The Hollow Child (2017)
Horror | Thriller
A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Starring: Jessica McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula, Genevieve Buechner
Director: Jeremy Lutter
Carter & June (2017)
Action | Comedy
Do the job. Get the money. Get the girl. Get the kid. Simple, right?
Starring: Michael Raymond-James, Samaire Armstrong, Timothy Omundson
Director: Nicholas Kalikow
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Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate / Hurricane Bianca 2 (2018)
Comedy
After winning over the staff and students of Milford High School, chemistry teacher Richard Martinez aka Bianca Del Rio sent her nemesis Vice Principal Deborah "Debbie" Ward to jail in a flawlessly executed plan. When Debbie is released from jail, she conjures up a scheme to do away with Bianca Del Rio once and for all, by luring her on a dangerous journey to Russia to accept a teaching award and cash prize. Filled with laughs, celebrity cameos and America's drag superstars, HURRICANE BIANCA: FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE is packed with surprises and unlikely partnerships that spark friendship and acceptance.
Starring: Roy Haylock, Rachel Dratch, Brian McCook, Molly Ryman, D.J. Pierce, Doug Plaut, Alicia Goranson
Director: Matt Kugelman
Rangasthalam (2018)
Action | Drama
The film is set in 1980's rural India. Chittibabu, a pure and innocent guy with partial deafness, earns his livelihood by supplying water to agricultural lands in the fictional village of Rangasthalam. The crux of the story forms when his brother decides to contest against the President who had been ruling the village for 30 years by usurping the lands of the innocent villagers. Chittibabu, on the other hand, is only concerned for his brother's safety and will go to great lengths to safeguard his life.
Starring: Ram Charan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Aadhi, Jagapathi Babu
Director: Sukumar
Landing Up (2018)
Drama
When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
Starring: Ben Rappaport, Stacey Maltin, Dov Tiefenbach, E'dena Hines, Jay DeYonker, Theodora Miranne, James K. Fulater
Director: Daniel Tenenbaum
Cast No Shadow (2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.
Starring: Leslie Amminson, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Joel Thomas Hynes, Stephen Lush, Gavin Snow, Des Walsh, Percy Hynes White
Director: Christian Sparkes
Gangsta Granny (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A young bored boy and his grandma decide to join hands and steal the crown jewels, after discovering that she used to be a jewel thief.
Starring: J Julia McKenzie, David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Reece Buttery, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Harish Patel
Director: Matt Lipsey
Fang hua / Youth (2017)
Drama | Romance
A look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
Starring: Xuan Huang, Miao Miao, Caiyu Yang, Elane Zhong, Xiaofeng Li, TianChen Wang, Yan Su
Director: Xiaogang Feng
The Mighty Peking Man / Goliathon / Xing xing wang (1977)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi
King Kong goes Hong Kong as a giant Himalayan beast tries to save a sexy Russia Tarzanette from a sleazy show-biz promoter. The action, locations set in India, and interracial romance made Variety reach this verdict: "High camp, Chinese style."
Starring: Danny Lee, Evelyne Kraft, Feng Ku, Norman Chu, Wei Tu Lin, Hang-Sheng Wu, Yao Hsiao, Ping Chen
Director: Meng Hua Ho
Tentacle 8 (2014)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A mysterious NSA analyst, Ray Berry, becomes entangled in a top secret investigation after a malicious computer virus crashes U.S. Intelligence Community networks. Ray tries to unravel the truth behind the crash before powerful unknown enemies can hunt him down.
Starring: Brett Rickaby, Amy Motta, Joshua Morrow, Bruce Gray
Director: John Chi
Pumpkin and Mayonnaise / Kabocha to mayonaise (2017)
Drama
Tsuchida lives with her boyfriend Seiichi. He is an aspiring musician and she supports herself by working at a host bar without her boyfriend knowing. Meanwhile, Seiichi doesn't have a job and has been unable to write any new songs. Seiichi learns that Tsuchida slept with her customer Yasuhara and that she works at a host bar. He decides to get a job. At that time, Tsuchida runs into her ex-boyfriend Hagio.
Starring: Asami Usuda, Taiga, Joe Odagiri, Tatsuya Wakaba, Kôdai Asaka, Ritsu Ohtomo, Kurumi Shimizu, Ken Mitsuishi, Sario Okada
Director: Masanori Tominaga
A Fantastic Woman / Una Mujer Fantástica (2017)
Drama
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Starring: Daniela Vega, Luis Gnecco, Amparo Noguera, Alejandro Goic, Francisco Reyes, Aline Küppenheim
Director: Sebastián Lelio
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New Year dinner party to expose his past indiscretions. Charteris, however, has a suprise of his own to spring on Gin Sling.
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Phyllis Brooks, Albert Bassermann
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Shuttle Life / Fen bei ren sheng (2017)
Drama
A poor family struggles to cope with tragedy and mental illness in a fractured society.
Starring: Jack Tan, Sylvia Chang, Angel Chan, Mei Yan Gan, Juztin Lan, Jack Yap
Director: Seng Kiat Tan
Daphne & Velma (2018)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Horror
The female future members of Mystery Inc. investigate strange goings-on in their school.
Starring: Sarah Jeffery, Sarah Gilman
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
I Have a Date with Spring / Ngoh woh chun tin yau goh yeuk wooi (1994)
Drama | Musical
Most of the film takes place in a continuing flashback of one fateful night in 1967 at the Flower Palace Nightclub. On the night of the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots, Butterfly Yiu was given an accidental chance to perform the final show when the original and star performer, Pak Long, was stranded at another venue. This started a chain of events that will change the four character's lives forever. The beginning and the end of the movie takes place in modern times, and Butterfly returns from retirement in Canada to perform in a final charity show at the Flower Palace Nightclub before it is demolished.
Starring: Alice Lau, Koon-Lan Law, Wai-Hung Fung, Yuk-Wah So, David Wu, Kwan-Ho Tse, Ying-Wai Yeung
Director: Clifton Ko
Monkey King: Hero Is Back / Xi you ji zhi da sheng gui lai (2015)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy
The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement from this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters.
Starring: Lei Zhang, Zijie Lin, Wenlun Wu, Zirong Tong, Jiurong Liu
Director: Tian Xiao Peng
Tehran Taboo / Teheran Tabu (2017)
Animation | Drama
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Starring: Elmira Rafizadeh, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Negar Mona Alizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Hasan Ali Mete
Director: Ali Soozandeh
The Nanny (2017)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A dark fantasy tale that follows a mysterious nanny put in charge of an inquisitive young girl, Noa, and her little brother, Michael. When Noa becomes suspicious that her new nanny, played by Jaime Murray, could very well be an evil faerie from a dark underworld she pleads her case to anyone that will listen. As Noa seeks answers in hopes to reveal the true identity of her eerie caretaker she finds the truth is much more twisted than she could have ever imagined.
Starring: Jaime Murray, Nicholas Brendon, Schuyler Fisk, Nick Gomez
Director: Joel Novoa
Island Zero (2017)
Horror
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone – or something – is hunting them.
Starring: Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Teri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas
Director: Josh Gerritsen
