The Bachelor Weekend / The Stag (2013)
Comedy
A bachelor party weekend in the great outdoors takes some unexpected detours.
Starring: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson, Amy Huberman
Director: John Butler
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Mall Cop / 51-50 Mall Cop (2005)
Comedy
An indie comedy where a mall cop befriends her predecessor, who's back on the job after he failed to put the kibosh on a major burglary.
Starring: Derek Cecil, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Morrison, Billy Idol
Director: David Greenspan
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Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)
Drama | Thriller
The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former pilot of the same company, this film reveals a complex web of complicity between the Air Force and the company to circumvent security controls in order to obtain greater economic benefit in operations.
Starring: Enrique Piñeyro, Mercedes Morán, Alejandro Awada, Adolfo Yanelli, Carlos Portaluppi, Martin Slipak
Director: Enrique Piñeyro
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Secret / Himitsu (1999)
Drama | Fantasy
Yojiro Takita directs this witty, understated comedy about the clash between generations and the different facets of love. Naoko (Kayoko Kishimoto) and her 17-year-old daughter Monami are hospitalized after their bus plunges off the edge of a cliff. Just as Naoko is about to die, she manages to transfer her soul to her daughter's body so as not to be separated from her husband Heisuke (Kaoru Kobayashi).
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida, Hideaki Itô, Tomoe Shinohara, Kayoko Kishimoto, Rie Shibata, Ren Ohsugi, Hatsuo Yamaya
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Time of First Love / Hana no kō ni torio – Hatsukoi jidai (1975)
Drama | Romance
3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Starring: Masako Mori, Junko Sakurada, Momoe Yamaguchi
Director: Kenjiro Morinaga
The Sound of the Waves / Shiosai (1975)
Drama | Romance
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Keiko Tsushima
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Cheap Thrills (2013)
Comedy | Thriller
Cheap Thrills follows Craig (Pat Healy, Compliance), a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend (Ethan Embry, Empire Records). The two friends are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy stranger (David Koechner, Anchorman 2) along with his mysterious wife (Sara Paxton, The Inkeepers). The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries. It seems like easy and much needed money, but the couple's twisted sense of humor pushes just how far Craig and his friend are willing to go for money and cheap thrills.
Starring: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton, David Koechner, Amanda Fuller
Director: E.L. Katz
Our Children / À perdre la raison (2012)
Drama
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Young and full of life, Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim). A wedding soon follows and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Redouane Behache
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Appaloosa (2008)
Crime | Drama | Western
When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses, and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen
Director: Ed Harris
Ben X (2007)
Drama | Thriller
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Starring: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schrijver, Bavo Smets
Director: Nic Balthazar
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Romance | Western
Join Spirit, a wild young mustang, as he sets out on an action-packed quest against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. In his courageous and thrilling journey across the majestic wilderness of the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a young Lakota brave, outwits a relentless squadron of soldiers, and falls for a beautiful paint mare named Rain.
Starring: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi, Chopper Bernet, Jeff LeBeau
Director: Kelly Asbury
Toxin (2014)
Action | Horror
Lieutenant John Paxton wants revenge against the government he and his men swore their lives to defend. The very government that abandoned and betrayed him, leaving him to die after a secret biological warfare experiment went horribly wrong. John will discover revenge is a journey that will ultimately leave millions infected, countless dead, and the lucky few survivors struggling to find the last safe corner for humanity.
Starring: Douglas Chapman, Kyra Zagorsky, Philip Granger
Director: Tom Raycove
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Camp Dread / Dead.tv (2014)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The "Summer Camp" horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director/writer Julian Barrett's career. Now Barrett has a plan to resurrect "Summer Camp" in a modern reboot that entails using a reality show as its template and source of fundraising. Should it succeed Barrett would once again be at the helm. Bringing together an eclectic group of young "contestants" as well as his former stars Rachel Steele and John Hill, Barrett seems to have put together a sure fire recipe for success. Then people start dying. For real. And "elimination" takes on a whole new meaning as "Dead.tv" clearly shows the slasher film has grown up.
Starring: Eric Roberts, Danielle Harris, Felissa Rose, Joe Raffa, Nicole Cinaglia, Montana Marks, Ashley Sumner
Director: Harrison Smith
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Asian School Girls (2014)
Thriller
When a group of schoolgirls is kidnapped and brutalized by a Los Angeles crime syndicate, the girls must fight and seduce their way to vengeance. Using their newly acquired skills in martial arts and Asian weaponry, they teach the criminals a harsh lesson in retribution and digging graves. Fight after bloody fight, the girls won't rest until every criminal that tortured them is six feet underground.
Starring: Minnie Scarlet, Sam Aotaki, Andrew Callahan, Alan Pietruszewski, Mindy Robinson
Director: Lawrence Silverstein
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Omar (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he's either a freedom fighter or a terrorist — you decide — ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game-is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause? And who can he trust on either side?
Starring: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Iyad Hoorani, Waleed Zuaiter, Samer Bisharat
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
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Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Drama
The story of Casper (Emory Cohen) and Dominic (Callan McAuliffe) – two best friends that are fiercely loyal to one another, as they come of age in a small farming town in Maine. During harvest break, Casper is drawn into smuggling drugs across the Canadian border with his outlaw father, Clayton (Aidan Gillen). Meanwhile, Dominic works his final potato harvest, hoping to earn the money he needs to buy a car and take them away towards a better future. But with Casper's life unraveling before their eyes, their friendship and loyalty are put to the test as they are forced to mature and make very adult decisions that will forever alter the course of their lives.
Starring: Emory Cohen, Callan McAuliffe, Aidan Gillen
Director: Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly
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Black & White & Sex (2012)
Drama
Prostitute. Hooker. Sex Worker. Whore. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her. Sometimes provocative and confronting, sometimes tender, poignant and sexy, Black & White & Sex takes you behind the scenes and into Angies very special world. There's a question here for every man and an answer for every woman. Anyone who pays is welcome – but leave your expectations at the door sex is never black and white.
Starring: Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson, Michelle Vergara Moore, Dina Panozzo, Saskia Burmeister, Maia Thomas, Matthew Holmes
Director: John Winter
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2014 MTV Movie Awards (TV 2014)
Awards
The 2014 MTV Movie Awards were held on April 13, 2014 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The award show was hosted by late night personality Conan O'Brien. The nominees were announced on the morning of March 6, 2014.
Starring: Conan O'Brien, Andy Samberg, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Ice Cube, Selena Gomez, Elijah Wood, Chris Pratt, Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Anna Faris, Danny McBride, Ed Helms, Lupita Nyong'o, Adam Sandler
The 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards (TV 2014)
Awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards is Hong Kong's own homegrown awards ceremony, which recognizes the best work from the local film industry. The event is organized by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association, and takes place yearly in March.
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Ka Tung Lam, Teresa Mo, Kar Wai Wong, Nick Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Jingzhi Zou, Haofeng Xu, Jin Zhang, Kara Wai, Babyjohn Choi, Philippe Le Sourd, William Chang, George Strait, Benjamin Courtines, Hung Poon, Alfred Yau, Woo-ping Yuen, Nathaniel Méchaly, Shigeru Umebayashi, Robert Mackenzie, Traithep Wongpaiboon, Enoch Chan, Adam Wong , Hsin-yen Chang
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Comedy | Music
The Leningrad Cowboys, a fictional Russian rock band, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää, Mato Valtonen, Sakari Kuosmanen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
