Cold Comes the Night (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green
Director: Tze Chun
Caníbal / Cannibal (2013)
Thriller
Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.
Starring: Olimpia Melinte, Antonio de la Torre, Delphine Tempels
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca
Pinky (1949)
Drama
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage. Pinky says that she will return to the North, but Granny Johnson convinces her to stay and treat an ailing white woman, Miss Em. Meanwhile, Dr. Canady, a black physician from another part of the state, visits Pinky and asks her to train some African American students, but she declines. Pinky nurses Miss Em but is resentful because she seems to feel that she is doing the same thing her grandmother did. Pinky and Miss Em slowly develop a mutual respect for one another. Mrs. Em leaves Pinky her property when she dies, but relatives of the deceased woman contest the new will in court. To raise money for the court fees, Pinky washes clothes by hand with her grandmother. The court rules in Pinky's favor and she keeps the land. Tom wants her to resume her life as a white woman and to marry him, but she refuses. Pinky decides to use the house and land for Miss Em's Clinic and Nursery School.
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters, Griff Barnett, Evelyn Varden
Director: Elia Kazan
Shameless (2011- )
Comedy | Drama
An alcoholic man lives in a perpetual stupor while his six children with whom he lives cope as best they can.
Starring: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Jeremy Allen White, Joan Cusack, Laura Wiggins, Zach McGowan, Emma Greenwell, Michael Patrick McGill, Noel Fisher
Creator: Paul Abbott
Welcome to the Jungle (2013)
Comedy
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
Starring: Megan Boone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kristen Schaal, Adam Brody, Bianca Bree, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Rob Meltzer
Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale / Trick: The Movie 3 / Gekijouban trick: Reinouryokusha batoru roiyaru (2010)
Comedy | Mystery
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick…
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Naohito Fujiki, Ken Matsudaira, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Takeru Satô
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Fort Apache (1948)
Western
A colonel is embittered because he's been assigned to a remote fort after a brilliant war record. His rule-book manners and inability to accept advice of officers experienced with the west and the Indians lead to a tragic massacre for himself and the majority of his command.
Starring: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen
Director: John Ford
Personal Tailor / Si ren ding zhi (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.
Starring: You Ge, Baihe Bai, Xiaolu Li, Kai Zheng, Wei Fan, Dandan Song, Chengru Li
Director: Xiaogang Feng
The Birdcage (1996)
Comedy
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Starring: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman
Director: Mike Nichols
Bawarchi / The Cook (1972)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in this household, ironically named Shanti Nivas. Then one day a young man named Raghu offers to work as a cook, and he is hired. Raghu quickly gets a grip on his job and on each of the family members, and soon the squabbles and arguments come to an end. And then the Sharmas find the family jewels and Raghu missing.
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri, Usha Kiran, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, A.K. Hangal, Durga Khote, Asrani, Kali Bannerjee
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Someone Marry Barry (2014)
Comedy
Three friends plot to get rid of their socially inappropriate friend by finding him a wife, but when he meets a woman just like him, their problems double.
Starring: Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr., Lucy Punch, Hayes MacArthur, Thomas Middleditch, Amanda Lund, Frances Shaw, Wyatt Oleff
Director: Rob Pearlstein
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My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
Romance
The contemporary story of Chinese New Zealand-born over-achiever Emily Chu, raised to believe she can get anything she puts her mind to. Even if 'anything' is at odds with her traditional Hong Kong born parents' wish for her to become a doctor like her two older sisters. Everything is coming up roses – until she meets James, a European New Zealander, and accidentally falls in love with him. But if her father finds out, she will face disownment. By the time Emily realises that she's sacrificing the respect of her family to follow her heart, James, too, has fallen irrevocably in love and there's nothing for it but to try and keep their relationship a secret. Happy endings don't come easy, if at all, but that doesn't mean they don't happen. But for Emily to get one, she needs to show James and her family that she has learned a lesson about the selflessness of love.
Starring: Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Pei-pei Cheng, Kenneth Tsang, Celeste Wong, Katlyn Wong
Director: Roseanne Liang
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Exquisite Corpse (2010)
Horror | Romance | Thriller
In this chilling modern-day Frankenstein horror, a brilliant young neuroscientist’s world comes crashing down when his fiancée tragically drowns. After discovering a serum that can bring dead tissue back to life, he devises a plan to resurrect his girlfriend back from the dead. His plan is met with horrifying consequences when he realizes that in order to save her life, he must take the life of another. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Steve Sandvoss, Nicole Vicius, Guillermo Diaz, Tessa Thompson, Larry Cedar
Director: Scott David Russell
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Born This Way / Upon a Midnight Clear (2009)
Animation | Drama | Family | Music
Frost, teen girl on the outside of the "cool" high school clique, struggles to find a way to fit in. When a miracle happens and she is granted three wishes, everything is flipped on its head.
Starring: Leah Gaston, Charles Duran, Silver Renee, Dimitrius Pulido, Devon Sinclair, Richard Dodwell, Russell Minton, Jourdan Gibson, Beth Burroughs
Director: Arik Renee Avila
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Nebraska (2013)
Adventure | Drama
A father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to penetrate his impenetrable father.
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Missy Doty
Director: Alexander Payne
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang / Zipi y Zape y el club de la canica (2013)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
Zip & Zap, Spain’s most beloved mischief makers, land on the big screen at last in this action-packed escapade, which pits the comic book heroes against the nefarious headmaster of a rural reform school.
Starring: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Rivas, Daniel Cerezo, Claudia Vega, Fran García, Marcos Ruiz, Christian Mulas
Director: Oskar Santos
Juha (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Starring: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola, Elina Salo
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Gol Maal / Hanky Panky (1979)
Comedy
Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job. When Bhavani's daughter falls in love with the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, and insists on marrying him, and Bhavani insists she should marry Ramprasad, things take a whacky turn. A fake mother and a hilarious chase are other enjoyable features involved in this comedy.
Starring: Amol Palekar, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma, Manju Singh, Dina Pathak, David Abraham, Yunus Parvez
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Afternoon Delight (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Rachel, a lost LA housewife, tries to rescue a stripper named McKenna by taking her in as a live-in nanny.
Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch
Director: Jill Soloway
Trick: The Movie 2 (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Ueda and Naoko accept to hear a proposal from a young man (Yuta Hiraoka) living in Fumo-mura village. The proposal is to bring back his childhood friend, Misako (Maki Horikita), who was taken away by a psychic, Hakogami Sawako (Nagisa Katahira), 10 years ago. Upon request, the pair head for Hakogami-jima where Hakogami lives. They succeed in bringing Misako back, however, it incurs the wrath of Hakogami and they are sucked into a situation that takes the pretense of a paranormal phenomenon. Naoko manages to see through the trick, and Sawako kills herself as a result. The incident reveals Sawako's sorrowful past as she was one of its victims as well.
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Yôko Ohshima
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
