Flushed Away / Ratropolis (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
An uptown English rat (Jackman) gets flushed down the toilet into the sewers below and tries to find his way back.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy
Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
Two and a Half Men (TV Series 2003-2015)
Comedy
Charlie is a well-to-do bachelor with a house at the beach, a Jaguar in the front, and an easy way with women. His casual Malibu lifestyle is interrupted when his tightly wound brother Alan, who's facing a divorce, and his son Jake, come to live with him. Together, these two and a half men confront the challenges of growing up; finally. Complicating matters are the brothers' self-obsessed, controlling mother, Evelyn, Alan's estranged wife, Judith and Charlie's crazy neighbor Rose, who wants to be a part of his life and is willing to do anything to be around.
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Conchata Ferrell, Holland Taylor
Creator: Lee Aronsohn, Chuck Lorre
The Machine (2013)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, which is designed to help humanity. But things go wrong when the MoD steal their breakthrough and teach it to become a robotic weapon.
Starring: Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Denis Lawson
Director: Caradog W. James
RoboCop (2014)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel
Director: José Padilha
Android Cop / Hammond (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
In this futuristic, action-packed thriller, a cop and his robotic partner enter the Zone, a forbidden section of the city inhabited by a diseased stricken populace. Together, they discover the real reason everyone is sick, and attempt to stop the illness – with the help of the machine's powerful technology and weaponry.
Starring: Michael Jai White, Morgan Benoit, Charles S. Dutton, Jay Gillespie, Kadeem Hardison
Director: Mark Atkins
White Material (2009)
Drama
Taking place in an unnamed African country torn by a rebellion, Maria, a fierce and fearless white woman, refuses to abandon her coffee crops and to acknowledge the danger to which she is exposing her family. On this plantation which has already supported 3 generations of whites, Andre -her ex-husband and father of their teenage son- is afraid of her blind, stubborn pride. Without her knowledge, he arranges the family's escape and return to France. Coffee no longer means anything to him. He has married again, a young African woman, with whom he has a son and for them, he will stop at nothing.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Isaach De Bankolé, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam, Adèle Ado, Michel Subor
Director: Claire Denis
Gympl / The Can (2007)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A comedy about students, teachers, parents and graffiti.
Starring: Tomás Vorel Jr., Jirí Mádl, Eva Holubová, Tomás Matonoha, Lenka Jurosková
Director: Tomás Vorel
Get Carter (2000)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jack Carter, a debt collector for Las Vegas gangsters, returns to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. Convinced that the death was not an accident, Carter searches for those responsible.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, John C. McGinley
Director: Stephen Kay
Fractured / Schism (2014)
Thriller
May Oster, played by Athena Lebessis, is a beautiful, pensive, somber woman in her mid twenties; a beautiful woman that discovers her boyfriend's bloody scarf in her apartment following a black-out episode. This unearthed white scarf covered in crimson drives May to attempt suicide. May is taken to a psychiatric ward under the care and influence of Dr. Ballard, a fifty-eight year old psychiatrist/acclaimed author, played by Eric Roberts. May is immediately thrown into seclusion. Detective James Harding, played by Jake Busey, appears to question May about a horrific murder. This questioning thrusts May into narrating an in-depth story about an unnamed woman's involvement with unsavory characters leading to multiple murders. Will May regain her sanity, restore her normal life and unravel the mystery of her true love? Only time will tell.
Starring: Callum Blue, Vinnie Jones, Ashlynn Yennie, Nicole LaLiberte, Jon Eyez
Director: Lance Kawas
Gold (2013)
Adventure | Drama | Western
During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, Emily Meyer joins a group of German immigrants who travel to the Far North in search of gold deposits. The seven apprentice gold-diggers, who have no real idea of what awaits them, leave the town of Ashcroft, the end of the railway line and set off for their long journey. As they sink into the wilderness of Canada's wide-open paces, fatigue is felt. Worse, the maps become uncertain. As a result, doubt sets in and conflicts burst forth…
Starring: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth, Uwe Bohm, Rosa Enskat, Wolfgang Packhäuser, Lars Rudolph
Director: Thomas Arslan
Like Father, Like Son / Soshite chichi ni naru (2013)
Drama
Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family – a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born… Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son – the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.'
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Rirî Furankî, Keita Ninomiya, Shôgen Hwang
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
3 Days to Kill (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, Eriq Ebouaney
Director: McG
About Last Night (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Follow two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
Starring: Kevin Hart, Joy Bryant, Regina Hall, Michael Ealy, Christopher McDonald, Adam Rodriguez
Director: Steve Pink
The Den (2013)
Horror | Thriller
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
Starring: Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Matt Riedy, Adam Shapiro
Director: Zachary Donohue
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Adventure | History | War
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
Starring: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson, Robert Hutton
Director: Delmer Daves
Covert Affairs (TV Series 2010- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Covert Affairs" centers on a young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Gregory Itzin
Creator: Chris Ord, Matt Corman
Bends / Guo jie (2013)
Drama
BENDS straddles the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and tells the story of ANNA, an affluent housewife and FAI, her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they each negotiate the pressures of Hong Kong life and the citys increasingly complex relationship to mainland China. Fai is struggling to find a way to bring his pregnant wife and young daughter over the Hong Kong border from Shenzhen to give birth to their second child, even though he crosses the border easily every day working as a chauffeur for Anna. Anna, in contrast, is struggling to keep up the facade of her ostentatious lifestyle into which she has married, after the sudden disappearance of her husband amid financial turmoil. Their two lives collide in a common space, the car.
Starring: Carina Lau, Kun Chen, Yuan Tian, Stephanie Che, Lawrence Cheng
Director: Flora Lau
Resolution (2012)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Learning that his best friend, Chris, is holed up in a remote rural shack on a methamphetamine bender, Michael takes it upon himself to travel out to the location with a pair of handcuffs determined to enforce cold turkey on his beleaguered pal – as a last ditch attempt to save his life. Suddenly forces seemingly beyond their control combined with baffling activity and the memories of each man's past actions occasion an intense excursion of isolation for these friends whose friendship will be tested to the brink.
Starring: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., Kurt David Anderson, Emily Montague, Skyler Meacham
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Way of the Wicked (2014)
Thriller
Years ago, young Robbie Mueller left his small home town under a cloud of suspicion. Now, teenage Robbie has returned – and he's set his sights on Heather, the daughter of local police detective John Elliott. When the town is swept by a series of gruesome killings, a mysterious priest seems to be the only one who can help protect them.
Starring: Christian Slater, Vinnie Jones, Emily Tennant, Jake Croker, Aren Buchholz
Director: Kevin Carraway
Don Peyote (2014)
Comedy | Drama
DON PEYOTE tells the story Warren Allman, an unemployed stoner who finally finds a purpose in life after an unpleasant encounter with a homeless man preaching the end is near. Fueled by vivid apocalyptic dreams, Warren becomes obsessed with 2012 doomsday theories and decides to make a documentary on the subject while his fiance is busy planning their wedding.
Starring: Dan Fogler, Josh Duhamel, Jay Baruchel, Topher Grace, Wallace Shawn, Anne Hathaway
Director: Michael Canzoniero, Dan Fogler
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