Slow West (2015)
Action | Thriller | Western
A 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Caren Pistorius, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeffrey Thomas, Hayden Frost
Director: John Maclean
Good Kill (2014)
Drama | Thriller
A Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his wife and kids for the other 12. But the pilot is starting to question the mission. Is he creating more terrorists than he's killing? Is he fighting a war without end.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Coyote, Jake Abel
Director: Andrew Niccol
After School / Afutâ sukûru (2008)
Thriller
A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. A somewhat shady private detective named Shimazaki confronts Jinno with a photo of Jinno with another woman. When they investigate in the seedy underworld of Tokyo, Jinno must confront what he thought he knew about his friend Kimura.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Masato Sakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Takako Tokiwa, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Kenji Uchida
Love Streams (1984)
Comedy | Drama
The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 12-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little…
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel
Director: John Cassavetes
Opening Night (1977)
Drama
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Crime | Drama
Gentlemen's club owner Cosmo Vitelli is a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Al Ruban, Morgan Woodward
Director: John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Drama
The emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. A married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil.
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Mario Gallo
Director: John Cassavetes
Faces (1968)
Drama
Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit… A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery
Director: John Cassavetes
Shadows (1959)
Drama
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person with faith in his talent. The story moves back and forth, like jazz, among the three of them and what seems at first to be separate lives. Lelia meets Tony, and lets herself hope this is true love. Then he meets Hugh and prejudice gives Tony an excuse to cut and run. Can family and friendship bring solace for her hurt, purpose for Benny, and belief in Hugh? Is life more than shadows?
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd
Director: John Cassavetes
The Vancouver Asahi / Bankûbâ no asahi (2014)
Drama | Sport
The Vancouver Asahi baseball team consists of 2nd generation Japanese immigrants living in Canada. They play within a local amateur baseball league. The team got popular due to their fair play spirit, while struggling to fight against discrimination and poverty in their everyday lives. Reggie is a 2nd generation Japanese immigrant who works at a sawmill in Vancouver. He is the leader of the team and plays shortstop. Roy is the team's ace pitcher and works at a fishery field. Kaye is the team's 2nd baseman and co-worker of Reggie. Tom is the catcher and works at a tofu shop. Frank works at a hotel and plays baseball with the team.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yûsuke Kamiji, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kôichi Satô
Director: Yûya Ishii
Citizenfour (2014)
Documentary
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% reallife thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.
Starring: Edward Snowden
Director: Laura Poitras
Wild Horses (2015)
Crime | Drama
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered – and that a local rancher was involved.
Starring: Robert Duvall, James Franco, Josh Hartnett, Luciana Pedraza, Angie Cepeda, Jim Parrack
Director: Robert Duvall
It Follows (2014)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.
Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Maika Monroe
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Things just aren't going well for Holly Parker. In addition to her cheating boyfriend, a scheming co-worker keeps undermining every shot Holly has at a promotion, and on top of it all, her rent is simply too much to handle alone. When her search for a roommate leads Holly to shy but sweet Tess Kostitch, the troubled renter thinks she may have finally solved at least one of her woes — but this roommate has a big secret. It doesn't take long for Holly and Tess to become friends, but in Tess' warped view of friendship, there is no kinder act than putting a friend in pain out of their misery. When Tess learns about Holly's unfaithful boyfriend and the trouble that Holly has run into attempting to land a big promotion, Tess prepares to do her new best friend a favor and make all of her troubles go away in the flash of a blade.
Starring: Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Todd Babcock, Brooke Burns, François Giroday, Tracey McCall, Rif Hutton
Director: Keith Samples
Jesus' Son (1999)
Drama
A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name of FH, their falling in love and how she introduced him to heroin, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying his daily schedule so that he passes a neighboring Mennonite household at the right time to hear the wife sing Gospel songs in the shower. Slowly, very slowly, FH lets his gifts emerge.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon, Mark Webber, Jack Black, Denis Leary
Director: Alison Maclean
Jungle 2 Jungle / Jungle to Jungle (1997)
Comedy | Family
Michael Cromwell suddenly learns that he has a 13-year old son. The boy has been raised in the Venezuelan jungle by his estranged physician/researcher wife. He brings the boy to New York, and that's where the fun starts…
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden Stiers
Director: John Pasquin
Rapid Fire (1992)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Brandon Lee stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he can count on is his own martial-arts training.
Starring: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge, Tzi Ma
Director: Dwight H. Little
Encino Man (1992)
Comedy
When they find a frozen caveman in their backyard, two high school outcasts thaw him out and introduce him to modern day life while he in turn, gets them to actually enjoy life.
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
Director: Les Mayfield
No Highway in the Sky / No Highway (1951)
Drama | Thriller
Jimmy Stewart stars as an aeronautical engineer who predicts that a new type of airplane will fail catastrophically after a certain amount of time in the air, and then finds himself on board one of the doomed planes while headed to a crash site.
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan
Director: Henry Koster
Fantastic Girls / Deeree Girls (2015)
Comedy
In 1980, Ayuko (Mio Yuki) is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi (Rika Adachi), becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko (Yuri Shirahane) is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi (Kei Aran) who is now a teacher.
Starring: Mio Yûki, Rika Adachi, Yuri Shirahane, Kei Aran
Director: Akiko Ohku
