a small village in the Swiss Alps, a young woman (Roxane Mesquida) turns up, naked, distressed and not talking. The village cop Sebastian (Nicholas Ofczarek) takes her in and tries to find out what happened to her. At the same time, a group of dairy makers goes missing from a mountain pasture. Are these two stories connected, like the village populace seems to think? And is there something to the legend of the Sennentuntschi?
Starring: Roxane Mesquida, Nicholas Ofczarek, Andrea Zogg, Carlos Leal, Joel Basman
Director: Michael Steiner
The Shiver of the Vampires / Le frisson des vampires (1971)
Horror
A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.
Starring: Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles
Director: Jean Rollin
My Name is Khan (2010)
Drama | Romance
"My Name Is Khan" is about a Muslim who suffers from the Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that impacts social interaction abilities, and he is arrested as a suspected terrorist in post-9/11 Los Angeles after authorities mistake his disability for suspicious behaviour.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon, Katie A. Keane, Kenton Duty, Benny Nieves, Christopher B. Duncan
Director: Karan Johar
Ayumi Hamasakis Arena Tour 2006 A ~(Miss)understood~ (2006)
Music
J-pop queen Hamasaki Ayumi sends fans one of her greatest shows ever! Over 260,000 people attended the shows that took place at 30 venues in 12 cities. Now the atmosphere, sights, sounds, and excitement of her gig at Tokyo's Yoyogi Stadium are coming on high-definition Blu-ray.
Starring: Ayumi Hamasaki
Director: Chikara Tanaka
Jack and Jill (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Peter Dante, David Spade
Director: Dennis Dugan
The Lookout (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chris Pratt was once a Golden Boy athletic hero in his small Midwestern town. Chris had it all – a beautiful girlfriend, a well-heeled family and a shining future. But after a serious accident, Chris has found himself in a strange new world where the most basic things seem to fall through holes in his memory and nothing quite makes sense. Unable to make it on his own, he lives with his mentor in navigating this surreal life – the wisecracking, fiercely independent blind man, Lewis. For a job, Chris sweeps the floor at the bank waiting for his halted life to come unstuck. Things suddenly shift when he meets Gary Spargo, an old school acquaintance and street philosopher who begins to revive Chris' shattered confidence, even helping him find a stripper – albeit a stripper named Luvlee Lemons. But Gary has bigger plans, and when he recruits Chris into his grand plan to rob the bank where he works, Chris appears to be in way over his damaged head. As the bank heist unravels into chaos, both Chris' uncertain future and even more importantly Lewis' survival are on the line. Now, it's up to this young outcast who can't always think straight to figure out how to outwit and take down his manipulators his own way.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino
Director: Scott Frank
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Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
Sally and Conrad, different as black and white, have pushed their single mom, Joan Walden, to the limit. Conrad endlessly breaks the rules rule and Sally, though well-behaved, has bossed away every friend she has. And on the Saturday that Joan is to host her company's party, her preparations have fallen prey to Conrad's shenanigans. Thus, she lays down a mom-sized decree: Sally and Conrad are not to leave the house while she is at work; furthermore, they are forbidden from making a mess or misbehaving in any way. While she's away, suddenly an unexpected guest–a six-foot-tall talking feline, sporting a red-and-white-striped stovepipe hat–appears. The original party animal himself arrives to turn their world upside down by showing Sally and Conrad that "it's good to have fun–but you have to know how!"
Starring: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota Fanning
Director: Bo Welch
City of Women / La città delle donne (1980)
Comedy | Drama
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Donatella Damiani, Bernice Stegers, Silvana Fusacchia, Hélène Calzarelli
Director: Federico Fellini
Running Scared (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
For over a decade Joey Gazelle has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man and a low-level employee of the Italian Perello mob in Grimley, New Jersey. However, when Joey ignores the mob's explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger
Starring: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner
Director: Wayne Kramer
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior, Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the pulse-pounding race is on to reach a sacred temple that may hold the shocking secrets of mankind's past – and the last hope for it's salvation!
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson
Director: Tim Burton
Love Never Dies (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
It is 10 years after the Phantom's disappearance from the Paris Opera House. He has escaped to a new life in New York where he lives amongst the screaming joy rides and freak-shows of Coney Island.
Starring: Ben Lewis, Anna O'Byrne, Maria Mercedes, Simon Gleeson
Director: Simon Phillips
Life Without Principle / Dyut meng gam (2011)
Crime | Thriller
On a faithful day, three ordinary people suddenly find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Terence Yin, Richie Ren
Director: Johnnie To
