The Way Back (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History
A small group of multi-national prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel in a journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Peter Weir
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. But as Kint lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime lord's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end!
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Bryan Singer
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Comedy | Crime
"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
K-PAX (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams
Director: Iain Softley
Identity (2003)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
What if every choice we ever make was already made for us? What if there really were no coincidences in life and our destinies were already predetermined? Ten strangers with secrets are brought together in a savage rainstorm: A limo driver (John Cusack), an '80s TV star (Rebecca DeMornay), a cop (Ray Liotta) who is transporting a killer (Jake Busey), a call girl (Amanda Peet), a pair of newlyweds (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott) and a family in crisis (John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr), all take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager (John Hawkes). Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they抣l have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
Starring: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina
Director: James Mangold
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Drama
Set in working-class South Boston, a psychological drama about a 20-year-old lad who works as a janitor at MIT and spends most of his time with his coarse friends at the neighborhood bar. Blessed with a certain genius, Will, who has never attended college, can summon obscure historical references based on his exceptional photographic memory. He can also solve difficult mathematical problems with an…
Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård
Director: Gus Van Sant
A Serious Man (2009)
Comedy | Drama
A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled.
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Kuroneko / Yabu no naka no kuroneko / Black Cat (1968)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
In medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to battle a strange apparition that has been killing samurai.
Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Sato, Hideo Kanze
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Cactus Jack / The Villain (1979)
Comedy | Western
The cowboy Handsome Stranger will escort miss Charming Jones to get a large sum of money from her father, Parody Jones. But the rich Avery Jones wants to lay his hands on the money and hires and old cowboy, Cactus Jack, to rob them when they ride back from her father. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret
Director: Hal Needham
Hooked on the Game / Na igre (2009) (2009)
Action | Sci-Fi
After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other.
Starring: Sergey Chirkov, Marina Petrenko, Pavel Priluchnyy, Evgeniy Kharlanov, Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Nodar Siradze, Aleksey Bardukov, Agniya Ditkovskite
Director: Pavel Sanaev
Lidice (2011)
Drama | History | War
The film is presented as a true story set during World War II. With the Nazi takeover of Europe under way deputy Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, František Šíma, is sent to prison following a family dispute that boils over resulting in an accidental death. During Šíma's incarceration one of the other villagers, Joe Fiala, strings along his mistress with lies about his bravery as a resistance fighter against the Germans. Heydrich is assassinated and during the Gestapo investigation that follows, a letter Fiala has written describing his supposed heroism comes to their attention. It leads to the total destruction of Lidice and the mass execution and deportations of its citizens. Throughout the atrocity, Sima remains in jail.
Starring: Karel Roden, Zuzana Fialová, Zuzana Bydzovská, Veronika Kubarová, Marek Adamczyk
Director: Petr Nikolaev
The Howling: Reborn (2011)
Horror
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past… that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them.
Starring: Landon Liboiron, Lindsey Shaw, Ivana Milicevic, Jesse Rath, Niels Schneider
Director: Joe Nimziki
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Becoming Jane (2007)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Author Jane Austen eventually became famous for writing epic novels like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but as a young woman in the 18th century, writing was not a respectible goal for a young woman. With the entire world telling her she can't achieve her dreams, Jane meets and falls in love with a charming rogue, Tom Lefroy, who inspires her to write the books generations have come to know and love.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith
Director: Julian Jarrold
The Ruins (2008)
Horror | Thriller
Bright sun, warm waters and sandy beaches beckon countless tourists every year, particularly young adults seeking inexpensive fun. Enter Amy (Jena Malone) and Stacy (Laura Ramsey), two best friends who bring along their very different boyfriends — focused med student Jeff (Jonathan Tucker) and free-spirited partier Eric (Shawn Ashmore). As the group's vacation nears its end, they journey into the lush Mexican jungle in hopes of seeing some ancient Mayan ruins. But when they arrive at the magnificent site, an unexpected event drives the frightened travellers to the top of the crumbling stone structure, where they confront hidden deadly horrors and engage in a brutal battle for survival.
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson
Director: Carter B. Smith
Meet the Spartans (2008)
Comedy | War
The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13梒ount 'em, 13!桽partans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture.
Starring: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
L'animal / The Animal / Stuntwoman (1977)
Action | Comedy | Romance
A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Raymond Gérôme, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday
Director: Claude Zidi
The Wages of Fear / Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Starring: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Change-Up (2011)
Comedy
Growing up together, Mitch and Dave were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie, kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law…
Starring: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin
Director: David Dobkin
West Side Story (1961)
Crime | Drama | Musical | Romance
Modern day "Romeo and Juliet" musical about a Polish teen from one gang who falls for a Puerto Rican girl whose brother is from a rival gang, and no one wants them to be together, all happening on the streets of New York City.
Starring: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
The Conquest / La conquête (2011)
Biography
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Starring: Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, Bernard Le Coq
Director: Xavier Durringer
