Othello (1995)
Drama | Romance
The evil Iago pretends to be a friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob
Director: Oliver Parker
Her Alibi (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance
Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration–and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian beauty arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Victor Argo, Tess Harper, Bill Smitrovich, Joan Copeland, Ossie Davis
Director: Bruce Beresford
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Captain Blood (1935)
Action | Adventure
An enslaved doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the Robin Hood variety.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson
Director: Michael Curtiz
Little Caesar (1931)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Soon he becomes the leader of the gangsters, known as Little Caesar.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson, George E. Stone
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
The Clearing (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wayne Hayes is a well-off business executive with his own personal slice of the American dream: a beautiful wife, Eileen, two grown-up children, a lovely home in Pittsburg and a successful business built up from scratch. The Hayes' perfect world is turned upside down when Wayne is kidnapped by one of his employees and held ransom in remote woodlands. Eileen must deal with a houseful of FBI agents, and Wayne must draw on his powers of negotiation as never before…
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day / Ano hi mita hana no namae o bokutachi wa mada shiranai (TV Series 2011)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Teen
A story about grief and the acceptance of death. Six children formed a group that they called The Peace Busters. One day, an incident occurred which took the life of one of their friends, Meiko Honma. After this, Jinta Yadomi, leader of the group when they were kids, neglects high school and lives as a shut-in when he unexpectedly starts seeing the ghost of Meiko, who can only interact with him and no one else. The Peace Busters disbanded and the friends began distancing themselves far away from each other. Years later, Meiko has returned to ask Jinta to fulfill the forgotten wish she made as a kid.
Starring: Saori Hayami, Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Takayuki Kondô, Mitsuru Ogata, Takahiro Sakurai, Asami Seto, Mutsumi Tamura, Haruka Tomatsu, Aki Toyosaki
Creator: Mari Okada
Big fish (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures in this marvel of a movie.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, George Voskovec, William H. Macy
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, George Kennedy
Director: Michael Cimino
Washington Square (1997)
Drama | Romance
Passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money. Based on the 1880 Henry James novel.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Ice Soldiers (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi
Buried beneath the Arctic ice since the Cold War, genetically modified Soviet soldiers have been rediscovered, reactivated and are ready to unleash devastating destruction. They are cold-blooded killing machines with super-human strength and one man, a scientist who has been searching for them his entire life, will try to stop the carnage before they complete their terrifying, top-secret mission.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Michael Ironside
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
The After-Dinner Mysteries / Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de (2013)
Mystery
Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Keiko Kitagawa, Jun Kaname, Masatoshi Nakamura, Nanami Sakuraba, Kippei Shîna
Director: Masato Hijikata
Twin Dragons / Shuang long hui (1992)
Action | Comedy
On holidays in Hong Kong, Mrs Ma gives birth to identical twins. A criminal in the same hospital attempts to escape, taking one of the twins hostage. The child is lost during the confusion, and Mr and Mrs Ma return to New York with one child. Years later, John Ma is a famous conductor and pianist, unaware that his twin brother "Boomer" is a mechanic/race car driver/bodyguard in Hong Kong. When John travels to Hong Kong to give a concert, the twins get caught up in each other's business, about which they are anything but experts.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Chi Leung, John Woo, Eric Tsang, Hark Tsui
Director: Ringo Lam, Hark Tsui
R… Rajkumar / Rambo Rajkumar (2013)
Action | Comedy | Romance
An aimless youth starts working for drug baron and his mission is to kill is rival.
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ragini Dwivedi
Director: Prabhudheva
The Front (1976)
Comedy | Drama
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence – who quits TV in disgust over things – and friendship with the show's ex-star – now himself blacklisted – make him start to think about what is really going on.
Starring: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Lloyd Gough, David Margulies, Herschel Bernardi
Director: Martin Ritt
The Wild Geese (1978)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
A group of aged mercenaries are hired by a British millionaire to rescue an African President being held by a vicious Central African dictator. Even though the mission succeeds, the mercenaries are betrayed by the millionaire who's financing the operation as he cares only about his own business interests, and are forced to fight the dictator's troops in order to survive and escape.
Starring: Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, John Kani
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Angels in Stardust (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, AJ Michalka, Billy Burke
Director: William Robert Carey
Shopgirl (2005)
Drama | Romance
Twenty-something native Vermonter Mirabelle Buttersfield, having recently graduated from college, is finding her new life in Los Angeles not quite what she was expecting or hoping. An aspiring artist, she is barely eking out a living working as a clerk at the women's evening gloves counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and thus she can barely make the payments on her massive student loans. She treats her job with a certain distance, often daydreaming as she watches the life of the rich as they shop at the store. She has made no friends, including from among her Saks colleagues, and thus lives a solitary existence, which does not assist in her dealing with her chronic clinical depression.
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Sam Bottoms, Frances Conroy
Director: Anand Tucker
Frankenstein (2004)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Starring: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir
Director: Kevin Connor
